CITIZENS FOR WATERS

DemocraticFEC reportedHouse campaign committee · Principal campaign committee · Quarterly filerC00167585

Overview

Raised: $1.1Mvs $1.1M 2023–2024
Spent: $1.1Mvs $1.2M 2023–2024
Cash on hand: $104.7Kvs $116.5K 2023–2024
Debts owed: $142.2Kvs $127.8K 2023–2024

OpenFEC processed totals through Oct 14, 2026; figures change when amended reports are filed.

Raised is total receipts and Spent is total disbursements as the committee reported them; both can include transfers, loans and refunds. Cash on hand and debts are the balances at the end of the last report. The comparison is the same figure for 2023–2024.

Compliance review indicators

1 open

Automated review indicators, not findings of a violation. Exact reported records are linked; identity is not independently verified. Reported lobbyist-bundling disclosures are not counted as issues.

Latest cycle-wide scan: Oct 18, 2026 · Index refreshed: Oct 18, 2026. Coverage is limited to loaded records and implemented checks.

Scan coverage and freshness

Receipt eligibility: last successful scan Oct 18, 2026 · latest scheduled check skipped (Oct 18, 2026).
Integrity: last successful scan Oct 18, 2026 · latest scheduled check succeeded (Oct 18, 2026).
Fundraising patterns: last successful scan Oct 18, 2026 · latest scheduled check skipped (Oct 18, 2026).

0 receipt eligibility · 1 integrity · 0 fundraising patterns

Operating expenditures concentrated at one payee →Associated amount: $50,000
MARINA GRAPHIC CENTER received 54.9% of positive itemized operating spending in CITIZENS FOR WATERS's report. This is a concentration pattern for review.
Evidence date: Mar 18, 2025

Across the cycle, some findings could not be linked safely to entities; ambiguous identities are withheld.

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Candidate connections

Principal candidate campaign
WATERS, MAXINE MSDemocraticFEC reported
U.S. House · California · District 43
Election 2026 · Incumbent · Current candidate
Candidate details & sources
FEC candidate ID: H4CA23011 · 2025–2026 reporting cycle

Money in

Sources

Itemized individual contributions$404.1K
Unitemized individual contributions$37.2K
Other committees$541.5K
Other receipts$124.5K

Top contributors

AICPA PACMixed activity · 37% Democratic / 61% Republican · 1% unclassifiedInferred from activity$10K2 contributions
BREAD FINANCIAL HOLDINGS, INC. PAC (AKA BREAD FINANCIAL PAC)Mixed activity · 52% Democratic / 48% RepublicanInferred from activity$10K2 contributions
HAMILTON, SARA

Money out

Spending by kind

Operating expenditures$603.1K
Contribution refunds$8,438
Other disbursements$507.5K

Largest disbursements

BIRD MARELLA$49.9KLEGAL SERVICES · Apr 1, 2025
MARINA GRAPHIC CENTER$33.3KPOSTAGE · May 22, 2026
MARINA GRAPHIC CENTER$30KPRINTING & MAILING SERVICES FOR SLATE MAILING · Mar 18, 2025
BIRD MARELLA$30KLEGAL SERVICES · Oct 2, 2025
MARINA GRAPHIC CENTER$17.8KPRINTING & MAILING SERVICES FOR SLATE MAILING · May 12, 2026
MARINA GRAPHIC CENTER$15.6KMAILER · Jun 17, 2026
SAVVY COMMUNICATIONS$12.6KTEXTING · May 8, 2026
PROGRESSIVE CONNECTIONS$10KFUNDRAISER MANAGEMENT SERVICES · Jun 5, 2026

Over time

Itemized receipts and reported spending by month

Money network · top contributors and recipients as a graph

Records

Registration

Committee type: House campaign committee
Designation: Principal campaign committee
Party affiliation: Democratic
Treasurer: GOULD, DAVID
Filing cadence: Quarterly filer
Organization type: Not reported
Connected organization: Not reported
Registration snapshot cycle: 2025–2026
Cycles loaded: 2026, 2024
Registered address: 12501 IMPERIAL HWY. STE. 200 · NORWALK, CA, 90650

Relationships

FEC-reported relationships

Registration evidence · 2025–2026

Reported relationships are not contributions or transfers. They do not establish that any money changed hands. The reporting committee and related entity are shown separately. Only loaded relationship types are shown; this is not a complete organization chart.

CITIZENS FOR WATERSC00167585 Authorized candidateWATERS, MAXINE MSH4CA23011
FEC reportedLoaded: Sep 7, 2026Official FEC source ↗
Cycle-specific FEC candidate–committee linkage. The date is local ingestion, not the original filing date.

FEC-reported relationships

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Political alignment

Registration, linked-candidate, and disclosed money-flow evidence

Evidence-based classificationDemocratic affiliation reportedDemocraticFEC reported

FEC registration: House campaign committee; Democratic affiliation reported. Classification basis: FEC reported. This describes disclosed financial activity, not an official party registration or ideological score. The figures below separately preserve the filer’s Schedule E support and opposition designations.

No candidate support/oppose spending foundThis cycle has no locally ingested Schedule E rows for this committee. Registration, linked-candidate, committee-transfer, and recipient-reported conduit evidence can still establish the alignment shown above.

$0 supporting · $0 opposing · 0 rowsOfficial FEC outside spending ↗

Month	Raised	Spent
Jan 25	$100	$0
Feb 25	$200	$0
Mar 25	$200	$0
Apr 25	$200	$0
May 25	$235	$0
Jun 25	$5,735	$0
Jul 25	$1,910	$0
Aug 25	$295	$0
Sep 25	$126,110	$0
Oct 25	$14,800	$50,000
Nov 25	$2,050	$0
Dec 25	$7,185	$0
Jan 26	$5,193	$0
Feb 26	$2,185	$0
Mar 26	$31,035	$0
Apr 26	$63,110	$50,000
May 26	$41,610	$0
Jun 26	$15,060	$0

CITIZENS FOR WATERS

Overview

Candidate connections

Money in

Sources

Top contributors

Money out

Spending by kind

Largest disbursements

Over time

Records

FEC-reported relationships

FEC-reported relationships

Political alignment

FEC-reported relationships

Top employers

Top industries

Top states

Cash, assets & liabilities

Over time

Money network