Nothing from their campaign site has been checked yet.
Money
$1.6M raised, $1.6M spent, $0 cash on hand (through Sep 30, 2026). Where it comes from
Who gives
0.8% of individual money from donors at $200 or less · 94% from South Carolina · largest committee giver AMERICAN ACADEMY OF DERMATOLOGY ASSOCIATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (SKINPAC), $5K
Outside groups
$650.1K supporting McCown
Their wordsWhat does McCown say they will do?
Sam McCown’s words are not shown
Nothing from their campaign site has been checked yet.
MoneyWho pays for the campaign, and where does it go?
Raised
$1.6M
$1,595,792
Spent
$1.6M
$1,595,792
Cash on hand
$0
$0
FEC filings, Jul 1, 2025 to Sep 30, 2026 · Official FEC bulk data · committee C00919068 ↗
Raised, spent and cash over time by FEC report
100¢ of every dollar raised has been spent across 6 reports ($1.6M of $1.6M). Cash on hand went from $1M on Sep 30, 2025 to $0 on Sep 30, 2026.
Raised in the period
Spent in the period
Cash on hand at its close
$500K$1M$1.5M
Sep ’25
Dec ’25
Mar ’26
May ’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
$1,013,705
$742
$1,012,963
YEAR-END 2025 through Dec 31, 2025
$207,339
$131,285
$1,089,017
APRIL QUARTERLY 2026 through Mar 31, 2026
$305,163
$179,268
$1,214,911
PRE-PRIMARY 2026 through May 20, 2026
$53,639
$529,581
$738,969
JULY QUARTERLY 2026 through Jun 30, 2026
$15,946
$727,018
$27,896
OCTOBER QUARTERLY 2026 through Sep 30, 2026
$0
$27,896
$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 $1,595,792 reported receipts
Tap a row with to see who gave.
LoansMoney the campaign borrowed this cycle, from the candidate or a lender, which it may repay.$1,249,10078%
Who lent it
Sam McCownthe candidate’s own money · 4 loans · $901.7K not yet repaid$999,100
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.
Itemized (over $200)Donors who have given more than $200 this cycle, so the FEC itemizes (names) them.$314,73420%
Largest donors
Scott Willis4 contributions, latest Jun 29, 2026 · WADMALAW ISLAND, SC$6,500
Scott Brymer2 contributions, latest Mar 15, 2026 · SELF-EMPLOYED · REAL ESTATE · CHARLESTON, SC$3,643
Daniel Fox2 contributions, latest Feb 19, 2026 · MCLEOD PHYSICIAN ASSOCIATES · ANESTHESIOLOGIST · TIMMONSVILLE, SC$3,643
Philip BondsOne contribution on Sep 25, 2025 · ORTHODONTIST · SELF-EMPLOYED · FLORENCE, SC$3,500
Candace BrownOne contribution on Mar 27, 2026 · HOMEMAKER · FLORENCE, SC$3,500
A donor who gave several times appears once. The 12 largest donors by total given are listed. In all, 163 itemized contributions were filed this cycle, totaling $314.7K.
PACs and other committeesPolitical action committees and other candidates' committees. Corporations and unions cannot give directly.$26,5001.7%
The 8 largest committees by total given are listed. In all, 10 committee contributions were filed this cycle, totaling $23.5K. Counted from the givers' own filings, which can run above the total the campaign itself reports.
Refunds and rebatesMoney coming back to the campaign: rebates and refunds of what it spent.$3,0070.2%
Unitemized ($200 or less)Donors who have given $200 or less this cycle, so the FEC does not itemize (name) them.$2,4510.2%
Total reported receipts $1,595,792
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 $316,226 placed by state
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under $11.9K
$11.9K+
$47.6K+
$107K+
$190.2K+
none
Outlined: South Carolina, home state
Home state and away
South Carolina 94%SC 94%
94% of the money placed by state came from inside South Carolina: $297.2K of $316.2K.
Top states
Top donor states
Name
Amount
South Carolina home151 contributions · 94%
$297,209
Georgia3 contributions · 2.3%
$7,143
New York1 contribution · 1.1%
$3,500
Virginia2 contributions · 1%
$3,082
Florida3 contributions · 0.6%
$2,001
Money from groups, by interest $673,599
What the committees giving to McCown’s campaign or spending on ads about McCown are: a company or industry, a union, a cause, a party or politician. Money from individual donors is not included.
For McCown $673,599
Tap a slice or a name to open it.
$673.6KTap a slice
$552.1K82%
Physicians, dentists and other health professionals, whose PACs are usually run by a professional association.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.$109K16%
Another candidate’s own campaign committee, or a joint fundraising committee. Money one campaign gives another counts here.$6.5K1%
Groups that state a purpose on health-care policy or on retirees’ and seniors’ interests.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.$5K0.7%
$1K0.2%
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.
RJenny Costa Honeycutt17 groups▲Supporting $3.5M▼Opposing $3.2MTotal $6.8M
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 $4,574 in contributions, which the categories below do not include.
Tap a row with to see what was paid for.
Advertising and mediaBroadcast, digital, and print advertising, and the media buying behind it.$783,01063%
Filed as
TV ADVERTISING$631,835
Largest vendors
Largest vendors
Name
Amount
American Media Group11 payments · 42% of all spending
$666,052
Victory Enterprises, Inc.37 payments · 8.5% of all spending
$134,963
Drake Strategies14 payments · 4.5% of all spending
$72,346
FP1 Strategies LLC4 payments · 4.3% of all spending
$68,140
ELEVEN17 Consulting LLC12 payments · 3.8% of all spending
$61,426
Push Digital Group15 payments · 3.6% of all spending
$57,684
Infield Strategies3 payments · 2.5% of all spending
$40,075
Drummond Communications Group LLC1 payment · 1.5% of all spending
$23,750
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 McCown’s campaign say backs them?
No endorsements page
Sam McCown’s campaign site has no endorsements page we could find.
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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North Carolina2 contributions · 0.6%
$1,750
District of Columbia1 contribution · 0.3%
$1,041
Texas1 contribution · 0.2%
$500
By the state each donor wrote on the filing, across 8 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 · 34 contributions · 17% of ranked
$54,167
HomemakerWritten instead of an employer · 16 contributions · 16% of ranked
$51,500
Self-employedWritten instead of an employer · 23 contributions · 16% of ranked
$51,313
Mcleod Health4 contributions · 3% of ranked
$9,500
Physician5 contributions · 2.7% of ranked
$8,393
Reed Group2 contributions · 1.9% of ranked
$6,000
Williselgin II LLC3 contributions · 1.6% of ranked
$5,000
Anesthesiologist2 contributions · 1.2% of ranked
$3,643
A further $1,500 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 ($2,451) 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 · 34 contributions · 17% of ranked
$54,167
HomemakerWritten instead of an occupation · 16 contributions · 16% of ranked
$51,500
Business Owner7 contributions · 6.8% of ranked
$21,520
Physician9 contributions · 5.2% of ranked
$16,278
MD4 contributions · 3.7% of ranked
$11,533
Self-employedWritten instead of an occupation · 6 contributions · 2.8% of ranked
$8,686
CEO5 contributions · 2.7% of ranked
$8,500
Owner7 contributions · 2.6% of ranked
$8,250
A further $1,500 came from donors whose answer names no occupation (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 ($2,451) are not itemized, so no employer or occupation is filed for them.
PACs a politician sponsors or runs: a leadership PAC (the FEC’s designation D), a committee the FEC lists as sponsored by a candidate, or a super PAC the politician’s own team runs and press reports tie to them. One that exists only for that politician’s own race is under Groups spending on one race.
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.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.
“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
HMP▼ Opposes3 records, latest Oct 27, 2026$1,593,435
Support and oppose are each group’s own labels, not a judgment made here.
$13,561,752 of the race total was filed about other candidates, so it would not show on McCown’s own record.
Independent expenditures (Schedule E) only. Electioneering communications and corporate or union member communications file separately; they are counted for McCownunder “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.
DIGITAL MEDIA BUY
$55,218
VIDEO PRODUCTION$52,865
DIGITAL ADVERTISING$20,843
DIGITAL ADS$10,000
VIDEO PRODUCTION EXPENSE$6,500
DIGITAL MEDIA ADVERTISING$5,000
RADIO ADVERTISING$750
Paid to
American Media Group$666,052
FP1 Strategies LLC$68,140
Push Digital Group$38,809
Hughes, Harrison$6,500
Victory Enterprises, Inc.$3,509
Consulting and strategyStrategic, political, legal, and compliance consulting, and campaign management.$158,58813%
Filed as
POLITICAL/ADMIN CONSULTING$77,000
POLITICAL / ADMIN CONSULTING$46,250
COMPLIANCE/ACCOUNTING$9,420
DIGITAL/ADMIN CONSULTING$7,175
DIGITAL ADMIN/CONSULTING$5,000
COMMUNICATIONS/ADMIN CONSULTING$5,000
DIGITAL / ADMIN CONSULTING$3,000
POLITCAL/ADMIN CONSULTING$3,000
COMPLIANCE / ACCOUNTING$2,743
Paid to
Drake Strategies$71,750
Victory Enterprises, Inc.$36,000
Capers Island Consulting LLC$18,500
Push Digital Group$15,175
Political Financial Management, LLC$12,163
Salientpoint LLC$5,000
Printing, mail, and shippingPrinted literature, direct mail, postage, design, and delivery.$73,4555.9%
Filed as
DIRECT MAIL$57,411
SIGNS$11,743
PRINTING$2,160
PRINTING - PALM CARDS$1,462
SIGN SUPPLIES$679
Paid to
Victory Enterprises, Inc.$72,775
Tractor Supply$679
Field and canvassingDoor-to-door canvassing, phone banks and calls to voters, petition and signature gathering, and get-out-the-vote work.$48,5753.9%
Filed as
CANVASSING$40,075
FIELD WORKER$8,500
Paid to
Infield Strategies$40,075
Martin, Wesley$8,500
Polling and researchSurveys, opposition research, voter file work, and analytics.$46,9483.8%
Filed as
POLLING/RESEARCH$23,750
RESEARCH/POLLING$22,500
VOTER DATA$698
Paid to
Drummond Communications Group LLC$23,750
RED OAK Strategic LLC$22,500
Victory Enterprises, Inc.$698
Fundraising and eventsThe cost of raising money: finance consultants, donor list rental and acquisition, event venues, catering, and donor processing.$45,8473.7%
Filed as
FUNDRAISING/ADMIN CONSULTING$25,000
FUNDRAISING / ADMIN CONSULTING$15,000
FUNDRAISING EXPENSE$5,000
CATERING$847
Paid to
ELEVEN17 Consulting LLC$45,000
Breakwater Restaurant$320
Fresh Market$292
Publix$236
OtherPayments whose filed description does not match any category above. Every one is listed so it can be read directly.$21,2571.7%
Filed as
CAMPAIGN WORKER$12,200
PALM CARDS$5,488
TSHIRTS, STICKERS AND HATS$3,239
TSHIRTS, STICKERS AND BUTTONS$330
Paid to
Victory Enterprises, Inc.$9,057
Martin, Wesley$9,000
Markwald, Maxwell$2,450
DR Sam for Congress$750
Taxes, fees, and bank chargesPayroll and income taxes, filing fees, bank and merchant processing charges.$20,4631.7%
Filed as
FUNDRAISING FEES$16,202
LEGAL FEES$2,500
BANK FEES$933
EVENT FEES$521
PO BOX FEE$203
EVENT FEE$104
Paid to
ELEVEN17 Consulting LLC$16,202
Burr & Forman LLP$2,500
First Reliance Bank$933
Berkley County GOP$313
Cooper River Bridge RUN$209
United States Postal Serivce$203
Digital and technologyWebsites, hosting, software subscriptions, databases, email, and texting platforms.$16,6241.3%
Filed as
WEBSITE EXPENSE$8,426
TEXT MESSAGING$5,111
COMMUNICATIONS / TEXT MESSAGING$3,013
WEBSITE EXPENSES$50
TEXTING/COMMUNICATIONS$25
Paid to
Victory Enterprises, Inc.$12,924
Push Digital Group$3,700
TravelAirfare, lodging, mileage, and ground transport.$8,5890.7%
Filed as
TRAVEL EXPENSE$5,783
MILEAGE$2,726
PARKING$80
Paid to
American Airlines$2,720
AC Hotel$1,032
United Airlines$896
Horsman, Jacques$790
Markwald, Maxwell$730
Capers Island Consulting LLC$635
Given to othersContributions to other candidates, party committees, and PACs.$8,4800.7%
Filed as
CONTRIBUTION TO COMMITTEE$8,480
Paid to
South Carolina Republican Party$8,480
Card paymentsPaid to a card processor with no itemisation filed beneath it, so the purchases behind it are not on the record.$3,0320.2%
Filed as
CREDIT CARD FEES$3,032
Paid to
WinRed Technologies$3,032
Refunds and redesignationsContributions returned to donors or reassigned to another election.$2,5000.2%
Filed as
CONTRIBUTION REFUND TO COMMITTEE$2,500
Paid to
Mike Kennedy for Utah$2,000
Friends to Elect DR. Greg Murphy to Congress$500
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.$1,100<0.1%
Filed as
REIMBURSEMENT: SEE BELOW$1,022
REIMBURSEMENT FILING FEE: SEE BELOW$79
Paid to
Mccown, Sam DR$547
Drake Strategies$249
Martin, Wesley$180
Political Financial Management, LLC$79
Salientpoint LLC$46
Office and administrativeRent, utilities, phones, supplies, equipment, security, food, and campaign merchandise.$257<0.1%
Filed as
MEALS$257
Paid to
O'brion PUB & Grille$172
Parker's Kitchen$85
Total itemized disbursements $1,238,725
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 191 itemized payments filed this cycle. Spending below the itemization threshold is not filed line by line.
2 payments were reported as a lump sum, such as a card or payroll bill, with the detail filed underneath as memo entries. Those entries, $1,170 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.