Eleni Kounalakis

Office

Office

Lieutenant Governor

Body

California's statewide elected offices

Website

Official site ↗

Source

Last verified Oct 5, 2026.

Record

Lieutenant Governor, elected statewide. ThePillory tracks the President's and the Governor's executive orders and bill actions; other executive offices have no separate record here yet.

Totals

• Raised

  14 statements, Summary Page line 5
  $8,752,848
• Spent

  Summary Page line 11
  $3,684,865
• From individuals (itemized)

  917 contributions of $100 or more, net of refunds
  $5,080,625 58%

Sums of each statement's own figures for its period. Contributions under $100 aren't itemized, so they're in "Raised" but not in the lists below.

Top contributing industries (approximate)

• Government and public sector
  $1,097,300
• Tribal governments
  $1,071,400
• Finance, insurance and banking
  $464,500
• Lawyers and lobbyists
  $299,678
• Agriculture and food
  $260,600
• Health care
  $119,475
• Construction and engineering
  $103,095
• Education
  $96,675

Approximate. Industries are assigned by keywords in organizations' names and in the employers individual donors named; 51% of these itemized dollars matched an industry, and the rest are left unclassified rather than guessed.

Top employers of individual donors

• STATE OF CALIFORNIA

  6 donors · Government and public sector
  $1,042,100
• MCDONALD'S

  4 donors · Not classified
  $145,600
• KLEIN FINANCIAL CORPORATION

  3 donors · Finance, insurance and banking
  $46,400
• GREENE COMPANY INC

  5 donors · Not classified
  $41,400
• UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO

  5 donors · Education
  $31,700
• GIBSON DUNN & CRUTCHER LLP

  3 donors · Lawyers and lobbyists
  $13,000
• CARDINAL HEALTH

  3 donors · Health care
  $11,000
• VERRAS LAW

  8 donors · Lawyers and lobbyists
  $6,600
• KUBA & ASSOCIATES

  3 donors · Not classified
  $6,000
• CORDOBA CORPORATION

  3 donors · Not classified
  $5,750

The employers individual donors named, summed; an employer is listed only when 3 or more people named it. $908,658 came from people who listed no employer (retired, not employed or self-employed). Individual donors are never named on ThePillory, at any amount.

Committees, parties and organizations

• Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria

  3 contributions · organization · Tribal governments
  $1,036,400
• Angelo K. Tsakopoulos and Affiliated Entities

  1 contribution · organization · Not classified
  $1,000,000
• Alexandra A. Tsakopoulos Investments

  2 contributions · organization · Finance, insurance and banking
  $72,800
• Sofia L. Tsakopoulos Investments

  2 contributions · organization · Finance, insurance and banking
  $72,800
• California Optometric PAC aka CAL-OPAC

  2 contributions · committee · Health care
  $50,000
• Allen Sawyer dba Law Offices of Allen Sawyer

  1 contribution · organization · Lawyers and lobbyists
  $36,400
• California Citrus Mutual PAC

  1 contribution · committee · Finance, insurance and banking
  $36,400
• Jaspreet Singh dba Law Office of Jaspreet Singh, PA

  2 contributions · organization · Lawyers and lobbyists
  $36,400
• Lennar Corporation

  1 contribution · organization · Not classified
  $36,400
• The Spanos Corporation

  1 contribution · organization · Not classified
  $36,400

Contributions itemized on Schedule A from political committees, parties, businesses and other organizations, by the name reported. Transfers between Eleni Kounalakis's own committees aren't counted.

Independent expenditures for and against

Spending on ads and outreach about Eleni Kounalakis by committees that don't coordinate with the campaign; this money isn't given to the campaign. From Form 496 reports, which are filed for independent expenditures of $1,000 or more made in the 90 days before an election; spending outside that window isn't included. Each spender links to its committee record, where its own donors are listed.