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Sarah Elfreth

Democrat U.S. House · MD-3 · cycle 2024 · data as of 2026-11-02 · 2026 races in MD
99.9%
Direct-contributionshare
Aggregate-only · no individual donor names on the card

What the money says

Plain language · cited

Raised $2,276,074 in the 2024 cycle. FEC ↗ Placed at approximately the 54th percentile among other U.S. House members this cycle.

7.4% of individual money came from small-dollar donors under $200. PACs supplied 13.4% of contributions. FEC ↗

Direct contributions — individuals, PACs, and party — make up 99.9% of receipts (excluding self-funding and loans); the rest is transfers from other committees and other receipts, also disclosed. FEC ↗

Auto-generated from the data above

PACs supplied 13.4% of contributions here — a smaller PAC share than most campaigns in the U.S. House.

Funding profile

Unweighted · never a blended score
Small-donor (grassroots) share7.4%
From the unitemized (sub-$200) total, which reconciles exactly against FEC's individual-contribution figure. Small gifts that ActBlue/WinRed itemize aren't counted here — see the size-based measure below.
Small-dollar by transaction size10.5%
Share of itemized + unitemized contributions received in individual transactions under $200 (FEC schedule_a/by_size), counting each gift by its own amount — so it captures small repeat donors the unitemized field hides. Its denominator is raw itemized receipts, so it reads conservatively.
PAC share of contributions13.4%
Committee & JFC transfer share0%
Share of receipts (excluding self-funding and loans) that arrived as transfers from joint-fundraising and other authorized committees rather than direct contributions — reported in the sending committees’ filings, never undisclosed “dark” money. This bar is the transfer component only, not the whole non-direct remainder — a determined 0% means no transfer receipts (other complement receipts such as offsets may still exist); “—” means no external receipts to decompose.
In-state contributor share57.3%
Share of itemized individual dollars from in-state donors — unitemized (<$200) contributions have no state breakdown.
Top-20 donor concentration7.4%
Share from the 20 largest individual donors this 2-year period, by exact name — a neutral concentration measure, approximate (recurring small-dollar donors may be undercounted), not a score.

How the money splits

Exact, from FEC aggregates

Individual contributions

Small-dollar (<$200) vs. larger itemized giving
7.4%
92.6%
Small-dollar under $200Itemized $200+

All contributions

Individuals vs. political action committees
86.6%
13.4%
IndividualsPACs

Funding mix & position over time

Across every election cycle on record

Small-dollar share up from 7.4% (2024) to 9.3% (2026) A cycle with too little reported money to trust any ratio is left out entirely; a cycle where one specific figure can't be computed (e.g. an all-itemizing committee has no small-dollar figure to read) is left out of just that line.

Small-dollar share
2024 7.4%2026 9.3%
Direct-contribution share
2024 99.9%2026 99.5%
PAC share of contributions
2024 13.4%2026 38.9%
Cash on hand
2024 $31K2026 $336K

Committee assignments

congress-legislators (CC0)

Current committee and subcommittee seats, from the public congressional record. Listed independently of the funding figures on this page — a committee seat is not evidence of why any contribution was made.

House Committee on Natural Resources
Minority
House Committee on Armed Services
Minority
House Committee on Natural Resources — Energy and Mineral Resources
Minority
House Committee on Natural Resources — Water, Wildlife and Fisheries
Minority
House Committee on Armed Services — Readiness
Minority
House Committee on Armed Services — Seapower and Projection Forces
Minority

Sector / industry breakdown

Itemized individual donors · by employer/occupation

Employer/occupation reported on itemized ($200+) individual contributions, grouped into broad sectors. Sectors with fewer than 5 distinct donors are folded into "All other (suppressed)" so no small group can be traced to one donor. Based on this committee's largest itemized contributions (a bounded sample, not the complete donor list) — sector totals are approximate and won't sum to the full itemized total.

unclassified
$566K · 31.1% of itemized
Retired / not employed
$452K · 24.8% of itemized
Legal
$125K · 6.9% of itemized
Real estate
$109K · 6% of itemized
Self-employed
$82K · 4.5% of itemized
Healthcare
$46K · 2.5% of itemized
Government
$39K · 2.1% of itemized
Finance / insurance
$35K · 1.9% of itemized
Education
$15K · 0.8% of itemized
Media / entertainment
$15K · 0.8% of itemized
Energy
$12K · 0.6% of itemized
All other (suppressed)
$7K · 0.4% of itemized

Outside spending

Separate FEC filings · not counted above

Outside groups reported $4.4M in independent expenditures naming this candidate this cycle: $4.4M supporting, $10 opposing (FEC Schedule E). These are filed by the groups themselves, not this candidate's committee, and are not part of the receipts above. FEC ↗

UNITED DEMOCRACY PROJECT ('UDP') FEC ↗
$4.2M supporting
PRO-CHOICE MAJORITY 2024 FEC ↗
$175K supporting
DMFI PAC FEC ↗
$2K supporting
ALLIANCE FOR ACCOUNTABILITY FEC ↗
$10 opposing

Individual-donor detail

Held for the deep-table phase. v1 shows aggregate figures only — by design, not by omission.
NameCity / StateEmployerOccupationAmountDateStreet addressPhone

Statutory notice. When individual detail ships, street address and phone are never shown, and the data may not be used to solicit contributions or for any commercial purpose (52 U.S.C. §30111(a)(4)). Named individuals appear only here in the deep table — never on a shareable card — each with a match-confidence indicator.