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Rep. Sander M. Levin (D-MI)
House · Democrat (most recent term) · MI-9 · in Congress 1983–2019 · Bioguide ID L000263
Party history: D 1983–2019. Source: term data in unitedstates/congress-legislators (CC0); party shown is as recorded per term there.
Estimated net worth (from public disclosures)
| Estimate | Report year | Low | Mid | High |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (a) Estimated net worth at the earliest available report (2013); the member entered office earlier, in 1983 | 2013 | $15,001 | $32,500 | $50,000 |
| (b) Latest net worth estimate | 2017 | $15,001 | $32,500 | $50,000 |
| (c) Estimated gain / loss, nominal dollars, 2013 → 2017 (4 years spanned) | 2013–2017 | −$34,999 | +$0 | +$34,999 |
Gain Low = latest Low − earliest High; Gain High = latest High − earliest Low (widest possible spread); Mid = latest Mid − earliest Mid.
Reliability flags (net worth): none for these two endpoints. Included in the recommended dollar-gain ranking.
Net worth by report year (mid; Low–High)
| Report year | Assets (mid) | Liabilities (mid) | Net worth mid | Low … High | Status / flags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | $32,500 | $0 | $32,500 | $15,001 … $50,000 | computed |
| 2014 | $32,500 | $0 | $32,500 | $15,001 … $50,000 | computed |
| 2015 | $32,500 | $0 | $32,500 | $15,001 … $50,000 | computed |
| 2016 | $32,500 | $0 | $32,500 | $15,001 … $50,000 | computed |
| 2017 | $32,500 | $0 | $32,500 | $15,001 … $50,000 | computed |
- What this is: Net worth = Schedule A assets (each value range at its midpoint; low–high range shown) minus Schedule D liabilities (midpoints / ranges). Low = assets at range floors minus liabilities at range ceilings; Mid = midpoints; High = assets at ceilings minus liabilities at floors. Low and High are outer bounds of the reported ranges, not likely outcomes.
- What it excludes / understates: exact values (only ranges are reported); a personal residence is not reported as an asset (although a mortgage on it may be listed as a liability, which then lowers the estimate); retirement and federal accounts (e.g. Thrift Savings Plan, defined-benefit pensions) are only partly or not reported; assets of excepted/blind trusts, cash held below reporting thresholds, vehicles, household goods and most spouse/dependent items exempt from reporting are not included; liabilities on a personal residence, revolving credit under thresholds and loans to family may be omitted by filers.
- Open-ended top ranges (e.g. “Over $50,000,000”) are counted at their lower bound and flagged, so such values are understated.
- The change is a change in estimated net worth in nominal dollars (no inflation adjustment). It includes salary, gifts, inheritances, business income and re-valuation as well as investment results, and it is subject to range-bracket noise; it is not an investment return and implies nothing about conduct.
Read this first. Members report asset values only as ranges (e.g. “$15,001 – $50,000”), never exact dollars. Every figure below is an estimate computed from range midpoints, not a measured return. Figures cannot be interpreted as investment performance, and they do not show wrongdoing or skill. Methodology and limitations are at the end and in the project README. Sources: public financial disclosure reports filed with the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives and/or the Secretary of the Senate (Senate eFD), linked below.
Insufficient data to rank. Only 0 comparable year-pair(s) could be computed (minimum 3 to rank). 5 annual filing(s) were usable (text-readable, validated OCR, or validated X-mark decoding) and 0 scanned/image-only filing(s) could not be used (older layouts failing validation, small amendments not integrated). See the method-per-year section below.
Estimated year-over-year change
Bars: midpoint estimate; whisker: same-position floor/ceiling band. Axis clipped to −100%…+150%. Years with insufficient traceable holdings are omitted.
| Year (t−1 → t) | Opening value (mid) | Closing value (mid) | Income (mid) | Buys (mid) | Sales (mid) | Est. gain | Same-position band | Strict envelope | Traced coverage | Status / flags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013→2014 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | n/a | n/a … n/a | n/a … n/a | 0% | excluded; not eligible: traced prior-year value below $50,000 |
| 2014→2015 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | n/a | n/a … n/a | n/a … n/a | 0% | excluded; not eligible: traced prior-year value below $50,000 |
| 2015→2016 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | n/a | n/a … n/a | n/a … n/a | 0% | excluded; not eligible: traced prior-year value below $50,000 |
| 2016→2017 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | n/a | n/a … n/a | n/a … n/a | 0% | excluded; not eligible: traced prior-year value below $50,000 |
Filings used
Each annual-report year uses one filing (most recently filed version among originals/amendments whose Schedule A row count is ≥ 40% of the largest). Electronic (text) PDFs are parsed. Scanned/image-only filings are OCR-read and used only if they pass the explicit validation gates described in the project README (value/income coverage, two-engine agreement, exact bracket snapping, page completeness, year-to-year position continuity); such years are labelled OCR-derived below. Scanned filings that fail validation are listed as “insufficient data – scanned”.
| Report year | Doc ID | Type | Filed | Schedule A rows | Rows with unparsed value | Source (official filing) / SHA-256 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 10006970 | House amendment | 5/14/2015 | 1 | 0 | 10006970.pdfafc94184c88acdae7bbec21be3d648cab75db35fc7440b53cc399147a4e49b81 |
| 2014 | 10005789 | House annual | 5/15/2015 | 1 | 0 | 10005789.pdf18359251f6ce2c49a2b16838173727a55be6ce2fcd0263f14b4ba73428af0df2 |
| 2015 | 10010563 | House annual | 5/16/2016 | 1 | 0 | 10010563.pdfe9abe63d23ed0bc15f7551cd04aa9730a56b3770adf0da1164cad961bb6168c2 |
| 2016 | 10015779 | House annual | 5/11/2017 | 2 | 0 | 10015779.pdfbd68094f3a4b7ebe9b5e65238395885eab56047f97bd327a347ef2e51ad6c3c4 |
| 2017 | 10021042 | House annual | 5/15/2018 | 1 | 0 | 10021042.pdf65a9ea2e7af4570fd37e7b47fcc70638e415c3f8f9b56fdb85e17f9bd22b2160 |
Method (summary)
- Schedule A asset rows are read from each annual report; the dollar range for each row is converted to its midpoint. Open-ended top ranges (“Over $50,000,000”) are excluded from the traced set and counted as a coverage loss.
- Positions are matched year to year by owner code (self/SP/DC/JT) + normalised asset name. A position that appears only in year t is included only if Schedule B shows a purchase of it in year t (opening value 0); a position that disappears is included only if Schedule B shows a sale (closing value 0). Otherwise it is excluded as unexplained.
- Estimated gain = (closing − opening + reported income − purchases + sale proceeds) ÷ opening, all at midpoints, for the traced positions. “Capital gains” income is not added again (it is already in value change and sale proceeds).
- A year counts only if traced opening value ≥ $50,000 and traced coverage ≥ 60% of the opening midpoint. A member is ranked only with ≥ 3 such years (exactly 2 = “limited data”, shown but unranked). Average = geometric mean of (1+yearly estimate).
Limitations
- Ranges are wide (up to a factor of 5 or more, and up to $50M+ open-ended); a holding can move between ranges without any real change in value, and stay in a range while moving materially. Yearly estimates are therefore noisy; the “strict envelope” shows the mathematical worst/best case and is typically wider than ±100%.
- Purchases and sales are only disclosed as ranges and only for transactions over $1,000; partial sales, dividend reinvestment, spousal/dependent accounts and retirement-plan funds are reported inconsistently. Excepted/blind trusts, personal residences and certain pensions are not reported at all.
- Filers sometimes change how they list assets (e.g. listing a brokerage account vs. its individual holdings), which can make positions untraceable across years; these are excluded rather than guessed.
- Asset values in an annual report are as of Dec 31 of the reporting year; the report year t−1→t covers that calendar year. Late or amended filings are used when filed; extensions can delay them.
- The text of these reports is machine-parsed from PDFs; parse errors are possible. Every number links back to the cited filing. This is not investment advice.
- Use of these filings is restricted by 5 U.S.C. § 105(c) (no unlawful, commercial or credit-rating purpose, and none for solicitation of money).
Generated 2026-10-01 by an automated pipeline. Data: Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives (disclosures-clerk.house.gov); member roster: unitedstates/congress-legislators (CC0).