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U.S. Representative · MD · District 3

Sarah Elfreth

DemocratTerm through January 2027

Funding profile · 2023–2024 cycle

6% of the money Elfreth raised came from small donors.

More grassroots-funded than 57% of the House.

Elfreth raised $2.3M across the two-year election cycle (2023–2024), and ended the period with $31K cash on hand. Here is where the money came from.

6%from small donors
Small donors
6%$0.1M
Large donors
80%$1.8M
Bundled
0%$0.0M
PACs
13%$0.3M
Other
0%$0.0M

Against the house

How Elfreth compares to the typical member.

Small-donor share
6%vs 5% house median
PAC share
13%vs 37% house median

Who has a stake in Elfreth

The organizations behind the money.

Elfreth's largest organized backing comes from Elect Democratic Women. That counts the group's own PAC check plus the individual donations it bundled, not just the direct check.

Money organized for Elfreth

Elect Democratic Women›

$10K

Who it funds, across Congress

100% Democrats · 0% Republicans · $611K to 86 members

International Longshoremen'S Association Committee On Political Education›$8K

Who it funds, across Congress

100% Democrats · 0% Republicans · $170K to 22 members

Laborers' International Union Of North America (Liuna) PAC›$8K

The Laborers' International Union of North America (LIUNA) political fund, representing construction laborers.

Who it funds, across Congress

91% Democrats · 9% Republicans · $1.6M to 223 members

Outside spending, by party

Spent $275 to elect Democrats.

AIPAC›$7K

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

59% Democrats · 40% Republicans · $38.7M to 359 members

Outside spending, by party

Spent $13.9M to elect Democrats; $5.0M to defeat Democrats.

Ibew PAC Voluntary Fund›$6K

The IBEW's political fund, representing electrical workers.

Who it funds, across Congress

97% Democrats · 3% Republicans · $1.4M to 175 members

› 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 Elfreth's backing, not just the individual groups.

$70KLabor
$22KIdeological
$17KFinance
$14KDefense
$10KTransportation

Plus $77K from organizations whose FEC name did not sort into an industry.

The money spent about Elfreth

Spent for or against.

Outside groups also spend on their own to elect or defeat Elfreth, running ads for or against the race. This money never passes through the campaign, so it is counted apart from the money organized for Elfreth.

All outside groups$4.4M
  1. AIPAC›$4.2M
    To help Elfreth
    $4.2M
    To hurt Elfreth
    —

    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.

  2. Pro-Choice Majority 2024$175K
    To help Elfreth
    $175K
    To hurt Elfreth
    —

FEC filings, 2023–2024 cycle · as of August 2026 · showing the top 5 funders of 85 organizations with a stake

About this data

FEC-disclosed receipts for the 2023–2024 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 Elfreth'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.

84%want dark money disclosed

Support for requiring the groups that spend on elections to name their donors, across both parties. Congress has not passed the DISCLOSE Act.

Where Elfreth stands