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Gowdy, Trey

candidate · H0SC04257
Gowdy, Trey SC · REP · House · SC-04 · incumbent
The seat — demographics, elections & money for this district full page ↗

Person: Gowdy, Trey · every race, every cycle

7 cycles1 committees55 contributing committees43 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 (5 filers, order not yet known)

Candidate Status Cash on hand Contributing committees Raised / cycle Spent / cycle IE support / cycle Transferred / cycle
Brown, Brandon Pendarvis open-seat 2
Davis, John Timothy open-seat 1
Graben, Eric Knox open-seat 1
Morin, William C III open-seat 2
Turner, D Lee open-seat 1

REP · primary contest (11 filers, order not yet known)

Candidate Status Cash on hand Contributing committees Raised / cycle Spent / cycle IE support / cycle Transferred / cycle
Gowdy, Trey (this candidate) incumbent 59
Bright, Lee open-seat 2
Brown, Stephen H Mr open-seat
Burns, Mark open-seat 1
Epley, James open-seat
Hamilton, Daniel Keller Wil open-seat 7
Kimbrell, Joshua Brett open-seat
Mosser, John Marshall open-seat
Pierce, Donna Shannon open-seat 1
Schmid, Claude Mr. open-seat
Timmons, William R IV open-seat 387

AMP

Candidate Status Cash on hand Contributing committees Raised / cycle Spent / cycle IE support / cycle Transferred / cycle
Furay, Guy V Mr. open-seat 3

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

SPARTANBURG, SC, 29304

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 98% · Super PACs 2%

Source typeContributionsAmount
PACs71$116,250
Super PACs3$2,700
Total (committee-sourced)$118,950

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

0% by dollars

2 of 12114 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) 98% · Committee-routed (PAC / party / JFA / conduit) 2%

12114 individual contributions to this candidate's principal committee vs 74 committee-routed contributions across every committee this candidate has authorized ($4,894,220 vs $118,950). 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 · HOUSE, MELISSA MRS.

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

Committees

authorized
CommitteeRoleType
Trey Gowdy For Congress Principal campaign committee H

Money in

committee & PAC contributions

Contributing committees & PACs · 2018:

Committee / PACContributedContributionsCycles
American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants Political Action Committee $7,500 4 2018
Walmart Inc. Pac For Responsible Government $3,500 3 2018
National Air Traffic Controllers Association Pac $3,500 3 2018
Duke Energy Corporation Pac $1,000 3 2018
Lowe'S Companies, Inc. Political Action Committee $1,000 3 2018
Employees Of Rtx Corporation Political Action Committee $2,000 2 2018
Gridiron-Pac $2,000 2 2018
Great America Pac $0 2 2018
Lockheed Martin Corporation Employees' Political Action Committee $2,500 2 2018
At&T Inc. Employee Federal Political Action Committee (At&T Employee Federal Pac) $3,000 2 2018
National Automobile Dealers Association Political Action Committee $0 2 2018
The Home Depot Inc. Political Action Committee $2,500 1 2018
American Financial Services Association Pac $1,000 1 2018
Herbalife International Inc. Pac $500 1 2018
United Parcel Service, Inc. Pac (Upspac) $1,500 1 2018
Celanese Corporation Political Action Committee $2,500 1 2018
Comcast Corporation & Nbcuniversal Political Action Committee - Federal $1,000 1 2018
Dla Piper Llp (Us) Political Action Committee (Dla Piper Pac) $500 1 2018
Ubs Americas Inc. Political Action Committee (Ubs Pac) $5,000 1 2018
National Pro-Life Alliance Pac $500 1 2018
Prosperity Action, Inc. $5,000 1 2018
Purpose Financial Inc., Pac $1,500 1 2018
Faegre Drinker Political Action Committee II (Faegre Drinker Pac Ii) $1,000 1 2018
National Council Of Textile Organizations Inc Political Action Committee $1,500 1 2018
Google Llc Netpac $2,500 1 2018

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
Basf Corporation Employees Political Action Committee 50% / 50%
Iheartmedia Inc. Pac 50% / 50%
National Council Of Textile Organizations Inc Political Action Committee 50% / 50%
Cummins Inc. Political Action Committee (Cipac) 51% / 49%
Genentech Inc. Political Action Committee (Genenpac) 49% / 51%
Google Llc Netpac 49% / 51%
Pricewaterhousecoopers Political Action Committee I 49% / 51%
American Water Works Company, Inc. Employee Federal Pac 48% / 52%
Gridiron-Pac 52% / 48%
National Beer Wholesalers Association Political Action Committee 48% / 52%
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld Llp Civic Action Committee (Aka Akin Gump Pac) 47% / 53%
Employees Of Rtx Corporation Political Action Committee 46% / 54%

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

Super PAC spending

outside money

Supporting: 1 committee · 2 expenditures · $2,130  ·  Opposing: 2 · 3 · $882

CommitteeStanceAmount
Save The American Way supports $2,130
Everytown For Gun Safety Action Fund opposes $862
Citizens For A Resilient America And Pizza opposes $20

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

2% 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
At&T Mobility $8,960 62 001 (Administrative / overhead)
Accuchex $4,249 40 001 (Administrative / overhead)
House, Melissa Mrs. $42,000 21 001 (Administrative / overhead)
Gogoair $1,202 21 001 (Administrative / overhead)
Capitol Hill Club $29,577 19 001 (Administrative / overhead)
U-Stor $1,007 19 001 (Administrative / overhead)
At&T Mobility (Data Coverage) $549 17 001 (Administrative / overhead)
American Airlines $6,366 15 002 (Travel)
Willis, Mary-Langston $5,533 13 001 (Administrative / overhead)
Pushdigital, Llc $60,885 12 001 (Administrative / overhead)
Gula Graham $24,865 10 003 (Fundraising & solicitation)
United States Postal Service $578 8 001 (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)268
003 (Fundraising & solicitation)45
002 (Travel)39
007 (Campaign events)19
004 (Advertising)13

Disbursement categories by payment count; dollar rollups held.

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