Super PAC · CA · C00900993

New Leadership Now

Can raise unlimited money from people, companies and unions, and spend it on ads for or against candidates. It can’t give directly to campaigns or coordinate with them.

Treasurer: Matthew Alvarez. View on FEC.gov (opens in a new tab)

  • Raised (2025-26)
    $5,768,560
  • Spent
    $5,446,394
  • Cash on hand
    $322,166
  • Outside spending
    $5,394,965

Raised, spent and cash on hand through reports covering Oct. 14, 2026. Outside spending from FEC filings through Oct. 30, 2026.

Donors and outside spending

Elisa Stad$2.0MDan Gillespie$400KMaurice Duca$250KGillespie Family Trust$225KJim Coulter$100KDavid Trujillo$100KEveryone else$2.7MAgainst Mike Thompson (D)$4.1MFor Eric Jones (D)$1.2MFor Mike Thompson (D)$20KNew Leadership Now
  • Raised from its largest donors
  • Outside spending for
  • Outside spending against

Left: what the group raised, from reports through Oct. 14, 2026. Donors are its largest single contributions. “Everyone else” is the rest of what it raised; select it to see more donors. Right: its outside spending through Oct. 30, 2026, including 24- and 48-hour reports. The two sides come from different reports, so they don’t add up to each other.

Where its money went

  • Given: the group’s own contributions to the campaign
  • Bundled: donors’ contributions the group collected and forwarded
  • For: outside spending supporting
  • Against: outside spending opposing
    • For$20K
    • Against$4.1M
    • For$1.2M

Bundled contributions (money donors route through a PAC to specific candidates) are broken out only for groups on our issue pages. Outside spending includes $2,683,814 from 24- and 48-hour reports, as filed, and matches our race pages.

Who funds it

Largest single contributions this cycle, as of Oct. 31, 2026. Committees and organizations link to their own pages when they file with the FEC; an organization that doesn’t file won’t show its own donors here.

Largest contributions received this cycle
ContributorTypeFromDateAmount
Elisa StadSelf, SelfPersonSanta Barbara, CAFeb. 17, 2026$1,500,000
Elisa StadSelf, SelfPersonSanta Barbara, CAMay 8, 2026$500,000
Dan GillespiePartner, Dragoneer Investment GroupPersonSan Francisco, CAMay 15, 2026$400,000
Maurice DucaPartner, IgsbPersonSanta Barbara, CAApril 14, 2026$250,000
Gillespie Family TrustOrganizationSan Francisco, CAMay 1, 2025$125,000
Jim CoulterFounding Partner, TPGPersonFort Worth, TXMay 28, 2026$100,000
David TrujilloPartner, TPGPersonSan Francisco, CAMay 27, 2026$100,000
Gillespie Family TrustOrganizationSan Francisco, CAApril 17, 2025$100,000
Common Blue StrategiesOrganizationNew York, NYMay 19, 2026$76,560
Robertson 2012 TrustOrganizationSan Francisco, CANov. 19, 2025$72,000
Jared MiddlemanInvestor, Dragon Investment GroupPersonSan Francisco, CAMay 28, 2026$50,000
Scott GilbertsonInvestor, Tarrant CapitalPersonSan Francisco, CAMay 20, 2026$50,000
Neil MehtaManaging Partner, Greenoaks CapitalPersonLake Bluff, ILMay 18, 2026$50,000
Kareem ZakiInvestor, ThrivePersonMiami Beach, FLMay 26, 2026$25,000
Ben SloopPresident, AmwinsPersonCharlotte, NCMay 18, 2026$25,000
Jason MomentFounder, Route One Investment CompanyPersonJackson, WYMay 18, 2026$25,000
Russ FradinCEO, LarridinPersonHillsborough, CAMay 18, 2026$10,000
Peter HebertVenture Capitalist, Lux CapitalPersonMenlo Park, CAMay 15, 2026$10,000
Amir NathooCEO, OutschoolPersonSan Francisco, CAMay 13, 2026$10,000
Renaud LaplancheCEO, Upgrade, INC.PersonSan Francisco, CAMay 26, 2026$5,000

See every contribution to New Leadership Now on FEC.gov (opens in a new tab). Contributions of $200 or less aren’t listed by name.