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Money
$956.6K raised, $956.6K spent, $0 cash on hand (through Sep 30, 2026). Where it comes from
Who gives
3.1% of individual money from donors at $200 or less · 75% from South Carolina · largest committee giver NATIONAL AUTOMOBILE DEALERS ASSOCIATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE, $10K
Outside groups
$26.5K supporting, $285.3K opposing Smith
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MoneyWho pays for the campaign, and where does it go?
Raised
$956.6K
$956,631
Spent
$956.6K
$956,631
Cash on hand
$0
$0
FEC filings, Jul 1, 2025 to Sep 30, 2026 · Official FEC bulk data · committee C00915991 ↗
Raised, spent and cash over time by FEC report
$1.00 has been spent for every dollar raised across 7 reports ($956.6K of $956.6K). Cash on hand went from $366.1K on Sep 30, 2025 to $0 on Sep 30, 2026.
Raised in the period
Spent in the period
Cash on hand at its close
$200K$400K$600K
Sep ’25
Dec ’25
Mar ’26
May ’26
Jun ’26
Jun ’26
Sep ’26
Raised, spent and cash on hand by FEC report
Report
Raised in the period
Spent in the period
Cash on hand at its close
OCTOBER QUARTERLY 2025 through Sep 30, 2025
$369,250
$3,172
$366,078
YEAR-END 2025 through Dec 31, 2025
$231,871
$84,351
$513,599
APRIL QUARTERLY 2026 through Mar 31, 2026
$125,765
$91,390
$547,974
PRE-PRIMARY 2026 through May 20, 2026
$23,825
$359,773
$212,025
PRE-RUN-OFF 2026 through Jun 3, 2026
$27,400
$14,665
$224,760
JULY QUARTERLY 2026 through Jun 30, 2026
$98,520
$137,341
$185,940
TERMINATION REPORT 2026 through Sep 30, 2026
$80,000
$265,940
$0
Each report’s own period, as filed with the FEC; a report filed again counts once, as its latest copy.
Where the money came from $956,631 reported receipts
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Itemized (over $200)Donors who have given more than $200 this cycle, so the FEC itemizes (names) them.$504,45053%
Largest donors
Barbara W. Navarro2 contributions, latest Sep 30, 2025 · DEVELOPER · SELF EMPLOYED · DANIEL ISLAND, SC$14,000
Tommy B. Baker2 contributions, latest Jun 15, 2026 · OWNER · BAKER MOTOR COMPANY · CHARLESTON, SC$7,000
W. T. Cassels Jr.2 contributions, latest Jun 15, 2026 · TRUCKING · COLUMBIA, SC$7,000
W. Tobin Cassels III2 contributions, latest Jun 15, 2026 · TRUCKING · SOUTHEASTERN FREIGHT LINES · COLUMBIA, SC$7,000
Henry Criss3 contributions, latest Jun 10, 2026 · HEALTHCARE EXECUTIVE · FRAUM HEALTH · BLUFFTON, SC$7,000
Anthony James Deering2 contributions, latest Mar 31, 2026 · CEO · R2P · DANIEL ISLAND, SC$7,000
Renee Deering2 contributions, latest Mar 31, 2026 · RETIRED · DANIEL ISLAND, SC$7,000
Linda Duffie2 contributions, latest Mar 23, 2026 · RETIRED · LASCASSAS, TN$7,000
Conway G. Ivy2 contributions, latest Jun 18, 2026 · RETIRED · BEAUFORT, SC$7,000
Joshua Mynatt3 contributions, latest Jun 10, 2026 · PRESIDENT · SOUTH CAROLINA HEALTHY ALTERNATIVES AS · GREENVILLE, SC$7,000
Benjamin Navarro2 contributions, latest Sep 30, 2025 · CEO · BEEMOK CAPITAL LLC · CHARLESTON, SC$7,000
Kelly Navarro2 contributions, latest Oct 1, 2025 · VP STRATEGY & DESIGN · BEEMOK MANAGEMENT LLC · CHARLESTON, SC$7,000
A donor who gave several times appears once. The 12 largest donors by total given are listed. In all, 374 itemized contributions were filed this cycle, totaling $506.5K.
LoansMoney the campaign borrowed this cycle, from the candidate or a lender, which it may repay.$380,00040%
Who lent it
Mark Smiththe candidate’s own money · 3 loans · repaid$380,000
Each loan as the campaign’s report through Sep 30, 2026 lists it, with what is still owed. A loan from an earlier cycle can appear here, and one repaid in full drops off the report, so the list need not add up to the row.
PACs and other committeesPolitical action committees and other candidates' committees. Corporations and unions cannot give directly.$56,0005.9%
Unitemized ($200 or less)Donors who have given $200 or less this cycle, so the FEC does not itemize (name) them.$16,1551.7%
Refunds and rebatesMoney coming back to the campaign: rebates and refunds of what it spent.$26<0.1%
Total reported receipts $956,631
Every dollar the committee reported receiving this cycle, split by the source the FEC filing attributes it to. FEC filings through Sep 30, 2026.
Who donated: where they live, their employers and jobs
Where the donors live $500,150 placed by state
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under $15.1K
$15.1K+
$60.3K+
$135.8K+
$241.3K+
none
Outlined: South Carolina, home state
Home state and away
South Carolina 75%SC 75%Elsewhere 25%
75% of the money placed by state came from inside South Carolina: $377.1K of $500.2K.
Top states
Top donor states
Name
Amount
South Carolina home314 contributions · 75%
$377,100
Missouri13 contributions · 7.7%
$38,500
North Carolina15 contributions · 7.7%
$38,500
Tennessee7 contributions · 4.5%
$22,500
Massachusetts
Money from groups, by interest $360,756
What the committees giving to Smith’s campaign or spending on ads about Smith are: a company or industry, a union, a cause, a party or politician. Money from individual donors is not included.
For Smith $75,500
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$75.5KTap a slice
$26.5K35%
Airlines, railroads, trucking, shipping, car makers and car dealers, with their PACs and associations. Transportation unions are under Labor unions.$10K13%
Building and heavy-construction contractors, engineering and design firms, and their associations. Home builders are under Real estate.Placed by our rules or a model’s suggestion, and not yet checked by a person. The money still counts here; a person may move it.$7.5K9.9%
Accounting, consulting and staffing firms, and business associations that name no single industry.Placed by our rules or a model’s suggestion, and not yet checked by a person. The money still counts here; a person may move it.$5K6.6%
Physicians, dentists and other health professionals, whose PACs are usually run by a professional association.$5K6.6%
$5K6.6%
$3.5K4.6%
$13K17%
Outside spending $14,211,810 across this race
Money groups spent on their own, not through a campaign. Each ad is filed against the candidate it names, so money attacking an opponent shows on the opponent’s row. Open a candidate to see who spent it.
Who stands behind the outside spending: the people and organizations its money traces to
Who stands behind the outside spending $13.7M traced back through the groups that spent it
Each group that spent in this race is followed to where its own money came from, and what it spent is split by those shares: a group whose money was 60% one person's counts as 60% of its spending theirs. Of what traced, 48% to named individuals, 26% to organizations, 11% to tax-exempt organizations that need not name their donors, 14% not itemized in the filings.
People and organizations the race's outside spending traces to
Name
Amount
Jb PritzkerPerson · Governor, State of Illinois · behind Ready for the Fight
$561.8K
House Majority ForwardOrganization · tax-exempt: need not name its donors · behind HMP
$507.1K
American Action NetworkOrganization · tax-exempt: need not name its donors · behind CLF
$505.2K
Elon MuskPerson · CEO, Space Exploration Technologies Corp. · behind CLF and NO Going Back PAC Inc.
$260.6K
Paul E. SingerPerson · President, EMC · behind WFW Action Fund Inc and CLF and 3 more
The campaign also refunded $8,000 in contributions, which the categories below do not include.
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Advertising and mediaBroadcast, digital, and print advertising, and the media buying behind it.$508,06353%
Filed as
ADVERTISING AND CONSULTING$285,918
ADVERTISING$114,161
FUNDRAISING CONSULTING AND ADVERTISING$78,968
ADVERTISING EXPENSE$29,016
Paid to
First Tuesday Strategies, LLC$364,887
Targeted Victory
Largest vendors
Largest vendors
Name
Amount
First Tuesday Strategies, LLC13 payments · 58% of all spending
$550,468
Targeted Victory3 payments · 12% of all spending
$114,161
Gusto35 payments · 9.4% of all spending
$90,047
Byars, Drea6 payments · 4.2% of all spending
$40,000
CFS Compliance63 payments · 3.2% of all spending
$30,438
Adams Outdoor Advertising1 payment · 3% of all spending
$29,016
Nelson, Dawlton6 payments · 1.6% of all spending
$15,171
Anedot48 payments · 1.3% of all spending
$12,536
The people, firms and committees paid the most, across every kind of payment. Each share is of everything the committee reported spending this cycle, not only the itemized payments above. A payee that is itself a committee links to its own profile.
EndorsementsWho does Smith’s campaign say backs them?
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Every contest for this seat that named this candidate, most recent last; a result is shown once the race is called. Election dates and results from civicAPI (civicapi.org). civicAPI aggregates results from Secretaries of State and equivalent election bodies, and makes its own race calls. civicapi.org ↗
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1 receipt, latest Aug 14, 2025 · Hybrid PAC (nonqualified)
$2,500
The 12 largest committees by total given are listed. In all, 16 committee contributions were filed this cycle, totaling $49K. Counted from the givers' own filings, which can run above the total the campaign itself reports.
2 contributions · 1.4%
$7,000
Florida3 contributions · 0.8%
$4,000
Texas2 contributions · 0.8%
$4,000
Virginia5 contributions · 0.8%
$4,000
By the state each donor wrote on the filing, across 14 states and territories. Donors who have given $200 or less this cycle are not itemized, so they cannot be placed on a map. The FEC’s grouping also counts joint-fundraising memo lines, so these rows can add up to more than the itemized total.
Donors’ employers as filed
Donors’ employers
Employer as filed
Amount
RetiredWritten instead of an employer · 93 contributions · 27% of ranked
$125,450
Self-employedWritten instead of an employer · 22 contributions · 9.5% of ranked
$44,550
AIS7 contributions · 3.7% of ranked
$17,500
247 INC4 contributions · 3% of ranked
$14,000
Beemok Capital LLC2 contributions · 1.5% of ranked
$7,000
Beemok Management LLC2 contributions · 1.5% of ranked
$7,000
Blue Skies Properties LLC2 contributions · 1.5% of ranked
$7,000
Fraum Health3 contributions · 1.5% of ranked
$7,000
A further $39,250 came from donors whose answer names no employer (blank), so it is not ranked. Itemized gifts over $200, grouped by the words donors filed: not an industry classification, and a gift from an employee is not a gift from the employer. The FEC’s grouping also counts joint-fundraising memo lines, so these rows can add up to more than the itemized total. Gifts of $200 or less ($16,155) are not itemized, so no employer or occupation is filed for them.
Donors’ occupations as filed
Donors’ occupations
Occupation as filed
Amount
RetiredWritten instead of an occupation · 91 contributions · 26% of ranked
$121,850
Owner23 contributions · 8% of ranked
$37,600
Attorney21 contributions · 5.5% of ranked
$25,750
President14 contributions · 4.6% of ranked
$21,550
CEO10 contributions · 3.9% of ranked
$18,150
Developer2 contributions · 3% of ranked
$14,000
COO5 contributions · 2.2% of ranked
$10,500
Disaster Relief3 contributions · 2.2% of ranked
$10,500
A further $39,250 came from donors whose answer names no occupation (N/A, blank), so it is not ranked. Itemized gifts over $200, grouped by the words donors filed: not an industry classification, and a gift from an employee is not a gift from the employer. The FEC’s grouping also counts joint-fundraising memo lines, so these rows can add up to more than the itemized total. Gifts of $200 or less ($16,155) are not itemized, so no employer or occupation is filed for them.
Health insurers and their trade groups. Other insurance is under Finance & real estate.Placed by our rules or a model’s suggestion, and not yet checked by a person. The money still counts here; a person may move it.
Banks, credit unions and lenders, with their PACs and trade groups.
Groups set up for one candidate or one race: no parent organization, and 80% or more of their spending on that race, for a candidate, against their rival, or both. A group that is part of an older organization (a trade, union or caucus PAC, or a party leaders’ super PAC shell) stays in its own place even when it spends on one race, and one that has spread across races is filed by its side.
Against Smith $285,256
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$285.3KTap a slice
On the Republican side by their own words, their main funder, or a published source a reviewer cites. A group with one cause is filed under that cause instead.$221.3K78%
Groups whose purpose is electing, or mobilizing voters for, candidates from a shared community: women, or Black, Latino, Asian American and Pacific Islander candidates, among others. The community has to be an identity people share, not an age bracket or a political stance.$50.8K18%
Groups set up for one candidate or one race: no parent organization, and 80% or more of their spending on that race, for a candidate, against their rival, or both. A group that is part of an older organization (a trade, union or caucus PAC, or a party leaders’ super PAC shell) stays in its own place even when it spends on one race, and one that has spread across races is filed by its side.$13.2K4.6%
“Proposed” marks money from groups whose place is not yet reviewed by a person. Each group is placed by its filings and its own words, never by which party it backs. Every interest · How groups are placed
▼Opposing $3.2M
Total $6.8M
HMP▼ Opposes3 records, latest Oct 27, 2026$1,593,435
Support and oppose are each group’s own labels, not a judgment made here.
$13,900,054 of the race total was filed about other candidates, so it would not show on Smith’s own record.
Independent expenditures (Schedule E) only. Electioneering communications and corporate or union member communications file separately; they are counted for Smithunder “Other outside spending” in the full finance detail, but not for the rest of the field, so every other row is a floor.
Person · Managing Director, Susquehanna International GRP · behind Strong PAC and NO Going Back PAC Inc. and 1 more
$235.2K
Thomas KlingensteinPerson · Investment Counselor, Cohen Klingenstein LLC · behind Civic Renewal Fund Inc.
$233.5K
Choose Freedom Inc.Organization · behind Civic Renewal Fund Inc.
$233.5K
American Prosperity AllianceOrganization · behind Conservatives for American Excellence Inc. and Thank You for Your Attention to This Matter PAC
$218K
Miriam O. AdelsonPerson · Director of Community Development, LAS Vegas Sands Corp. · behind NO Going Back PAC Inc. and CLF
Read for the 19 largest groups of 28, 96% of the $14.2M spent. Shares are of what each group received, not a record of which dollar went where; an organization that need not name its donors ends the trail; a person who gave by more than one route is counted once here. It shows who stood behind the money, not what it was for.
$114,161
Adams Outdoor Advertising$29,016
Fundraising and eventsThe cost of raising money: finance consultants, donor list rental and acquisition, event venues, catering, and donor processing.$251,07026%
Filed as
SOLICITATION AND FUNDRAISING$195,582
FUNDRAISING CONSULTING$40,000
FUNDRAISING EXPENSES$6,592
CATERING EXPENSE$5,596
IN-KIND:IN KIND: EVENT SUPPLIES$3,300
Paid to
First Tuesday Strategies, LLC$185,582
Byars, Drea$40,000
Heather Rath Consulting$10,000
The Oorbeek Memmott Group$6,592
New Realm Brewing$4,143
Beatty, Mary$1,300
Payroll and staffSalaries, wages, benefits, and payroll services.$64,2316.8%
Filed as
PAYROLL$46,583
PAYROLL EXPENSE$17,649
Paid to
Jones, Alexa$32,897
Nelson, Dawlton$31,334
Taxes, fees, and bank chargesPayroll and income taxes, filing fees, bank and merchant processing charges.$53,5425.6%
Filed as
PAYROLL TAXES$25,938
E-MERCHANT FEES$14,089
SUBSCRIPTION FEES$9,293
BALLOT FEES$3,480
PAYROLL FEES$332
PAYROLL FEE$276
SOFTWARE FEE$73
PAYROLL SERVICE CHARGE - FEE$66
CREDIT E-MERCHANT FEES-$8
Paid to
Gusto$26,614
Anedot$12,536
I360$9,293
South Carolina Republican Party$3,480
CFS Compliance$1,545
BILL.COM$73
Consulting and strategyStrategic, political, legal, and compliance consulting, and campaign management.$48,6435.1%
Filed as
COMPLIANCE CONSULTING$28,893
CAMPAIGN MANAGEMENT$11,250
GRASSROOTS CONSULTING$8,500
Paid to
CFS Compliance$28,893
Nelson, Dawlton$11,250
Cannon, Linda$8,500
Digital and technologyWebsites, hosting, software subscriptions, databases, email, and texting platforms.$9,5921%
Filed as
SOFTWARE SERVICE$9,592
Paid to
Aristotle International, Inc.$9,592
TravelAirfare, lodging, mileage, and ground transport.$5,8930.6%
Filed as
MILEAGE$3,555
MILEAGE EXPENSE$918
TRAVEL EXPENSE$741
TRAVEL EXPENSES$679
Paid to
Nelson, Dawlton$3,886
Jones, Alexa$2,007
Refunds and redesignationsContributions returned to donors or reassigned to another election.$5,0000.5%
Filed as
CONTRIBUTION REFUND TO COMMITTEE$5,000
Paid to
Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina Federal Government Programs$5,000
Polling and researchSurveys, opposition research, voter file work, and analytics.$3,0000.3%
Filed as
POLLING EXPENSES$3,000
Paid to
Deep Root Analytics$3,000
Office and administrativeRent, utilities, phones, supplies, equipment, security, food, and campaign merchandise.$1,2930.1%
Filed as
MEAL EXPENSE$1,066
GENERAL OFFICE SUPPLIES$227
Paid to
Stones Throw Brewery$826
Neighborhood TAP House$240
Hobby Lobby$227
Not broken out by the committeeReported as a lump sum, with memo entries pointed to for the detail. Where those entries were filed and read, this page counts the payees they name instead; what is left here was never itemised.$645<0.1%
Filed as
SEE MEMO ITEMS$645
Paid to
Jones, Alexa$610
Nelson, Dawlton$35
Total itemized disbursements $950,970
Every itemized payment the committee reported this cycle, sorted by what it said each one was for. The categories are ours; the wording they are matched against is the committee’s own. Open a category to read the filed descriptions and who was paid. FEC filings through Sep 30, 2026.
All 240 itemized payments filed this cycle. Spending below the itemization threshold is not filed line by line.
20 payments were reported as a lump sum, such as a card or payroll bill, with the detail filed underneath as memo entries. Those entries, $67,206 in all, are counted under the payee and purpose they name rather than under the processor that was paid. The total is the same either way.