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DATA COVERAGE not externally verified tier raw_mirror vintage 2026-08-27 coverage 1980-2024 · 2026 Midterms in flight! money live · figures computing (best estimates)
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Gardner, Cory

candidate · S4CO00395
Gardner, Cory CO · REP · Senate · CO · incumbent
The seat — demographics, elections & money for this district full page ↗

Person: Gardner, Cory · every race, every cycle

6 cycles4 committees9 contributing committees2 vendors

Raised — contributing committees / cycle

Spent — vendor payments / cycle

IE support — independent expenditures for this candidate / cycle

Transferred out — other candidates funded / cycle

All four, combined -- 2016-2028

20162028
Raised Spent IE support Transferred out

2016–2028 · entity counts (money-dark); dollar trends light up at the flip. "Raised" is committee-routed contributions only — individual donors stay held pending the privacy decision, and there is no distinct bundler surface yet (#2488).

In this race

2016

DEM

Candidate Status Cash on hand Contributing committees Raised / cycle Spent / cycle IE support / cycle Transferred / cycle
Bennet, Michael F. incumbent 252

REP · primary contest (10 filers, order not yet known)

Candidate Status Cash on hand Contributing committees Raised / cycle Spent / cycle IE support / cycle Transferred / cycle
Gardner, Cory (this candidate) incumbent 558
Blaha, Robert challenger 1
Frazier, Ryan Lavar challenger
Glenn, Darryl challenger 7
Graham, John Collins challenger
Keyser, Jon challenger
Littleton, Peg Lorraine challenger
Natividad, Jerry challenger
Neville, Timothy Patrick challenger
Rosier, Donald Preston II challenger

GRE

Candidate Status Cash on hand Contributing committees Raised / cycle Spent / cycle IE support / cycle Transferred / cycle
Menconi, Arnold Michael challenger

LIB

Candidate Status Cash on hand Contributing committees Raised / cycle Spent / cycle IE support / cycle Transferred / cycle
Williams, Lily Tang challenger

Every candidate on file for this race. A party with more than one filer is a live primary contest -- who becomes that party's nominee isn't in the data yet. Cash on hand is the official FEC filing figure, as of the filing's own coverage date -- not a live estimate. The remaining columns are money-dark proxies (counts, not dollars); a dash means no data on file for that candidate yet. Click a column heading to sort.

In the 2016 Senate field

CO

473 Senate candidates nationally in 2016.

#CandidateStatePartyRaised
1 Fetterman, John Karl PA DEM $60,730,598
2 Cortez Masto, Catherine NV DEM $59,540,356
3 Hassan, Margaret Wood NH DEM $35,587,066
4 Bennet, Michael F. CO DEM $17,127,591
5 Duckworth, L. Tammy IL DEM $14,884,078
6 Schumer, Charles E. NY DEM $13,811,846
7 Murray, Patty WA DEM $12,048,061
8 Harris, Kamala D CA DEM $11,824,890

The national Senate field for 2016, ranked by money raised. Party affiliation shown as filed — third-party and state-party labels (DFL, WFP, etc.) are not merged into DEM/REP. This candidate did not appear in the returned set.

Campaign contact

LONE TREE, CO, 80124

Website, phone and social accounts arrive with the campaign-contact ingest (FEC F1 + social sources).

Money raised vs spent

coming

Raised-vs-spent over time — the per-cycle totals surface is coming.

Where the money comes from

by source type

Conduits (ActBlue / WinRed) 80% · PACs 16% · Joint-fundraising committees 3% · Super PACs 0%

Source typeContributionsAmount
Conduits (ActBlue / WinRed)220680$10,093,307
PACs1027$2,077,969
Joint-fundraising committees5$421,081
Super PACs15$37,800
Total (committee-sourced)$12,630,157

Money received from committees, split by the type of the paying committee (PAC, Super PAC, party, joint-fundraising, conduit). Individual (person) giving is aggregated separately with privacy suppression and is not included here.

Individual-donor conduit dependency

lifetime

35% by dollars

127001 of 167200 individual contributions on file routed through a conduit, lifetime -- not per-cycle (the underlying edge source can't be cleanly split by year). Conduit dollars are the true donor's money, passed through a platform; not double-counted.

PAC vs. individual money

by dollars

Individual (direct) 79% · Committee-routed (PAC / party / JFA / conduit) 21%

167200 individual contributions to this candidate's principal committee vs 221727 committee-routed contributions across every committee this candidate has authorized ($46,870,168 vs $12,630,157). Two different grains -- individual money is scoped to the principal committee only; committee-routed money spans every authorized committee -- combined here as the closest count-first read of PAC- vs individual-dependence available today. Part of the funding-concentration strip (#2730); donor-sector concentration and top-vendor share are not yet available.

Where the money goes

beneficiaries

Money disbursed by this candidate's principal committee: contributions to other candidates (the "raises big, then funds allies" signal), transfers to committees by destination type, vendor spending, and independent expenditures made.

Where the donors are

precinct-floored · suppressed
Partial data. About 15% of donor money is geocoded, concentrated in 9 states (AK, AL, AR, AZ, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL). Every other state — including the largest donor states (CA, NY, TX) — currently has zero geocoded rows. A blank state means not yet geocoded, never no donors here. Not a complete picture of donor geography.
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Aggregated itemized individual giving, geocoded to donor home address, suppressed for privacy (small or single-donor-dominated cells withheld). Unitemized giving has no geography.

Who runs it

Treasurer · WILLIAMSON, LES

Board / senior staff arrive from the payroll-disbursement derivation.

Committees

authorized
CommitteeRoleType
Colorado Senate Republican Nominee Fund - Cory Gardner Authorized committee S
Chairman'S Victory Fund Joint fundraising N
Scott Roberts Gardner Ernst Victory Fund (Srge Victory Fund) Joint fundraising S
Cory Gardner For Senate Unauthorized / leadership PAC S

Money in

committee & PAC contributions

Contributing committees & PACs · 2016:

No committee contributions on file for this cycle.

Cross-party support

who funds both sides

36 of this candidate's 40 top committee funders also fund the other side.

Committee / PACOverall givingD / R
Hallmark Cards, Inc. Pac (Hallpac) 50% / 50%
Advanced Medical Technology Association Political Action Committee 49% / 51%
Cargill, Incorporated Political Action Committee 49% / 51%
Covington And Burling Llp Pac 51% / 49%
National Association Of Real Estate Investment Trusts, Inc. Political Action Committee 49% / 51%
T-Mobile Us, Inc. Political Action Committee (T-Pac) 51% / 49%
American Veterinary Medical Association Political Action Committee 48% / 52%
Ball Corporation Political Action Committee 48% / 52%
Ctia - The Wireless Association Political Action Committee 48% / 52%
Exelon Corporation Political Action Committee 48% / 52%
Intel Corporation Political Action Committee (Ipac) 48% / 52%
National Association Of Broadcasters Political Action Committee (Nabpac) 48% / 52%

Each committee's overall giving split by recipient party (by dollars).

Super PAC spending

outside money

Supporting: 17 committees · 223 expenditures · $2,055,624  ·  Opposing: 31 · 350 · $10,517,961

CommitteeStanceAmount
National Rifle Association Of America Political Victory Fund supports $87,596
Moveon.Org Political Action opposes $35,607
United We Dream Action Pac opposes $5,320
Americans For Prosperity Action, Inc. (Afp Action) Dba Cva Action And Dba Libre Action supports $493,103
Smp opposes $7,836,779
Story Network Foundation opposes $133,426
Protect Our Winters Action Fund opposes $9,407
Planned Parenthood Votes opposes $82,389
Indivisible Action opposes $86,632
Colorado People'S Action opposes $5,722
Club For Growth Pac supports $7,077
Colorado Rising Pac supports $32,175
Lcv Victory Fund opposes $8,363
Senate Leadership Fund supports $76,983
National Right To Life Victory Fund supports $64,826

Independent expenditures for or against this candidate. 2016 excluded (known IE undercount).

50% of this candidate's receipts + outside spending is outside money (independent expenditures for/against, as a share of receipts plus outside spending).

Money to other candidates

redistribution · counts

This candidate's committees fund 1 other candidate across 1 state — 100% of those contributions go outside CO. 0.0% of receipts raised have been redistributed to other candidates.

CandidateStateContributions
Tillis, Thom R. Sen. NC out of state 1

Contributions from this candidate's own committees (principal + leadership / authorized) to other candidates, by count. Recipients are public candidates. Leadership-PAC linkage grows as committee↔candidate resolution improves.

Money out — top vendors

$ shown
VendorPaidPaymentsCategory
Winred Technical Services Llc $637 34 001 (Administrative / overhead)
Les Williamson Llc $800 3 001 (Administrative / overhead)

Payment counts from the principal committee; dollar totals held. Arc maps of where money goes arrive with the geo layer.

Top expenditure categories

$ held
CategoryPayments
001 (Administrative / overhead)37

Disbursement categories by payment count; dollar rollups held.

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