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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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Nicholson, Kevin

candidate · S8WI00216
Nicholson, Kevin WI · REP · Senate · WI · challenger
The seat — demographics, elections & money for this district full page ↗

Person: Nicholson, Kevin · every race, every cycle

cycle 202220202018
3 cycles1 committees6 contributing committees70 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

Candidate Status Cash on hand Contributing committees Raised / cycle Spent / cycle IE support / cycle Transferred / cycle
Baldwin, Tammy incumbent 522

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
Nicholson, Kevin (this candidate) challenger 6
Jones, Griffin Gilbert challenger
Vukmir, Leah challenger 54

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 2018 Senate field

WI

Nicholson, Kevin ranks #75 of 529 Senate candidates nationally in 2018.

#CandidateStatePartyRaised
1 Sanders, Bernard VT IND $56,355,723
2 Brown, Sherrod OH DEM $43,945,698
3 Tester, R. Jon MT DEM $41,514,204
4 McSally, Martha AZ REP $38,525,275
5 Murphy, Christopher S CT DEM $31,406,433
6 Warren, Elizabeth MA DEM $30,998,675
7 Baldwin, Tammy WI DEM $30,006,651
8 Casey, Robert P. Jr. PA DEM $26,183,788
75 Nicholson, Kevin (this candidate) WI REP $45,731

The national Senate field for 2018, 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

HARTLAND, WI, 53029

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 69% · Super PACs 31%

Source typeContributionsAmount
PACs5$31,496
Super PACs455$14,235
Total (committee-sourced)$45,731

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

15% by dollars

912 of 8363 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) 99% · Committee-routed (PAC / party / JFA / conduit) 1%

8363 individual contributions to this candidate's principal committee vs 460 committee-routed contributions across every committee this candidate has authorized ($3,787,014 vs $45,731). 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 · HOBBS, CABELL

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

Committees

authorized
CommitteeRoleType
Nicholson For Senate Principal campaign committee S

Money in

committee & PAC contributions

Contributing committees & PACs · 2018:

Committee / PACContributedContributionsCycles
Great America Pac $2,225 449 2018
Madison Project Inc. $2,010 4 2018
Senate Conservatives Fund $25,496 3 2018
John Bolton Pac $10,000 2 2018
Trinity Industries Employee Political Action Committee (Sf) Inc. $1,000 1 2018
National Automobile Dealers Association Political Action Committee $5,000 1 2018

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

Cross-party support

who funds both sides

1 of this candidate's 6 top committee funders also fund the other side.

Committee / PACOverall givingD / R
National Automobile Dealers Association Political Action Committee 27% / 73%

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

Super PAC spending

outside money

Supporting: 11 committees · 191 expenditures · $7,595,579  ·  Opposing: 4 · 15 · $1,376,468

CommitteeStanceAmount
Americas Pac supports $2,640,325
Club For Growth Pac supports $36,533
Club For Growth Action supports $130,560
Restoration Pac supports $3,671,129
Wisconsin Next Pac opposes $1,338,222
John Bolton Super Pac supports $560,570
Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund supports $187,637
Cfg Action Wisconsin supports $43,378
Solutions For Wisconsin supports $323,021
Planned Parenthood Votes opposes $108
Senate Conservatives Fund supports $1,025
Onward Ohio supports $1,400
Planned Parenthood Action Fund Inc opposes $10,139
Great America Pac supports $1
Americas Pac opposes $28,000

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

99% 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
Washington Intelligence Bureau $27,426 15 001 (Administrative / overhead)
Professional Data Services $8,224 15
Anedot $863 11 001 (Administrative / overhead)
Professional Data Services $4,737 9
Usps $1,895 8 001 (Administrative / overhead)
Adp $6,700 7 001 (Administrative / overhead)
Professional Data Services $14,503 6
Transaxt $13 6
Rst Marketing $71,548 5
Nycz, Amy $6,257 5 001 (Administrative / overhead)
Chewning, Adam $8,728 4 001 (Administrative / overhead)
Aristotle, Inc. $4,000 4

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)74

Disbursement categories by payment count; dollar rollups held.

Right of response

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