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Santa Monica

Running totals across every campaign-finance year currently ingested. Use the Year selector to drill into a single calendar year.

Money in / money out

The main transaction classes from the public record. Loans stay separate from contributions, and source forms that still need reconciliation stay out of these totals until they are mapped cleanly.

Money in

Cash contributions

$17,510,746

Refunds / returns: $216,995

Money in

Nonmonetary contributions

$620,580

Reported in-kind / noncash value.

Financing

Loans

$1,910,024

Reported financing.

Money out

Reported expenditures

$25,618,065

Form 496 independent expenditures included: $430,660.

Reconciliation queue: Schedule I / miscellaneous increases: $188,046 · Form 496 / 497 reported activity: $14,696,494 · Still unresolved: $152,875. These source-reported amounts are preserved, but they are not added to the Money in / Money out cards until they are mapped and checked for duplicate reporting.

Campaign spending · all years

Largest cumulative reported expenditure totals across the full ingested record.

#1 campaign spending

Santa Monicans for Renters' Rights

$2,324,423

7789 reported expenditure record(s)

#2 campaign spending

Santa Monica Police Officers' Association for a Better Community

$1,426,545

1228 reported expenditure record(s)

#3 campaign spending

SANTA MONICANS FOR A REAL POSITIVE FUTURE SUPPORTING BROCK, DE LA TORRE, ROKNIAN, AND PUTNAM FOR COUNCIL 2024

$1,345,609

165 reported expenditure record(s)

#4 campaign spending

Santa Monica Forward Issues Committee

$1,088,268

585 reported expenditure record(s)

#5 campaign spending

BELIEVE IN SANTA MONICA

$873,273

43 reported expenditure record(s)

#6 campaign spending

Renters and Workers for Santa Monica in support of Hall, Raskin, Snell, Zernitskaya, and Against Brock for City Council 2024, Sponsored by UNITE HERE Local 11

$859,790

62 reported expenditure record(s)

Top donors · all years

Largest cumulative net reported contributions across the full ingested record.

#1 donor

NMS Properties Inc.

$433,250

23 reported transaction(s)

#2 donor

DOUGLAS EMMETT PROPERTIES, LP AND AFFILIATED ENTITIES

$412,000

3 reported transaction(s)

#3 donor

JERRY A. GREENBERG

$412,000

3 reported transaction(s)

#4 donor

Santa Monica College Foundation

$400,000

4 reported transaction(s)

#5 donor

California Business Roundtable Issues PAC

$313,500

4 reported transaction(s)

#6 donor

The Santa Monica College Foundation

$311,000

4 reported transaction(s)

Recent filings

Filed	Filer	Form	Source
Oct 9, 2026	Believe in Santa Monica	FPPC 410	View filing ↗
Oct 9, 2026	Robbie Staenberg for School Board 2026	FPPC Form 497	View filing ↗
Oct 9, 2026	Re-Elect Laurie Lieberman for School Board 2026	FPPC Form 497	View filing ↗
Oct 9, 2026	Robbie Staenberg for School Board 2026	FPPC Form 497	View filing ↗
Oct 9, 2026	Heather Thomason for Rent Control Board 2026	FPPC Form 497	View filing ↗