Charlie Baum — 2024 Tennessee House, District 37 campaign
2024 Tennessee House, District 37 · totals since Jan 16, 2023
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 → · 8 filings · Mid-Year 2023–Q4 2024
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 →
$206,667
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 →
$122,395
includes $1,025 in small gifts the filer reported as a lump sum
Loan entries in filing detail: $16,000. 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 →
$1,000
goods or services itemized on these reports
Total Spent
$38,876
Donors
190
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: organizations and PACs, itemized, 64% of receipts on these reports.
Individuals, itemized $43K · 35%Organizations and PACs, itemized $79K · 64%
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 →
$343average gift
$150median gift
125individual 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 →
91% of located dollars came from within Tennessee (9% from out of state).
Tennessee $110,870 Out of state $10,500
- Nashville $50K41%
- Murfreesboro $36K30%
- Brentwood $10K8%
- Memphis $2K1%
- Elsewhere in Tennessee $14K
- Other out-of-state $11K
Contributions & Spending Over Time
Itemized monetary contributions and expenditures by month — Jun 2023 – Jan 2025. Peak $36,220 in Nov 2023. Spending peaked at $16,527 in Dec 2024.
Cash contributions Spent
Contributions
The donor total above includes everyone who gave. This table names 126 donors: organizations, and people whose cumulative giving reached $200. 65 people gave less than $200 in cash; their gifts total $5,870 and their names are withheld.
| Donor | Donations | Net |
|---|---|---|
| Lawyers Involved for TN PAC | 3 | $6,000.00 |
| Team Kid PAC | 2 | $4,000.00 |
| HCA TriStar Fund PAC | 2 | $4,000.00 |
| BIV-PAC (Bivens) | 2 | $3,500.00 |
| Excellence In Public Education PAC | 3 | $3,000.00 |
| Emily Zietz | 2 | $2,800.00 |
| Tennessee Hospital Association (THA) | 4 | $2,500.00 |
| Johnson Poss Kirby Government Relations PAC | 3 | $2,500.00 |
| Build TN Housing | 1 | $2,500.00 |
| Tennessee Educ Assn Fund for Children Public Edu | 2 | $2,000.00 |
Dates
| Donor | Location | Employer | Amount | Date |
|---|
Expenditures
| Vendor | Payments | Total | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| E. Allan Brandon LLC | 4 | $23,855.82 | |
| House Republican Caucus | 1 | $5,000.00 | |
| Rachel Barrett & Company LLC | 2 | $3,768.00 | |
| Five Senses ↺ donor $1,000.00 | 1 | $1,713.79 | |
| Republican State Leadership Committee | 1 | $1,000.00 | |
| Puckett's Grocery & Restaurant | 1 | $548.03 | |
| Reeves, William S. | 1 | $500.00 | |
| Sparks, Michael | 1 | $500.00 | |
| Tennessee Republican Party State Account | 1 | $500.00 | |
| Stones River Liquors | 1 | $432.52 | |
| Donorbox | 11 | $257.60 | |
| Murfreesboro Flower Shoppe | 1 | $181.03 | |
| U.S. Post Office | 2 | $160.70 | |
| Carmichael, Garrett | 1 | $100.00 | |
| Dyke, Grant | 1 | $100.00 | |
| Strayer, Eli | 1 | $100.00 | |
| Todd, Sam | 1 | $100.00 | |
| Walmart | 1 | $58.25 |
Dates
| Payee | Location | Purpose | Amount | Date |
|---|
Loans
$16,000.00 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 (Charlie Baum) | Candidate loan | — | $16,000.00 | $16,000.00 | $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 Charlie Baum’s itemized spending. Descriptions that don’t clearly fit a category are counted under Other rather than guessed at.
- Advertising & media $21,774 56%
- Fundraising & events $7,102 18%
- Contributions & donations $7,000 18%
- Other $2,082 5%
- Office & operations $758 2%
- Printing & mail $161 0.5%
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 2024 Amended | $213,941.53 | $206,667.49 | Source: Q4 2024 filing Report 119938 |
| Pre-General 2024 | $205,215.08 | $213,941.53 | Source: Pre-General 2024 filing Report 118381 |
| Q3 2024 | $195,215.08 | $205,215.08 | Source: Q3 2024 filing Report 117201 |
| Pre-Primary 2024 | $190,715.08 | $195,215.08 | Source: Pre-Primary 2024 filing Report 115749 |
| Q2 2024 | $188,038.63 | $190,715.08 | Source: Q2 2024 filing Report 114335 |
| Q1 2024 | $208,288.63 | $188,038.63 | Source: Q1 2024 filing Report 112812 |
| Year-End 2023 | $151,600.20 | $208,288.63 | Source: Year-End 2023 filing Report 110502 |
| Mid-Year 2023 | $139,148.23 | $151,600.20 | Source: Mid-Year 2023 filing Report 108679 |