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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)
Dollar figures are still computing and reflect best estimates while the corrected-financial reconciliation completes. Relationships, counts, and dates are final.

Bengs, Brian L

candidate · S2SD00126
Bengs, Brian L SD · DEM · Senate · SD · challenger
The seat — demographics, elections & money for this district full page ↗

Person: Bengs, Brian L · every race, every cycle

cycle 20242022
2 cycles1 committees2 contributing committees47 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

DEM

Candidate Status Cash on hand Contributing committees Raised / cycle Spent / cycle IE support / cycle Transferred / cycle
Bengs, Brian L (this candidate) challenger 2

REP · primary contest (3 filers, order not yet known)

Candidate Status Cash on hand Contributing committees Raised / cycle Spent / cycle IE support / cycle Transferred / cycle
Mowry, Mark S. challenger
Thune, John R. incumbent 780
Whalen, Bruce Sr. 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 2022 Senate field

SD

Bengs, Brian L ranks #87 of 748 Senate candidates nationally in 2022.

#CandidateStatePartyRaised
1 Warnock, Raphael GA DEM $215,222,453
2 Kelly, Mark AZ DEM $187,045,474
3 Fetterman, John Karl PA DEM $60,730,598
4 Cortez Masto, Catherine NV DEM $59,540,356
5 Ryan, Timothy OH DEM $44,196,849
6 Barnes, Mandela WI DEM $36,011,252
7 Hassan, Margaret Wood NH DEM $35,587,066
8 Beasley, Cheri NC DEM $27,632,915
87 Bengs, Brian L (this candidate) SD DEM $352,560

The national Senate field for 2022, ranked by money raised. Party affiliation shown as filed — third-party and state-party labels (DFL, WFP, etc.) are not merged into DEM/REP.

Campaign contact

ABERDEEN, SD, 57401

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) 100% · PACs 0%

Source typeContributionsAmount
Conduits (ActBlue / WinRed)9718$352,060
PACs1$500
Total (committee-sourced)$352,560

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

67% by dollars

1948 of 2264 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) 58% · Committee-routed (PAC / party / JFA / conduit) 42%

2264 individual contributions to this candidate's principal committee vs 9719 committee-routed contributions across every committee this candidate has authorized ($489,490 vs $352,560). 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 · MCGARRY, DENNIS

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

Committees

authorized
CommitteeRoleType
Brian Bengs For Senate Principal campaign committee S

Money in

committee & PAC contributions

Contributing committees & PACs · 2022:

Committee / PACContributedContributionsCycles
ActblueActBlue · conduit $352,060 9,718 2022
United Food And Commercial Workers International Union Active Ballot Club $500 1 2022

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 (2022) arrive through conduit infrastructure — 9,718 of 9,719 contributions · 100% of dollars ($352,060).

ConduitAmount
ActBlue$352,060

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).

Super PAC spending

$ held · counts

No independent expenditures on file for 2022 (2016 excluded).

Money out — top vendors

$ shown
VendorPaidPaymentsCategory
Gusto $186,707 68
Actblue $13,824 51
Sapphire Strategies $99,312 26
Dakotaland Federal Credit Union $415 24
Facebook $5,515 23
Priceline $1,833 11
Ngp Van Inc $10,500 10
Call Time $9,450 10
Ap Intego $455 10
Kusler'S $339 9
Holiday Inn $384 9
Preferred Printing $6,501 8

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

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