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U.S. Representative · CA · District 48

Darrell Issa

RepublicanTerm through January 2027

Funding profile · 2023–2024 cycle

15% of the money Issa raised came from small donors.

More grassroots-funded than 81% of the House.

Issa raised $1.8M across the two-year election cycle (2023–2024), and ended the period with $1.6M cash on hand. Here is where the money came from.

15%from small donors
Small donors
15%$0.3M
Large donors
29%$0.5M
Bundled
1%$0.0M
PACs
33%$0.6M
Other
21%$0.4M

Against the house

How Issa compares to the typical member.

Small-donor share
15%vs 5% house median
PAC share
33%vs 37% house median

Who has a stake in Issa

The organizations behind the money.

Issa'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 Issa

AIPAC

$34K

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.

Ubs Americas PAC$10K

The PAC of UBS, the global investment bank, funded by its U.S. employees.

Who it funds, across Congress

53% Democrats · 47% Republicans · $1.5M to 172 members

Bmi PAC$10K

Who it funds, across Congress

41% Democrats · 59% Republicans · $114K to 27 members

International Union Of Operating Engineers$10K

The Operating Engineers' political education committee, representing heavy-equipment operators.

Who it funds, across Congress

81% Democrats · 18% Republicans · $1.6M to 233 members

Outside spending, by party

Spent $309K to elect Democrats.

Lkq Corp Employee Ggf PAC$10K

Who it funds, across Congress

34% Democrats · 66% Republicans · $195K to 75 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 Issa's backing, not just the individual groups.

$80KTech
$65KFinance
$34KPro-Israel
$33KEnergy
$32KReal Estate

Plus $241K 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 145 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 Issa'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 Issa stands