Campaign finance
Who raises what in Sacramento — every figure a sum of filed records, nothing estimated. Top donors, independent expenditures, gifts and travel, and who gives to both sides.
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Cycle: 2023-01-01 → present · feed current through ~May 2026 (late-2026 filings lag — rebuild before the general election). Donor-type labels are heuristic, classified from the filed name — not official designations. Independent-expenditure records carry no dates and no support/oppose stance. Behested payments (Form 803) are not in this dataset. Money overlap = name-match heuristic. Every figure is traceable to its filed records — verify anything over $25k in Cal-Access before putting it in front of a client.
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Donor-type labels are heuristic — classified from the filed name, not an official designation. Spot-check before citing. 🏛️ = also a registered lobbying client (exact name match against SOS client rosters; absence is not proof of no relationship).
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These records carry no transaction date and no support/oppose stance — the source feed does not expose them. Amounts and spender names are real filed figures, but they cannot be placed in-cycle and cannot be read as support vs. oppose from this data alone. Verify date and stance in Cal-Access (Form 496/497 tables) before use. Do not cite an IE figure as evidence a spender backed or attacked a candidate.
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These come from officials' Form 700 economic-interest filings — personal financial exposure, not campaign support. Shown as an influence signal: the 50 largest at ≥ $500 within the cycle (2023-01-01 → present).
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Shared donors are matched by normalized filed name across legislators' top-12 lists — a heuristic, not a verified entity resolution. Same economic actor filing under different variants may appear split; verify large overlaps in Cal-Access before advising.
Both sides
Donors whose in-cycle recipients include both Democrats and Republicans — the classic bipartisan-hedging signal. Party comes from the legislature roster.
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Shared donors
Pick a legislator: their top-12 donors, who else each donor funds, and the legislators whose donor base overlaps most.
Choose a legislator to map their shared-donor network.
Most-shared donors
Methodology
Authoritative source: Cal-Access (CA Secretary of State). Access path: the public record feed of CalMatters Digital Democracy, a nonprofit newsroom database ingesting filed SOS records. Direct SOS routes were bot-gated at build time. No figure is estimated, rounded beyond cents, or invented.
Sum of in-cycle monetary contributions received (itemized + unitemized, schedules A/C). Excludes loans, non-monetary/in-kind, committee transfers — it is not cash-on-hand. Sub-$100 unitemized buckets count in totals but are excluded from donor rankings.
Contributions grouped per legislator by normalized donor name; committee variants merged (PAC/SCC suffixes, CA/CALIFORNIA, typos) with canonical-actor rules for the largest donors. Byte-identical feed duplicates collapsed to one (conservative). Residual long-tail splits are possible — verify large figures.
FPPC Form 803 behested-payment reports are filed by payors through a separate SOS search and are absent from this feed by design — this view has no behested data. Pull behests from the SOS/FPPC behested-payments search before advising on official-adjacent giving.
1) Click through each legislator's source link. 2) Over $25k? Cross-check the committee in Cal-Access. 3) IE figures: pull Form 496/497 for date + stance. 4) Rebuild before the November 2026 general election — feed runs through ~May 2026.