Caleb Hemmer — 2022 Tennessee House, District 59 campaign
2022 Tennessee House, District 59 · totals since Jan 16, 2022
Final This campaign’s election cycle is closed — no further reports for it are due, so these totals are settled rather than mid-race. They cover every filing we hold for the campaign; if the source archive later adds one, we load it. Full definition → · 6 filings · Pre-General 2022–Q4 2022
Ended With What was left in the campaign’s account when its reporting closed — the ending balance on its final report for this race. It is a leftover, not a war chest: money still to be spent, refunded, given away, or carried into the next campaign. Full definition →
$24,177
as of the Q4 report
Receipts The sum of Total Receipts on the selected published reports. Open the receipt to check each report and any exclusions. Full definition →
$525,237
includes $40,158 in small gifts the filer reported as a lump sum
Loan entries in filing detail: $3,200. The report totals above govern this headline.
Itemized in-kind Goods or services donated to the campaign instead of cash — say, free printing or donated consulting — reported at fair-market value. Counted toward the same $200 disclosure threshold as cash gifts. This figure adds the in-kind contributions itemized on the selected reports. The Registry reports in-kind apart from receipts, so it is not part of the receipts figure. Full definition →
$43,161
goods or services itemized on these reports
Total Spent
$501,060
Donors
521
total donors; qualifying names are listed below
Who funds this campaign The sources split breaks down the receipts the headline adds up, by the lines of each report behind it; its parts add up to the headline. Open its “Why this number?” for each report’s lines. Gift-size and location figures cover itemized contributions only. Aggregates count everyone who gave, including donors below the $200 disclosure floor — a share across all donors identifies no one. Full definition →
Largest part: individuals, itemized, 54% of receipts on these reports.
Individuals, itemized $285K · 54%Organizations and PACs, itemized $197K · 37%Unitemized contributions $40K · 8%
Gift size Each individual donor’s total giving to this campaign this cycle. Organizations, PACs, and the candidate’s own money are excluded (this is about people); a donor who gave under several name spellings is counted once. A donor named on the page can still sit in a small bucket — these are cycle totals, not “unnamed donors.” Full definition →
$649average gift
$500median gift
439individual donors
Share of donors Share of dollars
Under $50
$50–200
$200–1K
$1K–5K
$5K+
Where the money comes from Shares of itemized dollars, by the contributor’s state and city as filed. A city is named only when at least 5 donors gave from it or it holds at least 5% of the located dollars; everyone else is grouped into “elsewhere.” Shown only when at least 80% of dollars carry a usable state. Full definition →
95% of located dollars came from within Tennessee (5% from out of state).
Tennessee $455,778 Out of state $26,100
- Nashville $384K80%
- Brentwood $28K6%
- Franklin $8K2%
- Washington, DC $8K2%
- Knoxville $3K0.6%
- Elsewhere in Tennessee $33K
- Other out-of-state $18K
Contributions & Spending Over Time
Itemized monetary contributions and expenditures by month — Feb 2022 – Jan 2023. Peak $104,292 in Oct 2022. Spending peaked at $271,085 in Oct 2022.
Cash contributions Spent
Contributions
The donor total above includes everyone who gave. This table names 510 donors: organizations, and people whose cumulative giving reached $200. 19 people gave less than $200 in cash; their gifts total $2,792 and their names are withheld.
| Donor | Donations | Net |
|---|---|---|
| Tennessee Democratic Party Includes In-Kind ↺ paid $10,750.00 | 5 | $56,811.97 |
| Tennessee Tomorrow PAC ↺ paid $2,000.00 | 2 | $32,500.00 |
| Davidson County Democratic Party | 1 | $29,000.53 |
| Tennessee Educ Assn Fund for Children Public Edu | 1 | $10,000.00 |
| Tennessee Legislative Democrats | 1 | $10,000.00 |
| Iron Workers L U 492 PAC | 2 | $5,000.00 |
| Planned Parenthood Tennessee Action Fund PAC | 1 | $5,000.00 |
| Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of Tennessee PAC (WSWT) | 2 | $3,500.00 |
| Bo Mitchell Includes In-Kind | 4 | $3,450.00 |
| David Kidd | 2 | $3,200.00 |
Dates
| Donor | Location | Employer | Amount | Date |
|---|
Expenditures
| Vendor | Payments | Total | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Terriain Media Group | 5 | $156,918.15 | |
| Harpeth Strategies | 11 | $154,058.29 | |
| Counterpoint Messaging | 3 | $50,000.00 | |
| Triumph Strategies | 11 | $37,161.12 | |
| Kathryn Farris | 19 | $23,461.50 | |
| Tennessee Democratic Party ↺ donor $56,811.97 | 3 | $10,750.00 | |
| Change Research | 1 | $8,700.00 | |
| Signs, PC | 2 | $7,534.77 | |
| Actblue | 4 | $6,315.31 | |
| Campaign Communications Solutions | 1 | $6,297.78 | |
| Sudduth, Evan | 6 | $4,199.81 | |
| NGP VAN | 11 | $3,277.56 | |
| Tennessee Tomorrow PAC ↺ donor $32,500.00 | 1 | $2,000.00 | |
| Thrice & Spice, LLC | 1 | $1,745.27 | |
| 360 Bistro | 1 | $1,687.48 | |
| Sals Family Pizza | 3 | $1,511.90 | |
| Davidson County Democratic Executive Committee | 2 | $1,325.00 | |
| Del Frisco's Grille | 1 | $1,294.00 | |
| Frist Center | 1 | $1,200.00 | |
| Percy Preist Pto | 1 | $1,000.00 | |
| Nomadic Genius | 1 | $995.00 | |
| Fairfield Inn & Suites | 1 | $906.02 | |
| United States Postal Service | 6 | $875.16 | |
| GLYNN, Ronnie L. | 1 | $750.00 | |
| Perelman, David | 2 | $600.00 | |
| Lawson, Madison | 4 | $570.00 | |
| Papa John's Pizza | 2 | $564.84 | |
| Williamson, Jessica | 1 | $550.00 | |
| Best Buy | 2 | $525.54 | |
| Burns, Scott | 4 | $500.00 | |
| Friends of Green Hills Park | 1 | $500.00 | |
| Campbell for Congress | 1 | $500.00 | |
| Nashville Public Library | 1 | $500.00 | |
| Apple Spice Catering | 1 | $480.94 | |
| Ganem, Gabe | 5 | $470.00 | |
| Publix | 2 | $464.38 | |
| Ohio River South | 1 | $420.75 | |
| Taste of Bellevue | 1 | $350.00 | |
| Land Trust of Tennessee | 1 | $315.00 | |
| Mica, Chua | 4 | $308.00 | |
| Southwest Airlines | 1 | $273.96 | |
| Bellevue Community Foodbank | 1 | $250.00 | |
| H G Hill Middle School | 1 | $250.00 | |
| Stryker, Mike | 1 | $250.00 | |
| Friends of Radnor Lake | 1 | $250.00 | |
| Costco | 1 | $242.61 | |
| Metro Parks | 1 | $236.00 | |
| Bellevue Harpeth Chamber of Commerce | 1 | $225.00 | |
| Mainstay Suites | 1 | $209.82 | |
| Erin for Schools ↺ donor $200.00 | 1 | $200.00 | |
| Las Palmas Mexican Restaurant | 1 | $177.65 | |
| The Home Depot | 3 | $155.91 | |
| Columbia | 1 | $136.50 | |
| Best Western Brentwood | 1 | $129.28 | |
| Saakian, Gary | 1 | $120.00 | |
| Staples | 2 | $112.22 | |
| Marco's Pizza | 1 | $110.13 | |
| Amazon | 1 | $109.22 | |
| Chick-fil-A | 1 | $104.88 | |
| Friends of Rachel Anne | 1 | $100.00 | |
| Donut Den | 1 | $29.22 | |
| Truist | 1 | $12.00 |
Dates
| Payee | Location | Purpose | Amount | Date |
|---|
Loans
$3,200.00 in loan balances shown. The filings date all of it to this campaign. Later reports can repeat an outstanding loan, so each reconstructed lender balance is counted once below.
| Lender | Type | Received | Balance shown | Repaid | Outstanding |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Self (Caleb Hemmer) | Candidate loan | Feb 11, 2022 | $3,200.00 | $3,200.00 | $0.00 |
Where the money went Each expenditure carries a short description of what it was for, written by the campaign. We sort those descriptions into a fixed set of categories; one expenditure goes in one category, so the amounts add up to Caleb Hemmer’s itemized spending. Descriptions that don’t clearly fit a category are counted under Other rather than guessed at.
- Advertising & media $247,475 50%
- Printing & mail $114,334 23%
- Consulting & professional services $57,232 12%
- Field & voter contact $29,148 6%
- Contributions & donations $17,640 4%
- Fundraising & events $10,919 2%
- Office & operations $10,585 2%
- Other $6,935 1%
- Travel $1,001 0.3%
Loans
| Lender | Amount | Date Received | Outstanding | Repaid |
|---|
Each loan shows its balance as of the candidate's most recent filing; repayments since then appear when the next report is filed.
Filing History
Totals as filed with the Tennessee Registry of Election Finance; see About for how this data is processed.
| Filing | Cash Beginning | Cash Ending | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q4 2022 Amended | $67,311.97 | $24,176.84 | Source: Q4 2022 filing Report 117256 |
| Pre-General 2022 Amended | $225,482.05 | $67,311.97 | Source: Pre-General 2022 filing Report 117461 |
| Q3 2022 Amended | $222,179.62 | $225,482.05 | Source: Q3 2022 filing Report 117459 |
| Pre-Primary 2022 Amended | $222,371.54 | $222,179.62 | Source: Pre-Primary 2022 filing Report 103273 |
| Q2 2022 Amended | $147,491.35 | $222,371.54 | Source: Q2 2022 filing Report 103678 |
| Q1 2022 Amended | $0.00 | $147,491.35 | Source: Q1 2022 filing Report 99062 |