2026 federal candidate record

Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick

Name: Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick 2026 FEC campaign finance record
Creator: Federal Election Commission

Florida U.S. House District 20

Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick is included in the 2026 FEC filing records for Florida U.S. House District 20. Explore the available source records below. A federal filing does not establish ballot qualification.

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Direct answer · 2025–2026 cycle

How much has Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick raised?

$389,258.30 in total campaign receipts.

$284,101.17 is reported as individual contributions. Total receipts can also include transfers, offsets, loans, and other FEC receipt categories, so it is broader than donations alone.

Total receipts: $389,258
Total spending: $386,958
Cash on hand: -$1,264

Through Jul 29, 2026 · Last successful import Oct 16, 2026

Negative cash balance reported in the FEC summary; see source filing.

Official sourceFederal Election Commission · data through July 29, 2026.

PERMANENT PERSON IDENTITY

This campaign record connects to Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick's public CV.

The connection uses exact FEC candidate ID H8FL20032, not a name match. Office history, votes, election results, disclosures, and campaign finance remain separate source lanes.

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Candidate profile

About Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick

Office soughtU.S. House · FL-20Federal Election Commission

Officeholder statusFormer member (left 2026-04-21)Current office roster · checked 2026-10-16

Displayed as “Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick” using the state election-authority list. Original FEC name: “CHERFILUS-MCCORMICK, SHEILA.” The FEC ID and reported financial totals are unchanged.

Activity timeline

Filing-driven activity & election calendar

Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick 2026 timeline

REAL DATES

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Jul 15, 2026

Latest included PAC or party transaction

Most recent itemized direct contribution or coordinated-party-expenditure row involving this candidate in the current FEC transaction release.

FEC · included source coverage

Jul 29, 2026

Latest included campaign summary

End date of the candidate financial summary in Election.org's current FEC bulk-data release.

FEC · included source coverage

Aug 18, 2026

Scheduled primary election

Congressional primary date listed in the FEC's 2026 calendar.

Official election schedule · schedule subject to change

Nov 3, 2026

Federal general election

Election schedule for the verified seat, not proof of this person's ballot qualification. State and local election officials administer elections.

Official election schedule · schedule subject to change

Election dates are transcribed from the FEC's calendar as published and are subject to change. The FEC does not administer elections; confirm dates and ballot status with the relevant state election authority.

Campaign finance details

Campaign money

Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick campaign finance details

FEC BULK DATA

2025–2026 federal-cycle totals through July 29, 2026.
Metric	Reported amount	What it means
Total receipts	$389,258.30	All campaign receipts reported in the FEC summary, not only individual donations.
Individual contributions	$284,101.17	Contributions reported in the FEC individual-contribution category.
Candidate contributions	$0.00	Contributions from the candidate in the summary record.
Total disbursements	$386,957.51	Campaign spending and other disbursements reported for the cycle.
Cash on hand	-$1,263.85	Reported campaign cash remaining at the end of the covered period.
Debts owed by campaign	$11,650.00	Outstanding debts the campaign reported owing.
Net cash after reported debt	-$12,913.85	Election.org calculation: cash on hand minus debts owed by the campaign.

Dollar amounts preserve the cents in the FEC record. These figures are campaign-finance totals, not personal wealth, polling, odds, endorsements, or Election.org scores.

PAC contributions and outside spending

Who gave · who spent · what the filing says

PAC contributions and outside spending involving Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick

FEC ITEMIZED DATA

Direct campaign support and independent spending are not combined. Support and opposition below are the positions reported by the spender to the Federal Election Commission.

Direct committee contributions$85,994.0053 transactions

Coordinated party spending$0.000 transactions

Independent spending to support$0.000 transactions

Independent spending to oppose$0.000 transactions

Direct contribution

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Coordinated party expenditure

Party spending reported in the FEC’s coordinated-expenditure category. It is separate from a direct contribution.

Independent expenditure

Outside spending expressly supporting or opposing a candidate. By definition, it is not made in coordination with the candidate or party.

Federal committees reporting direct contributions

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR JUSTICE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (AAJ PAC)2 itemized transactions · latest Feb 10, 2026

$5,000.00FEC filing ↗

AMERICAN CRYSTAL SUGAR COMPANY POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE1 itemized transaction · latest May 14, 2025

$5,000.00FEC filing ↗

AMERICAN FEDERATION OF GOVT. EMPL. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE3 itemized transactions · latest Oct 7, 2025

$5,000.00FEC filing ↗

AMERICAN OPTOMETRIC ASSOCIATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE2 itemized transactions · latest Sep 30, 2025

$5,000.00FEC filing ↗

CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS PAC1 itemized transaction · latest Feb 11, 2026

$5,000.00FEC filing ↗

Showing 5 of 39 groups, ordered by absolute reported amount. Totals include all accepted source rows.

Source: FEC contributions-from-committees-to-candidates and independent-expenditure bulk files, checked Oct 16, 2026. Committee transactions retain only the latest filing version for stable transaction IDs. Independent-expenditure rows from superseded filings are removed through the FEC previous-filing chain. Memo entries remain included because the FEC bulk-file documentation instructs analysts to include them.

Campaign money graph

Money graph · dates, geography, and operating expenditures

How money moved through Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick

FEC ITEMIZED FILES

These panels show privacy-thresholded itemized individual-receipt activity and amendment-normalized operating expenditures. They are descriptive slices of filings—not a complete substitute for the official financial summary.

Itemized individual receipt activity over time

Monthly transaction activity from the FEC individual-contributions file. Current-cycle files can contain earlier-dated transactions; signed amendments, refunds, reattributions, and memo entries remain in the source-defined analysis.

15 calendar months · 8 published cells

May 25$40,500

Jun 25$50,550

Jul 25$21,825

Aug 25$18,075

Sep 25No published cell

Oct 25$36,575

Nov 25$72,000

Dec 25No published cell

Jan 26No published cell

Feb 26No published cell

Mar 26No published cell

Apr 26No published cell

May 26No published cell

Jun 26$11,577

Jul 26$4,697

Only committee/month cells with at least 5 distinct reported contributors are published. A missing cell can reflect source absence or the privacy threshold; it does not mean zero activity. Published amounts are unchanged.

Source: FEC individual-contributions bulk file ↗, imported 2026-10-16. This panel does not include PAC receipts.

Where itemized contributor addresses were reported

State is taken from the contributor address on the FEC row. It does not prove residence, citizenship, employer location, or the ultimate economic source of funds.

55.4% of published positive state-cell amounts outside Florida

Florida71 distinct reported contributors · 83 rows$119,147.0044.6%

Maryland42 distinct reported contributors · 46 rows$57,909.0021.7%

New York22 distinct reported contributors · 26 rows$33,786.0012.6%

California23 distinct reported contributors · 23 rows$28,800.0010.8%

Massachusetts26 distinct reported contributors · 28 rows$27,800.0010.4%

Only committee/state groups with at least 5 distinct reported contributors are published. Percentages divide by the sum of all positive published, privacy-thresholded committee/state cells, including cells beyond the top 12 shown. Zero and negative state cells are excluded from this denominator; these shares do not describe all contributions or all campaign receipts.

Source: FEC individual-contributions bulk file ↗, imported 2026-10-16.

Reported operating-expenditure categories

FEC filer-selected categories from Schedule B operating expenditures. Memo-code X rows are excluded because the FEC says they are not included in the itemization total.

1 published categories

Top organization payees in operating expenditures

Organization payees only. Election.org excludes individual payees and conservatively normalizes names; similar names are not asserted to be one legal entity.

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David Oscar Markus2 current itemized payments · latest 2026-01-15

$198,000.00

Angerholzer Broz Consulting8 current itemized payments · latest 2025-09-17

$36,930.93

Florida Division Of Elections1 current itemized payment · latest 2026-06-10

$10,440.00

Ngp Van17 current itemized payments · latest 2026-03-18

$10,015.78

Verdi And Ogletree PLLC1 current itemized payment · latest 2025-11-06

$10,000.00

Harbor View Hotel2 current itemized payments · latest 2025-08-19

$7,129.58

Sir Stor A Lot Self Storage9 current itemized payments · latest 2026-02-24

$7,090.70

Democracy Engine LLC20 current itemized payments · latest 2026-03-26

$7,086.01

Mauricio Pereia De Barros10 current itemized payments · latest 2026-03-12

$5,680.00

Peerly6 current itemized payments · latest 2026-07-20

$5,155.69

Xpress Media2 current itemized payments · latest 2026-07-01

$3,531.00

Black Car Service6 current itemized payments · latest 2025-11-17

$3,406.38

Turo11 current itemized payments · latest 2026-03-02

$2,869.47

Everyaction Bonterra4 current itemized payments · latest 2026-07-06

$2,730.00

Amtrak3 current itemized payments · latest 2025-07-18

$2,623.00

Source: FEC operating expenditures bulk file, checked 2026-10-16. These totals cover published current organization-payment rows after amendment normalization and are not equivalent to the committee’s total disbursements.

Calculated financial context

Transparent calculations

What the reported totals show

73.0%Individual-contribution shareIndividual contributions ÷ total receipts

99.4%Spending-to-receipts ratioTotal disbursements ÷ total receipts

-$12,913.85Net cash after debtCash on hand − debts owed by campaign

These are Election.org calculations from the displayed FEC totals, included to make the filing easier to understand. They are descriptive, not a score or comparison.

Official filing details

Official record

Candidate filing details

2026 CYCLE

Candidate: Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick
Office sought: U.S. House — Florida District 20
Party affiliation: Democratic Party
Incumbency: Former member (left 2026-04-21)
Candidate status: Current candidate
Principal committee: SHEILA CHERFILUS MCCORMICK FOR CONGRESS, INC →
FEC candidate ID: H8FL20032

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