U.S. Senator · CA
Alex Padilla
DemocratSenate Class 3Term through January 2029
Funding profile · 2017–2022 term
4% of the money Padilla raised came from small donors.
More grassroots-funded than 12% of the Senate.
Padilla raised $12.0M across the full six-year Senate term (2017–2022), and ended the period with $7.5M cash on hand. Here is where the money came from.
- Small donors
- 4%$0.5M
- Large donors
- 75%$9.0M
- Bundled
- 0%$0.0M
- PACs
- 19%$2.3M
- Other
- 2%$0.2M
Against the senate
How Padilla compares to the typical member.
- Small-donor share
- 4%vs 19% senate median
- PAC share
- 19%vs 14% senate median
Who has a stake in Padilla
The organizations behind the money.
Padilla's largest organized backing comes from Wine Institute PAC. That counts the group's own PAC check plus the individual donations it bundled, not just the direct check.
Money organized for Padilla
Wine Institute PAC›
$20K
Wine Institute PAC›
$20K
Who it funds, across Congress
63% Democrats · 36% Republicans · $184K to 35 members
International Association Of Fire Fighters Affiliated With Afl-Cio-Clc›$20K
Who it funds, across Congress
82% Democrats · 17% Republicans · $1.4M to 237 members
Outside spending, by party
Spent $6K to elect Democrats; $8K to defeat Republicans.
Hdr, Inc. PAC›$20K
Who it funds, across Congress
45% Democrats · 55% Republicans · $250K to 78 members
Air Line Pilots Association PAC›$19K
The Air Line Pilots Association's PAC, representing commercial airline pilots.
Who it funds, across Congress
64% Democrats · 36% Republicans · $1.9M to 329 members
Professional Engineers In California Government Pecg - PAC›$15K
Who it funds, across Congress
100% Democrats · 0% Republicans · $82K to 28 members
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 Padilla's backing, not just the individual groups.
Plus $844K from organizations whose FEC name did not sort into an industry.
The money spent about Padilla
Spent for or against.
Outside groups also spend on their own to elect or defeat Padilla, running ads for or against the race. This money never passes through the campaign, so it is counted apart from the money organized for Padilla.
Coalition To Grow San Francisco - Grow Sf PAC$10K
To help Padilla$10KTo hurt Padilla—
Coalition To Grow San Francisco - Grow Sf PAC›$10K—$10K
Coalition To Grow San Francisco - Grow Sf PAC
FEC filings, 2017–2022 term · as of August 2026 · showing the top 5 funders of 395 organizations with a stake
About this data
FEC-disclosed receipts for the 2017–2022 term. 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 Padilla'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 Padilla stands