Tony Thurmond

Office

Office

Superintendent of Public Instruction

Body

California's statewide elected offices

Website

Official site ↗

Source

Last verified Oct 5, 2026.

Record

Superintendent of Public Instruction, 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

  10 statements, Summary Page line 5
  $478,737
• Spent

  Summary Page line 11
  $1,077,001
• From individuals (itemized)

  720 contributions of $100 or more, net of refunds
  $242,089 51%

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)

• Labor unions
  $113,775
• Education
  $52,705
• Real estate
  $25,476
• Health care
  $12,200
• Tribal governments
  $6,800
• Issue and advocacy groups
  $5,975
• Government and public sector
  $3,825
• Transportation
  $2,700

Approximate. Industries are assigned by keywords in organizations' names and in the employers individual donors named; 55% of these itemized dollars matched an industry, and the rest are left unclassified rather than guessed.

Top employers of individual donors

• OPTIMUM SEISMIC

  4 donors · Not classified
  $12,500
• NICELY DONE SOLUTIONS

  9 donors · Not classified
  $4,750
• CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

  28 donors · Education
  $3,550
• PUTNAM AUTOMOTIVE

  5 donors · Transportation
  $2,700
• SAN BERNADINO COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS

  19 donors · Education
  $2,700
• CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN BERNARDINO

  18 donors · Education
  $1,800
• HIBSER YAMAUCHI ARCHITECTS INC

  3 donors · Construction and engineering
  $1,550
• HUB INTERNATIONAL

  18 donors · Not classified
  $1,350
• NASDAQ

  16 donors · Not classified
  $870
• AT&T

  4 donors · Technology and telecommunications
  $850

The employers individual donors named, summed; an employer is listed only when 3 or more people named it. $43,859 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

• SEIU United Healthcare Workers West Political Action Committee

  1 contribution · small contributor committee · Labor unions
  $39,000
• Faculty for our University's Future

  2 contributions · small contributor committee · Education
  $29,200
• IBEW PAC Educational Fund (FEC ID #C90022351)

  2 contributions · organization · Labor unions
  $12,500
• International Brotherhood of Boilermakers Local 92 PAC

  1 contribution · committee · Labor unions
  $12,500
• International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 551

  1 contribution · committee · Labor unions
  $10,000
• Jose Medina for Riverside Board of Supervisors 2028

  2 contributions · committee · Not classified
  $9,000
• Plumbers, Steamfitters, and Refrigeration Fitters Local 393 PAC

  1 contribution · small contributor committee · Labor unions
  $7,500
• Association of California State Supervisors PAC

  2 contributions · committee · Not classified
  $7,000
• Committee to Elect Abel Pineda for San Pablo County 2020

  1 contribution · committee · Not classified
  $5,900
• Plumbers and Steamfitters Local Union 398

  3 contributions · small contributor committee · Labor unions
  $5,500

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

Independent expenditures for and against

Spending on ads and outreach about Tony Thurmond 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.