Cyril Jason Focht — 2024 U.S. Representative, District 6 campaign
2024 U.S. Representative, District 6 · totals since Apr 1, 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 → · 6 filings · Q3 2023–TER 2024
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 →
47% of this campaign’s individual contributions came as small unitemized donations — gifts under the federal itemization threshold (about $200 a cycle) that the filer reports only as a lump sum, never broken out by donor. The gift-size and location breakdowns below cover the itemized 53%.
Largest part: loans (line 13), 52% of receipts on these reports.
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 →
66% of located dollars came from within Tennessee (34% from out of state).
- Cookeville $8K53%
- Sugar Land, TX $3K19%
- Evanston, IL $1K6%
- Elsewhere in Tennessee $2K
- Other out-of-state $1K
Contributions & Spending Over Time
Itemized monetary contributions and expenditures by month — May 2023 – Sep 2024. Peak $5,000 in Jul 2023. Spending peaked at $9,908 in Sep 2023.
Contributions
The donor total above includes everyone who gave. This table names 22 donors: organizations, and people whose cumulative giving reached $200. 3 people gave less than $200 in cash; their gifts total $256 and their names are withheld.
| Donor | Donations | Net |
|---|---|---|
| Laura Bush | 1 | $3,000.00 |
| Corinne Darvennes | 1 | $3,000.00 |
| Frank Kessler | 2 | $1,100.00 |
| Jessica Yepifantsev | 2 | $1,000.00 |
| Katherine Compton | 1 | $1,000.00 |
| David Barger | 2 | $750.00 |
| Shawn Trivette | 9 | $661.92 |
| Cyril Jason Focht Self In-Kind ↺ paid $2,552.28 | 6 | $532.40 |
| Bonita Barger | 1 | $500.00 |
| John Burns | 8 | $480.00 |
| Donor | Location | Employer | Amount | Date |
|---|
Expenditures
| Vendor | Payments | Total | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monroe, Angel | 17 | $26,276.27 | |
| Internal Revenue Service (IRS) | 15 | $7,960.37 | |
| Goodman Campaigns LLC | 8 | $5,803.99 | |
| Breeze Branding | 1 | $5,500.00 | |
| Victory First Consulting | 14 | $5,305.99 | |
| Sole Strategies | 1 | $3,000.00 | |
| Focht, Cyril Jason ↺ donor $532.40 | 15 | $2,552.28 | |
| Gunter, Andrew | 12 | $1,925.69 | |
| Switchboard Public Benefit Corp | 4 | $1,851.62 | |
| Gusto | 20 | $1,014.47 | |
| Actblue | 57 | $918.24 | |
| Hahnert, Rebecca | 2 | $850.00 | |
| Spencer Bowers Strategies | 1 | $250.00 | |
| TN Dept of Labor & Workforce Development | 11 | $145.68 |
| Payee | Location | Purpose | Amount | Date |
|---|
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 Cyril Jason Focht’s itemized spending. Descriptions that don’t clearly fit a category are counted under Other rather than guessed at.
- Staff & payroll $37,322 59%
- Consulting & professional services $12,730 20%
- Office & operations $6,918 11%
- Advertising & media $5,265 8%
- Loan & debt repayment $878 1%
- Contributions & donations $240 0.4%
Filing History
Totals as filed with the Federal Election Commission (FEC); see About for how this data is processed.
| Filing | Cash Beginning | Cash Ending | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| TER 2024 | $2,760.98 | $0.00 | Source: TER 2024 filing |
| 12P 2024 | $2,951.86 | $2,760.98 | Source: 12P 2024 filing |
| Q2 2024 | $4,429.22 | $2,951.86 | Source: Q2 2024 filing |
| Q1 2024 | $3,608.37 | $4,429.22 | Source: Q1 2024 filing |
| YE 2023 | $4,642.30 | $3,608.37 | Source: YE 2023 filing |
| Q3 2023 | $0.00 | $4,642.30 | Source: Q3 2023 filing |