Three ballot committees drew most of California’s reported out-of-state campaign dollars in 2022

Start with the filings. PubSys imports the California Secretary of State’s downloadable CAL-ACCESS records. This analysis uses the September 14, 2026 source snapshot. Official filings remain the source of record.

Choose the records. For each filing, we use the highest amendment identifier available in that snapshot. Within each filer and filing, repeated transaction identifiers are reduced to one record, using the line item when necessary. Missing or malformed identifiers can limit these rules. We select monetary contributions reported on Schedule A with readable amounts and transaction dates from January 1 through December 31, 2022. Loans and nonmonetary contributions are excluded. Positive, negative and zero amounts are retained; a record is not a unique person.

The 2022 story. We select dated monetary contributions from January 1–December 31, 2022 after the amendment and deduplication steps. “Mapped” means a normalized reported state in the 50 states or D.C.; “outside California” means the other 49 states and D.C., not unknown or foreign locations. Of 633,637 included records totaling $1,305,488,664.59 signed, 632,958 records and $1,286,091,729.68 were state-mappable. Outside California accounts for 29,134 records (4.6% of mapped records) and $285,078,387.07 (22.2% of mapped signed dollars). Signed adds positive and negative entries; their meanings are not established. Mappable states cover 98.5% of all included signed dollars, not a claim that missing records are representative.

Recipients and sensitivity. Receiving committees are grouped by filer ID. The three committees total $166,685,127.58, or 58.5% of outside-California signed receipts. Positive-only outside receipts are $297,108,452.79 of $1,303,220,463.63 mapped positive receipts (22.8%); the three committees received $178,449,727.58 of that amount (60.1%). All other recipients total $118,393,259.49 signed. Committee receipts are not transfer-net: the same money may appear at more than one committee stage. Receiving money is not spending it. A filer ID or committee-like entity code is a signal, not proof of a transfer, and does not override a reported “other” classification.

Reported contributor groups, not resolved identities. We retain the prepared table’s contributor key. The local pipeline rule uses a reported contributor filer ID when available; otherwise it fingerprints normalized name, city, state and ZIP. The most frequent reported name labels the group, with ties broken by latest transaction date, then name. This is not verified identity resolution. Different spellings and keys are not merged into person-level totals. Location fields establish neither residence nor headquarters, and reported contributors do not establish ultimate funding origin. No street address, ZIP, contact or employment details are displayed in this supplement. The historical deployed SQL revision was not retained, so the local grouping definition is not cryptographic proof of the runtime code.

Connect committees to measures, then verify filings. Retained committee-to-measure records match the 2022 election and support/oppose position; the receipt-level measure fields were empty and are not the basis of these descriptions. California’s official voter guides explain the measures: Proposition 29, Proposition 27 and Proposition 31. Filing-list links are research starting points, not verified transaction click-throughs. The retained evidence includes filing, amendment and transaction-or-line identifiers for follow-up in official filings. Checks reconcile the same prepared table; they do not independently reconstruct raw filings or prove motives, influence, identity or ultimate origin. The 2022 finding is historical, not a forecast.

Draw the 2022 origin map. We trim and uppercase reported state codes. The map adds positive and negative amounts within each of the other 49 U.S. states and D.C.; California is excluded, not zero or missing. Six explicit signed-dollar bands use lower-inclusive boundaries of $1 million, $5 million, $10 million, $50 million and $75 million. Color differences are not proportional dollar differences; the ranked table preserves every exact amount and record count. Positive-only sensitivity stays in text, not a separate map layer.

The generalized 2020 Census state geometry is reference geography, not address or residence verification. Alaska and Hawaii use conventional insets; the enlarged, labeled D.C. marker is not area-proportional. Missing, malformed and non-U.S.-state locations are excluded from the mapped denominator but remain in the all-record coverage calculation. Loans and nonmonetary receipts are excluded. Negative entries reduce signed totals without establishing whether they are refunds or other adjustments.

This frozen 2022 analysis uses a September 14, 2026 source snapshot and transaction dates from January 1 through December 31, 2022. PubSys refreshes data manually, with no promised cadence; later filings or amendments may change records. The cutoff defines scope, not a guarantee of completeness.

Two-cycle comparison: frozen local outside-ca-cycle-screen/2026-09-17-v1, derived from the accepted monthly state and annual coverage tables; cycle-screen.csv SHA-256 952a044decb8300d1d01046459b16d181c588b0f7f6c196b6c7fbbb840729fd8. Ratios use summed dollars, not averages of monthly shares; no campaign attribution is made.

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