D-CA·U.S. House·District 21

Jim Costa

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$7.9M

raised· #82 in party

votes recorded

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trade disclosures

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TRAIL AI

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Costa's fundraising profile relies heavily on PACs and committees, which account for 74% of his $7.9 million in direct contributions, with the remaining 26% coming from individual donors. Industry-tied money shows dominant concentration in agriculture (29% of sector contributions), followed by oil and gas, labor unions, food and beverage, and electric utilities, reflecting economic interests aligned with his Central Valley district. Individual donors who disclosed employment work primarily in securities and investment, law and lobbying, and real estate.

Based on FEC donor data and voting records. Statistical patterns only — does not imply causation.

DONOR MIX

Industry shares of CLASSIFIED contributions only · the long tail of small-dollar individual donors isn't tagged

$5.9M

tagged $

Agriculture38.3%

Oil & Gas10.2%

Labor Unions10.1%

Single-Issue Advocacy9.4%

Food & Beverage8.7%

Electric Utilities8.4%

Party & Leadership7.8%

Retail & Consumer7.1%

How to read this: percentages are shares of the 74% of contributions we can trace to an industry (via PAC names and donor employers). Most political money comes from small online donors who don't list an employer, so it can't be traced — that portion isn't shown here.

DATA SOURCES

Financial: FEC · 2022–2026 cycles

Profile: Congress.gov

Votes: House Clerk / Senate · 2021–present

Lobbying: Senate LDA · 2017–present

Trades: STOCK Act disclosures · live ingestion rebuilding

117th–119th Congress. Statistical patterns only.

DONOR MIX

Industry shares of CLASSIFIED contributions only · hover a slice for detail

$7.9M

classified

Agriculture38.3%

Oil & Gas10.2%

Labor Unions10.1%

Single-Issue Advocacy9.4%

Food & Beverage8.7%

Electric Utilities8.4%

Party & Leadership7.8%

Retail & Consumer7.1%

TOP SOURCES

Employers (individuals) & PACs · excludes aggregators

Individual Donors (no employer)

individuals

$650,808

AIPAC

PAC

$163,523

AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE

PAC

$102,604

ACROSS THE AISLE PAC

PAC

$60,000

COOPERATIVE OF AMERICAN PHYSICIANS INDEPENDENT EXPENDITURE COMMITTEE

PAC

$60,000

EDISON INTERNATIONAL PAC

PAC

$53,000

PHILLIPS 66 PAC

PAC

$47,500

WESTERN GROWERS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE

PAC

$40,000

CHENIERE ENERGY, INC. PAC

PAC

$36,500

BLUE DOG POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE

PAC

$36,000

DAIRY FARMERS OF AMERICA, INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE; AKA DFA-PAC

PAC

$35,000

NATIONAL CHICKEN COUNCIL POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (FKA) NATIONAL BROILER COUNCIL PAC

PAC

$35,000

RECENT ACTIVITY

Most recent recorded contributions · PAC and itemized individual donors

BRAVANTE, GEORGE (BRAVANTE PRODUCE)

Individual · May 13, 2026

+$1,000

BAYER US LLC EMPLOYEE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (BAYERPAC)

PAC · May 13, 2026

+$5,000

EDISON INTERNATIONAL PAC

PAC · May 13, 2026

+$1,000

DIAGEO NORTH AMERICA, INC. EMPLOYEES' POLITICAL PARTICIPATION COMMITTEE (DIAGEO PAC)

PAC · May 13, 2026

+$1,000

HAAS, COLLEEN (N/A)

Individual · May 13, 2026

+$250

FOX, ALEXA (MONUMENT ADVOCACY)

Individual · May 13, 2026

+$250

SIMILAR DONOR NETWORKS

Members funded by the same industries — overlapping donor networks may reflect shared policy interests.

Michael Cloud

R-TX · House

AgricultureOil & GasSingle-Issue Advocacy

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Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.

D-GA · House

AgricultureLabor Unions

HOW WE CALCULATE THIS

Donor Mix Donut

Shows PAC contributions and employer-attributed individual donations grouped by industry — as a share of classified giving only. Contributions that could not be matched to an industry are excluded from the donut but included in the dollar totals above. Advocacy/ideological PACs are excluded from industry breakdown.

What are aggregators?

WinRed, ActBlue, and similar platforms bundle contributions from many individual donors before passing them to campaigns. Because these don't represent a single entity's interests, they are excluded from the Donor Mix and Top Sources views — but they are counted in total fundraising figures.

Data sources

FEC Schedule A & bulk PAC filings · 2022–2026 cycles · Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA) filings · 2017–present · Congress.gov / House Clerk voting records.

Important disclaimer

All data is sourced from public records. Analysis reflects statistical patterns only — it does not imply corruption, intent, or quid pro quo. Donor relationships show financial alignment, not control. Capitol Trail makes no claims about the motivations or character of any individual or organization.

PHILLIPS 66 PAC

PAC · May 13, 2026

KURLANDER, STUART (SELF-EMPLOYED)

Individual · May 11, 2026

+$250

COX ENTERPRISES PAC (COXPAC) INC.

PAC · May 11, 2026

+$1,500

AT&T INC. EMPLOYEE FEDERAL POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (AT&T EMPLOYEE FEDERAL PAC)

PAC · May 8, 2026

+$1,000

CARGILL, INCORPORATED POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE

PAC · May 8, 2026

+$1,000

SYNGENTA CORPORATION EMPLOYEE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE

PAC · May 8, 2026

+$2,000

NATIONAL APARTMENT ASSOCIATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE

PAC · May 8, 2026

+$2,500

CHENIERE ENERGY, INC. PAC

PAC · May 8, 2026

+$2,500

TYSON FOODS INC POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (TYPAC)

PAC · May 8, 2026

+$1,000

ASSOCIATION OF EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURERS PAC

PAC · May 7, 2026

+$1,000

LEONE, CANDACE MCCARTHY (N/A)

Individual · May 7, 2026

+$350

THE BOEING COMPANY POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE

PAC · May 7, 2026

+$1,000

MULHOLLAND, SOPAC MCCARTHY (SEQUOIA RIVERLANDS TRUST)

Individual · May 7, 2026

+$250

NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF FOREST OWNERS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (NAFO PAC)

PAC · May 7, 2026

+$1,000

THE WESTERVELT COMPANY POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE

PAC · May 7, 2026

+$1,000

MACHINISTS NON PARTISAN POLITICAL LEAGUE OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MACHINISTS & AEROSPACE WORKERS

PAC · May 7, 2026

+$5,000

TOWNSEND, CHRISTOPHER (TOWNSEND PUBLIC AFFAIRS)

Individual · May 5, 2026

+$3,500

AMERICAN SOYBEAN ASSOCIATION PAC (SOYPAC)

PAC · May 1, 2026

+$1,000

WEYERHAEUSER COMPANY POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE

PAC · Apr 30, 2026

+$2,000

Single-Issue Advocacy

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WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT

Lobbying is when companies, unions, and trade associations pay firms to influence laws and regulations — and the law requires them to disclose it. Every quarter, registrants file a report with Congress detailing who hired them, how much they spent, and which issues they pushed.

This page filters those filings to the industries that also fund this member's campaign. If commercial banks gave 30% of this member's donations and also filed 5,000 lobbying reports on bank-related issues last year, that's a financial pattern worth knowing about. It does not mean the member is corrupt — it means the industries paying to elect them are also paying to influence the laws they vote on.

38,369

Lobbying filings

that overlap top donor industries

$7.7B

Reported spend

across those filings

Donor industries

tracked here

2017–2026

Years covered

10 years

LOBBYING BY DONOR INDUSTRY

only industries that also fund this member

Each row = an industry that donated to this member AND has lobbyists pushing on Congress. Bar width = reported lobbying spend.

Oil & Gas

16,560 filings$3.7B

Retail & Consumer

4,319 filings$2.1B

Agriculture

15,305 filings$1.5B

Utilities

2,185 filings$309.8M

TOP LOBBYING FIRMS

The firms doing the most spending in this member's donor industries

WASTE MANAGEMENT, INC.

7 filings

$1.0B

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE U.S.A.

14 filings

$242.0M

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS

11 filings

$149.3M

SOUTHERN COMPANY

21 filings

$65.9M

AARP

15 filings

$44.9M

LOBBYING SPEND BY YEAR

How much lobbyists in this member's donor industries have reported spending each year

2017

9,549$2.2B

2018

2,171$301.2M

2019

2,075$260.1M

2020

3,265$375.0M

2021

2,115$250.7M

2022

2,244$272.8M

2023

3,484$386.5M

2024

3,570$408.4M

2025

2,928$384.2M

2026

3,141$394.2M

YEARspend ($)filingsreported $

THE BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE, INC.

7 filings

$39.8M

KOCH GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS, LLC

13 filings

$37.3M

SOURCES & CAVEATS

Data: LDA (Lobbying Disclosure Act) quarterly filings · 2017–present

Amounts are self-reported by registrants. Issue codes are mapped from the LDA's 80+ general issue codes to our 19-industry taxonomy.

An industry showing up here means it both (a) funds this member's campaign and (b) lobbies Congress on issues affecting it. That overlap is a factual pattern, not proof of any quid-pro-quo.