U.S. Representative · CA · District 36
Ted Lieu
DemocratTerm through January 2027
Funding profile · 2023–2024 cycle
3% of the money Lieu raised came from small donors.
More grassroots-funded than 35% of the House.
Lieu raised $2.6M across the two-year election cycle (2023–2024), and ended the period with $675K cash on hand. Here is where the money came from.
- Small donors
- 3%$0.1M
- Large donors
- 58%$1.5M
- Bundled
- 1%$0.0M
- PACs
- 30%$0.8M
- Other
- 8%$0.2M
Against the house
How Lieu compares to the typical member.
- Small-donor share
- 3%vs 5% house median
- PAC share
- 30%vs 37% house median
Who has a stake in Lieu
The organizations behind the money.
Lieu'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 Lieu
AIPAC›
$45K
AIPAC›
$45K
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.
American Crystal Sugar Company PAC›$11K
American Crystal Sugar's PAC, a sugar-beet cooperative and one of the most active agricultural givers.
Who it funds, across Congress
56% Democrats · 44% Republicans · $2.7M to 317 members
At&T Inc. Federal PAC›$11K
Who it funds, across Congress
48% Democrats · 51% Republicans · $1.9M to 334 members
National Association Of Broadcaster PAC›$11K
The National Association of Broadcasters' PAC, representing TV and radio station owners.
Who it funds, across Congress
47% Democrats · 53% Republicans · $1.5M to 255 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
› 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 Lieu's backing, not just the individual groups.
Plus $184K 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 190 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 Lieu'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 Lieu stands