How to check who's funding Napa County candidates and measures
Ballots for the November 2026 election have now been mailed, but before you vote you can check to see who's funding the different candidates and measures for Napa County here.
Always interesting to see who's funding what and comparing that to who might benefit, especially given how limited local press coverage is these days.
A few notes on what you'll see:
- Form 460 is the standard periodic filing for fundraising and spending reports. Those keep a running tab of funds raised and spent. There's still one more deadline before the election by 10/22 for the next wave of those to be filed.
- Form 497s are filed within 24 hours for specific donations of $1,000 or more received in the final 90 days before the election date. Those are particularly fun to read for the late-arriving big $$.
I like to search by the most-recent "Filed Form" and specify a date range for the past month or so to see who's still actively raising money.
Note that most cities will have their own separate sites for their municipal race/ballot measures.