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U.S. Representative · CA · District 12

Lateefah Simon

DemocratTerm through January 2027

Funding profile · 2023–2024 cycle

10% of the money Simon raised came from small donors.

More grassroots-funded than 69% of the House.

Simon raised $2.2M across the two-year election cycle (2023–2024), and ended the period with $286K cash on hand. Here is where the money came from.

10%from small donors
Small donors
10%$0.2M
Large donors
75%$1.7M
Bundled
0%$0.0M
PACs
12%$0.3M
Other
2%$0.0M

Against the house

How Simon compares to the typical member.

Small-donor share
10%vs 5% house median
PAC share
12%vs 37% house median

Who has a stake in Simon

The organizations behind the money.

Simon's largest organized backing comes from Carpenters Legislative Improvement Committee United Brotherhood Of Carpenters And Joiners. That counts the group's own PAC check plus the individual donations it bundled, not just the direct check.

Money organized for Simon

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

International Brotherhood Of Electrical Workers PAC$10K

The IBEW's political fund, representing electrical workers.

Who it funds, across Congress

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

National Union Of Healthcare Workers$10K

Who it funds, across Congress

98% Democrats · 0% Republicans · $213K to 35 members

International Association Of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail And Transportation Workers Political Action League$10K

The Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation (SMART) union's political committee.

Who it funds, across Congress

98% Democrats · 2% Republicans · $1.6M to 210 members

Amalgamated Transit Union - Cope$10K

Who it funds, across Congress

100% Democrats · 0% Republicans · $827K to 142 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 Simon's backing, not just the individual groups.

$83KLabor
$33KIdeological
$28KHealth
$10KEnergy
$10KTech

Plus $49K from organizations whose FEC name did not sort into an industry.

The money spent about Simon

Spent for or against.

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

All outside groups$8K
  1. Mia Bonta For Assembly 2024$5K
    To help Simon
    $5K
    To hurt Simon

FEC filings, 2023–2024 cycle · as of August 2026 · showing the top 5 funders of 59 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 Simon'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 Simon stands