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PEOPLE FOR BEN

DemocraticFEC reportedSenate campaign committee · Principal campaign committee · Quarterly filerC00443689

Overview

Raised: $6.5Mvs $1.4M 2023–2024
Spent: $4.8Mvs $735.1K 2023–2024
Cash on hand: $2.8Mvs $1.2M 2023–2024
Debts owed: $0vs $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

2 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).

1 receipt eligibility · 1 integrity · 0 fundraising patterns

Operating expenditures concentrated at one payee →Associated amount: $325,000
MOTHERSHIP STRATEGIES received 69.7% of positive itemized operating spending in PEOPLE FOR BEN's report. This is a concentration pattern for review.
Evidence date: Jun 13, 2025
Foreign-address eligibility →Associated amount: $1,000
The filing uses FEC foreign-address code ZZ. A foreign address does not establish foreign-national status; verify eligibility without inferring citizenship from geography.
Evidence date: Feb 26, 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
LUJAN, BEN RAYDemocraticFEC reported
U.S. Senate · New Mexico · Statewide
Election 2026 · Incumbent · Current candidate
Candidate details & sources
FEC candidate ID: S0NM00058 · 2025–2026 reporting cycle

Money in

Sources

Itemized individual contributions$2.1M
Unitemized individual contributions$1.3M
Other committees$2.1M
Transfers from affiliates$1M
Other receipts$1,477

Top contributors

LUJAN VICTORY FUNDDemocraticInferred from FEC-reported participants$942.5K8 contributions
BLUE SENATE 2026DemocraticInferred from FEC-reported participants$37.1K2 contributions
HADLEY, DIANA

Money out

Spending by kind

Operating expenditures$4.2M
Contribution refunds$147.9K
Other disbursements$434.6K

Largest transfers and contributions to committees

JSTREETPAC99% Democratic-aligned activity · 1% unclassifiedInferred from activity$3,5001 transaction

All distributions →

Largest operating payments

SAGE MEDIA PLANNING & PLACEMENT, INC.$103.4KTV ADVERTISING · May 7, 2026
MOTHERSHIP STRATEGIES$75KTEXTING SERVICES · May 7, 2025
MOTHERSHIP STRATEGIES$75KLIST RENTAL · Apr 10, 2025
MOTHERSHIP STRATEGIES$75KLIST RENTAL · Apr 10, 2025
MOTHERSHIP STRATEGIES$75KLIST RENTAL · Mar 28, 2025

Over time

Itemized receipts and reported spending by month

Data

Month	Raised	Spent
Jan 25	$8,105	$0
Feb 25	$23,424	$0
Mar 25	$372,499	$0
Apr 25	$90,192	$0
May 25	$71,315	$0
Jun 25	$410,151	$0
Jul 25	$68,548	$0
Aug 25	$44,785	$8,500
Sep 25	$334,998	$0
Oct 25	$86,349	$0
Nov 25	$140,000	$0
Dec 25	$252,777	$0
Jan 26	$70,184	$0
Feb 26	$85,685	$0
Mar 26	$214,131	$1,000
Apr 26	$77,202	$0
May 26	$155,147	$0
Jun 26	$185,411	$14,500

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: Senate campaign committee
Designation: Principal campaign committee
Party affiliation: Democratic
Treasurer: DENISH, DIANE
Filing cadence: Quarterly filer
Organization type: Not reported
Connected organization: LUJAN VICTORY FUND
Registration snapshot cycle: 2025–2026
Cycles loaded: 2026, 2024
Registered address: PO BOX 25371 · ALBUQUERQUE, NM, 87125

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.

LUJAN VICTORY FUNDC00720565 Joint fundraising participantPEOPLE FOR BENC00443689
FEC reportedObserved: Sep 12, 2026Registration filing: 1880102Official FEC source ↗
Current registration observation; not a historical filing-date assertion.
GALLEGO LUJAN PADILLA VICTORY FUNDC00939074 Joint fundraising participantPEOPLE FOR BENC00443689
FEC reportedObserved: Sep 12, 2026Registration filing: 1946390Official FEC source ↗
Current registration observation; not a historical filing-date assertion.
LUJAN VASQUEZ VICTORY FUNDC00948570 Joint fundraising participantPEOPLE FOR BENC00443689
FEC reportedObserved: Sep 12, 2026Registration filing: 1971448Official FEC source ↗
Current registration observation; not a historical filing-date assertion.
BOOKER LUJAN VICTORY FUNDC00957779 Joint fundraising participantPEOPLE FOR BENC00443689
FEC reportedObserved: Sep 12, 2026Registration filing: 2003682Official FEC source ↗
Current registration observation; not a historical filing-date assertion.
PEOPLE FOR BENC00443689 Authorized candidateLUJAN, BEN R MR.H8NM03196
FEC reportedLoaded: Sep 6, 2026Official FEC source ↗
Cycle-specific FEC candidate master: reported principal campaign committee (CAND_PCC). The date is local ingestion, not the original filing date.
PEOPLE FOR BENC00443689 Authorized candidateLUJAN, BEN RAYS0NM00058
FEC reportedLoaded: Sep 7, 2026Official FEC source ↗
Cycle-specific FEC candidate–committee linkage. The date is local ingestion, not the original filing date.
PEOPLE FOR BENC00443689 Connected organizationLUJAN VICTORY FUNDReported name only · no identity match assumed
FEC reportedLoaded: Sep 6, 2026Official FEC source ↗
Cycle-specific FEC committee master: reported connected organization / affiliated committee name. This name-only field does not establish an entity identity match. 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: Senate 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
NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR AN EFFECTIVE CONGRESS	Aug 28, 2025	$5,000	Other in-kind	IN-KIND: PRECINCT TARGETING * IN-KIND RECEIVED Derived classification: in-kind-offset	FEC filing ↗ Provenance FEC reported description · source row f62dc7ec287fb347c63b27e4c17f30d8c6b7a8e4798fd579bbae9d550f82027b Raw artifact: s3://fec-raw/fec/bulk/cycle=2026/dataset=operating_expenditures/6a2264fe395104be646a24e72e457cd950e4e82eda415dc1ab6190055c0bb1b7.zip
CUNNINGHAM, ANDREA	Jan 21, 2026	$337	Other in-kind	IN-KIND: CATERING * IN-KIND RECEIVED Derived classification: in-kind-offset	FEC filing ↗ Provenance FEC reported description · source row 0a604131262b08d53cb578b1cc967bf684c6f04ffbf061486e2a2e04a1ac047f Raw artifact: s3://fec-raw/fec/bulk/cycle=2026/dataset=operating_expenditures/6a2264fe395104be646a24e72e457cd950e4e82eda415dc1ab6190055c0bb1b7.zip
LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS ACTION FUND	Oct 3, 2025	$50	Other in-kind	IN-KIND: ENDORSEMENT RELATED EXPENSES * IN-KIND RECEIVED Derived classification: in-kind-offset	FEC filing ↗ Provenance FEC reported description · source row e23d57b04c0a5aa5ac878f08370d5635bb6d7232891ce0408837cba0be417ca6 Raw artifact: data/raw/fec/bulk/cycle=2026/dataset=operating_expenditures/d6108c0a87ca0a02a72d333e1c0fad879a14af446f39504772d0d9369940ee7a.zip

Reported counterparty

Date

Reported value

Asset / units

Reported purpose

Source

NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR AN EFFECTIVE CONGRESS

Aug 28, 2025

$5,000

Other in-kind

IN-KIND: PRECINCT TARGETING

* IN-KIND RECEIVED

Derived classification: in-kind-offset

FEC filing ↗

Provenance

FEC reported description · source row f62dc7ec287fb347c63b27e4c17f30d8c6b7a8e4798fd579bbae9d550f82027b

Raw artifact: s3://fec-raw/fec/bulk/cycle=2026/dataset=operating_expenditures/6a2264fe395104be646a24e72e457cd950e4e82eda415dc1ab6190055c0bb1b7.zip

CUNNINGHAM, ANDREA

Jan 21, 2026

$337

Other in-kind

IN-KIND: CATERING

* IN-KIND RECEIVED

Derived classification: in-kind-offset

FEC filing ↗

Provenance

FEC reported description · source row 0a604131262b08d53cb578b1cc967bf684c6f04ffbf061486e2a2e04a1ac047f

Raw artifact: s3://fec-raw/fec/bulk/cycle=2026/dataset=operating_expenditures/6a2264fe395104be646a24e72e457cd950e4e82eda415dc1ab6190055c0bb1b7.zip

LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS ACTION FUND

Oct 3, 2025

$50

Other in-kind

IN-KIND: ENDORSEMENT RELATED EXPENSES

* IN-KIND RECEIVED

Derived classification: in-kind-offset

FEC filing ↗

Provenance

FEC reported description · source row e23d57b04c0a5aa5ac878f08370d5635bb6d7232891ce0408837cba0be417ca6

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

PEOPLE FOR BEN

Overview

Candidate connections

Money in

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Top contributors

Money out

Spending by kind

Largest transfers and contributions to committees

Largest operating payments

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FEC-reported relationships

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Political alignment

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Cash, assets & liabilities

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