U.S. Representative · CA · District 31
Gilbert Ray Cisneros, Jr.
DemocratTerm through January 2027
Funding profile · 2017–2018 cycle
5% of the money Cisneros raised came from small donors.
More grassroots-funded than 47% of the House.
Cisneros raised $12.3M across the two-year election cycle (2017–2018), and ended the period with $81K cash on hand. Here is where the money came from.
- Small donors
- 5%$0.6M
- Large donors
- 13%$1.6M
- Bundled
- <1%$26K
- PACs
- <1%$0.1M
- Other
- 82%$10.0M
Against the house
How Cisneros compares to the typical member.
- Small-donor share
- 5%vs 5% house median
- PAC share
- 1%vs 36% house median
Who has a stake in Cisneros
The organizations behind the money.
Cisneros's largest organized backing comes from AIPAC. That counts the group's own PAC check plus the individual donations it bundled, not just the direct check.
Money organized for Cisneros
AIPAC›
$22K
AIPAC›
$22K
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a pro-Israel lobby that both gives directly and bundles individual donations; its super PAC (United Democracy Project) runs large independent campaigns in primaries.
Who it funds, across Congress
60% Democrats · 40% Republicans · $38.3M to 360 members
Outside spending, by party
Spent $13.9M to elect Democrats; $5.0M to defeat Democrats.
Fair Shot PAC›$4K
Who it funds, across Congress
100% Democrats · 0% Republicans · $920K to 103 members
Ameripac: The Fund For A Greater America›$2K
Who it funds, across Congress
100% Democrats · 0% Republicans · $1.0M to 79 members
PAC To The Future›$2K
Who it funds, across Congress
100% Democrats · 0% Republicans · $773K to 88 members
Chc Bold PAC›$2K
Who it funds, across Congress
100% Democrats · 0% Republicans · $280K to 62 members
Outside spending, by party
Spent $2.1M to elect Democrats; $377K to defeat Republicans.
› What is organized money?
An organization reaches a member two ways. Its own PAC writes a direct check. And it bundles: it gathers individual donations from its supporters and routes them through its conduit. Both count here as one “organized” total. The bundled part is already inside the individual giving shown in the funding mix above. Here it is regrouped by the organization that gathered it, so you can see who did the organizing.
The same money, by industry
Which industries have a stake.
The same organized money, grouped by the industry of the organization that moved it. It shows the interests behind Cisneros's backing, not just the individual groups.
Plus $15K from organizations whose FEC name did not sort into an industry.
The money spent about Cisneros
Spent for or against.
Outside groups also spend on their own to elect or defeat Cisneros, running ads for or against the race. This money never passes through the campaign, so it is counted apart from the money organized for Cisneros.
Cooperative Of American Physicians Independent Expenditure Committee$10K
To help Cisneros$10KTo hurt Cisneros—Los Angeles County Democratic Central Committee$7K
To help Cisneros$7KTo hurt Cisneros—Greenpeace,$1K
To help Cisneros—To hurt Cisneros$1K
Cooperative Of American Physicians Independent Expenditure Committee›$10K—$10K
Cooperative Of American Physicians Independent Expenditure Committee
Los Angeles County Democratic Central Committee›$7K—$7K
Los Angeles County Democratic Central Committee
Greenpeace,—$1K$1K
FEC filings, 2017–2018 cycle · as of August 2026 · showing the top 5 funders of 46 organizations with a stake
$97K of Cisneros’s direct PAC money, 26%, came from the leadership PACs of 33 other members of Congress, the personal PACs colleagues use to build support.
About this data
FEC-disclosed receipts for the 2017–2018 cycle. This is the disclosed money only. Spending by outside groups that do not reveal their donors, the dark money that set a record in 2024, never appears in these figures.
Every percentage here is a share of all receipts, not of individual contributions only. So the small-donor share counts transfers, loans, and other money in its base, and can read higher than figures that divide only by individual money.
PAC figures are contributions to Cisneros's campaign committee from FEC filings. Industry labels are grouped from each committee's name and are approximate. Joint fundraising committees and small-dollar conduits like ActBlue and WinRed are not counted.
Support for requiring the groups that spend on elections to name their donors, across both parties. Congress has not passed the DISCLOSE Act.
Where Cisneros stands