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Pete Aguilar

Democratic candidate · 2022 general election · California

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Pete Aguilar

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Campaign finance

FEC data through Dec 31, 2022. Covering the 2022 two-year cycle only.

The 2022 cycle at a glance

Total receipts
$3,255,093
Everything the campaign took in
Individual contributions
$1,649,403
Itemized and unitemized split not reported
PAC and other committees
$1,410,801
Received from political committees
Campaign spending
$3,514,931
Total disbursements
Cash on hand
$1,579,756
At the end of the reporting period

Where the money came from

These categories divide total receipts of $3,255,093 exactly once, so they add back up to the reported total.

Receipts by funding category for the 2022 cycle
SourceAmountShare of receipts
Individual contributions$1,649,40350.7%
PAC and other committee contributions$1,410,80143.3%
Party committee contributions$00.0%
Candidate self-funding$2250.0%
Loans$00.0%
Other receipts, including transfers$194,6646.0%
Total receipts$3,255,093100%

Financial position

Cash, debt, refunds, loans, and transfers as reported through Dec 31, 2022 for the 2022 cycle. These are factual reported values, not a judgement about whether a campaign is healthy, viable, or strong. Independent expenditures are never added to or subtracted from any of them: that money was never the campaign's.

Reported financial position for the 2022 cycle
MeasureAmount
Cash on hand at coverage end$1,579,756
Debts and obligations owed by the committee$0
Debts and obligations owed to the committeeNot reported
Contributions refunded to individuals$27,997
Contributions refunded to committees$3,200
Transfers received from other authorized committeesAlready raised money moving between the candidate's own committees, not new fundraising.$38,625
Transfers made to other authorized committees$0
Repayments of candidate loans$0
Repayments of other loans$0

Calculated from the reported values

Each row below is arithmetic MyRepTracker performed on the values above. Where the FEC published the figure itself, the row says so and no calculation was made.

Values calculated from the reported financial position, with the formula for each
MeasureAmountHow it was produced
Contributions net of refunds$3,029,232Calculated as individual + committee + party + candidate contributions, minus contributions refunded to individuals and committees.
Operating expenditures net of offsetsNot reportedAn input this calculation needs is not published by the source behind this record.
Outstanding candidate loans$0Calculated as loans received from the candidate minus repayments of those loans.
Other outstanding loans$0Calculated as other loans received minus repayments of those loans.
Total contributions refunded$31,197Calculated as refunds to individuals plus refunds to committees.

Change since the previous filing

Both columns come from committee C00510461, so the two periods are comparable. A change is the difference between what 30G 2022 reported and what YE 2022 reported, and the direction is stated in words rather than shown only as a sign. 30G 2022 reported through Nov 28, 2022 and YE 2022 through Dec 31, 2022.

Financial position at the two most recent controlling filings of committee C00510461
Measure30G 2022Reported through Nov 28, 2022YE 2022Reported through Dec 31, 2022Change
Cash on hand at period end$1,601,918$1,579,756Down $22,162
Debts owed by the committee$0$0No change
Contribution refunds in the period$3,932$125Down $3,807

Cash compared with one period's spending

Cash on hand of $1,579,756 set beside the $76,062 this campaign spent during YE 2022, through Dec 31, 2022, which is 20.8 times that period's spending. This is a ratio between two reported numbers over one named period. It is not a forecast of how long the money will last, and campaigns do not spend evenly across a cycle.

Outside spending

Independent expenditures are spending by other organizations that is not coordinated with the campaign. This money was never received or controlled by Pete Aguilar. Supporting and opposing spending are kept apart rather than combined into one number, and neither is added to campaign receipts.

Spent supporting

$0
Independent expenditures in the 2022 cycle

Spent opposing

$0
Independent expenditures in the 2022 cycle

What the money was spent on

These categories divide $2,512,403 of itemized spending across 979 transactions, through Dec 31, 2022. That subtotal covers the FEC's published operating-expenditure records, which do not include transfers, loan repayments, refunds, or contributions the campaign made, and is 71.5% of the $3,514,931 in total disbursements reported for the 2022 cycle. Every share below is a share of that subtotal and never of total spending. Purposes were classified under taxonomy spend-1.3.

The difference between that subtotal and total disbursements is spending reported without itemization, which cannot be categorized.

Itemized spending by reported purpose for the 2022 cycle, ranked by amount
PurposeAmount% ShareTransactions
Fundraising and solicitation $660,76426.3%60
Advertising and media $570,68322.7%10
Unclassified filing descriptions Spending whose reported purpose could not be placed in the taxonomy. It is counted, not guessed at. $428,49817.1%136
Administration, salary, and overhead $291,93111.6%630
Technology and digital services $277,72311.1%81
Consulting, type not specified $106,0594.2%14
Polling and research $95,4003.8%3
Campaign materials $56,0672.2%4
Contributions and donations made $9,8330.4%3
Events $7,3590.3%7
Travel $6,7640.3%25
Legal, accounting, and compliance $1,3200.1%6
Classified$2,083,90582.9%
Unclassified filing descriptions$428,49817.1%
Itemized spending categorized here$2,512,403100%979

Political committees that contributed directly

Money received by the authorized campaign committee from PACs and other political committees. This is not outside spending.

This total will usually differ from the PAC figure in the summary above. The summary is what the campaign reported receiving in total; this ranking adds up the individual contributions that were itemized, which is a different record made at a different time. Neither is a correction of the other, and the gap is not an error in either one.

Top 5 of 307 shown $1,460,302 total · $59,500 shown here

Itemized rows as published by the FEC on Sep 6, 2026. The summary figures above come from the candidate's own reports through the coverage date.

Political committees ranked by direct contributions
RankCommitteeAmountShareTransactionsLast activity
1EDISON INTERNATIONAL PAC C00019653$15,0001.0%3Aug 31, 2022
2NATIONAL AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS ASSOCIATION PAC C00238725$12,5000.9%6Dec 16, 2022
3UNION PACIFIC CORP. FUND FOR EFFECTIVE GOVERNMENT C00010470$12,0000.8%6Sep 23, 2022
4AMERICAN DENTAL ASSOCIATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE C00000729$10,0000.7%3Oct 4, 2022
5CARPENTERS LEGISLATIVE IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE UNITED BROTHERHOOD OF CARPENTERS AND JOINERS C00001016$10,0000.7%2Aug 15, 2022
Show the complete list of 307 committees →

Who the committees behind this money were

Every committee here is placed by the registration it filed with the FEC for the 2022 cycle: its designation, its committee type, and the organizational form it reported. That is the FEC's own record and involves no judgement by MyRepTracker, so this covers every itemized dollar. A committee's registration can change between cycles, and each cycle is judged by its own.

Contributed to Pete Aguilar

Committees itemized $1,460,302 in contributions to this campaign.

Political committees contributing to this campaign, grouped by who the FEC says runs them in the 2022 cycle, ranked by amount
Kind of committeeAmount% ShareCommitteesTransactions
Corporate PACs $804,14055.1%159349
Trade association PACs $219,00015.0%57100
Labor union PACs $196,00013.4%3162
Membership organization PACs $102,9007.0%2347
Non-connected committees $93,2626.4%2543
Corporations without capital stock $19,0001.3%58
Other candidates' committees $13,0000.9%37
Cooperative PACs $13,0000.9%45
Itemized total for this direction$1,460,302

What interests those committees advance

The FEC publishes no industry or interest field, so unlike the section above this one is a claim MyRepTracker makes. A committee is placed here only when there is a document behind the claim that a reader can open: its own statement of organization, its own published mission statement, or a named third party. Every assignment carries that document on the committee's own page. A committee's name is never evidence of anything.

Categorized is not the same as reviewed. Most of these sectors were assigned by machine from the committee's own filing rather than read by a person. Each committee's own page says which of the two its assignment is, and names the document behind it either way.

Coverage is partial on purpose, and the part that is not covered is shown at full size rather than left out. Leadership PACs, party committees, and other candidates' committees are excluded outright: their giving is an officeholder's or a party's decision, so no interest label describes it. Categories are taxonomy interest-1.7.

Contributed to Pete Aguilar

Committees itemized $1,460,302 in contributions to this campaign. $13,000 of that came from leadership PACs, party committees, and other candidates' committees, which are not interest groups. Of the remaining $1,447,302, committees categorized as advancing an interest account for $1,180,040 and committees not yet categorized account for $267,262.

Political committees contributing to this campaign, grouped by the interest they are categorized as advancing in the 2022 cycle, ranked by amount
InterestAmount% ShareCommitteesTransactions
Defense Defense $124,5008.6%1960
Insurance Finance, insurance, and real estate $78,0005.4%2240
Technology Communications and technology $74,6405.2%1128
Construction Construction $71,0004.9%1631
Air transport Transportation $65,0004.5%1135
Health insurance Health $60,0004.1%922
Securities and investment Finance, insurance, and real estate $55,0003.8%1325
Pharmaceuticals Health $54,5003.8%1323
Food and beverage Agriculture $52,5003.6%1118
Building trades unions Labor $50,0003.5%711
Electric utilities Energy and natural resources $44,5003.1%717
Real estate Finance, insurance, and real estate $43,0003.0%816
Telecommunications Communications and technology $41,5002.9%612
Automotive Transportation $37,5002.6%718
Media and entertainment Communications and technology $37,0002.6%914
Physicians and medical specialties Health $36,5002.5%1116
Public sector unions Labor $36,0002.5%613
Industrial unions Labor $35,5002.5%59
Transportation unions Labor $30,0002.1%310
Commercial banking Finance, insurance, and real estate $25,0001.7%711
Credit unions Finance, insurance, and real estate $23,5001.6%37
Hospitals and nursing homes Health $23,0001.6%58
Trucking Transportation $19,5001.3%37
Lawyers and law firms Professional services $10,0000.7%15
Oil and gas Energy and natural resources $10,0000.7%26
Agribusiness Agriculture $9,0000.6%77
Mining Energy and natural resources $8,0000.6%23
Pro-Israel Ideological and single-issue $7,9000.5%13
Democracy and election reform Ideological and single-issue $7,5000.5%12
Accounting Professional services $6,0000.4%34
Renewable energy Energy and natural resources $2,0000.1%11
Gun control Ideological and single-issue $1,0000.1%11
Health care unions Labor $1,0000.1%11
Committees not yet categorized $267,26218.5%72130
Leadership PACs, party committees, and other candidates' committees Not part of the base the shares beside it are taken over. $13,000Not applicable37
Base the shares are taken over$1,447,302100%
Itemized total for this direction$1,460,302

Last-minute contributions reported before an election

In the days just before an election, a campaign must tell the FEC within 48 hours about any contribution or loan of $1,000 or more. These notices arrive faster than the regular reporting schedule, and the same money is reported again in the report covering those days. Nothing here is added to receipts: it is a preview of money the ordinary reports will carry, not money beside them.

Reported on notices

$181,750
Across 10 notices, received May 23, 2022 to Nov 3, 2022

Still only provisional

$0
Every notice is now covered by a regular report

The most recent notice was filed on Nov 4, 2022. A notice stops being the only record of its money once a regular report covers the same days; those are marked reconciled below and the amounts appear in Pete Aguilar's reported totals through the ordinary schedule.

48-hour notices filed for the 2022 cycle, newest first
FiledAmountEntriesCoversStateFiling
Nov 4, 2022$10,4003Nov 3 to Nov 3, 2022Covered by a regular reportFEC filing ↗
Nov 2, 2022$37,40017Oct 31 to Nov 2, 2022Covered by a regular reportFEC filing ↗
Oct 28, 2022$18,4008Oct 27 to Oct 27, 2022Covered by a regular reportFEC filing ↗
Oct 26, 2022$15,8007Oct 24 to Oct 26, 2022Covered by a regular reportFEC filing ↗
Oct 24, 2022$1,0001Oct 22 to Oct 22, 2022Covered by a regular reportFEC filing ↗
Oct 23, 2022$10,0002Oct 21 to Oct 21, 2022Covered by a regular reportFEC filing ↗
Jun 4, 2022$16,5009Jun 3 to Jun 3, 2022Covered by a regular reportFEC filing ↗
Jun 1, 2022$25,55010May 31 to Jun 1, 2022Covered by a regular reportFEC filing ↗
May 27, 2022$30,20016May 26 to May 26, 2022Covered by a regular reportFEC filing ↗
May 24, 2022$16,50015May 23 to May 24, 2022Covered by a regular reportFEC filing ↗

Where the individual money was reported from

Contributions from individuals that the campaign itemized, grouped by the state each contributor gave as their address. Contributions of $200 or less in aggregate are not itemized and carry no address, so they are not here at all. These places account for $1,259,823 of the $1,688,028 this campaign reported from individuals and from transfers by its other authorized committees, across 5,277 itemized contributions.

From California

$787,061
62.5% of the itemized money that has a place

From everywhere else

$472,762
37.5% of the itemized money that has a place

Money from outside California is not money from outside the country, and neither figure is evidence that anything unlawful happened. People may contribute to campaigns in states they do not live in, and United States citizens living abroad may contribute at all.

What kind of place it came from

Itemized individual contributions by kind of place, 2022 cycle
Kind of placeAmountContributionsShare
States and the District of ColumbiaContributors who gave an address in one of the fifty states or the District of Columbia.$1,259,8235,277100.0%

Places, largest first

Top 10 of 47 places shown as bars. Every place is in the table below.

  • California this campaign's state $787,061
  • District of Columbia $123,939
  • New York $53,669
  • Maryland $45,955
  • Texas $25,301
  • Florida $23,222
  • Virginia $22,640
  • Michigan $20,967
  • Pennsylvania $17,372
  • New Mexico $15,604
Every place with itemized individual contributions reported for the 2022 cycle
PlaceAmountContributionsShare
California this campaign's state$787,0612,80762.5%
District of Columbia$123,9391179.8%
New York$53,6693974.3%
Maryland$45,955923.6%
Texas$25,3011352.0%
Florida$23,2222421.8%
Virginia$22,640711.8%
Michigan$20,967621.7%
Pennsylvania$17,372711.4%
New Mexico$15,604491.2%
Oklahoma$11,000100.9%
Arizona$9,100700.7%
Massachusetts$8,863960.7%
Washington$8,6921520.7%
Illinois$7,9501580.6%
Nevada$7,30040.6%
Alabama$6,81550.5%
Connecticut$6,564400.5%
New Jersey$6,159790.5%
Missouri$5,984770.5%
Colorado$5,8731390.5%
New Hampshire$5,67060.5%
Kentucky$5,00050.4%
Utah$4,41530.4%
North Carolina$3,173210.3%
Wyoming$2,90010.2%
Ohio$2,787270.2%
Kansas$2,50040.2%
Montana$2,154610.2%
Georgia$1,920340.2%
Hawaii$1,677650.1%
Tennessee$1,427240.1%
Minnesota$863270.1%
Iowa$6003<0.1%
Delaware$5927<0.1%
South Carolina$5704<0.1%
Mississippi$52535<0.1%
Arkansas$5001<0.1%
Maine$5001<0.1%
Oregon$5001<0.1%
Alaska$40215<0.1%
South Dakota$28130<0.1%
Rhode Island$2757<0.1%
Wisconsin$2551<0.1%
Idaho$12711<0.1%
Vermont$1057<0.1%
Louisiana$753<0.1%
Reported with a place$1,259,8235,277100%

Contributions are transactions, not people: one contributor giving every month is counted once for each contribution. No contributor's name, address, employer, or occupation is stored or shown anywhere on this site.

How this compares

Compared with U.S. House campaigns in California, 2022 cycle: 120 campaigns with a complete Federal Election Commission record for the cycle. This is a position in that group, not a score, a grade, or a judgement about the campaign.

Total receipts

Everything the authorized campaign committee took in for this cycle, including contributions, loans, and transfers.

  • This campaign $3,255,093
  • Cohort median $1,024,853
Total receipts for this campaign and for U.S. House campaigns in California, 2022 cycle
MeasureValue
This campaign$3,255,093
Lowest in the cohort$0
25th percentile$116,486
Median$1,024,853
75th percentile$2,390,121
Highest in the cohort$28,295,640
Campaigns counted120

99 of the 120 campaigns counted reported less than this one, which puts it at the 83th percentile of the cohort. Campaigns reporting the same value sit at the same position.

Share of receipts from political committees

Direct contributions from PACs and other political committees as a share of total receipts. Campaigns reporting no receipts at all have no share and are left out of this measure.

  • This campaign 43.3%
  • Cohort median 10.4%
Share of receipts from political committees for this campaign and for U.S. House campaigns in California, 2022 cycle
MeasureValue
This campaign43.3%
Lowest in the cohort0.0%
25th percentile1.8%
Median10.4%
75th percentile34.1%
Highest in the cohort100.0%
Campaigns counted118

94 of the 118 campaigns counted reported less than this one, which puts it at the 80th percentile of the cohort. Campaigns reporting the same value sit at the same position.

Cash on hand

The balance reported at the end of the coverage period. Campaigns report at different times, so this compares balances as of each campaign's own coverage end.

  • This campaign $1,579,756
  • Cohort median $44,893
Cash on hand for this campaign and for U.S. House campaigns in California, 2022 cycle
MeasureValue
This campaign$1,579,756
Lowest in the cohort-$1,109
25th percentile$2,394
Median$44,893
75th percentile$456,537
Highest in the cohort$21,022,960
Campaigns counted120

104 of the 120 campaigns counted reported less than this one, which puts it at the 87th percentile of the cohort. Campaigns reporting the same value sit at the same position.

Outside spending supporting

Independent expenditures by other organizations supporting the candidate. This money was never received or controlled by the campaign.

  • This campaign $0
  • Cohort median $0
Outside spending supporting for this campaign and for U.S. House campaigns in California, 2022 cycle
MeasureValue
This campaign$0
Lowest in the cohort$0
25th percentile$0
Median$0
75th percentile$12,425
Highest in the cohort$3,123,125
Campaigns counted120

0 of the 120 campaigns counted reported less than this one, which puts it at the 0th percentile of the cohort. Campaigns reporting the same value sit at the same position.

Outside spending opposing

Independent expenditures by other organizations opposing the candidate, not coordinated with any campaign.

  • This campaign $0
  • Cohort median $0
Outside spending opposing for this campaign and for U.S. House campaigns in California, 2022 cycle
MeasureValue
This campaign$0
Lowest in the cohort$0
25th percentile$0
Median$0
75th percentile$0
Highest in the cohort$8,037,240
Campaigns counted120

0 of the 120 campaigns counted reported less than this one, which puts it at the 0th percentile of the cohort. Campaigns reporting the same value sit at the same position.

Every comparison is drawn from one two-year cycle and one office. Only campaigns whose FEC record for that cycle is complete are counted; the rest are reported beside the cohort and are never counted as zero. One authorized committee is counted once however many candidacies report it, so where a candidate's committees are all reported by another FEC record, that record supplies the figures for both. A campaign is never compared with another cycle, with a career total, or with a candidate for a different office.

What these numbers mean

Receipts are not the same as contributions
Total receipts include everything the campaign took in, such as contributions, loans, and transfers. Contributions are only the money given by people and committees.
Direct contributions are not outside spending
A direct contribution is money received by the campaign's own authorized committee. An independent expenditure is money another organization spent on its own, without coordinating with the campaign. The Federal Election Commission treats these as different activities, and so does this page.
The organizations named here are political committees
Direct rankings count what one political committee gave to a campaign; outside-spending rankings count what a committee spent independently. A separate conduit section groups individual contributions only when the campaign's memo record supplies a registered conduit committee's FEC ID. It never attributes donors to employers or interest groups, and it never exposes contributor names. Sites using broader attribution rules may therefore report different organization totals.
A cycle may be only partly reported
Filings arrive throughout a two-year cycle. A current cycle shows only what has been filed and processed through the coverage date shown above, so it is not comparable with a finished cycle.
This view is cycle specific
It covers the 2022 two-year cycle only.

Source: Federal Election Commission ↗. MyRepTracker ingests FEC records directly and does not add its own influence, risk, or corruption score.