KMEX
$8.31M
2025-2026 cycle
KMEX is a media vendor. In the 2025-2026 cycle KMEX was paid $8.31M across 26 client committees, of which $404K flowed through Independent Expenditures rather than direct committee payments.
Call sign: KMEX · Network: Univision · Market: Los Angeles, CA
Part I Identity
Stable facts about this entity. These figures do not change as you adjust the timeframe in Part II.
Source split
$8.31M
=
$7.91M
(Schedule B)
+
$404K
(Independent Expenditures)
| Schedule B direct committee payments |
$7,910,537 | 55 rows | 95.1% |
| Independent Expenditures money this entity spent supporting candidates, NOT a committee paying them |
$404,050 | 5 rows | 4.9% |
- Activity span ALL TIME
- Oct 25, 2000 → May 21, 2026
- spans 25.6 years
- Disbursements ALL TIME
- 55
- Schedule B + IE rows
- Client committees ALL TIME
- 26
- distinct payers
Part II Activity in selected window
One timeframe control governs all three panels below. Change it once and the trajectory, top buyers, and party breakdown all update together.
Spend trajectory
Monthly spend to this vendor over the last 12 months.
Jun 2025
May 2026
$1.53M
across 12 months
Top buyers
Two views of the same data — diagram and table share the time-window control and the same top-buyers slice. Click "View all buyers in research" to drill in with the matching date range.
VIEW 1 DIAGRAM DECORATIVE
Top buyers last 1 months · top 1
VIEW 2 TABLE EXPORTABLE
| Filer | Total spend | Disbursements |
|---|---|---|
| STEYER FOR GOVERNOR 2026 1485077 |
$867,757 | 5 |
VIEW 1 DIAGRAM DECORATIVE
Top buyers last 3 months · top 2
VIEW 2 TABLE EXPORTABLE
| Filer | Total spend | Disbursements |
|---|---|---|
| STEYER FOR GOVERNOR 2026 1485077 |
$1,134,623 | 7 |
| STEYER FOR GOVERNOR 2026, A COALITION OF HOUSING ADVOCATES, LABOR AND SMALL BUSINESS; CALIFORNIA IS NOT FOR SALE, NO ON 1489677 |
$51,272 | 1 |
VIEW 1 DIAGRAM DECORATIVE
Top buyers last 6 months · top 2
VIEW 2 TABLE EXPORTABLE
| Filer | Total spend | Disbursements |
|---|---|---|
| STEYER FOR GOVERNOR 2026 1485077 |
$1,134,623 | 7 |
| STEYER FOR GOVERNOR 2026, A COALITION OF HOUSING ADVOCATES, LABOR AND SMALL BUSINESS; CALIFORNIA IS NOT FOR SALE, NO ON 1489677 |
$51,272 | 1 |
VIEW 1 DIAGRAM DECORATIVE
Top buyers last 12 months · top 3
VIEW 2 TABLE EXPORTABLE
| Filer | Total spend | Disbursements |
|---|---|---|
| STEYER FOR GOVERNOR 2026 1485077 |
$1,134,623 | 7 |
| NEWSOM BALLOT MEASURE COMMITTEE; SAFETY FOR ALL, YES ON PROP. 63, 1380675 |
$340,578 | 5 |
| STEYER FOR GOVERNOR 2026, A COALITION OF HOUSING ADVOCATES, LABOR AND SMALL BUSINESS; CALIFORNIA IS NOT FOR SALE, NO ON 1489677 |
$51,272 | 1 |
VIEW 1 DIAGRAM DECORATIVE
Top buyers last 18 months · top 3
VIEW 2 TABLE EXPORTABLE
| Filer | Total spend | Disbursements |
|---|---|---|
| STEYER FOR GOVERNOR 2026 1485077 |
$1,134,623 | 7 |
| NEWSOM BALLOT MEASURE COMMITTEE; SAFETY FOR ALL, YES ON PROP. 63, 1380675 |
$340,578 | 5 |
| STEYER FOR GOVERNOR 2026, A COALITION OF HOUSING ADVOCATES, LABOR AND SMALL BUSINESS; CALIFORNIA IS NOT FOR SALE, NO ON 1489677 |
$51,272 | 1 |
VIEW 1 DIAGRAM DECORATIVE
Top buyers last 24 months · top 3
VIEW 2 TABLE EXPORTABLE
| Filer | Total spend | Disbursements |
|---|---|---|
| STEYER FOR GOVERNOR 2026 1485077 |
$1,134,623 | 7 |
| NEWSOM BALLOT MEASURE COMMITTEE; SAFETY FOR ALL, YES ON PROP. 63, 1380675 |
$340,578 | 5 |
| STEYER FOR GOVERNOR 2026, A COALITION OF HOUSING ADVOCATES, LABOR AND SMALL BUSINESS; CALIFORNIA IS NOT FOR SALE, NO ON 1489677 |
$51,272 | 1 |
By party
| Party | Amount | % |
|---|---|---|
| Democratic | $0 | 0.00% |
| Republican | $0 | 0.00% |
| Non-partisan | $8,314,587 | 100.00% |
Part III Reference tables
Full all-time and cycle-to-date data.
Cycle-over-cycle trajectory
current cycle earlier election cycle off-cycle year quarterly · 5 years
Per-quarter totals
| Year | Q | Cycle | Total | Txns | Top buyer · share | Top category · share | Cum. (cycle) | YoY % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Q4 | 2020 | $135K | 1 | SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIR… 100% | Other / Unclassified 100% | $135K | — |
| 2021 | Q1 | 2020 | $134K | 1 | SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIR… 100% | Other / Unclassified 100% | $269K | — |
| 2022 | Q2 | 2022 | $50K | 1 | TRIMINO FOR GOVERNOR 2022; … 100% | Other / Unclassified 100% | $50K | — |
| 2022 | Q4 | 2022 | $369K | 2 | NO ON 30 - EDUCATORS OPPOSE… 100% | Other / Unclassified 100% | $419K | +173% |
| 2025 | Q3 | 2024 | $56K | 1 | NEWSOM BALLOT MEASURE COMMI… 100% | Media 100% | $56K | — |
| 2025 | Q4 | 2024 | $284K | 4 | NEWSOM BALLOT MEASURE COMMI… 100% | Other / Unclassified 100% | $341K | — |
| 2026 | Q2 | 2026 | $1.19M | 8 | STEYER FOR GOVERNOR 2026 96% | Media 96% | $1.19M | — |
Revenue by service category
Per-category breakdown · cycle-to-date
| Category | Total spend | Txns | Avg check | % of total | Top buyer · share | Last paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Other / Unclassified | $6,579,242 | 45 | $146K | 83.2% | OUR CHILDREN, OUR FUTURE CA 26% | 7mo ago |
| Media | $1,280,024 | 9 | $142K | 16.2% | STEYER FOR GOVERNOR 2026 89% | 3w ago |
| Digital | $51,272 | 1 | $51K | 0.6% | STEYER FOR GOVERNOR 2026, A… 100% | 4w ago |
Client retention
Sticky-relationship signal: how many clients keep coming back across cycles vs one-time buyers.
0
Anchor clients 3+ cycles
$0 · 0% of revenue
1
Repeat clients 2 cycles
$385,339 · 5% of revenue
24
One-time clients 1 cycle
$7,525,199 · 95% of revenue
Geographic concentration
Where this vendor's clients are based — federal committees by state, plus implicit jurisdiction for CA and TX state filers.
| State | Total spend | % of revenue | Clients | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CA | $7,910,537 | 100.0% | 25 |
Notable disbursements
5 largest all-time · 5 largest in the current cycle · 5 most recent. Each row earns its place.
| Reason | Date | Filer | Category | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Largest all-time | 2012-10-10 | OUR CHILDREN, OUR FUTURE CA | Other / Unclassified | — | $1,233,053 |
| Largest all-time | 2012-10-24 | COMMITTEE TO DEFEND PROP. 38, SPONSORED BY THE ADVANCEMENT PROJECT AND EDUCATION ADVOCATES, WITH FINANCIAL SUPPORT FROM MOLLY MUNGER AND STEPHEN ENGLISH | Other / Unclassified | — | $634,568 |
| Largest all-time | 2012-09-28 | OUR CHILDREN, OUR FUTURE CA | Other / Unclassified | — | $461,465 |
| Largest all-time | 2005-10-13 | SCHWARZENEGGER'S CALIFORNIA RECOVERY TEAM, GOVERNOR | Other / Unclassified | — | $439,348 |
| Largest all-time | 2026-05-21 | STEYER FOR GOVERNOR 2026 | Media | TV Ad Buy | $289,340 |
| Largest this cycle | 2026-05-21 | STEYER FOR GOVERNOR 2026 | Media | TV Ad Buy | $215,764 |
| Largest this cycle | 2026-05-21 | STEYER FOR GOVERNOR 2026 | Media | TV Ad Buy | $195,203 |
| Largest this cycle | 2026-05-21 | STEYER FOR GOVERNOR 2026 | Media | TV Ad Buy | $159,290 |
| Largest this cycle | 2026-04-23 | STEYER FOR GOVERNOR 2026 | Media | Ad Buy | $148,903 |
| Recent | 2026-05-21 | STEYER FOR GOVERNOR 2026 | Media | TV Ad Buy | $8,160 |