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U.S. Representative · CA · District 51

Sara Jacobs

DemocratTerm through January 2027

Funding profile · 2023–2024 cycle

8% of the money Jacobs raised came from small donors.

More grassroots-funded than 62% of the House.

Jacobs raised $1.7M across the two-year election cycle (2023–2024), and ended the period with $77K cash on hand. Here is where the money came from.

8%from small donors
Small donors
8%$0.1M
Large donors
22%$0.4M
Bundled
1%$0.0M
PACs
15%$0.3M
Other
55%$0.9M

Against the house

How Jacobs compares to the typical member.

Small-donor share
8%vs 5% house median
PAC share
15%vs 37% house median

Who has a stake in Jacobs

The organizations behind the money.

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

Money organized for Jacobs

Jstreetpac

$14K

J Street's PAC, a liberal pro-Israel group that backs candidates supporting a two-state solution, often a counterweight to AIPAC.

Who it funds, across Congress

100% Democrats · 0% Republicans · $4.0M to 144 members

Carpenters' Legislative Improvement Committee$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

National Association Of Letter Carriers Of U.S.A. Political Fund$10K

The National Association of Letter Carriers' political fund, representing postal workers.

Who it funds, across Congress

82% Democrats · 18% Republicans · $1.5M to 253 members

Machinists Non Partisan Political League Of The International Association Of Machinists & Aerospace Workers$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

National Association Of Realtors$10K

Who it funds, across Congress

43% Democrats · 57% Republicans · $4.9M to 452 members

Outside spending, by party

Spent $18.9M to elect 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 Jacobs's backing, not just the individual groups.

$93KLabor
$20KAg & Food
$14KHealth
$14KPro-Israel
$13KIdeological

Plus $31K 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 57 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 Jacobs'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 Jacobs stands