THE TAKETrailAI · auto-generated
Costa's fundraising profile is moderately dependent on PACs and committees, which account for 57 percent of his $5.0 million in direct contributions, with the remaining 43 percent coming from individual donors. Industry-tied money shows a concentration in agriculture (26 percent), followed by lawyers and lobbyists (9 percent) and health services (7 percent), a pattern reinforced by his individual donor base, which includes professionals in agriculture, legal services, and securities. He received $267,000 from party and leadership committees, and has no stock trade disclosures on file.
Raised · all cycles$5.0M▼ 17% in ’24 vs ’22#116 in party · by cycle ↴
Top sector share26%Agriculture
Donor-sector votes19on bills touching top donor sectors
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Left: who funds Costa (ribbon width = dollars) · right: their votes on bills classified as favoring vs limiting those sectors
“Favors / limits” is an AI classification of each bill's likely effect on the sector — a factual reading of the bill, not a claim about motive. Correlation, not causation. The named bills are in DOES THE MONEY MATCH THE VOTES? below.
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How Costa voted on bills touching their biggest donor sectors · 6 of 19 shown, ranked by sector money
Each dollar figure is Costa's total from that donor sector — shown on each related vote, not a per-vote amount. Correlation between funding and votes, not causation; many factors shape any single vote.
TOP SOURCES
1$164K
AIPAC
PAC
2$60K
COOPERATIVE OF AMERICAN PHYSICIANS INDEPENDENT EXPENDITURE COMMITTEE
PAC
3$49K
AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE
PAC
4$32K
VALLEY WORKS ACTION FUND
PAC
5$31K
CALIFORNIA STRATEGIES
employees
ALIGNMENT SIGNALS
LEGISLATION
1 sponsored
COMMITTEES
Agriculture
Foreign Affairs
SIMILAR DONOR NETWORKS
Members funded by the same industries — overlapping donor networks may reflect shared policy interests.
Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.
D-GA · House
AgricultureLawyers & LobbyistsHealth Services
Mike Bost
R-IL · House
AgricultureLawyers & LobbyistsHealth Services
Roger Marshall
R-KS · Senate
AgricultureLawyers & LobbyistsHealth Services
Jefferson Van Drew
R-NJ · House
Lawyers & LobbyistsHealth ServicesLabor Unions
Judy Chu
D-CA · House
Lawyers & LobbyistsHealth ServicesLabor Unions
J. Luis Correa
D-CA · House
Lawyers & LobbyistsHealth ServicesLabor Unions