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SHERMAN FOR CONGRESS

DemocraticFEC reportedHouse campaign committee · Principal campaign committee · Quarterly filerC00308742

Overview

Raised: $2.9Mvs $2.1M 2023–2024
Spent: $4.1Mvs $1.1M 2023–2024
Cash on hand: $2.7Mvs $3.9M 2023–2024
Debts owed: $5,380vs $0 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

3 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 · 2 integrity · 1 fundraising patterns

Operating expenditures concentrated at one payee →Associated amount: $1,169,031
JACOBSON & ZILBER STRATEGIES LLC received 59.8% of positive itemized operating spending in SHERMAN FOR CONGRESS's report. This is a concentration pattern for review.
Evidence date: Jun 9, 2026
Fundraising pattern for review →Cluster total: $11,500
Multiple reported donors associated with the same normalized employer gave to this recipient on one date. Repeated amounts and concentration within the loaded cycle warrant a review of possible fundraising activity. The pattern does not establish a bundler, coordination or wrongdoing.
Evidence date: May 23, 2026
Financial integrity review →Associated amount: $0
The FEC issued 1 notice(s) to SHERMAN FOR CONGRESS about reports it had not filed, most recently on 2026-06-03, and no filing covering those periods appears in the loaded archive.
Evidence date: Jun 3, 2026

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
SHERMAN, BRADDemocraticFEC reported
U.S. House · California · District 32
Election 2026 · Incumbent · Current candidate
Candidate details & sources
FEC candidate ID: H6CA24113 · 2025–2026 reporting cycle

Money in

Sources

Itemized individual contributions$1.5M
Unitemized individual contributions$12.8K
Other committees$859.4K
Transfers from affiliates$48.3K
Other receipts$474.5K

Top contributors

SHERMAN VICTORY FUNDDemocraticInferred from FEC-reported participants$48.3K3 contributions
ETAATI, AZITADemocraticDerived from contributions$14K4 contributions
DADVAND, BABAK

Money out

Spending by kind

Operating expenditures$3.8M
Contribution refunds$5,506
Other disbursements$318.7K

Largest transfers and contributions to committees

AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEEMixed activity · 46% Democratic / 54% RepublicanInferred from activity$15.6K8 transactions

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Largest operating payments

JACOBSON & ZILBER STRATEGIES LLC$646.4KADVERTISING EXPENSES · May 26, 2026
JACOBSON & ZILBER STRATEGIES LLC$150KADVERTISING EXPENSES · May 18, 2026
JACOBSON & ZILBER STRATEGIES LLC$147.6KADVERTISING EXPENSES · May 15, 2026
JACOBSON & ZILBER STRATEGIES LLC$141.6KADVERTISING EXPENSES · May 22, 2026
NM MARKETING$137.2K

Over time

Itemized receipts and reported spending by month

Data

Month	Raised	Spent
Dec 24	$25	$0
Jan 25	$21,075	$0
Feb 25	$15,675	$50,000
Mar 25	$3,025	$0
Apr 25	$32,400	$0
May 25	$69,550	$0
Jun 25	$111,450	$0
Jul 25	$71,079	$1,000
Aug 25	$94,175	$0
Sep 25	$40,775	$405
Oct 25	$52,481	$1,000
Nov 25	$82,435	$0
Dec 25	$88,678	$1,240
Jan 26	$37,775	$4,000
Feb 26	$53,625	$0
Mar 26	$142,335	$0
Apr 26	$199,400	$0
May 26	$281,593	$0
Jun 26	$75,195	$8,000

Months follow the reported transaction date; itemized records only, so unitemized small-dollar giving is not in the bars.

Money network · top contributors and recipients as a graph

Records

Registration

Committee type: House campaign committee
Designation: Principal campaign committee
Party affiliation: Democratic
Treasurer: KAUFMAN, STEPHEN J
Filing cadence: Quarterly filer
Organization type: Not reported
Connected organization: Not reported
Registration snapshot cycle: 2025–2026
Cycles loaded: 2026, 2024
Registered address: 445 S. FIGUEROA STREET · SUITE 2400 · LOS ANGELES, CA, 90071

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.

SHERMAN VICTORY FUNDC00930081 Joint fundraising participantSHERMAN FOR CONGRESSC00308742
FEC reportedObserved: Sep 12, 2026Registration filing: 1927901Official FEC source ↗
Current registration observation; not a historical filing-date assertion.
SHERMAN FOR CONGRESSC00308742 Authorized candidateSHERMAN, BRADH6CA24113
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 ↗

Reported counterparty	Date	Reported value	Asset / units	Reported purpose	Source
EQUALITY CALIFORNIA FEDERAL PAC	May 18, 2026	$1,950	Other in-kind	MAILING LIST * IN-KIND RECEIVED Derived classification: in-kind-offset	FEC filing ↗ Provenance FEC reported description · source row af435b78e851decf0503ae6f8502adbe2e4f3a3b99b61da1077713a3402be52b Raw artifact: data/raw/fec/bulk/cycle=2026/dataset=operating_expenditures/d6108c0a87ca0a02a72d333e1c0fad879a14af446f39504772d0d9369940ee7a.zip

Reported counterparty

Date

Reported value

Asset / units

Reported purpose

Source

EQUALITY CALIFORNIA FEDERAL PAC

May 18, 2026

$1,950

Other in-kind

MAILING LIST

* IN-KIND RECEIVED

Derived classification: in-kind-offset

FEC filing ↗

Provenance

FEC reported description · source row af435b78e851decf0503ae6f8502adbe2e4f3a3b99b61da1077713a3402be52b

Raw artifact: data/raw/fec/bulk/cycle=2026/dataset=operating_expenditures/d6108c0a87ca0a02a72d333e1c0fad879a14af446f39504772d0d9369940ee7a.zip

SHERMAN FOR CONGRESS

Overview

Candidate connections

Money in

Sources

Top contributors

Money out

Spending by kind

Largest transfers and contributions to committees

Largest operating payments

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Records

FEC-reported relationships

FEC-reported relationships

Political alignment

FEC-reported relationships

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Cash, assets & liabilities

Money network

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