Person: Watkins, Steven C. Jr. · every race, every cycle
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
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).
| Candidate | Status | Cash on hand | Contributing committees | Raised / cycle | Spent / cycle | IE support / cycle | Transferred / cycle |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Schmidt, Patrick | challenger | — | 11 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Watkins, Steven C. Jr. (this candidate) | incumbent | — | 135 | ||||
| Laturner, Jake | incumbent | — | 190 |
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.
TOPEKA, KS, 66614
Website, phone and social accounts arrive with the campaign-contact ingest (FEC F1 + social sources).
Raised-vs-spent over time — the per-cycle totals surface is coming.
● PACs 75% · ● Conduits (ActBlue / WinRed) 22% · ● Party committees 2% · ● Super PACs 1%
| Source type | Contributions | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| PACs | 181 | $344,021 |
| Conduits (ActBlue / WinRed) | 10567 | $100,979 |
| Party committees | 2 | $8,854 |
| Super PACs | 4 | $4,450 |
| Total (committee-sourced) | $458,305 |
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.
| Payer type | Transfers | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Joint-fundraising committees | 9 | $76,076 |
| Total | $76,076 |
Committee-to-committee transfers received by this candidate's principal committee, split by the type of the sending committee.
9% by dollars
464 of 2099 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.
● Individual (direct) 82% · ● Committee-routed (PAC / party / JFA / conduit) 18%
2099 individual contributions to this candidate's principal committee vs 10754 committee-routed contributions across every committee this candidate has authorized ($2,058,040 vs $458,305). 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.
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.
Aggregated itemized individual giving, geocoded to donor home address, suppressed for privacy (small or single-donor-dominated cells withheld). Unitemized giving has no geography.
Treasurer · WATKINS, STEVEN JR.
Board / senior staff arrive from the payroll-disbursement derivation.
| Committee | Role | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Committee To Re-Elect Steve Watkins | Principal campaign committee | H |
Contributing committees & PACs · 2022:
No committee contributions on file for this cycle.
17 of this candidate's 40 top committee funders also fund the other side.
| Committee / PAC | Overall giving | D / R |
|---|---|---|
| Hallmark Cards, Inc. Pac (Hallpac) | 50% / 50% | |
| Kayla'S Pac List | 50% / 50% | |
| No Labels Pac | 50% / 50% | |
| National Association Of Broadcasters Political Action Committee (Nabpac) | 48% / 52% | |
| American Society Of Anesthesiologists Political Action Committee (Asa Pac) | 47% / 53% | |
| Growth Energy Pac | 47% / 53% | |
| American Crystal Sugar Company Political Action Committee | 54% / 46% | |
| At&T Inc. Employee Federal Political Action Committee (At&T Employee Federal Pac) | 45% / 55% | |
| Comcast Corporation & Nbcuniversal Political Action Committee - Federal | 45% / 55% | |
| American Medical Association Political Action Committee | 56% / 44% | |
| With Honor Pac | 56% / 44% | |
| Independent Community Bankers Of America Political Action Committee | 41% / 59% |
Each committee's overall giving split by recipient party (by dollars).
No independent expenditures on file for 2022 (2016 excluded).
| Vendor | Paid | Payments | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anedot | $6,962 | 59 | 001 (Administrative / overhead) |
| Targeted Victory | $521 | 56 | 001 (Administrative / overhead) |
| Gusto | $165,872 | 39 | 001 (Administrative / overhead) |
| Anedot | $1,248 | 38 | 001 (Administrative / overhead) |
| Winred Technical Services Llc | $5,717 | 38 | 001 (Administrative / overhead) |
| Gusto | $30,963 | 33 | 001 (Administrative / overhead) |
| Campaign Solutions | $5,116 | 30 | 001 (Administrative / overhead) |
| Big Dog Strategies | $56,067 | 19 | 001 (Administrative / overhead) |
| Campaign Financial Services | $19,315 | 13 | 001 (Administrative / overhead) |
| Campaign Financial Services | $26,889 | 13 | 001 (Administrative / overhead) |
| American Express | $42,230 | 12 | 001 (Administrative / overhead) |
| Convergence Media, Llc | $49,499 | 12 | 001 (Administrative / overhead) |
Payment counts from the principal committee; dollar totals held. Arc maps of where money goes arrive with the geo layer.
| Category | Payments |
|---|---|
| 001 (Administrative / overhead) | 461 |
| 003 (Fundraising & solicitation) | 48 |
| 004 (Advertising) | 46 |
| 002 (Travel) | 35 |
| 005 (Polling) | 5 |
| 012 (Donations) | 1 |
Disbursement categories by payment count; dollar rollups held.
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