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Official disclosure registry · source scope preserved

California
campaign finance records

The responsible government offices identified by the FEC—and an official-source view of California contributions and expenditures with the limits of each filing table kept visible.

6 disclosure officesFEC directory revised July 2025Transaction adapter live
Current Election.org coverage

Official agency links and current-cycle money records.

OFFICIAL DATA LIVE

California current-cycle CAL-ACCESS receipt and expenditure rows are connected and amendment-normalized. Local, federal, summary-total, Schedule G relationship resolution, and late-report deduplication layers remain outside this adapter's stated scope.

RegistryLive6 sourced agencies
ContributionsPublished rows liveCurrent amendments only
ExpendituresPublished rows liveNamed non-individual payees only
State API adapterConnectedContributions + expenditures
CAL-ACCESS · 2025–2026 cycle

California contribution rows over time

Official raw export ↗

Current-amendment, non-memo RCPT rows dated in the 2025-2026 cycle through the verification date. These itemized row amounts are not represented as total receipts, cash on hand, or a complete candidate financial summary. They are not total receipts: reporting thresholds, late reports, summary filings, and other transaction tables have different scope.

2,269,855normalized source rows
2,643recipient filer IDs
$4,063,487,534published row amount
latest included row
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Individual contributor names, street addresses, ZIP codes, employers, and occupations are not stored in the public Election.org adapter. Counts and amounts are aggregated to recipient, month, and filer-reported entity code. The source’s filer-selected entity codes remain available as aggregate counts through the API.

CAL-ACCESS EXPN · 2025–2026 cycle

California expenditure rows over time

Official table documentation ↗

Current-amendment, non-memo EXPN rows dated in the 2025-2026 cycle through the verification date. Schedule D, E, G, and other source form rows remain separately counted, so their signed row amounts are not represented as total campaign spending or a deduplicated financial summary. They are not total campaign spending, and source filing schedules remain separately exposed through the API.

2,358,873normalized expenditure rows
4,782spender filer IDs
$6,374,241,381published signed row amount
Oct 26, 2026latest included row
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Payee and treasurer street addresses, cities, ZIP codes, check numbers, and source-coded individual payee names are not stored. Named payee aggregates are limited to COM, RCP, and OTH rows the filer did not code as an individual.

Published non-individual payee aggregates

Largest named California expenditure payees

Ordered by the signed sum of included expenditure rows. These are source-name groups—not verified legal entities, vendor rankings, or deduplicated total campaign spending.

Top 15 source-coded non-individual payees by included expenditure row amount
Named payeePublished row amountRows and spenders
YES ON 42 - PROTECT RETIREMENT & LIFE SAVINGSCOM · ca-payee-63e926eec9e8f0e0$255,600,00036 rows · 1 spender
NO ON PROP 40-DOCTORS,TEACHERS,SMALL BUSINESSES,WORKING FAMILIES AND PUBLIC SAFETY AGAINST THE RECKLESS WEALTH TAX EXPERIMENTCOM · ca-payee-8790c565911e0a46$237,000,00020 rows · 1 spender
PIER 91 MEDIAOTH · ca-payee-a9154807633a8e00$153,405,40957 rows · 5 spenders
YES ON 41 - CALIFORNIANS FOR TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITYCOM · ca-payee-088b0e01fc5a6f2d$116,700,00026 rows · 1 spender
Building a Better CaliforniaCOM · ca-payee-c92a004487702347$110,625,17720 rows · 10 spenders
PCI CAMPAIGNS INCOTH · ca-payee-fecd19773fc60d33$96,539,86424 rows · 3 spenders
POLARIS CAMPAIGNS, INC.OTH · ca-payee-1ad04ac626915cec$93,108,39466 rows · 7 spenders
California Hospitals Committee on Issues, (CHCI) Sponsored by California Association of Hospitals and Health Systems (CAHHS)COM · ca-payee-76687922492e146a$84,941,855246 rows · 52 spenders
California is Not for Sale, No on Steyer for Governor 2026, a coalition of Housing Advocates, Labor and Small BusinessCOM · ca-payee-3ef6a88338b54eef$74,150,00535 rows · 4 spenders
Alliance Against Corporate Abuse, sponsored by Consumer Attorneys of CaliforniaCOM · ca-payee-e731760d20b9af57$66,506,500179 rows · 26 spenders
Yes on 45 - Building a More Affordable CaliforniaCOM · ca-payee-48adc0d01135399b$55,040,00050 rows · 13 spenders
AMPLIFIED STRATEGIESOTH · ca-payee-96499195a06a67be$53,656,31342 rows · 11 spenders
Federal and Out of State ExpendituresOTH · ca-payee-28004e9ae700a45a$51,854,71130 rows · 6 spenders
Non CA TransactionsOTH · ca-payee-546e939560c6f047$51,044,501286 rows · 37 spenders
Target Enterprises, LLCOTH · ca-payee-29e47ed69ffc785e$49,624,6937 rows · 1 spender
Largest published row aggregates

Recipient committees in the current-cycle export

Ordered by the signed sum of included contribution rows—not by influence, support, electoral strength, or complete campaign receipts.

Top 15 recipient filer IDs by included contribution row amount
Recipient committeePublished row amountRows and coverage
BUILDING A BETTER CALIFORNIACAL-ACCESS ID 1486767$434,821,490209 rows · Jan 12, 2026–Oct 16, 2026
Steyer for Governor 2026CAL-ACCESS ID 1485077$221,097,500459 rows · Aug 27, 2025–Jun 30, 2026
California Hospitals Committee on Issues, (CHCI) Sponsored by California Association of Hospitals and Health Systems (CAHHS)CAL-ACCESS ID 880212$132,696,712535 rows · Jan 15, 2025–Oct 15, 2026
YES ON 42 - PROTECT RETIREMENT & LIFE SAVINGS, A COALITION OF RETIREES, BLUE-COLLAR WORKERS, SENIORS, VETERANS, SMALL BUSINESSES & TAXPAYERSCAL-ACCESS ID 1488418$128,008,85240 rows · Feb 20, 2026–Oct 16, 2026
NO ON PROP 40 - DOCTORS, TEACHERS, SMALL BUSINESSES, WORKING FAMILIES AND PUBLIC SAFETY AGAINST THE RECKLESS WEALTH TAX EXPERIMENTCAL-ACCESS ID 1492108$118,761,26118 rows · Jun 15, 2026–Oct 16, 2026
Yes on 50, The Election Rigging Response Act, Governor Newsom?s Ballot Measure CommitteeCAL-ACCESS ID 1380675$105,195,471306,451 rows · Jan 1, 2025–Jun 30, 2026
ActBlue CaliforniaCAL-ACCESS ID 1287846$81,812,526616,568 rows · Jan 1, 2025–Oct 17, 2026
A MORE AFFORDABLE CALIFORNIA, SPONSORED BY UBERCAL-ACCESS ID 1484835$79,196,51034 rows · Oct 29, 2025–Sep 30, 2026
Alliance Against Corporate Abuse, sponsored by Consumer Attorneys of CaliforniaCAL-ACCESS ID 1485203$77,414,9991,784 rows · Dec 10, 2025–Jun 29, 2026
Yes on Prop 3, sponsored by education and labor organizationsCAL-ACCESS ID 1483562$72,799,79293 rows · Oct 27, 2025–Oct 16, 2026
California is Not for Sale, No on Steyer for Governor 2026, a Coalition of Housing Advocates, Labor and Small BusinessCAL-ACCESS ID 1489677$72,250,01037 rows · Mar 30, 2026–Jun 1, 2026
California Democratic PartyCAL-ACCESS ID 741666$67,988,7842,316 rows · Jan 6, 2025–Oct 16, 2026
PROTECT VOTERS FIRST, SPONSORED BY HOLD POLITICIANS ACCOUNTABLECAL-ACCESS ID 1381029$61,198,70528 rows · Feb 13, 2025–Mar 25, 2026
YES ON 41 - CALIFORNIANS FOR TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY, A COALITION OF SMALL BUSINESSES, TAXPAYERS, GOOD GOVERNMENT ADVOCATES, ACCOUNTANTS AND AUDITING EXPERTSCAL-ACCESS ID 1488423$58,412,65935 rows · Feb 20, 2026–Sep 30, 2026
MICHELSON CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY, INC. - YES ON 38 (NONPROFIT 501(C)(4))CAL-ACCESS ID 1494727$58,000,0007 rows · Jul 31, 2026–Oct 16, 2026
Responsible offices

Where California campaign-finance records are disclosed

OFFICIAL AGENCY

CALIFORNIA FAIR POLITICAL PRACTICES COMMISSION

  • State and Local Campaign Finance Disclosure
Open official agency website ↗
OFFICIAL AGENCY

FRANCHISE TAX BOARD

  • Random Audits of Campaign Finance Reports and
Open official agency website ↗
OFFICIAL AGENCY

LOS ANGELES COUNTY REGISTRAR-RECORDER/COUNTY CLERK

  • State Candidates under $25,000 Threshold
Open official agency website ↗
OFFICIAL AGENCY

SACRAMENTO COUNTY VOTER REGISTRATION AND ELECTIONS

  • County Campaign Finance Reports
Open official agency website ↗
OFFICIAL AGENCY

SAN FRANCISCO DEPARTMENT OF ELECTIONS

  • Statewide Campaign Finance Reports
Open official agency website ↗
OFFICIAL AGENCY

SAN FRANCISCO ETHICS COMMISSION

  • City and County Campaign Finance Reports
  • Campaign Finance and Ethics-Related Laws
Open official agency website ↗
Connector contract

How these records preserve original sources

Official source adapter

Identify the current government filing/search system and its export or API contract.

Entity resolution

Preserve state IDs and connect candidates, committees, donors, and vendors without guessing identities.

Amendment rules

For each campaign filing, only the maximum AMEND_ID is retained because the Secretary of State documentation says campaign amendments replace the filing.

Fail-closed validation

Reject incomplete or structurally changed pulls before they can become public totals.

Sources & notes
Source & freshness

SourceFEC directory ↗

Source revisionJuly 2025

Registry checkedOct 23, 2026

Transaction dataCurrent-cycle contribution + expenditure rows live

California data checkedOct 29, 2026

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