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Alex Padilla

Democrat U.S. Senate · CA · cycle 2022 · data as of 2026-11-02 · 2026 races in CA
98.3%
Direct-contributionshare
Aggregate-only · no individual donor names on the card

What the money says

Plain language · cited

Raised $11,784,618 in the 2022 cycle. FEC ↗ Placed at approximately the 55th percentile among other U.S. Senate members this cycle.

5.6% of individual money came from small-dollar donors under $200. PACs supplied 19.2% of contributions. FEC ↗

Direct contributions — individuals, PACs, and party — make up 98.3% 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

Funding is spread across individual and committee sources, with no single category standing out from the rest of the U.S. Senate.

Funding profile

Unweighted · never a blended score
Small-donor (grassroots) share5.6%
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 size7.4%
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 contributions19.2%
Committee & JFC transfer share1.7%
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 share81.5%
Share of itemized individual dollars from in-state donors — unitemized (<$200) contributions have no state breakdown.
Top-20 donor concentration2.6%
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
5.6%
94.4%
Small-dollar under $200Itemized $200+

All contributions

Individuals vs. political action committees
80.8%
19.2%
IndividualsPACs

Funding mix & position over time

Across every election cycle on record

Small-dollar share up from 8.3% (2020) to 64.8% (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
2020 8.3%2022 5.6%2024 29.3%2026 64.8%
Direct-contribution share
2020 100%2022 98.3%2024 83.5%2026 66.7%
PAC share of contributions
2020 23.4%2022 19.2%2024 35.1%2026 14.5%
Cash on hand
2020 $235K2022 $7.5M2024 $6.6M2026 $7.3M

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.

Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
Minority
Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources — Energy
Minority
Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources — Public Lands, Forests, and Mining
Minority
Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources — Water and Power
Minority
Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
Minority
Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works — Clean Air, Climate, and Nuclear Innovation and Safety
Minority
Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works — Fisheries, Water, and Wildlife
Minority
Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works — Transportation and Infrastructure
Minority
Senate Committee on Rules and Administration
Ranking Member
Senate Committee on the Budget
Minority
Senate Committee on the Judiciary
Minority
Senate Committee on the Judiciary — Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights
Minority
Senate Committee on the Judiciary — Border Security and Immigration
Ranking Member
Senate Committee on the Judiciary — Privacy, Technology, and the Law
Minority
Senate Committee on the Judiciary — the Constitution
Minority
Joint Committee on Printing
Minority
Joint Committee of Congress on the Library
Minority

Outside spending

Separate FEC filings · not counted above

Outside groups reported $26K in independent expenditures naming this candidate this cycle: $26K supporting, $0 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 ↗

COALITION TO GROW SAN FRANCISCO - GROW SF PAC FEC ↗
$10K supporting
CARE ACTION NOW INC. FEC ↗
$7K supporting
ALICE B. TOKLAS LGBTQ DEMOCRATIC CLUB FEDERAL PAC FEC ↗
$3K supporting
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE FOR ACTION FEC ↗
$2K supporting
DEMOCRATS OF SOUTHWEST RIVERSIDE COUNTY FEC ↗
$1K supporting

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.