North Bay residents have dipped into their pockets this election cycle, with some funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars into a presidential race widely considered one of the most consequential in the nation’s history.

But if there’s any doubt about who the region’s big donors favor, recent campaign finance reports leave no doubt: Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign received $10.5 million from individual contributors in the six-county region north of San Francisco, while former President Donald Trump’s campaign received nearly $1.3 million.

When contributions to political action committees supporting both candidates are taken into account, donors in Sonoma, Napa, Marin, Mendocino, Lake and Solano counties spent a total of $18.4 million in the 2023 election cycle. 24. The bulk came from Sonoma County, where those donations totaled $8.4 million, and Marin County, where they reached $7.5 million, Federal Election Commission records show.

Determining comprehensive sums and rankings for individual donors in the presidential race and other federal campaigns can be complicated. One reason is that people can also donate money to organizations called “joint fundraising committees,” which, in turn, can transfer portions of that money directly to candidates’ campaigns, while spending the rest on other political activities. for the benefit of a candidate.

Some of the largest contributions from North Bay that benefited Harris and Trump went to these joint fundraising committees, with individual contributions reaching hundreds of thousands of dollars. Since it is difficult to avoid a certain degree of double counting, The Press Democrat, with assistance from the nonprofit, nonpartisan campaign finance watchdog Open secretsmade a separate accounting of donations from the joint fundraising committee, or JFC, to both candidates. In total, the JFC bill totaled nearly $17.7 million.

Harris-related joint fundraising committees received nearly $15.5 million from North Bay, while Trump’s joint fundraising committees received nearly $2.2 million from donors in the region.

The largest amount donated by an individual or organization in the six-county region came from the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, who contributed $4 million to a super PAC called Californians for Choice, whose stated goal is to rally pro-choice voters to defeat Trump and win key congressional districts in California.

During the current election cycle, the Sonoma County tribe, which runs the Bay Area’s largest casino-resort, also made four donations totaling more than $1 million to the Biden Victory Fund joint fundraising committee, which it later became the Harris Victory Fund.

In one example of money transferring between JFC and campaigns, $6,600 of that amount was sent directly to Harris’ campaign. Direct contributions to candidates’ campaigns are limited to $6,600 per election cycle.

Other names populating the list of Harris’ top donors in North Bay include prominent millionaires and some billionaires, including Daniel Pritzker, one of the heirs of the Chicago-based Pritzker family. Pritzker donated $900,000 to the Harris Victory Fund, making him the top individual donor to a joint Harris fundraising committee. It also includes Colleen, Elise and Robert Haas, from the family behind San Francisco-based Levi-Strauss & Co. ($410,025).

Other notable figures include prominent Bay Area attorney and Sebastopol resident. Elizabeth Cabraser ($459,200); Harrison MillerMill Valley resident and senior advisor to Summit Partners, a global growth equity investment firm ($272,990); and Dee and Richard Lawrence, Greenbrae residents and co-founders of cool effect, a Bay Area nonprofit whose goal is to reduce global carbon emissions ($563,200).

Major donors to Trump’s campaign, joint fundraising committees and associated PACs include Napa County vintner. W. Clarke Swansonfounder of Swanson Vineyards and heir to the Swanson family of frozen food fame ($53,409); and David Grieveto Napa Valley Winery Ownerreal estate investor and founder of a restaurant investment group behind 300 Taco Bell and 28 Arby’s franchises nationwide. Grieve’s $100,000 to the Trump 47 Committee placed him as North Bay’s top Trump JFC donor.

The aforementioned donors to both Harris and Trump either declined to comment or did not respond to repeated requests to do so.