I was reading a fascinating post over on /r/SandersForPresident which was beginning to think on some of the same topics I'm thinking about. The question is win or lose, where does the movement go from here? There's some high level strategy in there but one of the most salient points was:

This post is not meant to be critical, and not trying to re-invent the wheel. We’ve had stickied threads promoting individual Berniecrats here, and on r/GrassrootsSelect, and that’s great. But these individual posts that come and go feel unmoored from the bigger electoral picture. How urgent is that race (where does it fit in the calendar)? What is the landscape of the race? How progressive is the district/state? How well-funded is their opposition?

As a person who sees and cares about these sort of "Berniecrat" notices, I agree completely that they not being effectively presented. I often have a zillion questions which all tend to stand in the way of me actually doling out some of my very limited dollars. What was truly useful, in my opinion, was the combination of two data sources:

Govtrack allows me to see who my congress men and women are. In my case, they are Suzan DelBene, Patty Murray, and Maria Cantwell... all worthless corp-dems. Where this got interesting for me was trying to answer the question, "So how much would it take to topple them?" Another site, maplight, provides fundraising information. Murray (Sen, WA-01) is running in 2016 and she has raised $817,336 in this election cycle. For me, a political neophyte, that number was eye-opening. That is barely pocket change among Bernie's base which can cough up 7 million in 24 hours and is routinely hitting +20,000,000 monthly.

I can also take a look at one of my earliest Berniecrats, John Fetterman. This was a lot harder to research since sites like MapLight only show data for incumbents. Eventually I found he belongs to PA Senate seat 01 and I found these sorts of fundraising tidbits:

Sestak leads the Democratic field. As of Dec. 31, he reported $2.6 million in his campaign account.
McGinty reported $1.2 million
Fetterman reported $131,000.
Vodvarka has not reported.
-- Altoona Mirror

So Patrick Toomey is one of the PA incumbents (Republican) backed by the Club for Growth. He has raised $1,519,830 this election cycle. Again, a sum that we can easily manage. But note Fetterman's fundraising total at only $131k.

PHILADELPHIA – John Fetterman is the rare candidate for U.S. Senate who belongs in dive bars like this one in north Philadelphia. But just because your candidacy is calibrated for hipsters – and there were a few dozen of them crammed into the charmingly dingy Billy Murphy’s Irish Saloon here last week – that doesn’t mean they’re going to treat you like a rock star, or even like Bernie Sanders, when you talk.

A few in the youthful crowd clapped when the Democrat Fetterman – who’s known as much for his brawny NFL stature as his unapologetically progressive politics – was introduced. More cheered after Fetterman, 46, declared that marijuana should be made legal.

But by the end of his five-minute speech, many had turned back to munching on their $5 hamburgers and chatting. Fetterman is supposed to be the embodiment of this year’s alleged anti-establishment wave, the mayor of Braddock, a small town near Pittsburgh, who’s trying to topple two better-known, better-funded candidates in Pennsylvania’s open-seat Democratic Senate primary.

But a few fans aside, the people here were not intrigued – certainly not as interested as the tens of thousands who have flocked to rallies for Sanders or Donald Trump. That could explain why, six weeks before the race’s April 26 primary, his campaign is lagging in the polls and starved for money.

For political outsiders in both parties running in House and Senate primaries this year, it’s a surprisingly common story. The success Sanders and Trump have had in the Democratic and Republican presidential primaries has yet to translate down the ballot.
No Year of the Outsider in Down-Ballot Races

So to me, what I've learned here is that the money part isn't the problem. But the coordination and focus part is. I'm going to be giving some thought to that and, with any luck, do a series of articles on it (that's right, a guy who is an avowed political neophyte is going to school you all on how to do politics LOL)