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2025–2026 federal committee · official FEC data

DEFEND THE DREAM

Receipts, contributions, spending, cash, committee classification, and connected records from Federal Election Commission filings.

Leadership PACFEC C00771238
Direct answer · 2025–2026 cycle

How much money has DEFEND THE DREAM reported?

$1,344,079.18 in total receipts and $1,270,862.57 in total disbursements.

These are committee filing totals. They do not establish who benefited from every dollar; candidate support and opposition require transaction-level independent-expenditure records.

Source: Federal Election Commission · data through .

Total receipts$1,344,079
Total spending$1,270,863
Independent expenditures$0
Campaign money

Committee finance details

FEC COMMITTEE SUMMARY
2025–2026 federal-cycle totals through July 31, 2026.
MetricReported amountWhat it means
Total receipts$1,344,079.18All receipts reported by the committee for the cycle.
Individual contributions$537,479.33Contributions reported in the FEC individual-contribution category.
Other committee contributions$556,370.03Contributions received from other political committees.
Total disbursements$1,270,862.57All disbursements reported by the committee for the cycle.
Contributions to other committees$355,000.00Contributions the committee reported making to federal candidate committees.
Independent expenditures$0.00Spending expressly advocating the election or defeat of a clearly identified candidate, made without coordination.
Cash on hand$274,667.84Cash reported at the end of the covered filing period.
Debts owed by committee$2,477.14Outstanding debts the committee reported owing.

“Not reported” means the current committee-summary file has no value for that field; it does not mean zero. Independent expenditures are distinct from contributions made directly to candidate committees.

Itemized political activity

Candidate giving and outside spending by DEFEND THE DREAM

FEC ITEMIZED DATA

The categories below remain separate: contributions go to a recipient committee; independent expenditures are outside activity reported as supporting or opposing a candidate.

Direct candidate contributions$225,000.0072 transactions
Coordinated party spending$0.000 transactions
Independent spending to support$0.000 transactions
Independent spending to oppose$0.000 transactions
Direct contribution

Money reported as given to a candidate or candidate committee. It enters the recipient committee’s campaign-finance record.

Coordinated party expenditure

Party spending reported in the FEC’s coordinated-expenditure category. It is separate from a direct contribution.

Independent expenditure

Outside spending expressly supporting or opposing a candidate. By definition, it is not made in coordination with the candidate or party.

Direct contributions by candidate

Adam C. Gray6 itemized transactions · latest Jun 25, 2026
$10,000.00FEC filing ↗
Ben Ray Lujan4 itemized transactions · latest Sep 24, 2025
$10,000.00FEC filing ↗
Chris Pappas2 itemized transactions · latest Mar 24, 2026
$10,000.00FEC filing ↗
Christopher A. Coons2 itemized transactions · latest Jun 17, 2025
$10,000.00FEC filing ↗
Cory A. Booker2 itemized transactions · latest Jun 17, 2025
$10,000.00FEC filing ↗
Derek Tran4 itemized transactions · latest Jun 26, 2026
$10,000.00FEC filing ↗
FRIENDS OF SHERROD BROWN2 itemized transactions · latest Aug 15, 2025
$10,000.00FEC filing ↗
Jeffrey Alan Merkley3 itemized transactions · latest Sep 24, 2025
$10,000.00FEC filing ↗
John F. Reed3 itemized transactions · latest Sep 24, 2025
$10,000.00FEC filing ↗
John W. Hickenlooper4 itemized transactions · latest Sep 24, 2025
$10,000.00FEC filing ↗
Mark Robert Warner2 itemized transactions · latest Sep 24, 2025
$10,000.00FEC filing ↗
Mary Peltola2 itemized transactions · latest Jan 12, 2026
$10,000.00FEC filing ↗

Source: FEC contributions-from-committees-to-candidates and independent-expenditure bulk files, checked Aug 24, 2026. The totals shown here sum the itemized current-file rows displayed by category; they are not substituted for the committee’s official summary totals.

Money graph · dates, geography, and operating expenditures

How money moved through DEFEND THE DREAM

FEC ITEMIZED FILES

These panels show privacy-thresholded itemized individual-receipt activity and amendment-normalized operating expenditures. They are descriptive slices of filings—not a complete substitute for the official financial summary.

Itemized individual receipt activity over time

Monthly transaction activity from the FEC individual-contributions file. Current-cycle files can contain earlier-dated transactions; signed amendments, refunds, reattributions, and memo entries remain in the source-defined analysis.

12 months

Where itemized contributor addresses were reported

State is taken from the contributor address on the FEC row. It does not prove residence, citizenship, employer location, or the ultimate economic source of funds.

35.5% outside California
California109 distinct reported contributors · 116 rows$252,555.0064.5%
District of Columbia39 distinct reported contributors · 50 rows$65,250.0016.7%
Maryland18 distinct reported contributors · 23 rows$32,000.008.2%
Virginia20 distinct reported contributors · 23 rows$21,500.005.5%
Texas9 distinct reported contributors · 9 rows$20,500.005.2%

Only committee/state groups with at least 5 distinct reported contributors are published. The percentages use only the displayed dataset’s publishable, state-coded itemized rows; they are not a percentage of all campaign receipts.

Reported operating-expenditure categories

FEC filer-selected categories from Schedule B operating expenditures. Memo-code X rows are excluded because the FEC says they are not included in the itemization total.

1 published categories
Category not reported229 current organization-payment rows$823,516.39

Top organization payees in operating expenditures

Organization payees only. Election.org excludes individual payees and conservatively normalizes names; similar names are not asserted to be one legal entity.

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Bertolina And Barnato Incorporated17 current itemized payments · latest 2026-06-12
$134,080.94
Thrive Strategies20 current itemized payments · latest 2026-06-22
$129,221.63
Kaufman Legal Group31 current itemized payments · latest 2026-06-09
$124,591.17
Aisle 518 Strategies LLC19 current itemized payments · latest 2026-06-26
$95,000.00
Sgr Consulting LLC17 current itemized payments · latest 2026-06-04
$91,246.63
First National Bank Of Omaha26 current itemized payments · latest 2026-06-04
$84,813.82
Ritz Carlton Bacara Santa Barbara2 current itemized payments · latest 2026-05-27
$33,692.38
Keswick Hall And Golf Club4 current itemized payments · latest 2026-05-08
$31,296.28
Plaza Strategies LLC4 current itemized payments · latest 2026-06-30
$24,000.00
Meritage Resort And Spa4 current itemized payments · latest 2025-06-18
$19,963.72
Odette Estate Winery2 current itemized payments · latest 2025-04-21
$12,671.40
Actblue54 current itemized payments · latest 2026-06-30
$12,449.65
Plasticard Locktech International2 current itemized payments · latest 2026-02-18
$11,672.29
Villa Encinal Partners LP1 current itemized payment · latest 2025-02-13
$9,051.00
Staglin Family Vineyard1 current itemized payment · latest 2025-04-16
$5,198.94

Source: FEC operating expenditures bulk file, checked 2026-08-24. These totals cover published current organization-payment rows after amendment normalization and are not equivalent to the committee’s total disbursements.

Aggregated individual giving · privacy threshold applied

Reported employers among contributors to DEFEND THE DREAM

FEC SCHEDULE A
This is not company money.

These totals combine itemized contributions from individuals who reported the same employer. They do not show that the employer directed, funded, or endorsed any contribution.

Robbins Geller Rudman And Dowd LLP7 distinct reported contributors · 7 current itemized transactions
$35,000.00
Robbins Geller5 distinct reported contributors · 5 current itemized transactions
$25,000.00
Bgr Group11 distinct reported contributors · 12 current itemized transactions
$11,000.00
Qualcomm Incorporated8 distinct reported contributors · 8 current itemized transactions
$11,000.00
Qualcomm5 distinct reported contributors · 5 current itemized transactions
$6,000.00
General Atomics5 distinct reported contributors · 5 current itemized transactions
$5,450.00

Only employer/recipient groups with at least 5 distinct reported contributors are published, with at most 50 groups per recipient committee. Individual names and addresses are not included. Totals are net current-file amounts after amendment normalization and may include refunds, reattributions, or memo entries.

Official registration

Committee details

2026 CYCLE
Committee type
PAC — qualified · code Q
Designation
Leadership PAC · code D
Filing frequency
Monthly filer
Party affiliation
Not listed
Connected organization
Not listed
Organization type
Not listed
Treasurer
KAUFMAN, STEPHEN J
Mailing address
445 S. FIGUEROA ST., STE. 2400, STE. 4050, LOS ANGELES CA 90071
FEC committee ID
C00771238
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