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Brad Sherman

Democrat U.S. House · CA-32 · cycle 2024 · data as of 2026-11-02 · 2026 races in CA
96%
Direct-contributionshare
Aggregate-only · no individual donor names on the card

What the money says

Plain language · cited

Raised $2,059,587 in the 2024 cycle. FEC ↗ Placed at approximately the 50th percentile among other U.S. House members this cycle.

1.9% of individual money came from small-dollar donors under $200. PACs supplied 43.6% of contributions. FEC ↗

Direct contributions — individuals, PACs, and party — make up 96% 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. House.

Funding profile

Unweighted · never a blended score
Small-donor (grassroots) share1.9%
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 size2.2%
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 contributions43.6%
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 share74.2%
Share of itemized individual dollars from in-state donors — unitemized (<$200) contributions have no state breakdown.
Top-20 donor concentration14.2%
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
1.9%
98.1%
Small-dollar under $200Itemized $200+

All contributions

Individuals vs. political action committees
56.4%
43.6%
IndividualsPACs

Funding mix & position over time

Across every election cycle on record

Small-dollar share up from 0% (1996) to 0.8% (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
1996 0%1998 0%2000 0%2002 11.9%2004 4.2%2006 5.6%2008 3.7%2010 1.2%2012 2.8%2014 2.3%2016 1.4%2018 4.2%2020 2.5%2022 3.2%2024 1.9%2026 0.8%
Direct-contribution share
1996 17%1998 45.1%2000 36.8%2002 96.3%2004 97.9%2006 96.8%2008 94.2%2010 94.7%2012 71.9%2014 96.2%2016 99.2%2018 98.1%2020 95.3%2022 100%2024 96%2026 85.1%
PAC share of contributions
1996 33.6%1998 47.7%2000 37%2002 42.7%2004 43.5%2006 38.4%2008 42.7%2010 33.2%2012 34.4%2014 46.8%2016 43.6%2018 44.1%2020 57.9%2022 41.8%2024 43.6%2026 32.9%
Cash on hand
1996 $16K1998 $47K2000 $170K2002 $683K2004 $630K2006 $1.4M2008 $2.1M2010 $3.0M2012 $48K2014 $237K2016 $1.4M2018 $2.2M2020 $2.6M2022 $3.0M2024 $3.9M2026 $2.7M

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 Financial Services
Minority
House Committee on Foreign Affairs
Minority
House Committee on Foreign Affairs — East Asia and Pacific
Minority
House Committee on Financial Services — Digital Assets, Financial Technology, and Artificial Intelligence
Minority
House Committee on Financial Services — Capital Markets
Ranking Member
House Committee on Financial Services — Financial Institutions
Minority
House Committee on Foreign Affairs — Middle East and North Africa
Ranking Member

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
$414K · 37.8% of itemized
Retired / not employed
$153K · 14% of itemized
Finance / insurance
$128K · 11.7% of itemized
Healthcare
$93K · 8.5% of itemized
Real estate
$78K · 7.2% of itemized
Legal
$71K · 6.5% of itemized
Self-employed
$63K · 5.7% of itemized
Technology
$44K · 4% of itemized
All other (suppressed)
$25K · 2.3% of itemized
Media / entertainment
$13K · 1.2% of itemized
Education
$8K · 0.7% of itemized

Outside spending

Separate FEC filings · not counted above

Outside groups reported $335 in independent expenditures naming this candidate this cycle: $335 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 ↗

COURAGE CALIFORNIA SUPER PAC FEC ↗
$185 supporting
PLANNED PARENTHOOD ADVOCACY PROJECT LOS ANGELES COUNTY ACTION FUND FEC ↗
$140 supporting
SIERRA CLUB INDEPENDENT ACTION FEC ↗
$10 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.