D-IL·U.S. House·District 6

Sean Casten

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$10.0M

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Sean Casten's fundraising profile is 60% dependent on PAC and committee money versus 40% from individual donors, with $918K in party and leadership contributions tracked separately. Industry-tied PAC money concentrates in Securities & Investment (16%), Labor Unions (16%), Commercial Banks (14%), Insurance (10%), and Real Estate (10%), while his individual donor base draws primarily from Securities & Investment, legal services, and education sectors. With 331 recorded votes and 3 stock trade disclosures on file, his contribution pattern shows alignment between PAC sources and individual donor occupations in finance and professional services.

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

$4.9M

tagged $

Securities & Investment17.9%

Labor Unions17.6%

Commercial Banks15.0%

Insurance10.9%

Real Estate10.7%

Single-Issue Advocacy9.6%

Lawyers & Lobbyists9.5%

Party & Leadership8.7%

How to read this: percentages are shares of the 49% 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

DONOR MIX

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

$10.0M

classified

Securities & Investment17.9%

Labor Unions17.6%

Commercial Banks15.0%

Insurance10.9%

Real Estate10.7%

Single-Issue Advocacy9.6%

Lawyers & Lobbyists9.5%

Party & Leadership8.7%

TOP SOURCES

Employers (individuals) & PACs · excludes aggregators

Individual Donors (no employer)

individuals

$2,106,692

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE

PAC

$129,917

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS

PAC

$117,413

NEW DEMOCRAT COALITION ACTION FUND

PAC

$106,000

BRADDOCK ROAD STRATEGIES

corporation

$105,802

PNC FINANCIAL SERVICES

corporation

$77,277

RESTORATION PAC

PAC

$60,844

THE COUNCIL OF INSURANCE AGENTS & BROKERS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE

PAC

$60,000

JSTREET PAC

PAC

$56,075

BMO FINANCIAL CORP GOOD GOVERNANCE FUND: FEDERAL (BMO PAC)

PAC

$56,000

AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE

PAC

$55,000

ERNST & YOUNG POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE

PAC

$55,000

RECENT ACTIVITY

Most recent recorded contributions · PAC and itemized individual donors

NEXTERA ENERGY, INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE

PAC · Apr 21, 2026

+$2,500

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR JUSTICE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (AAJ PAC)

PAC · Apr 8, 2026

+$2,500

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

PAC · Apr 7, 2026

+$5,000

ILLINOIS CORN GROWERS ASSOCIATION POLITICAL INVOLVEMENT FUND-FEDERAL

PAC · Mar 31, 2026

+$1,500

THORNTON, ROBERT (IDEA)

Individual · Mar 31, 2026

+$1,000

MORGAN STANLEY POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE

PAC · Mar 31, 2026

+$2,500

SIMILAR DONOR NETWORKS

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

Maxine Waters

D-CA · House

Securities & InvestmentLabor UnionsCommercial Banks

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Emanuel Cleaver

D-MO · House

Securities & InvestmentLabor 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.

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+3 unparsed PTRs — Some older PTR filings exist as metadata only (asset details locked in PDFs). They are not included in the holdings estimate above. House-side parsing landing in a future update.

DATA SOURCES

House: housestockwatcher.com · daily-refreshed PDF parses · 2013–present

Senate: senatestockwatcher.com · daily-refreshed PDF parses · 2013–present

Required under the STOCK Act of 2012. Disclosure regime reports amount ranges, not exact share counts.

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.

38,881

Lobbying filings

that overlap top donor industries

$7.9B

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.

Securities & Investment

19,298 filings$4.2B

Commercial Banks

8,039 filings$1.3B

Insurance

4,832 filings$1.2B

Real Estate

5,781 filings$710.6M

TOP LOBBYING FIRMS

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

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE U.S.A.

14 filings

$242.0M

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS

12 filings

$159.5M

PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH AND MANUFACTURERS OF AMERICA

13 filings

$113.6M

THE BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE, INC.

13 filings

$76.3M

GENERAL MOTORS COMPANY

15 filings

$69.4M