U.S. Representative · CA · District 8
John Garamendi
DemocratTerm through January 2027
Funding profile · 2023–2024 cycle
2% of the money Garamendi raised came from small donors.
More grassroots-funded than 29% of the House.
Garamendi raised $1.1M across the two-year election cycle (2023–2024), and ended the period with $1.3M cash on hand. Here is where the money came from.
- Small donors
- 2%$0.0M
- Large donors
- 47%$0.5M
- Bundled
- 1%$0.0M
- PACs
- 50%$0.6M
- Other
- 0%$0.0M
Against the house
How Garamendi compares to the typical member.
- Small-donor share
- 2%vs 5% house median
- PAC share
- 50%vs 37% house median
Who has a stake in Garamendi
The organizations behind the money.
Garamendi's largest organized backing comes from National Association Of Realtors. That counts the group's own PAC check plus the individual donations it bundled, not just the direct check.
Money organized for Garamendi
National Association Of Realtors›
$11K
National Association Of Realtors›
$11K
Who it funds, across Congress
43% Democrats · 57% Republicans · $4.9M to 452 members
Outside spending, by party
Spent $18.9M to elect Republicans.
International Union Of Painters And Allied Trades Political Action Together Political Comm›$10K
Who it funds, across Congress
92% Democrats · 6% Republicans · $929K to 147 members
Carpenters Legislative Improvement Committee United Brotherhood Of Carpenters And Joiners›$10K
The Carpenters union's political committee, representing carpentry and construction trades.
Who it funds, across Congress
85% Democrats · 13% Republicans · $1.8M to 216 members
United Association Of Journeymen & Apprentices Of The U.S. & Canada Local 447 Federal PAC›$10K
Who it funds, across Congress
100% Democrats · 0% Republicans · $26K to 4 members
Machinists Non Partisan Political League Of The International Association Of Machinists &›$10K
The political arm of the Machinists union (IAM), representing aerospace, airline, and manufacturing workers.
Who it funds, across Congress
98% Democrats · 1% Republicans · $2.0M to 230 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 Garamendi's backing, not just the individual groups.
Plus $193K from organizations whose FEC name did not sort into an industry.
FEC filings, 2023–2024 cycle · as of August 2026 · showing the top 5 funders of 157 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 Garamendi'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 Garamendi stands