Follow Money: CA Governor’s Race 2026

By Staff on May 5, 2026 • ( Leave a comment )

The California Primary takes place June 2 and includes 61 Candidates vying to become governor. The top two vote getters will move on to the general election in November (unless, in an unlikely instance, one candidate captures 51% of the vote).

Tune in to the debate between the top six candidates (based on polls) on Tuesday, 6pm on CNN. The candidates are Republicans Chad Bianco and Steve Hilton, as well as Democrats Xavier Becerra, Matt Mahan, Katie Porter, Tom Steyer, and Antonio Villaraigosa. https://www.cnn.com/politics/who-are-the-california-governor-candidates-cnn-debate

One thing that comes to mind, looking through the required financial disclosures, is that lower contribution limits must be put in place, and that “Citizens United” must be reversed to remove corporate and dark money from campaigns.

Below is a snapshot of the money supporting the top five candidates who appear at the top of recent polls. If your preferred candidate is not listed below, visit cal-access.sos.ca.gov to look them up.

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Xavier Becerra for Governor (1480025)

https://www.xavierbecerra2026.com/

(Becerra served as the U.S. Secretary of Health & Human Services from 2021-2025. He was Attorney General of California from 2017 to 2021, and served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993 to 2017.) (Info below from https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1480025)

(Reporting period 1/1/2026 – 4/18/2026)

Contributions: $1,044,532
Expenditures: $4,319,528
Ending Cash: $507,079

Largest contributions (as of 5/1/26) from:

•$33,900 to $39,200: Alonzo Cantu (Cantu Construction); Border Health Hospitals/Nursing Homes Federal PAC #C00415752; Pechanga Band of Luiseno Indians; Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians; Laborer’s International Union of North America Local 89 PAC; Southern CA District Council of Laborers PAC Small Contributor Committee #1358150; Laborers Pacific Southwest Regional Organizing Coalition PAC #1358723; Northern CA District Council of Laborers PAC #1243030; Laborer’s Local 300 Small Contributors Committee; Physician Assoc. of CA PAC; LSN Partners LLC, Miami, FL; California’s Best #1442900; California State Council of Laborers PAC #90277; LCCC PAC #1432932; Altamed Health Network Inc; Morgan Chu (attorney); Alexandra Seros (screenwriter); Leonard Schaeffer (retired); Jules Buenabenta (& Associates Inc CEO); Cindy Horn (homemaker); Joseph Molina (retired); Chevron USA Inc; Raul Ayala (officer Adventist Health)

•$20,000 to $25,000: Tom Chavez (Superset); Lawrence Gelman (physician); Minh Nguyen (attorney/Nguyen Lawyers ALC); Patrick McNicholas (attorney); Frank Perez (attorney); Greyson Bryan (attorney); South Cord Management LLC; Glen Fukushima (Stanford University); Prime Healthcare Services Inc; Union of American Physicians & Dentists Medical Action Committee; Gary Dordick (Dordick Law); Jacki Cisneros (Gilbert & Jacki Foundation); Faculty for Our Future, Committee Sponsored by the California Faculty Association; Greg Adams (Kaiser Permanente); Ron Ulloa (broadcaster KXLA-TV); Donna Bower (VAL Property AI); Tigran Martinian (Attorney); Karen Silverman

•$10,000 to $19,000: Laborer’s Local 185 PAC; Dolores Leal (Allred Maroko & Goldberg attorney); Glen Dake (architect/General Douglas McArthur Lodge Holdings Inc); Kelly Ayala (Permanente Medical Group); The Price Philanthropies Foundation; Karen Silberman; Jeffrey Silberman (Carleton Management Inc CEO); Myron Cherry Debra Dixon (consultant w/Ferox Strategies); CA Primary Care Association Advocates PAC#1437185; AFSCME PEOPLE #C00011114; Dr. Angelo Farooq for Riverside Country Supervisor 2028; Tom Chavez (Superset); Nicole Mutchnic; Robert Friedman (Ascendant Entertainment); Robert Klein (Klein Financial); Specialty Equipment Market Association; Bobby Saadian (Wilshire Law); Reyes Melendez; Michael Sanchez (attorney/Mendez & Sanchez); Kathy Lancaster (Kaiser Permanente); Samuel Glick (Kaiser Permanente); Alexander Morrison & Fehr LLP; Barbara Heil; Kerry Heinrich (Adventist Health); Robert Anderson; John Taylor (attorney); Wade Pyun (attorney w/Altura Credit Union); Association of California School Administrators PAC #842151; Bruno Ulloa (executive LATV Networks LLC); Lisa Goldman; Douglas Goldman (Certain Inc publisher); Jose Rene Garza (financial advisor Merrill Lynch); Subbarao Yarra (physician); Carlos Manrique de Lara (physician); Alicia Minana (attorney); Renee Dake Wilson (architect); James Ramos (CA State Assemblyman); Paul Kiesel ( Kiesel Law attorney); Thomas Safran (& Associates Chairman)

•And numerous smaller contributions under $10,000 – many funneled through ActBlue California Committee #1287846; (some transferred from Becerra for Congress).

•Plus $11,111 in non-monetary contributions

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Tom Steyer for Governor 2026 (#1485077)

https://www.tomsteyer.com/

(Steyer, a billionaire, is primarily funding his own campaign. He previously founded and managed the hedge fund Farallon Capital. He founded the non-profit NextGen America in 2013 to promote progressive candidates and causes. He ran for President in 2020. (Info below from https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1485077)

(Reporting period 1/1/2026 – 4/18/2026)

Contributions: $105,052,787
Expenditures: $106,003,510
Ending Cash: $4,177,341

Largest contributions (as of 5/1/26) from:

•$157,688,010: Total contributions from Tom Steyer made to his own campaign: ($20,000,000/Tom Steyer (11/19/25); $8,000,000/Tom Steyer (12/18/25); $9,342,046/Tom Steyer (1/20/26); $10,021,000/Tom Steyer (2/11/26); $6,700,000/Tom Steyer (2/17/26); $11,841,692/Tom Steyer (2/19/26); $3,632,784/Tom Steyer (2/26/26); $9,500,000: Tom Steyer (3/6/26); $8,500,000: Tom Steyer (3/13/26); $8,025,000: Tom Steyer (3/20/26); $4,675,000/Tom Steyer (3/26/26); $3,200,000/Tom Steyer (4/1/26); $8,300,000/Tom Steyer (4/2/26); $9,090,000/Tom Steyer (4/8/26); $868,000/Tom Steyer (4/14/26); $11,254,853/Tom Steyer (4/16/26); $10,055,000/Tom Steyer (4/23/26); $3,235,150/Tom Steyer (4/27/26))

$39,200: Nathaniel Simons (Meritage Group LP)
$25,000: Richard Lawrence (High Tide Foundation director); Dee Lawrence (Cool Effect Inc director); Alfred Clark (Aberdeen Inc president)
$10,000: Douglas Ogden (attorney);
And some smaller contributions mostly funneled through ActBlue California Committee #1287846. The largest of these contributions:

$5,900/Martin Slusser (Magellan Value Partners Realtor); $2000/Ken Laroe (Climate First Bank CEO); $3000/Climate First Bank, Florida; $1000/Francis De Rosa (De Rosa Advisors energy consultant, SF)

•Plus $28,825,747 in non-monetary contributions from Tom Steyer to his own campaign and $8,935 worth in non-monetary staff time from United Domestic Workers of America Action Fund, San Diego #1302384

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Katie Porter for Governor 2026 (1479597)

https://katieporter.com/

(Porter served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2019 to 2025. She previously worked as a law professor and a consumer bankruptcy attorney.) (Info below from https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Candidates/Detail.aspx?id=1479598)

(Reporting period 1/1/2026 – 4/18/2026)

Contributions: $2,812,376
Expenditures: $2,461,308
Ending Cash: 3,749,300

Largest contributions (as of 5/1/26) from:

(Contributions mostly funneled through ActBlue California Committee #1287846)

•$30,000 – $39,200: Consumer Attorneys of CA PAC #760231; Courtney Rowley (attorney, Trial Lawyers for Justice); liz Owens (attorney, Trial Lawyers for Justice); David A. Pyle (CEO, American Career College); Andrew Schwartzberg; CA Assoc. of Professional Scientists PAC Small Contributor Committee #860894; Drive Committee Washington DC #880969; CA Teamsters Public Affairs Council #742500; Sheet Metal Workers International Association Political Action League (C00007542) #890947; Sheet Metal Workers Local Union 104 Political Committee #850381; Sheet Metal, Air, Rail, Transportation Workers Local Union 105 Small Contributor Committee #962809; United Auto Workers; Richard. K Robbins (owner, Wareham Property Group Inc); Chris Duro; Lyna Lam (executive director, A Khmer Buddhist Foundation); Christian Larsen (executive chairman, Ripple); Donna M Bower; Gerald Singleton (founding partner Singleton Schreiber LLP); Jana Simpson (therapist); John Lincoln (President, Lincoln Dynamic Group); Sheet Metal Workers Local 206 PAC #13006663; Karla Jurvetson (physician)

•$20,000 to $29,000: CA Conference Board Amalgamated Transit Union PAC Small Contributor Committee #761357; Brett Schreiber (founding partner Singleton & Schreiber); Edward Norton (actor); Suzanne Hess; Lawrence Hess; Todd Becker (Becker Law Group); Margaret Singleton; McNicholas & McNicholas LLP; Brian Fargo (CEO, Inxille Entertainment); Marcy Carsey; Marco Zappacosta (CEO, Thumbtack); International Brotherhood off Electrical Workers PAC Educational Fund #900161; Roger McNamee;

•$10,000 to $15,000: Teamsters Local 2010 PAC #1445078; Wylie Aitken (attorney, Aitken, Aitken & Cohn LLP); Shannon Hunt-Scott (President, The Scott Foundation); Brian Fargo (CEO); Ann E. Vitti; Women’s Political Committee State #770995; Benjamin Stockton (entrepreneur); End Citizens United (C00573261) #1483653; Californians for Responsible Artificial Intelligence, sponsored by ENCODE AI Corp #1480805; Drew Levine (Levine Labor Law); Roger Dreyer (attorney); Timothy Blood (attorney, Blood Hurst & O’Reardon LLP); Khaldoun Baghdadi (attorney, Walkup Melodia); Amalgamated Transit Union C00032995 Committee #1372824; Niall McCarthy (attorney, Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy); Jaime Schwartzberg; Paul Matiasic (attorney, The Matiastic Firm P.C.); Michael Kelly (attorney, Walkup Law Firm); Christine Spagnoli (attorney, Greene, Broillet & Wheeler); Don Ernst (Ernst Law Group); National Union of Healthcare Workers Candidate Committee for Quality Patient Care & Union Democracy #1318200); Michael Reese (attorney, Reese, LP); FUND HER PAC #1398107; Mathew Edling (attorney, Sher Edling LLP); Cadir Lee; Amy Martel (attorney); David Orr (software engineer, Google Deepmind); Lisa Mennet (retired); Women’s Political Committee State #770995); Deborah Chang (attorney, Chang Klein LLP); Jack Fitzgerald (attorney, Fitzgerald, Monroe & Flynn, PC); Jaspreet Singh (attorney); Said Hilal (CEO, Applied Medical); Farzad Hoorizadeh (banker); Theresa Preston-Werner (co founder/chair of 128 Collective); Community Solar Action Fund. PAC (C00829598) #11463006; Gretchen Sisson (UCSF researcher); Susie Tompkins Buell; Joanna Fox. (Fox Law); Rick Matros (real estate, Sabra Healthcare REIT Inc); Garrett Kirk Jr. (investor, Clay Kenan Kirk); Clay Kenan Kirk (investor); Natalie Trahan; Mark Roberts (CEO, Cemol Inc); Mark Molumphy (attorney);

•And numerous contributions under $10,000, mostly funneled through ActBlue California

•Plus $12,272 in non-monetary contributions from: $6,219 Electing Women Bay Area PAC (#C00585687) and $6,053 from Ann O’Leary (partner, Jenner & Block LLC)

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Steve Hilton for Governor 2026 (1480425)

https://stevehiltonforgovernor.com/

(Hilton is the former host of “The Next Revolution” show on the Fox News channel from 2017 to 2023. He previously was an advertising executive and senior advisor to former UK Prime Minister David Cameron.) (Info below from https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Candidates/Detail.aspx?id=1480426)

(Reporting period 1/1/2026 – 4/18/2026)

Contributions: $4,232,882
Expenditures: $3,361,584
Ending Cash: $2,864,652

Largest contributions (as of 5/1/26) from:

•$190,100 Loan: Stephen Hilton (owner of the Steve Hilton Show) (loan to his own campaign)

•$30,000 to $39,200: Rupert Murdoch (chairman emeritus/FOX Corporation); Danyelle. Freeman (CEO & founder of Le Seul LLC), Joshua Resnick. (founder/partner, Jericho Capital Asset Management LP); Rochelle Sterling; John Hering (private investigator); John McEntee (owner, McEntee Group); Tim Draper (owner, Boris LLC); UBER Technologies Inc; Phil Mickelson (golfer); Sergey Brin (co-founder ALPHABET); Steve Bardack (real estate developer, Strata Capital); J. Gregg Couch; Michael Chunhan (engineer, Lighthouse Worldwide Solutions); Thomas Saunders (Sr. VP, Lighthouse Worldwide Solutions); Eric Brandt (President CEO/One World Beef); Frank Suryan (Chair/CEO Lyon Living); Tammy Suryan (retired); Chris Larson (exec chair/RIPPLE); Mark Bergman (BergmanKPRS construction management); DWO Enterprises Inc; Phil Pace (owner Phil’s BBQ); James Jameson; T. Lawrence Jett (Lanikai Management Real Estate Investor); Andrea Friese (retired); Donald Friese (retired); Pacific Coast Companies Inc; Christine Lucchetti (retired); Julie Dixon (retired); Aubrey Chernick (retired); Joyce Chernick (retired); Steven Craig (Craig Real Estate Group, development); Geoff Palmer (owner, GH Palmer Associates; Steve Bardack (real estate developer/Strata Capital); Mark Kolokotrones (investor); CA Assoc. of Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning Contractors PAC #801777; Paul Newman (President, Lighthouse Worldwide Solutions); Scott Salton (manager, Lighthouse); Tae Yun Kim (management/chair, Lighthouse); JW Howard/Attorneys, LTD; Karen Spencer (homemaker); Susan Groff (retired); Maria Kelly (retired); Franklin Stonebanks (investor/Blackcomb Advisors LLC);

•$20,000- $29,200: AMG Outdoor Advertising Inc; Margaret Perenchio; Hughes Investments; Barbara Grimm Marshall; Mid-Valley Disposal LLC, Mid-Valley Recycling LLC & Affiliated Entities; Michael Schwab (Real Estate investor/developer); Joe Lonsdale (managing director, 8VC); Britt Meyer (owner, Meyer Properties); Joseph David Taormino (David Mar Co Inc real estate developer); Jim Harris (executive, Archipelago Companies LLC); Steve Lopes (owner, Western States Oil); Roland Underhill; Dong Koo Kim (CEO, Starlight Industries LLC); Homan Siman (CEO, Primary Care Associates of CA); Karen Hargrove (retired); Richard Spencer (owner Spencer Enterprises); Robert Rosenthal; Cal Pacific Supply; Carole Middleton (retired); Jeffrey Burns (mortgage banker/Walker & Dunlop)

•$10,000-$15,000: Yossie Joseph Hollander (executive, NewChem21 Inc); John Steven Emerson (stock market investor): Steven Robinson (owner, Brewery X); Robert Zarnegan & Probity International Corp; Stay Green Inc (landscaping); Kelly Burt (CEO, Price Self Storage); Kelly Day (investor); Terence Quinlan (director, Susan Quinlan Doll & Teddy Bear Museum & Library); David Baszucki (founder CEO, ROBLOX); Christoph Tribal (Tribal Investment LLC); Stacey Siebel; Tom Siebel; Elizabeth Briner (EB Landscape Construction; Michelle Senders Tom (executive, APPLE Inc.); Kenneth Hunter (president, Vaquero Energy Inc); Dwight Manley (Dwight Manley Inc); James Parks (executive, CBIZ); CENCAL Services Inc; Richard Loguercio (owner, Town & Country Event Rentals); Sharon Evenhaim (CEO, Balaciano Group); William Dahlgren; Antonio De Cardenas (executive, Cyrees Escrow & Settlement); Jeff Harper (owner Harper Construction); William Doddridge (CEO, The Jewelry Exchange); Charles Anderson (president, Anderson Seafood); Michael Tumanjan (Real Estate, Tumanjan Homes); Scott McMillin (The Corky McMillin Companies real estate); Kenneth Broad; Daryl Nelson (Real Estate Investments); Jack McCauley; Jay Flatly (CEO, Radian); Sherry Stambaugh; Carole McNeil (McNeil Capital LLC Real Estate Investment); Marianne Abiaad (executive, Royal Corporation); Hugh Bancroft (retired); George Abiaad (executive, Royal Corporation); Jennifer Hawks; Chris Rufer (farmer, Morning Star Company); Paulette Cohen (real estate developer/PLC Investment Group); J&L Capital Resources; Janis Lowder; Larry Lowder; GCEC; John Burroughs (manager, Commerce Construction Co LP); Smittcamp AG Enterprises Series D, LLC; EL Sur Ranch; John McKeown (CEO, Q Oil Advisors); David Wood (Wood AG Management Inc); Catherine Herrick (ReDev/San Diego Historic Properties Inc.); Greg Strause (CEO/Aberythmic LLC); Daphne Jameson; Saul Camacho (manager Pacific Farm Management); Daniel Dunkelman (physician, Cedars Towers Surgical Medical Group Inc); Jennifer Hawks (retired); M. Randy McLaughlin (president, Old Durham Wood Inc); Michael Nelson (owner Mike’s Grillhouse); Dan Costa (founder, Wild Fox Foods); Ed Glazer (co-chair, Tampa Bay Buccaneers); Patricia Mozart (Mozart Real Estate Investments); Joseph Jacobs (president Wexford Capital); Charles Davidson (chairman Wexford Capital);

•And numerous contributions under $10,000 – (While some larger contributions are made on one date, many build up in repeated tiny amounts of as little as $2.50 that appear to be weekly contributions from the same individuals).

•Plus $93,524 in non-monetary contributions – the three largest: $28,634 from Jeffrey Burns, mortgage banker/Walker & Dunlap; $24,000 from AMG Outdoor Advertising, and $12,099 from himself, Stephen Hilton.

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Chad Bianco for Governor 2026 (#1479095)

https://biancoforgovernor.com/

(Endorsed by LA County Lincoln Clubs PAC. Bianco worked for the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department for 26 years before being elected as Sheriff/Coroner of Riverside County in 2018 – a position he still holds.) (Info below from https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1479095)

(Reporting period 1/1/2026 – 4/18/2026)

Contributions: $1,546,503
Expenditures: $2,131,781
Ending Cash: $1,399,824

Largest contributions (as of 5/1/26) from:

•$78,400: Downs Energy #1424584; M&D. Development LLC;

•$30,000 to $39,200: Sierra Pacific Electrical Contracting; Charles Wood (major donor #1481649); Peace Officers Research Association of California (PORAC) PAC#810830; Charles Wagner (wine maker/Caymus Vineyards); West Coast Drywall & Company Inc; Tom Day (owner, Portrait Construction): Scott Anderson (contractor/BSA Framing Inc):

•$20,000-27,279: West Coast C&C Management; Mathew Richert (president, Desert Redi Mix); Richard Lawson (retired); Nachhattar Chandi & Affiliated Entities #1380443; Krista Hundley (Hunco Development); Dan Stephenson (chairman, Rancon Group); Mediwaste Disposal LLC #1435753 (Ryan Oganisan);

•$10,000-$19,000: Jessica Tuvalu (Retired); David McFarland (owner, Proseed Landscape); David McFarland (owner, Maco Equipment); Keri Gless (retired); Mark Fogel (Fogel Sales); Randall Harrison (retired); Mission Pediatrics. Inc #1485081; Melanie Scherer (owner, SNIP): Joseph L Chiriaco Inc: Valerie Thruelsen (retired):

Sandra Wiedemann (retired); Kris Wyatt (Wyatt’s Paint & Body); Herman Rowland Sr (retired); Moving California Forward #1455936; Loyd McGhee Jr (CEO, Commercial Concrete Constructors); Signal Hill Petroleum Inc; Anthony Vineyards Inc: Assoc. of Orange County Deputy Sheriff’s PAC #782021; DFI Family Insurance; Eureka PAC (C00390161) #1400117; Intake Desk LLC, Florida; Steven Knoblock (San Clemente mayor); Edward Lewis (Edward Lewis Investments); Richard Scherer (CEO, The Pelican Group); Mike Walsh (owner, The Range); PJ Printers Inc; Joyce Gonzales (retired); BudCo; Morongo Band of Mission Indians #494203; James Hummer (retired); Andrew Gladstein (retired); Charles Wood (retired);

•And contributions under $10,000 – including $8000 from San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Employees’ Benefit Association PAC #822554 – and $4,247 from San Bernardino Police Association PAC#980235

(While some larger contributions are made on one date, many build up in repeated tiny amounts of as little as $20 that appear to be monthly contributions from the same individuals.)

•An expenditure of $80,000 to “Bianco Legal Defense Fund” refers to the lawsuit he is facing after seizure of 650,000 Riverside County ballots from the November Special Election, where voters approved Prop 50 redistricting mapping for California.

•Plus $205,556 in non-monetary contributions – largest three: $38,122 from Riverside Sheriffs’ Association #1286381; $34,164 from Tom Day; $25,301 from Scott Anderson (BSA Framing Inc);

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Matt Mahan for Governor 2026 (#1486858)

https://www.mahanforcalifornia.com/

(Mahan was elected to the San Jose City Council in 2020 and currently serves as mayor. Previously, he co-founded Brigade, a digital grassroots platform that broke up in 2019, with the engineering part of the company sold to Pinterest and the intellectual property and user data sold to Countable.) (Info below from https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1486858)

(Reporting period 1/1/2026 – 4/18/2026)

Contributions: $13,461,744
Expenditures: $5,543,399
Ending Cash: $8,525,636

Largest contributions (as of 5/1/26) from:

•$78,400: Sergey Brin (co-founder, Alphabet Inc); Scott David Cook (founder, Intuit); Jared Friedman (partner, Y Combinator); Michael Siebel (investor, Y Combinator); Harjeet Taggar (investor, Y Combinator); Gary Tan (CEO, Y Combinator); Andrew Houston (CEO, Dropbox); Phillip Hyun (CEO) Next Systems Inc); Steven Huffman (CEO, Reddit); Irving Azoff (CEO, The Azofff Co); David Babulak (retired); Lien Babulak (teacher, Santa Clara Unified School District); David Baszucki (CEO, Roblox); Jan Baszucki (board president, Baszucki Group); Christina. R Bid (retired); Jeffrey W. Bird (retired); April Buchheit; Paul Buchheit (partner, Standard Capital); Blake. H Byers (managing member, Byers Capital); Chad Byers (co-founder, Susa Ventures); Denise Byers (head of marketing, Susa Ventures); Emily Byers; Shawn Byers; Rick Caruso (executive, Caruso Management Company); Belle Casares; Wenceslao Casares. (CEO, Bling Nation); Carla Crane (retired); David Crane (president, Govern For California); Kathleen Driver (owner, West Haddon Hall); Walter Driver (CEO, Scopely); Anke Faber; Farshad Fardad (CEO, GlobalWide Media Causal Iq); Dylan Field (CEO, Figma Inc); Gary Filizetti (president, Devcon Construction); Ganymede XIV LLC (Ngoc Minh Hoang Vien); GFC Courage Committee – San Francisco Chapter (committee #1416440); Jennifer Gillespie Mason (musician); Govern for California Courage Committee #1392639; Adi Greenberg; Jerry Greenberg (manager, Hard. Scale Eats LLC); Alexandra Hering (Hering Foundation); John Hering (founder, Lookout); Harriet Hayman (journalist); Hudson Pacific Properties LP; Nicolas Josefowitz (executive, Permit Power); Genevieve Jurvetson (The Jurveston Foundation); Steve Juverston (founder/director, Future Ventures); Christine Kan (homemaker); Daniel Brandon Kan (CEO, Fifth Door); Nathaniel Justin Kan (co-founder, Goat Capital); Christine Kaplan (filmmaker, H82W8 Productions); Jordan Kaplan (real-estate executive, Douglas Emmett); Miranda Kerr (founder, KORA Organics); Becky Kleiner (founder, Node Foundation); Ranee Lan (attorney, Ranee Kendra Lan Law Offices); Jason Larian (president, MGA Entertainment); Maksim Rafael Levchin (CEO, Affirm Inc); Jeremy Liew (venture capital partner consultant); Joe Lonsdale (director, 8VC); Meyer Malka (founder, Ribbit Capital); David Marcus (CEO, Lightspark Group); Scott Marlette (owner, Alphacraft LLC); Andrew Mason (CEO, Descript); Ashley Merrill (founder, Lunya); Marc Merrill (co-founder, Riot Games); Nellie Minkova Levchin (partner, ScifiVC); John Morgridge (retired); Tashia Morgridge (retired); Michael Moritz (Sr advisor, Sequoia Heritage); Nelly Moseley; Elena Nadolinski (product manager, CoinBase); Susan C Oberndorf (president, Oberndorf Enterprises LLC); William E Oberndorf (chairman, Oberndorf Enterprises); Alexandra Parker; Sean Parker (chairman, Sean N Parker Foundation); Marc Pincus (president, QL Ventures LLC); Sean Rad (owner, Rad Fund LLC); Tali Rapaport (executive, CareerPuck); Kurt Rappaport (real estate investor); Bob Safai (founding partner/executive, Madison Partners); Daniel Safier (president, Prado Group); Jaclyn Safier (CEO, Prometheus Real Estate); Dan Scheinman (investor, Primavera Properties); Andrew Nathan Swartzberg (president Housing Inc); Helen Signe Ostby (retired); Jamie Siminoff (chief inventor of Ring, Amazon); Brian Singerman (partner, Quiet Capital); John R. Sobrato (chair emeritus, The Sobrato Organization); Susan Sobrato (homemaker); Evan T Spiegel (CEO, Snap Inc); Daniel Tierney (administrator, Wicklow Capital Inc); Richard Tinsley (retired); Kelsey Vogt (owner, Slow Burn Collective); Kyle Vogt (CEO, The Bot Company); Sarah Walker (strategies director, Makena Capital); Shirley Wang (founder, Plastpro); Walter Wang (chairman, JM Eagle); Chris Wanstrath (retiired); Nina Wanstrath (retired); Charmaine Warmenhoven (retired); Daniel Warmenhoven (retired); Jerry Yang (founder, AME Cloud Ventures LLC); Yowei Menlo Park LLC (Jason Chang); Erin Yu Houston; Marco Zappacosta (executive, Thumbtack);

•$40,000 to $60,000: Immad Akhund (CEO/Mercury); Diego Berdakin (co-founder, Cloudkitchen); James Campbell (writer); Michelle Boyers (CEO, Give Forward Foundation); GFC Courage Committee – Future Generations Chapter (committee #1416436); GFC Courage Committee – Sierra Chapter (committee#1416442); Peter Koomen (partner, Y Combinator); Edgar M Thrift (retired); Gail R Thrift (retired); Michael Eisler (real estate investor, Baco Properties);

•$39,200: California Water Service Company; Bay 101 Casino; David Dollinger (Dollinger Properties); Reed Hoffman (co-founder, Greylock); Curtis Gardner (principal, Jackson Square Properties); Christine Gardner (not employed); Nathan Blecharczyk (CSO Airbnb); Karl Gustaf Jonas Alsstromer (partner, Y Combinator); George Leonard Baker Jr. (partner, Sutter Hill Ventures); Mari Anne Nyburg Baker (retired); Patricia Bao; Diane Brandenberg. (Real estate developer, Brandenberg Properties); Katie Budge; Cary Preston Butcher (chairman, Legacy Partners); Lanier Coles (corporate consultant, Kaiser Permanente); Peter Conrad (CEO, Rippling); Delta C. lP dba Kings Card Club (Jordan Conner); Alda Leu Dennis (committee #1489144) (partner, Hawktail); Dwight Diercks (engineer, NIVIDIA); Kathleen Donohue (committee #1490405); Ariel Z Emanuel (CEO, TKO Group Holdings Inc); Paul Gentzkow (recruiter, Robert Half Inc); GFC Courage Committee Bay Area Chapter (committee #1423911); GFC Courage Committee – Marin Chapter (committee #1432894); Karen Gilhuly; Joe Green (investor); Diane B Green (Tech investor); Kevin Harvey (founder, Benchmark Capital); Richard M Kovacevich (retired); Gary Lauder (owner, Lauder Partners); Laura Lauder (owner Lauder Partners); David Lieb (partner, Y Combinator); Terrance McLean (insurance agent, SageSure); Steven Merrill (retired); David L Ming Sze (partner, Greylock Partners); Cyrus Moghadam (co-founder, Chalet Run Capital LLC); John A Pritzker (president Aperture Group LLC); Maureen K. C. Pritzker (artist); Nicholas Pritzker (advisor, Tao Capital Partners LLC); Ericka Reinhardt (co-founder, Spark Climate Solutions); Peter Reinhardt (co-founder, Charm Industrial); Eli Reinhard (President, Arcadia Development Companies); Phillip Rolla (co-founder, GPR Ventures); Mendel Rosenblum (professor, Stanford U); Stanley Tang (co-founder, DoorDash); Carol Tinsley (retired); Kathryn A Tomaino (realtor, Coldwell Banker); Mary Vidovich (partner, De Anza Building & Maintenance Inc); Michael A Vidovich (farmer, De Anza Properties); Stephen Vidovich (McCarthy Family Farms); IIIya Volodarsky (Wildfres.org founder); James White (retired);

•$20,000 – $38,000: Omar Habbas (attorney, Habbas, Nasseri, & Associates); Mark Heising (investor, Medley Partners); Tom Robinson (chairman, Robinson Oil Corp); Ebay Inc; 21st Century Alliance/Silicon Valley Chapter #1484428; Aditya Agarwal (founding partner, South Park Commons); Cyan Banister (partner, Long Journey Ventures); Bryant Chou (co-founder, Webflow); Alexander l Dean Jr. (chairman, Hawk Hill Management Co LLC); Donna Dubinsky (committee #1229730); Gregory Flynn (real estate, Eastdil Secured); GFC Courage Committee – Excellence in Education Chapter (committee #1420855); Reed Hastings (retired); Jeffrey Jaeger (co-founder, Standard Communities); Kristen Jaeger (homemaker); Robert Lindo (VP director, Casino M8Trix); Alison Pincus (director, Allies for Allies); Artichoke Joe’s Inc; CA Commerce Club Inc; Peter Diamandis (committee #1398836) (CEO, Phd Ventures Inc); James Ellis (co-founder, Ellis Partners); Ross Fubini (partner, Xyz Venture Capital); Annaka Harris (secretary, Four Elephants Media Inc); Sam Harris (President, Four Elephants Media Inc); Hawaiian Gardens Casino; Kristen Rolla Mirek (Kristen Mirek Consulting); Catherine Paige (investor); Albert Pimentel (manager, Afero Inc); Genevieve Rolla (retired); Ruchi Sanghvi (partner, South Park Commons); Leonard Shustek (retired); Sandy Sigal (owner, NewMark. Merrill Companies); Rudy Staedler; Godfrey. R Sullivan (retired);

•$11,500 to $15,000: Fred Bernstein (real estate agent, The Derf Co Inc); Jennifer DiNapoli (secretary, John Phillip DiNapoli Companies Inc); Richard Landers; Kevin Pazirandeh (designer, Auxbrain Inc); Dana Stalder committee#1489378 (venture capitalist, Matrix Partners); Elizabeth Funk (CEO, DignityMoves); Martha Ehmann Conte (retired);

•$10,000: Bay Miry (Bardis & Miry Real Estate); Christo Bardis (owner Bardis Construction); James Basile (attorney, Kirkland & Ellis LLP); Steve Aminian (pistachio grower, Hafez); Luis Belmonte (retired); Kenneth Broad (retired); Scott Bulua (attorney, Ramp Business Corp); John Chambers (CEO, JC2 Ventures); Eric Chen (partner, OVO Fund); Elevation Entertainment Group (partner, Seven Mile Casino); Shawn Evenhaim (real estate); Cosme Fagundo (restaraunteur, Cambas Inc); Michael Fletcher (real estate developer, Arcadia Development Co); Ruth Fletcher; Stanlee Gatti (event designer, Stanlee R Gatti Designs); Barbara Gentzkow (executive, Robert Half International); GFC Courage Committee – Commonsense Chapter (committee #1424659); Samuel L. Ginn (chairman, The Ginn Family Trust); Kimberly Grim (homemaker); Mathew Grim (co-founder, Anduril Industries); Danny Hoady (real estate investor, Hoady Family LLC); Chris Hughes (co-founder, Economic Security Project); Elizabeth Jarvis-Shean (officer, DoorDash); Elloitt Kahn (partner, Cresent Heights); Bill Kamer (Sr advisor, Douglas Emmett); Jean Kaplan;

Richard Klausner (founder, Altos Labs); Kevin Laughlin (retired); Robert Lauridsen (attorney); Justin Mateen (investor); Greg Maurer (Broadcom Government Affairs); Andrew Miklas (partner, Y Combinator); Patricia Mills (CEO, Ethica Strategies LLC); Hugh Moore (venture capitalist, Lightspeed Venture Partners); Jason Oppenheim (President, Oppenheim Group); Pretty Good AI Inc; Lyna Resnick (vice chair, The Wonderful Company); Stewart Resnick (President, The Wonderful Company); Tom Sadler (retired); Emmett Shear (co-founder, Softmax); Jennifer Smorgon (retired);

Steven Spurlock (retired); Sarah Tavel (partner, Benchmark); Allan Thygesen (CEO, DocuSign); Daniel Wallis (founder, Motus Insurance); Tom Werner (retired); William Witte (real estate, Related California); Lewis Wolff (CEO, Wolff Urban Management); Tyler Worden (President, 4D Pipeline); Ernest Yamane (partner, Steinberghart);

•Plus $120,810 in non-monetary contributions – largest from; $78,400: Scott David Cook (founder, Intuit); Helen Signe Ostby (retired); Jason Chang (CEO, CSBio); $25,000: Sarah Louise Gray (VP, Apercen Ventures); Thomas Van Loben Sels (partner, Apercen Ventures); $19,203: Swati Mylavarapu (founder, Incite);

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Largest independent contributions to Manhan’s campaign (as of 5/1/26)

According to the Fair Political Practices Commission website, there are three ways in which a person or entity qualifies as a committee:

Recipient Committee. Receives contributions of $2,000 or more per year for political purposes. This includes candidate-controlled committees; committees primarily formed to support or oppose candidates or ballot measures; political party committees; and other general-purpose committees (generally formed to support or oppose more than one candidate or ballot measure).
Independent Expenditure Committee. Makes independent expenditures of $1,000 or more per year on California candidates or ballot measures. An expenditure is independent if it is not made in consultation, cooperation or coordination with the affected candidate or committee. These committees do not receive contributions.
Major Donor Committee. Makes contributions of $10,000 or more per year to or at the request of California candidates or ballot measures. A business, individual, or multi-purpose organization (including a nonprofit organization) may qualify as a major donor committee. These committees do not receive contributions.

https://www.fppc.ca.gov/learn/campaign-rules/

Recipient Committees in support: Mahan for Governor 2026: California Back to Basics (#1487425)

(Info from https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1487425)

(Reporting period 1/1/2026 – 4/18/2026)

Contributions: $22,713,863
Expenditures: $16,221,250
Ending Cash: $6,501,238

Largest contributions (as of 5/1/26) from:

•$7,500,000: Media Production

•$3,000,000: Michael Moritz (senior advisor, Sequoia Heritage); August Capital);

•$1,000,000 – 1,500,000: Michael Seibel (partner, Y Combinator); Vinod Khosla (venture capitalist/Khosla Ventures LLC); Ashley Merrill (Luna Retail Apparel); Patrick Collison (Stripe CEO); Rick Caruso & Affiliated Entities (Caruso Real Estate Developer); Govern for California Action. Committee #1450483; L. John Doerr III (Chairman/Kleiner Perkins);

•$995,000 – $999,999: John Hering (private investigator); Neil Mehta (founder, Greenoaks Capital); Steve Huffman (Reddit CEO);

•$843,200: William E Oberndorf (investor, Oberndorf Enterprises);

•$750,000: Brian Singerman (partner, Quiet Capital)

•$650,000: G. Leonard Baker Jr (retired);

•$500,000-$600,000: Helen Signe Ostby (retired); Blake Byers (Blake Byers Capital Management Investments); Brook Byers (venture capitalist/Kleiner Perkins); David Scott Cook (founder, Intuit); Chris Wanstrath (retired); Nina Wanstrath (retired); John Priitzker (President, Aperture Group LLC); Divesh Makan (founding partner IQONIC Capital): Andrew Phillips Reed (Venture Capital Sequoia Capital); Brian Armstrong (CEO, Coinbase);

•$300,000: Warren E. Spieker Jr & Spieker Realty Investments;

•$200,000 – 250,000: DoorDash Inc; Richard Wolf (TV producer); Michelle Boyers (CEO/Give Forward Foundation); Diana Ruth Walsh (retired); David Marquardt (co-founder August Capital); Meyer Malka (investor/Ribbit Management Company LLC); Richard Tinsley (retired); Nicholas Pritzker & Affiliated Entity Democracy Rising Trust (senior advisor/TAO Capital Partners);

•$100,000 – 150,000: Paul Wachter (founder, CEO/ Main Street Advisors Inc); Jeremy Lieu (venture capitalist consultant); Joshua Resnick (founder/partner/Jericho Capital Asset Management LP); John Atwater (investor/Prime Group);

•$50,000- $99,000: Sonya Ravitch; Joseph Ravitch; Amnon Rodan (retired); C. Preston Butcher (chairman/Legacy Partners); Arthur Patterson (venture capitalist/Accel Partners);

•Plus $60,565 in non-monetary contributions from Deliver for California – Matt Mahan for Governor 2026 (committee #1488176 – Major donors include Google co-founder Sergey Brin and Google software engineer Paul Buchhett.)