CASTRO FOR CONGRESS

DemocraticFEC reportedHouse campaign committee · Principal campaign committee · Quarterly filerC00497933

Overview

Raised: $592.4Kvs $689.8K 2023–2024
Spent: $601.8Kvs $713.9K 2023–2024
Cash on hand: $129.3Kvs $138.7K 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 · No open linked indicators

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).

No open indicators are linked in the published index. This is not a compliance clearance.

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

Candidate connections

Principal candidate campaign
CASTRO, JOAQUINDemocraticFEC reported
U.S. House · Texas · District 20
Election 2026 · Incumbent · Current candidate
Candidate details & sources
FEC candidate ID: H2TX35011 · 2025–2026 reporting cycle

Money in

Sources

Itemized individual contributions$377.3K
Unitemized individual contributions$47.1K
Other committees$168K

Top contributors

HARTMAN, GORDON V.DemocraticDerived from contributions$11.6K5 contributions
SERNA, BALTAZAR R. JRDemocraticDerived from contributions$8,6115 contributions
OCANAS, GILBERTO S.DemocraticDerived from contributions$7,5005 contributions
GAMEZ, CARMEN

Money out

Spending by kind

Operating expenditures$537K
Contribution refunds$4,482
Other disbursements$60.3K

Largest disbursements

HM CONSULTING, LTD.$15KFUNDRAISING CONSULTING · Apr 1, 2026
AMERICAN EXPRESS$11KCREDIT CARD PAYMENT · Oct 9, 2025
HM CONSULTING, LTD.$10KFUNDRAISING CONSULTING · Aug 29, 2025
HM CONSULTING, LTD.$10KFUNDRAISING CONSULTING · May 30, 2025
HACKETT, SAWYER$10KDIGITAL CONSULTING · Jun 1, 2026
HM CONSULTING, LTD.$10KFUNDRAISING CONSULTING · Dec 16, 2025
HM CONSULTING, LTD.$10KFUNDRAISING CONSULTING · Oct 6, 2025
AMERICAN EXPRESS$7,951CREDIT CARD PAYMENT · Apr 7, 2025
GLIDER GROUP

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: GUZMAN, ANA M. 'CHA' DR.
Filing cadence: Quarterly filer
Organization type: Not reported
Connected organization: Not reported
Registration snapshot cycle: 2025–2026
Cycles loaded: 2026, 2024
Registered address: PO BOX 544 · SAN ANTONIO, TX, 78292

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.

CASTRO FOR CONGRESSC00497933 Authorized candidateCASTRO, JOAQUINH2TX35011
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
SERNA, BALTAZAR R. JR	Apr 22, 2025	$1,361	Other in-kind	EVENT SPACE AND CATERING * IN-KIND RECEIVED Derived classification: in-kind-offset	FEC filing ↗ Provenance FEC reported description · source row f380e0f68a0b391bd8901df02ad52727199e7efaa3f4963fd6d8ad7296517048 Raw artifact: data/raw/fec/bulk/cycle=2026/dataset=operating_expenditures/d6108c0a87ca0a02a72d333e1c0fad879a14af446f39504772d0d9369940ee7a.zip
BUENROSTRO, MARCO	Sep 26, 2025	$1,350	Other in-kind	EVENT GARNISHMENTS * IN-KIND RECEIVED Derived classification: in-kind-offset	FEC filing ↗ Provenance FEC reported description · source row 867c3e2d102feadcdfd133f86a60af456269427a3cdb30a90722a820f65f8000 Raw artifact: data/raw/fec/bulk/cycle=2026/dataset=operating_expenditures/d6108c0a87ca0a02a72d333e1c0fad879a14af446f39504772d0d9369940ee7a.zip

Month	Raised	Spent
Jan 24	$1,000	$0
Jan 25	$15,700	$0
Feb 25	$5,940	$0
Mar 25	$23,055	$0
Apr 25	$21,636	$0
May 25	$4,245	$0
Jun 25	$47,910	$1,500
Jul 25	$7,510	$0
Aug 25	$1,015	$0
Sep 25	$33,495	$0
Oct 25	$1,715	$0
Nov 25	$430	$0
Dec 25	$2,141	$0
Jan 26	$1,546	$0
Feb 26	$2,525	$0
Mar 26	$91,646	$0
Apr 26	$3,326	$0
May 26	$33,810	$0
Jun 26	$30,041	$40,000

CASTRO FOR CONGRESS

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

Money network

Over time