CASTEN FOR CONGRESS
DemocraticFEC reportedHouse campaign committee · Principal campaign committee · Quarterly filerC00648493
Overview
- Raised
- $2.5Mvs $3.1M 2023–2024
- Spent
- $2.2Mvs $2.5M 2023–2024
- Cash on hand
- $1Mvs $694.1K 2023–2024
- Debts owed
- $455.7Kvs $75.7K 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.
Candidate connections
Principal candidate campaign
CASTEN, SEANDemocraticFEC reportedU.S. House · Illinois · District 6
Candidate details & sources
FEC candidate ID:
H8IL06139· 2025–2026 reporting cycle
Money in
Sources
- Itemized individual contributions$1.4M
- Unitemized individual contributions$209.1K
- Other committees$896.2K
- Party committees$33
- Other receipts$53.5K
Top contributors
- DOUGLAS, SANDHYADemocraticDerived from contributions$14K4 contributions
- VAN VALZAH, EILEEN MAYDemocraticDerived from contributions$11.8K11 contributions
- ANDERSON, KEITH
Money out
Spending by kind
- Operating expenditures$1.4M
- Contribution refunds$24.5K
- Other disbursements$752.4K
Largest transfers and contributions to committees
- JSTREETPAC99% Democratic-aligned activity · 1% unclassifiedInferred from activity$8,0003 transactions
Largest operating payments
- BREAK SOMETHING INC.$100KSOFTWARE · Feb 13, 2026
- BREAK SOMETHING INC.$70KADVERTISING · Apr 24, 2025
- THE PIVOT GROUP, INC.$57.6KPRINTING, PRODUCTION, AND POSTAGE · Feb 17, 2026
- THE PIVOT GROUP, INC.$53.4KPRINTING, PRODUCTION, AND POSTAGE · Mar 23, 2026
- THE PIVOT GROUP, INC.$50.6KPRINTING, PRODUCTION, AND POSTAGE · Mar 4, 2026
Money network · top contributors and recipients as a graph
Records
Registration
- Committee type
- House campaign committee
- Designation
- Principal campaign committee
- Party affiliation
- Democratic
- Treasurer
- SCHEFFKI, MICHELLE M
- 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 132 · DOWNERS GROVE, IL, 60515
Relationships
FEC-reported relationships
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Political alignment
Registration, linked-candidate, and disclosed money-flow evidence
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.