Funding profile
Jesús G. "Chuy" García
Democrat · Representative for Illinois’s 4th district
Career totals · 5 elections · 2018–2026
$3.9 million
raised by García’s campaigns, everything from 2018 to 2026 added together.
45%
of it came from organized groups rather than from people giving on their own: at least $1.8 million from PACs, plus donations that organizations collected and directed.
$236,000
was spent about García by outside groups. These are ads for or against them that their campaign cannot control, and none of it is part of the money above.
Every number on this page comes from Federal Election Commission filings, read on August 24, 2026. An election still under way keeps raising money, so its figure will have grown since. Check García on FEC.gov
Where the money came from
Everything García’s campaigns have reported raising, split by who gave it.
- Individual donorsMoney given by people, in their own name.50%$1.9 million
- Political action committeesOrganized groups: company-run committees, unions, trade associations.45%$1.7 million
- Other sourcesParty transfers, the candidate's own money, loans and smaller categories.6%$217,000
Money bundled through organizations
Not every “individual” donation arrives on its own. An organization can collect checks from its members, already earmarked for García, and deliver them in a bundle. The law counts that as individual money, but the organization still chose where it went.
$10,000
reached García this way, 1% of everything they raised from individuals. Each donation came from a real person. The organization picked who got it.
- JStreetPAC$10,000
We can only count the organizations we have measured, so the real figure could be higher than this, never lower. Bundling is legal and widely used, and appearing here is not evidence of wrongdoing.
Who gave the most
Committee contributions from the 2024 and 2026 election periods, grouped by how the FEC classifies each giver. This covers a slice of the career total, and giving to a campaign is legal and ordinary.
- Corporation13%$74,000
- Trade association7%$42,000
- Labor union54%$306,000
- Membership organization9%$49,000
- Co-operative1%$5,000
- Unclassified16%$90,000
Largest committee givers
- 1Amalgamated Transit Union$18,000
- 2International Brotherhood of Teamsters$15,000
- 3Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen$15,000
- 4Allied Pilots Association Political Action Committee$15,000
- 5International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers$15,000
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- 6United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America$15,000
- 7Air Line Pilots Association$15,000
- 8Service Employees International Union$15,000
- 9American Association for Justice (Aaj)$14,000
- 10International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers$13,000
“Unclassified” means the FEC records no organization type for that committee, which usually means a leadership PAC. We show it as unclassified rather than guessing which industry it belongs to.
Money spent about this member
Outside groups, usually super PACs, may spend without limit on ads for or against a candidate, as long as they do not coordinate with the campaign. García has no legal control over any of it.
This is not a donation. Nobody gave this money to García. It was spent on advertising about García, and money spent against a candidate is plainly not funding them. So it never gets added to the figures above.
$236,000
has been spent for or against García by outside groups. $236,000 supported García; $0 opposed García.
Largest outside spenders
Summed across 4 elections, using the Commission's aggregated totals so amended filings and 24-hour notices are not double-counted.
Spent supporting
$236,000Ads urging people to vote for this member. Still not their money, and they cannot direct how it is spent.
- PROTECT OUR FUTURE PAC$200,000
- AMERICA UNITED$32,000
- CHICAGO LATINO PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE$3,438
- TOGETHER WE THRIVE$750
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- UNITED WE DREAM ACTION$140
- PLANNED PARENTHOOD VOTES$105
- NEA ADVOCACY FUND$67
- UNITED WE DREAM ACTION PAC$66
Spent opposing
$0Ads urging people to vote against this member. This money was spent to defeat them.
Nothing on file.
Election by election
The career figures above are the sum of these elections. Each row links to the Commission’s page for that election, where the numbers match line for line.
| Election | Raised | From PACs | Outside spending | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026in progress | $376,000 | $156,000 41% | none | FEC |
| 2024 | $863,000 | $423,000 49% | $10 | FEC |
| 2022 | $939,000 | $446,000 47% | $232,000 | FEC |
| 2020 | $838,000 | $415,000 50% | $1,026 | FEC |
| 2018 | $873,000 | $301,000 34% | $3,551 | FEC |
Raised is everything the campaign took in for that election. From PACs is the slice of it given by political action committees. Outside spending is what other groups spent on ads about the race, for and against—it is not part of “Raised”. An election marked in progress is still raising money, so its figures are not final.
We never publish the names of individual donors, and anything we cannot source stays off the page. The methodology explains every such choice.