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Sam Liccardo

Democratic candidate · 2026 general election · California

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Sam Liccardo

Democratic

Currently serving in the U.S. House District 16.

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Campaign finance

FEC data through Jun 30, 2026. Covering the 2026 two-year cycle only.

Every stored cycle for Sam Liccardo is on their legislator profile →

The 2026 cycle at a glance

Total receipts
$3,489,298
Everything the campaign took in
Individual contributions
$1,505,070
Itemized and unitemized split not reported
PAC and other committees
$662,750
Received from political committees
Campaign spending
$1,426,732
Total disbursements
Cash on hand
$2,152,957
At the end of the reporting period

Where the money came from

These categories divide total receipts of $3,489,298 exactly once, so they add back up to the reported total.

Receipts by funding category for the 2026 cycle
SourceAmountShare of receipts
Individual contributions$1,505,07043.1%
PAC and other committee contributions$662,75019.0%
Party committee contributions$00.0%
Candidate self-funding$00.0%
Loans$00.0%
Other receipts, including transfers$1,321,47837.9%
Total receipts$3,489,298100%

Financial position

Cash, debt, refunds, loans, and transfers as reported through Jun 30, 2026 for the 2026 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 2026 cycle
MeasureAmount
Cash on hand at coverage end$2,152,957
Debts and obligations owed by the committee$840
Debts and obligations owed to the committeeNot reported
Contributions refunded to individuals$13,800
Contributions refunded to committees$5,000
Transfers received from other authorized committeesAlready raised money moving between the candidate's own committees, not new fundraising.$1,294,854
Transfers made to other authorized committees$7,000
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$2,149,020Calculated 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$18,800Calculated as refunds to individuals plus refunds to committees.

Change since the previous filing

Both columns come from committee C00858688, so the two periods are comparable. A change is the difference between what 12P 2026 reported and what Q2 2026 reported, and the direction is stated in words rather than shown only as a sign. 12P 2026 reported through May 13, 2026 and Q2 2026 through Jun 30, 2026.

Financial position at the two most recent controlling filings of committee C00858688
Measure12P 2026Reported through May 13, 2026Q2 2026Reported through Jun 30, 2026Change
Cash on hand at period end$2,025,502$2,152,957Up $127,455
Debts owed by the committee$840$840No change
Contribution refunds in the period$0$5,000Up $5,000

Cash compared with one period's spending

Cash on hand of $2,152,957 set beside the $82,954 this campaign spent during Q2 2026, through Jun 30, 2026, which is 26.0 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 Sam Liccardo. Supporting and opposing spending are kept apart rather than combined into one number, and neither is added to campaign receipts.

Spent supporting

$0
Independent expenditures in the 2026 cycle

Spent opposing

$0
Independent expenditures in the 2026 cycle

What the money was spent on

These categories divide $1,152,243 of itemized spending across 987 transactions, through Jun 30, 2026. 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 80.8% of the $1,426,732 in total disbursements reported for the 2026 cycle. Every share below is a share of that subtotal and never of total spending. Purposes were classified under taxonomy spend-1.3.

The difference between that subtotal and total disbursements is spending reported without itemization, which cannot be categorized.

Itemized spending by reported purpose for the 2026 cycle, ranked by amount
PurposeAmount% ShareTransactions
Consulting, type not specified $419,50036.4%40
Administration, salary, and overhead $359,15231.2%451
Fundraising and solicitation $108,1149.4%32
Legal, accounting, and compliance $90,1487.8%24
Technology and digital services $66,5405.8%210
Unclassified filing descriptions Spending whose reported purpose could not be placed in the taxonomy. It is counted, not guessed at. $49,4334.3%65
Events $32,1472.8%88
Travel $19,4931.7%69
Campaign materials $7,1150.6%7
Advertising and media $6000.1%1
Classified$1,102,81095.7%
Unclassified filing descriptions$49,4334.3%
Itemized spending categorized here$1,152,243100%987

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 223 shown $683,767 total · $55,000 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.

Political committees ranked by direct contributions
RankCommitteeAmountShareTransactionsLast activity
1ERNST & YOUNG POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE C00227744$15,0002.2%4Jun 4, 2026
2CARPENTERS LEGISLATIVE IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE UNITED BROTHERHOOD OF CARPENTERS AND JOINERS C00001016$10,0001.5%2Apr 28, 2026
3AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE C00077321$10,0001.5%5Jun 3, 2026
4INVESTMENT COMPANY INSTITUTE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (ICI PAC) C00105981$10,0001.5%3Jun 26, 2026
5AMERICAN CRYSTAL SUGAR COMPANY POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE C00110338$10,0001.5%2Jul 7, 2025
Show the complete list of 223 committees →

Who the committees behind this money were

Every committee here is placed by the registration it filed with the FEC for the 2026 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 Sam Liccardo

Committees itemized $683,767 in contributions to this campaign.

Political committees contributing to this campaign, grouped by who the FEC says runs them in the 2026 cycle, ranked by amount
Kind of committeeAmount% ShareCommitteesTransactions
Corporate PACs $385,96856.4%129214
Trade association PACs $105,99915.5%4070
Non-connected committees $69,75010.2%1826
Membership organization PACs $47,0506.9%1629
Labor union PACs $24,5003.6%68
Corporations without capital stock $20,5003.0%59
Cooperative PACs $16,5002.4%57
Leadership PACs $11,5001.7%34
Other candidates' committees $2,0000.3%11
Itemized total for this direction$683,767

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 Sam Liccardo

Committees itemized $683,767 in contributions to this campaign. $13,500 of that came from leadership PACs, party committees, and other candidates' committees, which are not interest groups. Of the remaining $670,267, committees categorized as advancing an interest account for $565,499 and committees not yet categorized account for $104,768.

Political committees contributing to this campaign, grouped by the interest they are categorized as advancing in the 2026 cycle, ranked by amount
InterestAmount% ShareCommitteesTransactions
Securities and investment Finance, insurance, and real estate $149,50022.3%3275
Commercial banking Finance, insurance, and real estate $63,0009.4%2238
Insurance Finance, insurance, and real estate $60,0009.0%2633
Technology Communications and technology $59,5008.9%2130
Pharmaceuticals Health $43,0006.4%1727
Real estate Finance, insurance, and real estate $30,0004.5%1123
Accounting Professional services $21,0003.1%38
Food and beverage Agriculture $16,0002.4%57
Building trades unions Labor $12,5001.9%23
Pro-Democratic Party Ideological and single-issue $10,0001.5%12
Construction Construction $9,5001.4%55
Telecommunications Communications and technology $9,5001.4%37
Automotive Transportation $9,0001.3%46
Public sector unions Labor $8,5001.3%35
Agribusiness Agriculture $8,0001.2%55
Lawyers and law firms Professional services $7,5001.1%13
Electric utilities Energy and natural resources $7,4991.1%25
Defense Defense $6,0000.9%24
Health insurance Health $6,0000.9%23
Credit unions Finance, insurance, and real estate $5,0000.7%12
Industrial unions Labor $5,0000.7%11
Media and entertainment Communications and technology $5,0000.7%13
Hospitals and nursing homes Health $3,5000.5%22
Renewable energy Energy and natural resources $2,5000.4%11
Trucking Transportation $2,5000.4%11
Air transport Transportation $2,0000.3%12
Physicians and medical specialties Health $2,0000.3%11
Cryptocurrency and blockchain Finance, insurance, and real estate $1,0000.1%11
Transportation unions Labor $1,0000.1%11
Committees not yet categorized $104,76815.6%4159
Leadership PACs, party committees, and other candidates' committees Not part of the base the shares beside it are taken over. $13,500Not applicable45
Base the shares are taken over$670,267100%
Itemized total for this direction$683,767

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

$44,000
Across 6 notices, received May 15, 2026 to May 28, 2026

Still only provisional

$0
Every notice is now covered by a regular report

The most recent notice was filed on May 30, 2026. 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 Sam Liccardo's reported totals through the ordinary schedule.

48-hour notices filed for the 2026 cycle, newest first
FiledAmountEntriesCoversStateFiling
May 30, 2026$9,0003May 28 to May 28, 2026Covered by a regular reportFEC filing ↗
May 29, 2026$11,0003May 27 to May 27, 2026Covered by a regular reportFEC filing ↗
May 28, 2026$1,5001May 26 to May 26, 2026Covered by a regular reportFEC filing ↗
May 21, 2026$4,5003May 19 to May 19, 2026Covered by a regular reportFEC filing ↗
May 20, 2026$13,0004May 18 to May 18, 2026Covered by a regular reportFEC filing ↗
May 17, 2026$5,0001May 15 to May 15, 2026Covered by a regular reportFEC filing ↗

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 $1,539,584 of the $2,799,924 this campaign reported from individuals and from transfers by its other authorized committees, across 884 itemized contributions.

From California

$1,237,870
80.4% of the itemized money that has a place

From everywhere else

$301,714
19.6% 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, 2026 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.$1,539,584884100.0%

Places, largest first

Top 10 of 24 places shown as bars. Every place is in the table below.

  • California this campaign's state $1,237,870
  • District of Columbia $49,000
  • New York $48,135
  • Florida $40,250
  • Maryland $30,000
  • Texas $25,863
  • Illinois $17,500
  • Connecticut $16,966
  • Virginia $16,250
  • Utah $10,500
Every place with itemized individual contributions reported for the 2026 cycle
PlaceAmountContributionsShare
California this campaign's state$1,237,87066280.4%
District of Columbia$49,000683.2%
New York$48,135223.1%
Florida$40,250132.6%
Maryland$30,000401.9%
Texas$25,863101.7%
Illinois$17,50061.1%
Connecticut$16,96691.1%
Virginia$16,250251.1%
Utah$10,50030.7%
Hawaii$10,00040.6%
Nevada$8,00040.5%
Arizona$7,00020.5%
Washington$5,00020.3%
Colorado$4,00020.3%
Oregon$3,50010.2%
Oklahoma$3,00020.2%
Tennessee$2,50010.2%
Massachusetts$1,50030.1%
New Jersey$1,00010.1%
Maine$5001<0.1%
Mississippi$5001<0.1%
Pennsylvania$5001<0.1%
Nebraska$2501<0.1%
Reported with a place$1,539,584884100%

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, 2026 cycle: 287 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 $3,489,298
  • Cohort median $58,784
Total receipts for this campaign and for U.S. House campaigns in California, 2026 cycle
MeasureValue
This campaign$3,489,298
Lowest in the cohort$0
25th percentile$10,048
Median$58,784
75th percentile$785,765
Highest in the cohort$13,761,491
Campaigns counted287

272 of the 287 campaigns counted reported less than this one, which puts it at the 95th 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 19.0%
  • Cohort median 0.0%
Share of receipts from political committees for this campaign and for U.S. House campaigns in California, 2026 cycle
MeasureValue
This campaign19.0%
Lowest in the cohort-0.1%
25th percentile0.0%
Median0.0%
75th percentile10.3%
Highest in the cohort77.6%
Campaigns counted266

219 of the 266 campaigns counted reported less than this one, which puts it at the 82th 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 $2,152,957
  • Cohort median $4,558
Cash on hand for this campaign and for U.S. House campaigns in California, 2026 cycle
MeasureValue
This campaign$2,152,957
Lowest in the cohort-$16,866
25th percentile$19
Median$4,558
75th percentile$152,606
Highest in the cohort$16,929,752
Campaigns counted287

269 of the 287 campaigns counted reported less than this one, which puts it at the 94th 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 $0
  • Cohort median $0
Outside spending supporting for this campaign and for U.S. House campaigns in California, 2026 cycle
MeasureValue
This campaign$0
Lowest in the cohort$0
25th percentile$0
Median$0
75th percentile$0
Highest in the cohort$4,286,570
Campaigns counted287

0 of the 287 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.

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, 2026 cycle
MeasureValue
This campaign$0
Lowest in the cohort$0
25th percentile$0
Median$0
75th percentile$0
Highest in the cohort$5,367,209
Campaigns counted287

0 of the 287 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 2026 two-year cycle only.

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