Runway

Money is moving quickly through committees, donors, filings, and candidate-linked networks.

This overview is designed to surface the scale, concentration, expenditures, and recent filing movement that make the runway worth exploring. Candidate-linked money is included where it is defensible, without pretending that every dollar can be cleanly resolved to a race.
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Reported receipts

$940.1M

Committee receipts in the current 12-month overview window

Reported expenditures

$843.5M

Committee expenditures in the current 12-month overview window

Active committees

2,402

Committees reporting receipts or expenditures

Tracked donors

306,679

Donor entities active in the current overview window

Editorial Scope

Rolling last 12 months

The current overview is organized around filing-backed money movement in the primary season. Ballot measures remain available elsewhere in Runway, but they are not the lead story for this scope.
Latest reporting burstrefreshed

$3.0M

Mar in the current 12-month trend window.

Top committees

Where reported money is clustering first

Open committees
1

NEWSOM'S BALLOT MEASURE COMMITTEE; YES ON 50, THE ELECTION RIGGING RESPONSE ACT, GOVERNOR

$120.3M spent in the same window

$104.4Mreceipts
2

ALLIANCE AGAINST CORPORATE ABUSE, SPONSORED BY CONSUMER ATTORNEYS OF CALIFORNIA

$50.0K spent in the same window

$46.7Mreceipts
3

ACTBLUE CALIFORNIA

$66.7M spent in the same window

$45.2Mreceipts
4

NO ON PROP 50 CONGRESSIONAL LEADERSHIP FUND (FED PAC ID# C00504530)

$17.6M spent in the same window

$44.3Mreceipts
5

CALIFORNIA HOSPITALS COMMITTEE ON ISSUES, (CHCI) SPONSORED BY CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF HOSPITALS AND HEALTH SYSTEMS (CAHHS)

$10.1M spent in the same window

$37.5Mreceipts

Recent movement

Largest filing-backed shifts

NEWSOM'S BALLOT MEASURE COMMITTEE; YES ON 50, THE ELECTION RIGGING RESPONSE ACT, GOVERNOR filed F460

Filed Sep 25, 2025

$65.2M

Ranked by filing impact score using the larger of receipts or expenditures in the selected window.

NEWSOM'S BALLOT MEASURE COMMITTEE; YES ON 50, THE ELECTION RIGGING RESPONSE ACT, GOVERNOR filed F460

Filed Oct 23, 2025

$49.9M

Ranked by filing impact score using the larger of receipts or expenditures in the selected window.

ALLIANCE AGAINST CORPORATE ABUSE, SPONSORED BY CONSUMER ATTORNEYS OF CALIFORNIA filed F460

Filed Feb 2, 2026

$46.7M

Ranked by filing impact score using the larger of receipts or expenditures in the selected window.

STEYER FOR GOVERNOR 2026 filed F460

Filed Feb 2, 2026

$43.5M

Ranked by filing impact score using the larger of receipts or expenditures in the selected window.

NEWSOM'S BALLOT MEASURE COMMITTEE; YES ON 50, THE ELECTION RIGGING RESPONSE ACT, GOVERNOR filed F460

Filed Feb 2, 2026

$43.0M

Ranked by filing impact score using the larger of receipts or expenditures in the selected window.

Top donors

Who is financing the landscape

Open donors
1

CONGRESSIONAL LEADERSHIP FUND

1 recipients

$44.3M
2

CHARLES T. MUNGER, JR.

2 recipients

$32.7M
3

CONSUMER ATTORNEYS OF CALIFORNIA INITIATIVE DEFENSE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE

1 recipients

$30.0M
4

TOM STEYER

1 recipients

$28.8M
5

META PLATFORMS, INC.

29 recipients

$20.4M

Candidate-linked money

Where candidate-linked money is concentrating

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GOVERNOR

25 candidate-controlled committees in scope

$147.8M

Derived from candidate-linked electoral committees in the selected window; outside committees may not be fully represented.

INSURANCE COMMISSIONER

14 candidate-controlled committees in scope

$2.1M

Derived from candidate-linked electoral committees in the selected window; outside committees may not be fully represented.

ASSEMBLY DISTRICT 12

7 candidate-controlled committees in scope

$1.9M

Derived from candidate-linked electoral committees in the selected window; outside committees may not be fully represented.

ASSEMBLY DISTRICT 46

5 candidate-controlled committees in scope

$1.8M

Derived from candidate-linked electoral committees in the selected window; outside committees may not be fully represented.

ASSEMBLY DISTRICT 27

4 candidate-controlled committees in scope

$1.8M

Derived from candidate-linked electoral committees in the selected window; outside committees may not be fully represented.

Entities

Choose a way in

Each section starts from a different question. Pick the entity that best matches whether you are following a race, a funding network, or a specific reporting trail.

Candidates

Browse races through the candidates in them, then move outward to the committees, donors, and filings around each contest.
  • Election-scoped rankings
  • Race context and committee links
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Committees

See the organizations where campaign money is most often raised, spent, and disclosed.
  • Receipts and filing activity
  • Top donors and evidence workflows
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Donors

Track the people and organizations financing candidates, committees, and ballot measure campaigns.
  • Top recipients
  • Concentration and influence patterns
Open donors

Ballot Measures

Follow support and opposition spending around statewide measures and the committees behind each side.
  • Support vs oppose totals
  • Committee landscape by measure
Open ballot measures

How To Explore

Start Broad

If you are new to the data, start with committees or donors. They usually make the larger financial structure visible fastest.

Start With Elections

If you care about a race, start with candidates and use election context to narrow the field before moving into related committees and donors.

Start With Issues

If you are following a proposition or policy fight, go directly to ballot measures and then into the committees financing each side.

Scope Note

This overview is intentionally not trying to summarize every California finance story at once.

The current composition is focused on filing-backed flows in the June 2026 primary season because that creates a stronger and more coherent entry experience. Users can still move into ballot measures and broader historical browsing from the main runway sections.
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Trust

Built from official California Secretary of State filings.

The product is designed around source visibility, scope clarity, and reproducible aggregates. Where the data has limits, those limits should stay visible in the experience.
Ballot measure committees may be included in overall flows, but ballot measures are not foregrounded as a lead overview module here.
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