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Robert Garcia

Democratic candidate · 2022 general election · California

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Robert Garcia

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Campaign finance

FEC data through Dec 31, 2022. Covering the 2022 two-year cycle only.

The 2022 cycle at a glance

Total receipts
$1,704,813
Everything the campaign took in
Individual contributions
$1,303,552
Itemized and unitemized split not reported
PAC and other committees
$360,462
Received from political committees
Campaign spending
$1,374,250
Total disbursements
Cash on hand
$330,562
At the end of the reporting period

Where the money came from

These categories divide total receipts of $1,704,813 exactly once, so they add back up to the reported total.

Receipts by funding category for the 2022 cycle
SourceAmountShare of receipts
Individual contributions$1,303,55276.5%
PAC and other committee contributions$360,46221.1%
Party committee contributions$00.0%
Candidate self-funding$00.0%
Loans$00.0%
Other receipts, including transfers$40,7992.4%
Total receipts$1,704,813100%

Financial position

Cash, debt, refunds, loans, and transfers as reported through Dec 31, 2022 for the 2022 cycle. These are factual reported values, not a judgement about whether a campaign is healthy, viable, or strong. Independent expenditures are never added to or subtracted from any of them: that money was never the campaign's.

Reported financial position for the 2022 cycle
MeasureAmount
Cash on hand at coverage end$330,562
Debts and obligations owed by the committee$27,587
Debts and obligations owed to the committeeNot reported
Contributions refunded to individuals$22,015
Contributions refunded to committees$3,000
Transfers received from other authorized committeesAlready raised money moving between the candidate's own committees, not new fundraising.$35,285
Transfers made to other authorized committees$0
Repayments of candidate loans$0
Repayments of other loans$0

Calculated from the reported values

Each row below is arithmetic MyRepTracker performed on the values above. Where the FEC published the figure itself, the row says so and no calculation was made.

Values calculated from the reported financial position, with the formula for each
MeasureAmountHow it was produced
Contributions net of refunds$1,638,999Calculated as individual + committee + party + candidate contributions, minus contributions refunded to individuals and committees.
Operating expenditures net of offsetsNot reportedAn input this calculation needs is not published by the source behind this record.
Outstanding candidate loans$0Calculated as loans received from the candidate minus repayments of those loans.
Other outstanding loans$0Calculated as other loans received minus repayments of those loans.
Total contributions refunded$25,015Calculated as refunds to individuals plus refunds to committees.

Change since the previous filing

Both columns come from committee C00797795, so the two periods are comparable. A change is the difference between what 30G 2022 reported and what YE 2022 reported, and the direction is stated in words rather than shown only as a sign. 30G 2022 reported through Nov 28, 2022 and YE 2022 through Dec 31, 2022.

Financial position at the two most recent controlling filings of committee C00797795
Measure30G 2022Reported through Nov 28, 2022YE 2022Reported through Dec 31, 2022Change
Cash on hand at period end$362,151$330,562Down $31,589
Debts owed by the committee$0$27,587Up $27,587
Contribution refunds in the period$3,400$4,900Up $1,500

Cash compared with one period's spending

Cash on hand of $330,562 set beside the $39,176 this campaign spent during YE 2022, through Dec 31, 2022, which is 8.4 times that period's spending. This is a ratio between two reported numbers over one named period. It is not a forecast of how long the money will last, and campaigns do not spend evenly across a cycle.

Outside spending

Independent expenditures are spending by other organizations that is not coordinated with the campaign. This money was never received or controlled by Robert Garcia. Supporting and opposing spending are kept apart rather than combined into one number, and neither is added to campaign receipts.

Spent supporting

$1,531,272
Independent expenditures in the 2022 cycle

Spent opposing

$0
Independent expenditures in the 2022 cycle

What the money was spent on

These categories divide $1,277,249 of itemized spending across 333 transactions, through Dec 30, 2022. That subtotal covers the FEC's published operating-expenditure records, which do not include transfers, loan repayments, refunds, or contributions the campaign made, and is 92.9% of the $1,374,250 in total disbursements reported for the 2022 cycle. Every share below is a share of that subtotal and never of total spending. Purposes were classified under taxonomy spend-1.3.

Two things separate that subtotal from total disbursements. Spending reported without itemization cannot be categorized. And the itemized records run only to Dec 30, 2022, while the totals above cover through Dec 31, 2022, so the last stretch of the reporting period is summarized but not yet broken down here.

Itemized spending by reported purpose for the 2022 cycle, ranked by amount
PurposeAmount% ShareTransactions
Advertising and media $552,64343.3%17
Fundraising and solicitation $254,94220.0%13
Administration, salary, and overhead $193,40815.1%199
Technology and digital services $62,9874.9%35
Unclassified filing descriptions Spending whose reported purpose could not be placed in the taxonomy. It is counted, not guessed at. $51,8494.1%20
Polling and research $49,0003.8%1
Consulting, type not specified $43,0003.4%6
Legal, accounting, and compliance $36,2002.8%12
Events $15,5491.2%15
Campaign materials $12,0700.9%4
Travel $5,6020.4%11
Classified$1,225,40095.9%
Unclassified filing descriptions$51,8494.1%
Itemized spending categorized here$1,277,249100%333

Political committees that contributed directly

Money received by the authorized campaign committee from PACs and other political committees. This is not outside spending.

This total will usually differ from the PAC figure in the summary above. The summary is what the campaign reported receiving in total; this ranking adds up the individual contributions that were itemized, which is a different record made at a different time. Neither is a correction of the other, and the gap is not an error in either one.

Top 5 of 103 shown $365,537 total · $50,000 shown here

Itemized rows as published by the FEC on Sep 6, 2026. The summary figures above come from the candidate's own reports through the coverage date.

Show the complete list of 103 committees →

Organizations spending independently

Supporting Robert Garcia

All 4 shown $1,531,272 total

Itemized rows as published by the FEC on Sep 6, 2026. The summary figures above come from the candidate's own reports through the coverage date.

Organizations ranked by independent spending supporting this candidate
RankCommitteeAmountShareTransactionsLast activity
1Protect Our Future PAC C00801514$1,002,73265.5%8May 12, 2022
2Web3 Forward C00804187$231,68615.1%2May 19, 2022
3CHC BOLD PAC C00365536$157,84210.3%2May 19, 2022
4Californians for Safe and Healthy Communities C00802769$139,0129.1%4Jun 1, 2022

Opposing Robert Garcia

No opposing independent expenditures are reported for this cycle.

What that outside spending purchased

Each independent expenditure carries a short description the spending committee wrote, and these categories are those descriptions sorted under taxonomy outside-1.0. Spending supporting Robert Garcia and spending opposing them are broken down separately and never combined, and every share below is a share of that one direction's total.

The largest category is usually "Advertising, medium not specified". That is not a leftover: it is spending the committee described only as a media buy or as advertising, without saying whether it aired on television, ran online, or arrived in the mail. MyRepTracker reports what was filed rather than assigning it a medium.

Supporting Robert Garcia

Independent spending supporting this candidate, by reported purpose for the 2022 cycle, ranked by amount
PurposeAmount% ShareTransactions
Broadcast, cable, and radio advertising $576,52237.6%2
Digital and online advertising $397,84226.0%3
Direct mail $289,06718.9%7
Advertising, medium not specified Reported as a media buy or as advertising, with no medium named. $267,84117.5%4
Classified$1,531,272100.0%
Unclassified filing descriptions$00.0%
Total independent spending$1,531,272100%16

Opposing Robert Garcia

No independent expenditures in this direction are reported for this cycle.

Fundraising channels

Some money arrives through a committee that raised or collected it rather than from a committee that decided to give it. Those committees are listed here instead of among the political committees that contributed, because calling a payment processor or a shared fundraising account a donor would say something the filings do not. None of this is added to, or subtracted from, any total above.

Conduits

A conduit forwards contributions that individuals earmarked for a named candidate. The amounts below come from the receiving campaign's conduit memo records and remain part of its reported individual-contribution total; they are not added to receipts again. MyRepTracker groups only memos carrying a registered conduit committee's FEC ID and does not decode or store contributor names, addresses, employers, occupations, or memo text. The record count is a count of FEC memo records, not donors.

Conduit records shown through Dec 31, 2022 · fetched Sep 8, 2026.

1 organization shown $0 total

Itemized rows as published by the FEC on Sep 6, 2026. The summary figures above come from the candidate's own reports through the coverage date.

Registered conduits ranked by individuals' earmarked contributions routed through them
RankCommitteeAmountShareFEC memo recordsLast activity
1ACTBLUE C00401224$0Not available8May 12, 2022

Who the committees behind this money were

Every committee here is placed by the registration it filed with the FEC for the 2022 cycle: its designation, its committee type, and the organizational form it reported. That is the FEC's own record and involves no judgement by MyRepTracker, so this covers every itemized dollar. A committee's registration can change between cycles, and each cycle is judged by its own.

Contributed to Robert Garcia

Committees itemized $365,537 in contributions to this campaign.

Political committees contributing to this campaign, grouped by who the FEC says runs them in the 2022 cycle, ranked by amount
Kind of committeeAmount% ShareCommitteesTransactions
Labor union PACs $155,50042.5%2942
Non-connected committees $73,61220.1%1928
Leadership PACs $52,00014.2%2426
Membership organization PACs $37,92510.4%1014
Other candidates' committees $18,0004.9%1011
Corporate PACs $15,0004.1%55
Trade association PACs $13,5003.7%66
Itemized total for this direction$365,537

Spent supporting Robert Garcia

Committees itemized $1,531,272 in independent spending supporting Robert Garcia.

Independent spenders supporting this candidate, grouped by who the FEC says runs them in the 2022 cycle, ranked by amount
Kind of committeeAmount% ShareCommitteesTransactions
Non-connected committees $1,531,272100.0%416
Itemized total for this direction$1,531,272

What interests those committees advance

The FEC publishes no industry or interest field, so unlike the section above this one is a claim MyRepTracker makes. A committee is placed here only when there is a document behind the claim that a reader can open: its own statement of organization, its own published mission statement, or a named third party. Every assignment carries that document on the committee's own page. A committee's name is never evidence of anything.

Categorized is not the same as reviewed. Most of these sectors were assigned by machine from the committee's own filing rather than read by a person. Each committee's own page says which of the two its assignment is, and names the document behind it either way.

Coverage is partial on purpose, and the part that is not covered is shown at full size rather than left out. Leadership PACs, party committees, and other candidates' committees are excluded outright: their giving is an officeholder's or a party's decision, so no interest label describes it. Categories are taxonomy interest-1.7.

Contributed to Robert Garcia

Committees itemized $365,537 in contributions to this campaign. $70,000 of that came from leadership PACs, party committees, and other candidates' committees, which are not interest groups. Of the remaining $295,537, committees categorized as advancing an interest account for $223,900 and committees not yet categorized account for $71,637.

Political committees contributing to this campaign, grouped by the interest they are categorized as advancing in the 2022 cycle, ranked by amount
InterestAmount% ShareCommitteesTransactions
Building trades unions Labor $53,50018.1%913
Industrial unions Labor $37,00012.5%59
Transportation unions Labor $28,0009.5%67
Public sector unions Labor $16,0005.4%34
Democracy and election reform Ideological and single-issue $10,0003.4%13
Health care unions Labor $10,0003.4%12
LGBTQ rights Ideological and single-issue $10,0003.4%12
Pro-Democratic Party Ideological and single-issue $10,0003.4%12
Pro-Israel Ideological and single-issue $9,9003.3%23
Telecommunications Communications and technology $6,0002.0%23
Credit unions Finance, insurance, and real estate $5,0001.7%11
Insurance Finance, insurance, and real estate $5,0001.7%11
Lawyers and law firms Professional services $5,0001.7%11
Media and entertainment Communications and technology $5,0001.7%12
Real estate Finance, insurance, and real estate $5,0001.7%11
Construction Construction $3,0001.0%22
Physicians and medical specialties Health $2,0000.7%11
Nurses and nursing specialties Health $1,5000.5%11
Automotive Transportation $1,0000.3%11
Gun control Ideological and single-issue $1,0000.3%11
Committees not yet categorized $71,63724.2%2735
Leadership PACs, party committees, and other candidates' committees Not part of the base the shares beside it are taken over. $70,000Not applicable3437
Base the shares are taken over$295,537100%
Itemized total for this direction$365,537

Spent supporting Robert Garcia

Committees itemized $1,531,272 in independent spending supporting Robert Garcia. Of that, committees categorized as advancing an interest account for $157,842 and committees not yet categorized account for $370,698. $1,002,732 came from committees a person read and found no interest for.

Independent spenders supporting this candidate, grouped by the interest they are categorized as advancing in the 2022 cycle, ranked by amount
InterestAmount% ShareCommitteesTransactions
Pro-Democratic Party Ideological and single-issue $157,84210.3%12
Committees reviewed as advancing no interest $1,002,73265.5%18
Committees not yet categorized $370,69824.2%26
Base the shares are taken over$1,531,272100%
Itemized total for this direction$1,531,272

Last-minute contributions reported before an election

In the days just before an election, a campaign must tell the FEC within 48 hours about any contribution or loan of $1,000 or more. These notices arrive faster than the regular reporting schedule, and the same money is reported again in the report covering those days. Nothing here is added to receipts: it is a preview of money the ordinary reports will carry, not money beside them.

Reported on notices

$96,417
Across 12 notices, received May 23, 2022 to Nov 3, 2022

Still only provisional

$0
Every notice is now covered by a regular report

The most recent notice was filed on Nov 5, 2022. A notice stops being the only record of its money once a regular report covers the same days; those are marked reconciled below and the amounts appear in Robert Garcia's reported totals through the ordinary schedule.

48-hour notices filed for the 2022 cycle, newest first
FiledAmountEntriesCoversStateFiling
Nov 5, 2022$2,0001Nov 3 to Nov 3, 2022Covered by a regular reportFEC filing ↗
Nov 4, 2022$3,9173Nov 2 to Nov 2, 2022Covered by a regular reportFEC filing ↗
Nov 2, 2022$16,40010Oct 31 to Oct 31, 2022Covered by a regular reportFEC filing ↗
Oct 29, 2022$1,0001Oct 27 to Oct 27, 2022Covered by a regular reportFEC filing ↗
Oct 28, 2022$7,8004Oct 26 to Oct 26, 2022Covered by a regular reportFEC filing ↗
Oct 26, 2022$1,0001Oct 24 to Oct 24, 2022Covered by a regular reportFEC filing ↗
Jun 4, 2022$12,8004Jun 2 to Jun 2, 2022Covered by a regular reportFEC filing ↗
Jun 3, 2022$9,8005Jun 1 to Jun 1, 2022Covered by a regular reportFEC filing ↗
May 31, 2022$5,5004May 29 to May 29, 2022Covered by a regular reportFEC filing ↗
May 27, 2022$9,5008May 26 to May 26, 2022Covered by a regular reportFEC filing ↗

The 10 most recent notices of 12 are listed. The amount and count above cover all of them.

Where the individual money was reported from

Contributions from individuals that the campaign itemized, grouped by the state each contributor gave as their address. Contributions of $200 or less in aggregate are not itemized and carry no address, so they are not here at all. These places account for $1,152,272 of the $1,338,837 this campaign reported from individuals and from transfers by its other authorized committees, across 1,526 itemized contributions.

From California

$1,046,372
90.8% of the itemized money that has a place

From everywhere else

$105,900
9.2% of the itemized money that has a place

Money from outside California is not money from outside the country, and neither figure is evidence that anything unlawful happened. People may contribute to campaigns in states they do not live in, and United States citizens living abroad may contribute at all.

What kind of place it came from

Itemized individual contributions by kind of place, 2022 cycle
Kind of placeAmountContributionsShare
States and the District of ColumbiaContributors who gave an address in one of the fifty states or the District of Columbia.$1,152,2721,526100.0%

Places, largest first

Top 10 of 19 places shown as bars. Every place is in the table below.

  • California this campaign's state $1,046,372
  • District of Columbia $24,050
  • New York $19,500
  • Texas $16,050
  • Illinois $8,150
  • Washington $7,250
  • New Jersey $6,550
  • Maryland $5,250
  • Arizona $3,400
  • Florida $3,000
Every place with itemized individual contributions reported for the 2022 cycle
PlaceAmountContributionsShare
California this campaign's state$1,046,3721,40490.8%
District of Columbia$24,050382.1%
New York$19,500111.7%
Texas$16,050181.4%
Illinois$8,15060.7%
Washington$7,25060.6%
New Jersey$6,55030.6%
Maryland$5,25090.5%
Arizona$3,40020.3%
Florida$3,00050.3%
Missouri$2,90010.3%
Oklahoma$2,90010.3%
Utah$1,75020.2%
Connecticut$1,600100.1%
Colorado$1,50030.1%
Virginia$1,00030.1%
Hawaii$5002<0.1%
Georgia$3001<0.1%
Pennsylvania$2501<0.1%
Reported with a place$1,152,2721,526100%

Contributions are transactions, not people: one contributor giving every month is counted once for each contribution. No contributor's name, address, employer, or occupation is stored or shown anywhere on this site.

How this compares

Compared with U.S. House campaigns in California, 2022 cycle: 120 campaigns with a complete Federal Election Commission record for the cycle. This is a position in that group, not a score, a grade, or a judgement about the campaign.

Total receipts

Everything the authorized campaign committee took in for this cycle, including contributions, loans, and transfers.

  • This campaign $1,704,813
  • Cohort median $1,024,853
Total receipts for this campaign and for U.S. House campaigns in California, 2022 cycle
MeasureValue
This campaign$1,704,813
Lowest in the cohort$0
25th percentile$116,486
Median$1,024,853
75th percentile$2,390,121
Highest in the cohort$28,295,640
Campaigns counted120

78 of the 120 campaigns counted reported less than this one, which puts it at the 65th percentile of the cohort. Campaigns reporting the same value sit at the same position.

Share of receipts from political committees

Direct contributions from PACs and other political committees as a share of total receipts. Campaigns reporting no receipts at all have no share and are left out of this measure.

  • This campaign 21.1%
  • Cohort median 10.4%
Share of receipts from political committees for this campaign and for U.S. House campaigns in California, 2022 cycle
MeasureValue
This campaign21.1%
Lowest in the cohort0.0%
25th percentile1.8%
Median10.4%
75th percentile34.1%
Highest in the cohort100.0%
Campaigns counted118

76 of the 118 campaigns counted reported less than this one, which puts it at the 64th percentile of the cohort. Campaigns reporting the same value sit at the same position.

Cash on hand

The balance reported at the end of the coverage period. Campaigns report at different times, so this compares balances as of each campaign's own coverage end.

  • This campaign $330,562
  • Cohort median $44,893
Cash on hand for this campaign and for U.S. House campaigns in California, 2022 cycle
MeasureValue
This campaign$330,562
Lowest in the cohort-$1,109
25th percentile$2,394
Median$44,893
75th percentile$456,537
Highest in the cohort$21,022,960
Campaigns counted120

80 of the 120 campaigns counted reported less than this one, which puts it at the 67th percentile of the cohort. Campaigns reporting the same value sit at the same position.

Outside spending supporting

Independent expenditures by other organizations supporting the candidate. This money was never received or controlled by the campaign.

  • This campaign $1,531,272
  • Cohort median $0
Outside spending supporting for this campaign and for U.S. House campaigns in California, 2022 cycle
MeasureValue
This campaign$1,531,272
Lowest in the cohort$0
25th percentile$0
Median$0
75th percentile$12,425
Highest in the cohort$3,123,125
Campaigns counted120

118 of the 120 campaigns counted reported less than this one, which puts it at the 98th percentile of the cohort. Campaigns reporting the same value sit at the same position.

Outside spending opposing

Independent expenditures by other organizations opposing the candidate, not coordinated with any campaign.

  • This campaign $0
  • Cohort median $0
Outside spending opposing for this campaign and for U.S. House campaigns in California, 2022 cycle
MeasureValue
This campaign$0
Lowest in the cohort$0
25th percentile$0
Median$0
75th percentile$0
Highest in the cohort$8,037,240
Campaigns counted120

0 of the 120 campaigns counted reported less than this one, which puts it at the 0th percentile of the cohort. Campaigns reporting the same value sit at the same position.

Every comparison is drawn from one two-year cycle and one office. Only campaigns whose FEC record for that cycle is complete are counted; the rest are reported beside the cohort and are never counted as zero. One authorized committee is counted once however many candidacies report it, so where a candidate's committees are all reported by another FEC record, that record supplies the figures for both. A campaign is never compared with another cycle, with a career total, or with a candidate for a different office.

What these numbers mean

Receipts are not the same as contributions
Total receipts include everything the campaign took in, such as contributions, loans, and transfers. Contributions are only the money given by people and committees.
Direct contributions are not outside spending
A direct contribution is money received by the campaign's own authorized committee. An independent expenditure is money another organization spent on its own, without coordinating with the campaign. The Federal Election Commission treats these as different activities, and so does this page.
The organizations named here are political committees
Direct rankings count what one political committee gave to a campaign; outside-spending rankings count what a committee spent independently. A separate conduit section groups individual contributions only when the campaign's memo record supplies a registered conduit committee's FEC ID. It never attributes donors to employers or interest groups, and it never exposes contributor names. Sites using broader attribution rules may therefore report different organization totals.
A cycle may be only partly reported
Filings arrive throughout a two-year cycle. A current cycle shows only what has been filed and processed through the coverage date shown above, so it is not comparable with a finished cycle.
This view is cycle specific
It covers the 2022 two-year cycle only.

Source: Federal Election Commission ↗. MyRepTracker ingests FEC records directly and does not add its own influence, risk, or corruption score.