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U.S. Representative · CA · District 45

Derek Tran

DemocratTerm through January 2027

Funding profile · 2023–2024 cycle

17% of the money Tran raised came from small donors.

More grassroots-funded than 85% of the House.

Tran raised $6.5M across the two-year election cycle (2023–2024), and ended the period with $327K cash on hand. Here is where the money came from.

17%from small donors
Small donors
17%$1.1M
Large donors
53%$3.4M
Bundled
3%$0.2M
PACs
9%$0.6M
Other
18%$1.2M

Against the house

How Tran compares to the typical member.

Small-donor share
17%vs 5% house median
PAC share
9%vs 37% house median

Who has a stake in Tran

The organizations behind the money.

Tran'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 Tran

Jstreetpac

$81K

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

Swing Left$51K

Who it funds, across Congress

100% Democrats · 0% Republicans · $895K to 34 members

Zinc Collective PAC$26K

Who it funds, across Congress

100% Democrats · 0% Republicans · $693K to 25 members

Windem$17K

Who it funds, across Congress

100% Democrats · 0% Republicans · $297K to 29 members

Frontline Usa$15K

Who it funds, across Congress

100% Democrats · 0% Republicans · $406K to 36 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 Tran's backing, not just the individual groups.

$91KLabor
$81KPro-Israel
$66KIdeological
$19KEnergy
$18KHealth

Plus $389K from organizations whose FEC name did not sort into an industry.

The money spent about Tran

Spent for or against.

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

All outside groups26% to help, 74% to hurt$16.6M
  1. Congressional Leadership Fund$11.4M
    To help Tran
    To hurt Tran
    $11.4M

    The super PAC aligned with House Republican leadership.

  2. House Majority PAC$1.9M
    To help Tran
    $1.9M
    To hurt Tran

    The super PAC aligned with House Democratic leadership.

  3. LCV Victory Fund$908K
    To help Tran
    $908K
    To hurt Tran

    The League of Conservation Voters' super PAC, spending on environmental-minded candidates.

  4. America PAC (Musk)$553K
    To help Tran
    To hurt Tran
    $553K
  5. Defending Main Street Superpac$300K
    To help Tran
    To hurt Tran
    $300K

FEC filings, 2023–2024 cycle · as of August 2026 · showing the top 5 funders of 166 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 Tran'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 Tran stands