Darden Copeland — 2025 U.S. Representative, District 7 campaign
2025 U.S. Representative, District 7 · totals since Jul 1, 2025
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 → · 3 filings · 12S 2025–YE 2025
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 →
17% 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 83%.
Largest part: individuals, itemized (line 11a), 68% 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 →
75% of located dollars came from outside Tennessee (25% from inside).
- Nashville $76K16%
- Mount Juliet $7K1%
- Washington, DC $7K1%
- New York, NY $6K1%
- Winchester, MA $6K1%
- Elsewhere in Tennessee $39K
- Other out-of-state $342K
Contributions & Spending Over Time
Itemized monetary contributions and expenditures by month — Jul 2025 – Dec 2025. Peak $330,019 in Sep 2025. Spending peaked at $488,195 in Sep 2025.
Contributions
The donor total above includes everyone who gave. This table names 307 donors: organizations, and people whose cumulative giving reached $200. 11,630 people gave less than $200 in cash; their gifts total $286,182 and their names are withheld.
| Donor | Donations | Net |
|---|---|---|
| Stefany Bonfield ↺ paid $500.00 | 3 | $3,500.00 |
| Donald Henley | 2 | $3,500.00 |
| Walt Burton ↺ paid $3,000.00 | 2 | $3,500.00 |
| Samuel Copeland | 1 | $3,500.00 |
| John Cooper | 1 | $3,500.00 |
| Andy Ward | 1 | $3,500.00 |
| David Freeman | 1 | $3,500.00 |
| Kevin Burns | 1 | $3,500.00 |
| Scott Patton | 1 | $3,500.00 |
| Cole Dowsley | 1 | $3,500.00 |
| Donor | Location | Employer | Amount | Date |
|---|
Expenditures
| Vendor | Payments | Total | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Screen Strategies Media | 4 | $269,478.00 | |
| Keylime Strategies | 7 | $153,546.40 | |
| Gda Wins | 4 | $88,692.90 | |
| Build the Wave | 2 | $39,185.00 | |
| Copeland, Darden | 2 | $21,835.83 | |
| Change Research | 2 | $18,288.00 | |
| Teets, Kevin | 13 | $16,373.43 | |
| Dixon/Davis Media Group | 1 | $14,118.00 | |
| Dixon/Davis Media | 1 | $13,380.00 | |
| Stripe | 2 | $13,205.87 | |
| Infocus Campaigns | 1 | $9,361.71 | |
| Actblue | 5 | $8,481.77 | |
| Clark, Maggie | 3 | $5,401.10 | |
| Hiddenbase | 1 | $5,000.00 | |
| Stone's Phones | 1 | $4,969.43 | |
| O.R. Pechman Sign Company | 1 | $4,376.19 | |
| Burton, Walt ↺ donor $3,500.00 | 1 | $3,000.00 | |
| O.R. Pecham Sign Company | 1 | $2,550.04 | |
| Calvert Street | 1 | $1,927.93 | |
| Snyder, Emily | 2 | $1,281.00 | |
| 5 | $824.00 | ||
| Bonfield, Stefany ↺ donor $3,500.00 | 1 | $500.00 | |
| Graphic Concepts Inc. | 1 | $458.85 | |
| Printing Etc | 2 | $422.98 | |
| GoDaddy | 2 | $411.36 | |
| Semler Cattle Company | 1 | $300.00 | |
| Lowe's Home Improvement | 3 | $288.86 | |
| The Home Depot | 1 | $257.50 | |
| Metro Parks Board and Recreation | 1 | $236.00 | |
| City of Clarksville | 2 | $230.00 |
| Payee | Location | Purpose | Amount | Date |
|---|
Loans
$100,000.00 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 (Darden Copeland) | Candidate loan | Sep 17, 2025 | $100,000.00 | $0.00 | $100,000.00 |
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 Darden Copeland’s itemized spending. Descriptions that don’t clearly fit a category are counted under Other rather than guessed at.
- Advertising & media $376,241 54%
- Fundraising & events $193,231 28%
- Consulting & professional services $65,844 9%
- Office & operations $29,133 4%
- Other $26,584 4%
- Printing & mail $7,349 1%
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 Federal Election Commission (FEC); see About for how this data is processed.
| Filing | Cash Beginning | Cash Ending | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| YE 2025 | $92,196.74 | $5,073.72 | Source: YE 2025 filing |
| Q3 2025 | $383,338.48 | $92,196.74 | Source: Q3 2025 filing |
| 12S 2025 | $0.00 | $383,338.48 | Source: 12S 2025 filing |