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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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Scholten, James D.

candidate · H8IA04106
Scholten, James D. IA · DEM · House · IA-04 · challenger
The seat — demographics, elections & money for this district full page ↗

Person: Scholten, James D. · every race, every cycle

4 cycles1 committees36 contributing committees238 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

2018

DEM · primary contest (4 filers, order not yet known)

Candidate Status Cash on hand Contributing committees Raised / cycle Spent / cycle IE support / cycle Transferred / cycle
Scholten, James D. (this candidate) challenger 38
Jacobsen, Leann challenger 1
Paschen, John Joseph challenger 1
Weaver, Kimberly challenger 3

REP · primary contest (2 filers, order not yet known)

Candidate Status Cash on hand Contributing committees Raised / cycle Spent / cycle IE support / cycle Transferred / cycle
Hanson, Cyndi challenger
King, Steve Mr. incumbent 81

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.

Campaign contact

SIOUX CITY, IA, 51106

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) 97% · PACs 3% · Super PACs 0%

Source typeContributionsAmount
Conduits (ActBlue / WinRed)127598$5,004,825
PACs365$133,494
Super PACs24$16,628
Total (committee-sourced)$5,154,947

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.

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 · HUBAY, SCOTT M. ESQ.

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

Committees

authorized
CommitteeRoleType
Rural Objective Pac Unauthorized / leadership PAC N

Money in

committee & PAC contributions

Contributing committees & PACs · 2018:

Committee / PACContributedContributionsCycles
ActblueActBlue · conduit $2,577,015 76,075 2018
Jstreetpac $28,498 316 2018
The People'S House Project, Inc. $9,628 21 2018
Remedy Pac $5,296 4 2018
Future Forum Pac $3,000 3 2018
Edpac $2,000 2 2018
Engineers Political Education Committee (Epec)/International Union Of Operating Engineers $10,000 2 2018
Moveon.Org Political Action $5,000 2 2018
People For The American Way Voters Alliance $1,000 1 2018
Animal Wellness Action Pac $2,700 1 2018
International Brotherhood Of Electrical Workers Political Action Committee $5,000 1 2018
American Federation Of State County & Municipal Employees P E O P L E $5,000 1 2018
Moving Our Nation Forward Pac $500 1 2018
National Treasury Employees Union Political Action Committee $1,000 1 2018
Humane World Action Fund Political Action Committee $5,000 1 2018
American Academy Of Family Physicians Political Action Committee (Fammedpac) $2,500 1 2018
Article 1 Political Action Committee $1,000 1 2018
Nea Fund For Children And Public Education $2,000 1 2018
Joint Action Committee For Political Affairs $1,000 1 2018
Mainstream Pac $5,000 1 2018
Husky Pac $1,000 1 2018
American Federation Of Govt. Empl. Political Action Committee $5,000 1 2018
Doing Right - Results Action Unity Leadership Pac $250 1 2018
International Brotherhood Of Boilermakers Campaign Assistance Fund $1,500 1 2018
Purpose Pac $5,000 1 2018

Committee & PAC contributions to this candidate. Individual donors remain held (donor-privacy decision).

Conduit dependency

via ActBlue / WinRed

100% of committee-routed contributions to this candidate (2018) arrive through conduit infrastructure — 76,075 of 76,453 contributions · 95% of dollars ($2,577,015).

ConduitAmount
ActBlue$2,577,015

Conduits (ActBlue, WinRed) are passthroughs — individuals give through them to candidates. This is the share of committee-routed contributions flowing over that infrastructure. Donor-level pass-through to the ultimate recipient is tracked separately (in progress).

Cross-party support

who funds both sides

4 of this candidate's 38 top committee funders also fund the other side.

Committee / PACOverall givingD / R
Animal Wellness Action Pac 55% / 45%
American Academy Of Family Physicians Political Action Committee (Fammedpac) 63% / 37%
Humane World Action Fund Political Action Committee 73% / 27%
Engineers Political Education Committee (Epec)/International Union Of Operating Engineers 78% / 22%

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

Super PAC spending

outside money

Supporting: 5 committees · 21 expenditures · $43,557  ·  Opposing: 3 · 3 · $3,656

CommitteeStanceAmount
Moveon.Org Political Action supports $40,156
The People'S House Project, Inc. supports $150
Family Research Council Action Political Action Committee opposes $1,155
Sierra Club Independent Action supports $10
American Federation Of State County & Municipal Employees P E O P L E supports $1,359
Blue America Pac Independent Expenditure Committee supports $1,882
National Association For Gun Rights Inc Pac opposes $1
Women Speak Out Pac opposes $2,500

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

1% of this candidate's receipts + outside spending is outside money (independent expenditures for/against, as a share of receipts plus outside spending).

Money out — top vendors

$ shown
VendorPaidPaymentsCategory
Actblue $81,505 157 001 (Administrative / overhead)
Adp $450,683 135 001 (Administrative / overhead)
United States Postal Service $3,184 77 001 (Administrative / overhead)
Casey'S General Store $9,425 77 001 (Administrative / overhead)
Casey'S General Store $2,732 76 002 (Travel)
Gusto $233,002 58 001 (Administrative / overhead)
Adp $84,867 42 001 (Administrative / overhead)
Facebook $18,680 32 001 (Administrative / overhead)
U.S. Bank $4,782 32 001 (Administrative / overhead)
Google $1,563 27 001 (Administrative / overhead)
Obsidian Management Llc $80,000 27 001 (Administrative / overhead)
Kum & Go $1,036 27 002 (Travel)

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)1,207
002 (Travel)311
004 (Advertising)223
006 (Campaign materials)55
007 (Campaign events)30
005 (Polling)5

Disbursement categories by payment count; dollar rollups held.

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