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U.S. Senator · CA

Adam B. Schiff

DemocratSenate Class 1Term through January 2031

Funding profile · 2019–2024 term

39% of the money Schiff raised came from small donors.

More grassroots-funded than 86% of the Senate.

Schiff raised $48.1M across the full six-year Senate term (2019–2024), and ended the period with $6.4M cash on hand. Here is where the money came from.

39%from small donors
Small donors
39%$18.8M
Large donors
54%$26.0M
Bundled
1%$0.3M
PACs
2%$1.0M
Other
4%$2.0M

Against the senate

How Schiff compares to the typical member.

Small-donor share
39%vs 19% senate median
PAC share
2%vs 14% senate median

Who has a stake in Schiff

The organizations behind the money.

Schiff'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 Schiff

AIPAC

$284K

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.

Culac The PAC Of Credit Union Nat'L Assn.$26K

America's Credit Unions PAC (formerly CULAC), the trade PAC for the credit-union industry.

Who it funds, across Congress

52% Democrats · 48% Republicans · $2.4M to 386 members

Outside spending, by party

Spent $2.2M to elect Republicans.

Carpenters' Legislative Improvement Committee$23K

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

International Brotherhood Of Electrical Workers PAC$23K

The IBEW's political fund, representing electrical workers.

Who it funds, across Congress

97% Democrats · 3% Republicans · $1.4M to 175 members

International Union Of Operating Engineers Local No. 12 Voluntary Legislative Fund$23K

Who it funds, across Congress

100% Democrats · 0% Republicans · $192K to 22 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. Schiffreceived so many small earmarked donations that these figures count only the largest ones. Read every total as “at least.”

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 Schiff's backing, not just the individual groups.

$301KPro-Israel
$272KLabor
$62KAg & Food
$61KHealth
$48KFinance

Plus $328K from organizations whose FEC name did not sort into an industry.

The money spent about Schiff

Spent for or against.

Outside groups also spend on their own to elect or defeat Schiff, running ads for or against the race. This money never passes through the campaign, so it is counted apart from the money organized for Schiff.

All outside groups$232K
  1. Standing Strong PAC$175K
    To help Schiff
    $175K
    To hurt Schiff
  2. DMFI PAC$18K
    To help Schiff
    $18K
    To hurt Schiff
  3. International Association Of Fire Fighters - Firepac$3K
    To help Schiff
    $3K
    To hurt Schiff

FEC filings, 2019–2024 term · as of August 2026 · showing the top 5 funders of 198 organizations with a stake

About this data

FEC-disclosed receipts for the 2019–2024 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 Schiff'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 Schiff stands