Democratic U.S. Rep. Jared Moskowitz doesn’t lack competition for his seat representing Florida’s 27th Congressional District, but he’s still far and away the mightiest fundraiser of the bunch.

Six candidates, including one Primary challenger — first-time candidate Oliver Larkin, who turned in an impressive first round of fundraising — are actively running to unseat him this cycle.

Their combined gains last quarter barely exceed what Moskowitz alone raised.

Between June 1 and Sept. 30, Moskowitz amassed about $372,000 through 561 contributions, roughly half of which came from Florida donors.

After spending about $163,000, he had $773,600 left heading into October. He has raised $904,500 since winning re-election in November with 53% of the vote against Republican Joe Kaufman, who is again running and leads the GOP Primary field in funding so far.

Corporate donors included the political arms of Altria, Amtrak, AT&T, General Motors, Holland & Knight, Publix, RTX and T-Mobile.

Many union and trade groups — including the Amalgamated Transit Union, American Veterinary Medical Association, Independent Community Bankers of America, International Union of Brick Layers and Allied Craftworkers, International Association of Sheet Metal Workers, National Air Traffic Controllers Association, National Beer Wholesalers Association, Internet and Television Association and SEIU — each gave four-figure sums.

So did several political committees, including PACs associated with U.S. Reps. Pete Aguilar, Katherine Clark, Nancy Pelosi, Brad Schneider and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

In terms of sheer numbers, personal checks, some as low as $10, drove Moskowitz’s gains. His biggest donors — who gave him $7,000, the maximum allowable, representing $3,500 apiece for the Primary and General elections — included Fort Lauderdale lawyer Michael Freedland, 3D modeling software executive Jon Hirschtick of Massachusetts and Colorado-based disaster consultant Alyssa Carrier.

He also got $5,000 from aerospace component manufacturing executive Brian Neff of Miami Beach, $4,000 from leadership coach Lisa Rogoff and $3,500 from Bed Bath & Beyond co-founder Leonard Feinstein and Fort Lauderdale lawyer Bernie Friedman.

Close to a third of Moskowitz’s spending — $52,400 — covered credit card payments. Another $47,000 paid for digital consulting services for Maryland-based Liftoff Campaigns.

He also spent $20,000 to repay himself for loans to the campaign and paid $7,500 to Johnson Strategies for strategic consulting and $5,200 to 1776 Inc. for printing. Both companies are based in Wilton Manors.

Other notable expenses included donations of $3,600 to the Broward Democratic Party, $2,000 to the Broward County AFL-CIO, $1,000 to the Democratic Club of Boca Raton and Delray Beach and a $2,500 payment for advertising to Florida Politics parent company Extensive Enterprises.

The rest covered credit card processing fees, bank fees, travel, food, software, insurance, supporter gifts, merchant fees, payroll expenses, email services, taxes, accounting services and postage.

Kaufman, a nonprofit executive who beat several better-funded fellow Republicans last cycle, raised more last quarter than he did by the time the 2024 Primary took place. He added almost $133,000 to his coffers in the third quarter through hundreds of personal transactions, most for two figures or less.

Notably, just 14% of the itemized contributions he received —donations for which the FEC mandates details about the giver and specific dollar values over $200 — came from Florida.

His biggest gain, a $7,000 check, came from George Daniels of Orlando-based Daniels Manufacturing Corp., which drew headlines in 2020 after it sent employees letters threatening layoffs if Joe Biden won the presidency.

Kaufman spent just $2,700. It went toward marketing, printing, postage and cell phone service costs.

He reported holding nearly $359,000 by Oct. 1, including $53,600 in self-loans and $38,600 in debts to businesses or organizations from 2011 to 2015 still listed as unreconciled.

Coming in just behind Kaufman in fundraising last quarter on the GOP side was former state Rep. George Moriatis, a lawyer who announced his candidacy for CD 23 in early March and has since collected more than $500,000, counting $110,000 in self-loans.

Last quarter, he raised $110,000 through 105 contributions, 85% of which came from Florida donors. Notable givers included Ohio self-storage executive Tom Amsdell, whose $1,000 donation increased his total giving to Moriatis to $3,500.

Loretta Amsdell, the Boca Raton-based namesake for a trust related to the Amsdell family’s U-Store-It company, chipped in $3,500.

Fort Lauderdale-based ship salvage and rescue mogul Joseph Farrell, the founder of the Mission Resolve Foundation, gave the same.

Moriatis also received $1,000 from the Lincoln Reagan Committee.

He spent $65,000, leaving $405,000 at the end of the quarter. Of that, $25,300 went to Bonita Springs-based Ace Political for campaign and finance consulting. The rest covered donation processing fees, legal services, advertising, wages, printing and email services.

Larkin, a first-time candidate who has worked as a union organizer and was part of Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign, also broke the six-figure barrier last quarter with about $101,000 raised since he filed June 21.

He did it by pulling in well over 1,000 donations, all but 30 or so for less than $1,000.

Larkin’s biggest contributions — $7,000 a pop — came from his parents, Paul and Margot Larkin, and Sunny Isles resident Benjamin Menasha.

He also received $6,000 from Connecticut retiree Eugene Elias, $5,000 from Elias’ wife Gail, $3,500 from Pamela Huizenga — the adopted daughter of late business and sports magnate Wayne Huizenga — and $1,000 from political commentator Krystal Ball of Virginia.

Larkin spent conservatively, doling out about $19,600 for travel, lodging, phone fees, web hosting, database management, donation processing fees and a $5,400 self-reimbursement for campaign launch costs, leaving about $81,100 in his coffers.

Republicans Jared Gurfein and Raven Harrison raised $27,600 and $6,000 last quarter, respectively.

Gurfein, who filed to run July 1, spent close to half of what he raised and reported having $14,100 left by the end of Q3.

Harrison, who has been running since March, spent $24,500. This cycle alone, she reported raising $565,000 — more than half of which, $292,000, were self-loans that are refundable if unspent — and expending $337,000.

A fifth Republican candidate, Darlene Swaffar, filed a termination report in July and is out of the race.

CD 23 covers Boca Raton and West Boca in Palm Beach County, and northwest Broward County and coastal Broward south to Fort Lauderdale. Moskowitz took 51.6% of the vote in 2022 to defeat Palm Beach GOP Committeeman Joe Budd for the right to succeed then-U.S. Rep. Ted Deutch, who left office to lead the American Jewish Council.

The seat is one of 26 that the National Republican Congressional Committee is targeting for flips this cycle.

The 2026 Primary is Aug. 18, followed by the General Election on Nov. 3.