Torrance 2026 election

Who funds Jon Kaji’s campaign?

Donor data for the District 1 council race, comparing Jon Kaji and David Kartsonis.

Itemized donations ($100+) filed through December 31, 2025³

Where do the donors live?

31% of Kaji’s donors are Torrance residents. 76% of Kartsonis’s are.

Kaji Kartsonis

Donors at the legal maximum

Torrance caps individual donations at $1,000 per election. Percentage of each candidate’s maxed-out donors who are from outside Torrance:

Kaji’s maxed-out donors from outside Torrance

Kartsonis’s maxed-out donors from outside Torrance

Where do the donor dollars come from?

Each candidate’s donor dollars grouped by occupation as reported on their filings.¹

Kaji Kartsonis

Occupation comparison

The two occupation groups from the chart above shown side by side: business owners, professionals, and their family² vs. teachers, public servants, and service workers.

Kaji Kartsonis

Additional findings

25% of donor dollars from real estate

Seven real estate and property professionals contributed to Kaji, including Tommy Murakoshi, who listed Kaji & Associates as his employer, and Aurelio Mattucci, who is also running for City Treasurer.

Shared donors across slate

Mattucci donated to both Kaji and George Chen’s mayoral campaign. For comparison, see Chen’s donor geography.

Out-of-state donors

Kaji received contributions from donors in Hawaii, Colorado, Washington, and Texas. Kartsonis’s filings show none from outside California.

Average donation by geography

Kaji’s non-Torrance donors averaged 69% more per person than his Torrance-based donors.

Verify it yourself

All data comes from public campaign finance filings. Download the underlying donor records below.

¹ “Business owners, professionals, and their family” includes donors with filed titles of: business owner, president, CEO, CFO, founder, executive, engineer, programmer, physician, doctor, attorney, real estate broker/agent/developer, property investor, financial planner, finance manager, CPA, architect, director, manager, consultant, pharmacist, banker, insurance agent, and accountant — as well as family members (see note 2). “Teachers, public servants, and service workers” includes: teacher, professor, librarian, police officer, mayor, mechanic, bank teller, pastoral assistant, sales, instructor, and similar titles. “Retired” and “not employed” are reported as filed.

² “Their family” identifies donors who (a) filed a job title of unemployed, housewife, or homemaker and (b) share a last name with at least one other donor to the same candidate. Shared last names do not prove a family relationship — common surnames may produce false matches. This grouping surfaces a pattern, not an assertion of specific relationships.

³ All data from $100+ contributions filed with the City of Torrance through December 31, 2025 via Torrance NetFile. Contributions under $100 are not required to be itemized and are not included.