The redistricting group backed by former President Barack Obama in order to make Democrats more competitive in key down-ballot races brought in $10.8 million in its first six months, according to a Politico report.

Citing financial filings, Politico reported that about 10,000 people donated to the National Democratic Redistricting Committee (NDRC), although the lion's share of its fundraising came from wealthy donors including Florida financier Donald Sussman and Hollywood director J.J. Abrams.

The group, which launched after last November's election, will focus on winning state races in advance of the 2020 U.S. Census.

Every 10 years, states use Census data to redraw Congressional and state legislative districts. Typically, the party in power at the state level will draw the districts in such a way that advantages their candidates.

After Obama's election in 2008, the Republican Party launched a nationwide project, dubbed REDMAP, in order to elect more of its candidates in the elections that followed the 2010 Census.

Those efforts proved successful.

In 2012, Pennsylvania's Democratic legislative candidates won 51 percent of the overall popular vote but picked up just 28 percent of the contested seats that year. Republican candidates won 49 percent of the congressional vote but wound up holding 13 of 18 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Of course, there's a wildcard in Pennsylvania's redistricting process: the state Supreme Court.

Although the majority party in the Legislature has a great deal of influence on the maps, the state's Supreme Court justices are the final arbiter. A landslide 2015 election resulted in a major shift to the court's partisan makeup that will likely remain in place when the new lines are challenged in 2021 or 2022.

It's not clear whether Pennsylvania is high on the NRDC's list of targets but there are a number of key races, including the state's 2018 gubernatorial contest, that could prove influential in 2020 redistricting.

Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, who chairs the NRDC, has publicly cited races in Florida, North Carolina and Virginia as likely targets for the group's efforts.

"The NDRC's significant fundraising in its first six months will allow us to take on gerrymandering and reform our electoral system," Holder said, according to Politico. "This will be done through our courts, at the ballot box, and through support of ballot initiatives that create non-partisan commissions and other electoral reforms."