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Money
$593.3K raised, $592.5K spent, $768 cash on hand (through Sep 30, 2026). Where it comes from
Who gives
27% of individual money from donors at $200 or less · 64% from Pennsylvania · largest committee giver WE INVEST IN LIVES AND DREAMS PAC, $6.7K
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MoneyWho pays for the campaign, and where does it go?
Raised
$593.3K
$593,313
Spent
$592.5K
$592,545
Cash on hand
$768
$768
FEC filings, May 1, 2025 to Sep 30, 2026 · Official FEC bulk data · committee C00903963 ↗
Raised, spent and cash over time by FEC report
100¢ of every dollar raised has been spent across 7 reports ($592.5K of $593.3K). Cash on hand went from $123K on Jun 30, 2025 to $768 on Sep 30, 2026.
Raised in the period
Spent in the period
Cash on hand at its close
$100K$200K$300K
Jun ’25
Sep ’25
Dec ’25
Mar ’26
Apr ’26
Jun ’26
Sep ’26
Raised, spent and cash on hand by FEC report
Report
Raised in the period
Spent in the period
Cash on hand at its close
JULY QUARTERLY 2025 through Jun 30, 2025
$208,573
$85,603
$122,970
OCTOBER QUARTERLY 2025 through Sep 30, 2025
$122,721
$118,178
$127,513
YEAR-END 2025 through Dec 31, 2025
$100,625
$104,630
$123,508
APRIL QUARTERLY 2026 through Mar 31, 2026
$111,284
$106,855
$127,937
PRE-PRIMARY 2026 through Apr 29, 2026
$21,964
$54,255
$95,646
JULY QUARTERLY 2026 through Jun 30, 2026
$28,126
$121,600
$2,172
OCTOBER QUARTERLY 2026 through Sep 30, 2026
$20
$1,423
$768
Each report’s own period, as filed with the FEC; a report filed again counts once, as its latest copy.
Where the money came from $593,313 reported receipts
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Itemized (over $200)Donors who have given more than $200 this cycle, so the FEC itemizes (names) them.$353,81660%
Penny Bellamy3 contributions, latest May 22, 2026 · BRANFORD, CT$10,500
Karen Cooper3 contributions, latest Jun 16, 2026 · EASTON, PA$10,500
Annette Cumming3 contributions, latest May 22, 2026 · JACKSON, WY$10,500
Matthew Green9 contributions, latest May 22, 2026 · HELLERTOWN, PA$10,500
Chris Martin6 contributions, latest May 22, 2026 · BETHLEHEM, PA$10,500
Gretchen Sisson3 contributions, latest May 22, 2026 · SAN FRANCISCO, CA$10,500
Scott Wallace3 contributions, latest May 22, 2026 · DOYLESTOWN, PA$10,500
David Meehan3 contributions, latest May 22, 2026 · ALLENTOWN, PA$6,500
Janet Gross6 contributions, latest May 22, 2026 · ALLENTOWN, PA$4,500
Alba Marina Obando5 contributions, latest Jun 16, 2026 · CENTER VALLEY, PA$3,700
Jeremy Hylton4 contributions, latest Jun 16, 2026 · EASTON, PA$3,600
A donor who gave several times appears once. The 12 largest donors by total given are listed. In all, 975 itemized contributions were filed this cycle, totaling $353.8K.
Unitemized ($200 or less)Donors who have given $200 or less this cycle, so the FEC does not itemize (name) them.$131,45422%
PACs and other committeesPolitical action committees and other candidates' committees. Corporations and unions cannot give directly.$53,1359%
Poder PAC1 receipt, latest Dec 31, 2025 · Hybrid PAC (qualified)$2,500
Square One Politics1 receipt, latest Mar 30, 2026 · Hybrid PAC (qualified)$2,000
Vargas for Congress1 receipt, latest Sep 29, 2025 · House campaign committee$2,000
The 12 largest committees by total given are listed. In all, 25 committee contributions were filed this cycle, totaling $51.3K. Counted from the givers' own filings, which can run above the total the campaign itself reports.
LoansMoney the campaign borrowed this cycle, from the candidate or a lender, which it may repay.$32,5005.5%
Who lent it
Carol Obando-Derstinethe candidate’s own money · 3 loans · $32.5K not yet repaid$32,500
Each loan as the campaign’s report through Sep 30, 2026 lists it, with what is still owed. A loan from an earlier cycle can appear here, and one repaid in full drops off the report, so the list need not add up to the row.
TransfersMoney moved in from the candidate's other authorized committees, such as a joint fundraising committee.$10,8901.8%
Money moved in from the candidate’s other authorized committees, such as a joint fundraising committee. It was raised once and is reported again here on arrival. The largest of the sources is listed. In all, 2 transfers were filed this cycle, totaling $10.9K.
The candidateMoney the candidate gave their own campaign.$9,3021.6%
Refunds and rebatesMoney coming back to the campaign: rebates and refunds of what it spent.$2,2160.4%
Total reported receipts $593,313
Every dollar the committee reported receiving this cycle, split by the source the FEC filing attributes it to. FEC filings through Sep 30, 2026.
Who donated: where they live, their employers and jobs
Where the donors live $380,350 placed by state
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under $9.8K
$9.8K+
$39.2K+
$88.2K+
$156.8K+
none
Outlined: Pennsylvania, home state
Home state and away
Pennsylvania 64%PA 64%Elsewhere 36%
64% of the money placed by state came from inside Pennsylvania: $245.1K of $380.4K.
Top states
Top donor states
Name
Amount
Pennsylvania home765 contributions · 64%
$245,058
California65 contributions · 7.3%
$27,792
Money from groups, by interest $51,346
What the committees giving to Obando-Derstine’s campaign or spending on ads about Obando-Derstine are: a company or industry, a union, a cause, a party or politician. Money from individual donors is not included.
For Obando-Derstine $51,346
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Groups whose purpose is electing, or mobilizing voters for, candidates from a shared community: women, or Black, Latino, Asian American and Pacific Islander candidates, among others. The community has to be an identity people share, not an age bracket or a political stance.Placed by our rules or a model’s suggestion, and not yet checked by a person. The money still counts here; a person may move it.$23K45%
$12.7K25%
$7K14%
Groups that state a purpose of protecting abortion rights, including the political arms of abortion providers.Placed by our rules or a model’s suggestion, and not yet checked by a person. The money still counts here; a person may move it.$5.2K10%
$3.5K6.8%
Outside spending $27,342,746 across this race
Money groups spent on their own, not through a campaign. Each ad is filed against the candidate it names, so money attacking an opponent shows on the opponent’s row. Open a candidate to see who spent it.
Who stands behind the outside spending: the people and organizations its money traces to
Who stands behind the outside spending $25.6M traced back through the groups that spent it
Each group that spent in this race is followed to where its own money came from, and what it spent is split by those shares: a group whose money was 60% one person's counts as 60% of its spending theirs. Of what traced, 34% to named individuals, 27% to organizations, 25% to tax-exempt organizations that need not name their donors, 13% not itemized in the filings.
People and organizations the race's outside spending traces to
Name
Amount
House Majority ForwardOrganization · tax-exempt: need not name its donors · behind HMP and Stronger Together PA
$2.5M
American Action NetworkOrganization · tax-exempt: need not name its donors · behind CLF
$2.1M
Elon MuskPerson · CEO, Space Exploration Technologies Corp. · behind CLF and America PAC and 2 more
$1.6M
American Prosperity AllianceOrganization · behind Lead Left PAC
The campaign also refunded $38,865 in contributions, which the categories below do not include.
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Payroll and staffSalaries, wages, benefits, and payroll services.$124,77923%
Filed as
SALARY$124,779
Paid to
Green, Sarah$59,728
Phillips, Robert$31,855
Quintana, Luca$15,674
Denison, Sam$14,464
Quintana, Sandra$3,058
Largest vendors
Largest vendors
Name
Amount
Gusto76 payments · 31% of all spending
$184,771
Blueprint Interactive27 payments · 18% of all spending
$108,094
Deliver Strategies LLC9 payments · 12% of all spending
$71,456
NGP VAN Inc.8 payments · 8.2% of all spending
$48,720
Acuity Politics LLC15 payments · 5.9% of all spending
$35,104
Switchboard Public Benefit Corp12 payments · 4.8% of all spending
$28,319
Numero Inc14 payments · 2.6% of all spending
$15,175
EMILYs List16 payments · 2.5% of all spending
$14,815
The people, firms and committees paid the most, across every kind of payment. Each share is of everything the committee reported spending this cycle, not only the itemized payments above. A payee that is itself a committee links to its own profile.
EndorsementsWho does Obando-Derstine’s campaign say backs them?
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PollsWhat do public polls of the PA-07 House race show?
Democratic primary
Primary May 19, 2026 · 2 polls
DBob Brooks
DLamont McClure
DRyan Crosswell
DCarol Obando-Derstine
Each dot is a poll. A line is drawn from the third nonpartisan poll; there are 2 so far. How polls are read
Primary result and the final polls
Bob Brooks won. The race has been called, but the results source does not say how much of the vote it counted, so the polls are not measured against the margin.
May 19, 2026 · Result · Each pollster's last poll ending in the 21 days before the vote, read for the two leading finishers; the median leaves out polls a side paid for; a margin is compared once 95% is reported
Official FEC filing record for the current cycle. The priorities they publish are quoted from their own site, in their order.
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Connecticut
10 contributions · 4.7%
$17,775
New Jersey20 contributions · 3.3%
$12,550
Maryland17 contributions · 3%
$11,335
New York22 contributions · 3%
$11,225
Wyoming3 contributions · 2.8%
$10,500
Texas4 contributions · 2%
$7,500
By the state each donor wrote on the filing, across 31 states and territories. Donors who have given $200 or less this cycle are not itemized, so they cannot be placed on a map. The FEC’s grouping also counts joint-fundraising memo lines, so these rows can add up to more than the itemized total.
Donors’ employers as filed
Donors’ employers
Employer as filed
Amount
Not employedWritten instead of an employer · 543 contributions · 43% of ranked
$151,064
Self-employedWritten instead of an employer · 61 contributions · 8.1% of ranked
$28,785
Martin Guitar4 contributions · 2.8% of ranked
$10,000
Hindlepower INC4 contributions · 2.1% of ranked
$7,500
Cumming Foundation2 contributions · 2% of ranked
$7,000
TRC8 contributions · 2% of ranked
$7,000
Ucsf2 contributions · 2% of ranked
$7,000
LVPG17 contributions · 1.6% of ranked
$5,507
A further $26,536 came from donors whose answer names no employer (blank), so it is not ranked. Itemized gifts over $200, grouped by the words donors filed: not an industry classification, and a gift from an employee is not a gift from the employer. The FEC’s grouping also counts joint-fundraising memo lines, so these rows can add up to more than the itemized total. Gifts of $200 or less ($131,454) are not itemized, so no employer or occupation is filed for them.
Donors’ occupations as filed
Donors’ occupations
Occupation as filed
Amount
Not employedWritten instead of an occupation · 465 contributions · 35% of ranked
$123,298
RetiredWritten instead of an occupation · 78 contributions · 7.7% of ranked
$27,306
Attorney23 contributions · 3.6% of ranked
$12,600
Executive6 contributions · 3.1% of ranked
$11,000
Physician39 contributions · 2.6% of ranked
$9,167
VP4 contributions · 2.3% of ranked
$8,000
MGMT4 contributions · 2.1% of ranked
$7,500
Researcher4 contributions · 2.1% of ranked
$7,400
A further $26,536 came from donors whose answer names no occupation (blank), so it is not ranked. Itemized gifts over $200, grouped by the words donors filed: not an industry classification, and a gift from an employee is not a gift from the employer. The FEC’s grouping also counts joint-fundraising memo lines, so these rows can add up to more than the itemized total. Gifts of $200 or less ($131,454) are not itemized, so no employer or occupation is filed for them.
PACs a politician sponsors or runs: a leadership PAC (the FEC’s designation D), a committee the FEC lists as sponsored by a candidate, or a super PAC the politician’s own team runs and press reports tie to them. One that exists only for that politician’s own race is under Groups spending on one race.
Another candidate’s own campaign committee, or a joint fundraising committee. Money one campaign gives another counts here.
On the Democratic side by their own words, their main funder, or a published source a reviewer cites. A caucus’s PAC is here. A group with one cause is filed under that cause instead.Placed by our rules or a model’s suggestion, and not yet checked by a person. The money still counts here; a person may move it.
“Proposed” marks money from groups whose place is not yet reviewed by a person. Each group is placed by its filings and its own words, never by which party it backs. Every interest · How groups are placed
CLF▼ Opposes19 records, latest Oct 27, 2026$8,587,847
Support and oppose are each group’s own labels, not a judgment made here.
$27,342,746 of the race total was filed about other candidates, so it would not show on Obando-Derstine’s own record.
Independent expenditures (Schedule E) only. Electioneering communications and corporate or union member communications file separately; they are counted for Obando-Derstineunder “Other outside spending” in the full finance detail, but not for the rest of the field, so every other row is a floor.
Person · Founder, Bloomberg Inc. · behind HMP and LCV Victory Fund and 1 more
$569.4K
Miriam AdelsonPerson · Physician, Adelson Drug Clinic · behind CLF and Safety & Affordability PAC Inc. and 1 more
$434.3K
League of Conservation Voters, Inc.Organization · tax-exempt: need not name its donors · behind LCV Victory Fund
National Association of RealtorsOrganization · tax-exempt: need not name its donors · behind CLF and HMP
$224.1K
Stephen F. Mandel Jr.Person · President, Lone Pine Capital · behind Stronger Together PA and HMP
$221.7K
Reid G. HoffmanPerson · Partner, Greylock Partners · behind HMP
$218.8K
Read for the 20 largest groups of 83, 94% of the $27.3M spent. Shares are of what each group received, not a record of which dollar went where; an organization that need not name its donors ends the trail; a person who gave by more than one route is counted once here. It shows who stood behind the money, not what it was for.
Consulting and strategyStrategic, political, legal, and compliance consulting, and campaign management.$117,28521%
Filed as
DIGITAL CONSULTING$82,190
COMPLIANCE SERVICES$35,095
Paid to
Blueprint Interactive$65,244
Acuity Politics LLC$35,095
Switchboard Public Benefit Corp$14,697
Grassroots Analytics$2,250
Digital and technologyWebsites, hosting, software subscriptions, databases, email, and texting platforms.$105,38419%
Filed as
SOFTWARE$63,894
TEXT MESSAGING SERVICES$32,572
CANDIDATE IN-KIND: SOFTWARE$4,007
WEBSITE SERVICES$2,400
SUBSCRIPTIONS$2,152
SUBSCRIPTION$358
Paid to
NGP VAN Inc.$48,720
Blueprint Interactive$21,350
Numero Inc$15,175
Switchboard Public Benefit Corp$13,622
Obando-Derstine, Carol$4,007
Google$1,547
Printing, mail, and shippingPrinted literature, direct mail, postage, design, and delivery.$87,03416%
Filed as
DIRECT MAIL SERVICES$63,582
PRINTING$23,096
POSTAGE$355
Paid to
Deliver Strategies LLC$71,456
EMILYs List$14,531
LV Print Center$692
United States Postal Service$335
Obando-Derstine, Carol$11
Acuity Politics LLC$9
Taxes, fees, and bank chargesPayroll and income taxes, filing fees, bank and merchant processing charges.$78,13814%
Filed as
PAYROLL TAXES$58,925
MERCHANT FEES$15,285
BANK FEES$2,617
PAYROLL FEES$1,066
PO BOX FEE$244
Paid to
Gusto$59,992
ActBlue Technical Services$14,412
Amalgamated Bank$2,617
Paragon$588
EMILYs List$284
United States Postal Service$244
Advertising and mediaBroadcast, digital, and print advertising, and the media buying behind it.$15,5002.8%
Filed as
ADVERTISING$11,500
CANDIDATE IN-KIND: MEDIA: ADVERTISING$4,000
Paid to
Blueprint Interactive$11,500
Obando-Derstine, Carol$4,000
Fundraising and eventsThe cost of raising money: finance consultants, donor list rental and acquisition, event venues, catering, and donor processing.$10,5121.9%
Filed as
LIST ACQUISITION$10,000
CATERING$512
Paid to
Blueprint Interactive$10,000
Rativa, Laura$512
OtherPayments whose filed description does not match any category above. Every one is listed so it can be read directly.$6,0001.1%
Filed as
VOTEBUILDER$6,000
Paid to
Pennsylvania Democratic Party$6,000
Office and administrativeRent, utilities, phones, supplies, equipment, security, food, and campaign merchandise.$3,0700.6%
Filed as
SUPPORTER GIFTS$1,500
WORKERS COMPENSATION INSURANCE$813
INSURANCE$456
FACILITY RENTAL$250
OFFICE SUPPLIES$51
Paid to
Gutierrez-Hawbaker, Edith$1,500
The Hartford$813
Amtrust$456
Strata East$250
Obando-Derstine, Carol$51
Refunds and redesignationsContributions returned to donors or reassigned to another election.$2,0000.4%
Filed as
CONTRIBUTION REFUND TO COMMITTEE$2,000
Paid to
Susan Wild for Congress$2,000
TravelAirfare, lodging, mileage, and ground transport.$8120.1%
Filed as
MILEAGE REIMBURSEMENT$812
Paid to
Green, Sarah$735
Denison, Sam$77
Not broken out by the committeeReported as a lump sum, with memo entries pointed to for the detail. Where those entries were filed and read, this page counts the payees they name instead; what is left here was never itemised.$6470.1%
Filed as
REIMBURSEMENT - SEE BELOW IF ITEMIZED$647
Paid to
Denison, Sam$262
Phillips, Robert$222
Green, Sarah$163
Total itemized disbursements $551,161
Every itemized payment the committee reported this cycle, sorted by what it said each one was for. The categories are ours; the wording they are matched against is the committee’s own. Open a category to read the filed descriptions and who was paid. FEC filings through Sep 30, 2026.
All 355 itemized payments filed this cycle. Spending below the itemization threshold is not filed line by line.
38 payments were reported as a lump sum, such as a card or payroll bill, with the detail filed underneath as memo entries. Those entries, $125,709 in all, are counted under the payee and purpose they name rather than under the processor that was paid. The total is the same either way.