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Through · Last successful import
Registration · not a corporate staff directory
Who is the committee’s reported treasurer?
KAUFMAN, STEPHEN J is the treasurer listed for this political committee in the included FEC registration data.
This is the political committee’s treasurer—not necessarily the treasurer or finance director of an organization with a similar name. This record does not establish a current corporate or public-office appointment.
2025–2026 federal-cycle totals through August 31, 2026.
Metric
Reported amount
What it means
Total receipts
$1,386,379.18
All receipts reported by the committee for the cycle.
Individual contributions
$546,779.33
Contributions reported in the FEC individual-contribution category.
Other committee contributions
$589,370.03
Contributions received from other political committees.
Total disbursements
$1,326,981.80
All disbursements reported by the committee for the cycle.
Contributions to other committees
$370,000.00
Contributions the committee reported making to federal candidate committees.
Independent expenditures
$0.00
Spending expressly advocating the election or defeat of a clearly identified candidate, made without coordination.
Cash on hand
$260,848.61
Cash reported at the end of the covered filing period.
Debts owed by committee
$483.18
Outstanding debts the committee reported owing.
Independent expenditures are distinct from contributions made directly to candidate committees.
Itemized political activity
Candidate giving and outside spending by DEFEND THE DREAM
FEC ITEMIZED DATA
The categories below remain separate: contributions go to a recipient committee; independent expenditures are outside activity reported as supporting or opposing a candidate.
Direct candidate contributions$235,000.0075 transactions
Coordinated party spending$0.000 transactions
Independent spending to support$0.000 transactions
Independent spending to oppose$0.000 transactions
Direct contribution
Money reported as given to a candidate or candidate committee. It enters the recipient committee’s campaign-finance record.
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.
Direct contributions by candidate
Adam Gray6 itemized transactions · latest Jun 25, 2026
Showing 12 of 36 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. The totals shown here sum the itemized current-file rows displayed by category; they are not substituted for the committee’s official summary totals.
Money graph · dates, geography, and operating expenditures
How money moved through DEFEND THE DREAM
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.
18 calendar months · 13 published cells
Feb 25$15,500
Mar 25$49,000
Apr 25$63,200
May 25$98,250
Jun 25$28,500
Jul 25$4,500
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Aug 25No published cell
Sep 25$12,000
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Oct 25No published cell
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Nov 25No published cell
—
Dec 25No published cell
—
Jan 26No published cell
Feb 26$44,750
Mar 26$25,500
Apr 26$12,500
May 26$23,000
Jun 26$51,105
Jul 26$11,000
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.
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.
36.1% of published positive state-cell amounts outside California
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.
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
Category not reported255 current organization-payment rows$904,130.34
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.
Keswick Hall And Golf Club5 current itemized payments · latest 2026-07-07
$38,541.28
Ritz Carlton Bacara Santa Barbara2 current itemized payments · latest 2026-05-27
$33,692.38
Plaza Strategies LLC4 current itemized payments · latest 2026-06-30
$24,000.00
Meritage Resort And Spa4 current itemized payments · latest 2025-06-18
$19,963.72
Actblue59 current itemized payments · latest 2026-08-31
$12,797.26
Odette Estate Winery2 current itemized payments · latest 2025-04-21
$12,671.40
Plasticard Locktech International2 current itemized payments · latest 2026-02-18
$11,672.29
Villa Encinal Partners LP1 current itemized payment · latest 2025-02-13
$9,051.00
Staglin Family Vineyard1 current itemized payment · latest 2025-04-16
$5,198.94
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.
Reported employers among contributors to DEFEND THE DREAM
FEC SCHEDULE A
This is not company money.
These totals combine itemized contributions from individuals who reported the same employer. They do not show that the employer directed, funded, or endorsed any contribution.
Robbins Geller5 distinct reported contributors · 5 current itemized transactions
$25,000.00
Bgr Group11 distinct reported contributors · 12 current itemized transactions
$11,000.00
Qualcomm Incorporated8 distinct reported contributors · 8 current itemized transactions
$11,000.00
Qualcomm5 distinct reported contributors · 5 current itemized transactions
$6,000.00
General Atomics5 distinct reported contributors · 5 current itemized transactions
$5,450.00
Only employer/recipient groups with at least 5 distinct reported contributors are published, with at most 50 groups per recipient committee. Individual names and addresses are not included. Totals are net current-file amounts after amendment normalization and may include refunds, reattributions, or memo entries.
Official registration
Committee details
2026 CYCLE
Committee type
PAC — qualified · code Q
Designation
Leadership PAC · code D
Filing frequency
Monthly filer
Connected organization
PADILLA
Treasurer
KAUFMAN, STEPHEN J
Mailing address
445 S. FIGUEROA ST., STE. 2400, LOS ANGELES CA 90071
FEC committee ID
C00771238
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