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Finstad, Brad

candidate · H2MN01223
Finstad, Brad MN · REP · House · MN-01 · incumbent
The seat — demographics, elections & money for this district full page ↗

Person: Finstad, Brad · every race, every cycle

cycle 202620242022
3 cycles1 committees114 contributing committees117 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

2022

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

Candidate Status Cash on hand Contributing committees Raised / cycle Spent / cycle IE support / cycle Transferred / cycle
Brakebill-Hacke, Sarah Ms. open-seat 1
Devoe, Rick challenger
Ettinger, Jeffrey M. open-seat 6
Painter, Richard William open-seat 1

REP · primary contest (7 filers, order not yet known)

Candidate Status Cash on hand Contributing committees Raised / cycle Spent / cycle IE support / cycle Transferred / cycle
Finstad, Brad (this candidate) incumbent 308
Benda, Matthew L. open-seat
Carnahan, Jennifer open-seat
Hagedorn, James incumbent 227
Kocina, Kevin open-seat 1
Munson, Jeremy open-seat 5
Pierson, Nels Mr open-seat

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

NEW ULM, MN, 56073

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

PACs 99% · Party committees 1% · Super PACs 0%

Source typeContributionsAmount
PACs611$1,225,503
Party committees2$10,000
Super PACs1$1,000
Total (committee-sourced)$1,236,503

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.

Transfers in

from committees
Payer typeTransfersAmount
Joint-fundraising committees26$216,609
Total$216,609

Committee-to-committee transfers received by this candidate's principal committee, split by the type of the sending committee.

Individual-donor conduit dependency

lifetime

42% by dollars

1581 of 3503 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) 70% · Committee-routed (PAC / party / JFA / conduit) 30%

3503 individual contributions to this candidate's principal committee vs 614 committee-routed contributions across every committee this candidate has authorized ($2,905,938 vs $1,236,503). 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 · KILGORE, PAUL

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

Committees

authorized
CommitteeRoleType
Finstad For Congress Principal campaign committee H

Money in

committee & PAC contributions

Contributing committees & PACs · 2022:

Committee / PACContributedContributionsCycles
Poet Pac $15,000 5 2022
Mnm Pac $15,000 4 2022
Majority Committee Pac--Mc Pac $20,000 4 2022
Koch, Inc. Political Action Committee (Kochpac) $20,000 4 2022
American Physical Therapy Association Physical Therapy Political Action Committee (Pt-Pac) $8,000 4 2022
American Crystal Sugar Company Political Action Committee $15,000 4 2022
Point Action Pac, Inc. $10,000 4 2022
Big Ideas Create Excellence Pac $4,000 3 2022
American Bankers Association Pac (Bankpac) $7,500 3 2022
National Automobile Dealers Association Political Action Committee $15,000 3 2022
Delivers Pac $3,900 3 2022
Raptor Pac $3,000 3 2022
Chs Inc. Political Action Committee $15,000 3 2022
The Farm Credit Council Political Action Committee $10,000 3 2022
National Cotton Council Of America Committee For The Advancement Of Cotton $4,000 3 2022
National Federation Of Independent Business Federal Political Action Committee $9,478 3 2022
The Eye Of The Tiger Political Action Committee $15,000 3 2022
Freedom And Security Pac $6,500 3 2022
Safari Club International Pac (Sci-Pac) $4,000 2 2022
Nrcc $10,000 2 2022
America'S Credit Unions Pac Of Credit Union National Association, Inc. $10,000 2 2022
National Pork Producers Council Pork Pac $5,000 2 2022
Engineers Political Education Committee (Epec)/International Union Of Operating Engineers $10,000 2 2022
National Association Of Mutual Insurance Companies Pac $2,000 2 2022
Building America'S Republican Representation Pac $1,500 2 2022

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

Cross-party support

who funds both sides

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

Committee / PACOverall givingD / R
Honeywell International Political Action Committee 50% / 50%
Sazerac Company, Inc. Pac (Sazeracpac) 50% / 50%
America'S Credit Unions Pac Of Credit Union National Association, Inc. 51% / 49%
American Veterinary Medical Association Political Action Committee 48% / 52%
Best Buy Co., Inc. Employee Political Forum 47% / 53%
Xcel Energy Employee Political Action Committee (Xpac) 47% / 53%
American Council Of Engineering Companies (Acec/Pac) 46% / 54%
American Crystal Sugar Company Political Action Committee 54% / 46%
Employees Of Rtx Corporation Political Action Committee 46% / 54%
Walmart Inc. Pac For Responsible Government 45% / 55%
Poet Pac 44% / 56%
Bae Systems Inc. Political Action Committee (Bae Systems Usa Pac) 42% / 58%

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

Super PAC spending

outside money

Supporting: 8 committees · 169 expenditures · $2,317,020  ·  Opposing: 1 · 1 · $124,000

CommitteeStanceAmount
American Majority Action Inc. supports $25,483
Americans For Prosperity Action, Inc. (Afp Action) Dba Cva Action And Dba Libre Action supports $236,291
American Dream Federal Action supports $1,249,677
Defending Main Street Superpac Inc. supports $777,788
Right Now Usa supports $13,653
National Right To Life Victory Fund supports $11,971
House Freedom Action opposes $124,000
Minnesota Citizens Concerned For Life, Inc. Federal Pac supports $1,156
Protect Our Kids Pac supports $1,000

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

66% 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
Winred Technical Services Llc $12,726 110 001 (Administrative / overhead)
Chain Bridge Bank $2,941 107 001 (Administrative / overhead)
Winred Technically Services Llc $12,783 52 001 (Administrative / overhead)
Chain Bridge Bank $1,304 49 001 (Administrative / overhead)
Paychex $72,164 31 001 (Administrative / overhead)
Shanna Woodbury Consulting, Llc $226,756 26 001 (Administrative / overhead)
Roberts, Derek $45,387 25 001 (Administrative / overhead)
The Lukens Company $176,968 25 001 (Administrative / overhead)
Keystone Consulting $120,368 24 001 (Administrative / overhead)
Axcapital, Llc $34,863 23 001 (Administrative / overhead)
Capitol Hill Club $18,891 19 001 (Administrative / overhead)
Sdp Caging $3,922 17 001 (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)1,003
003 (Fundraising & solicitation)8

Disbursement categories by payment count; dollar rollups held.

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