John Gillespie — 2022 Tennessee House, District 97 campaign
2022 Tennessee House, District 97 · totals since Jan 16, 2021
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 2021–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 →
$22,165
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 →
$170,930
includes $2,630 in small gifts the filer reported as a lump sum
Loan entries in filing detail: $6,000. 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 →
$32,457
goods or services itemized on these reports
Total Spent
$146,449
Donors
170
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, 62% of receipts on these reports.
Individuals, itemized $107K · 62%Organizations and PACs, itemized $62K · 36%Unitemized contributions $3K · 2%
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 →
$943average gift
$700median gift
113individual 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 →
97% of located dollars came from within Tennessee (3% from out of state).
Tennessee $162,550 Out of state $5,750
- Memphis $87K52%
- Nashville $25K15%
- Brentwood $6K4%
- Germantown $6K3%
- Elsewhere in Tennessee $39K
- Other out-of-state $6K
Contributions & Spending Over Time
Itemized monetary contributions and expenditures by month — Jan 2021 – Jan 2023. Peak $31,600 in Oct 2022. Spending peaked at $39,938 in Oct 2022.
Cash contributions Spent
Contributions
The donor total above includes everyone who gave. This table names 168 donors: organizations, and people whose cumulative giving reached $200. 4 people gave less than $200 in cash; their gifts total $600 and their names are withheld.
| Donor | Donations | Net |
|---|---|---|
| House Republican Caucus In-Kind | 7 | $30,843.39 |
| LAMBERTH PAC (William Lamberth) | 3 | $7,000.00 |
| Team Kid PAC | 1 | $5,000.00 |
| Michael Keeney | 2 | $3,200.00 |
| Craig Weiss | 4 | $3,200.00 |
| William Orgel | 2 | $3,200.00 |
| Worth Morgan | 2 | $3,200.00 |
| Allen Morgan Jr | 2 | $3,200.00 |
| Anne O Keeney | 2 | $3,200.00 |
| Musette S Morgan | 2 | $3,200.00 |
Dates
| Donor | Location | Employer | Amount | Date |
|---|
Expenditures
| Vendor | Payments | Total | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Margin of Victory Partners | 22 | $47,610.00 | |
| Tennessee Republican Party | 4 | $24,554.00 | |
| Vor Media LLC | 18 | $23,050.00 | |
| Perry Strategies | 30 | $11,920.50 | |
| Beacon Strategies | 3 | $9,619.00 | |
| Watkins Uiberall, PLLC | 4 | $3,950.00 | |
| Hathaway Strategies, LLC | 3 | $3,000.00 | |
| Hines, Jeff | 2 | $2,900.00 | |
| Woods, Marquita | 3 | $2,030.00 | |
| Sob Hospitality | 1 | $1,975.51 | |
| Owen Brennan's | 1 | $1,635.83 | |
| Forrest Spence Fund | 2 | $1,500.00 | |
| Herring , Vanessa | 3 | $1,245.00 | |
| McWay , Tina | 3 | $1,210.00 | |
| Mailchimp | 20 | $1,202.74 | |
| Anedot | 22 | $1,037.50 | |
| Mid-South Go Red for Women | 1 | $1,000.00 | |
| Tennessee House Republican Caucus | 1 | $1,000.00 | |
| Bonner, Max | 3 | $870.00 | |
| McShane LLC | 2 | $800.00 | |
| Republican Party of Shelby County | 2 | $675.00 | |
| Perkins, Cole | 3 | $590.00 | |
| Superlo Foods | 2 | $509.44 | |
| Shelby County Young Republicans | 1 | $500.00 | |
| Surveymonkey | 1 | $421.44 | |
| American Mail & Insert, Inc. | 1 | $220.12 | |
| Wix | 1 | $185.22 | |
| Miss Tennessee Scholarship Competition | 1 | $150.00 | |
| Belly Acres | 1 | $108.29 |
Dates
| Payee | Location | Purpose | Amount | Date |
|---|
Loans
$6,000.00 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 (John Gillespie) | Candidate loan | — | $6,000.00 | $6,000.00 | $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 John Gillespie’s itemized spending. Descriptions that don’t clearly fit a category are counted under Other rather than guessed at.
- Printing & mail $58,155 40%
- Advertising & media $44,760 31%
- Consulting & professional services $20,450 14%
- Field & voter contact $10,932 8%
- Fundraising & events $4,729 3%
- Office & operations $3,944 3%
- Contributions & donations $2,500 2%
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 | $26,826.73 | $22,164.99 | Source: Q4 2022 filing Report 106806 |
| Pre-General 2022 Amended | $35,142.49 | $26,826.73 | Source: Pre-General 2022 filing Report 106186 |
| Q3 2022 Amended | $42,179.89 | $35,142.49 | Source: Q3 2022 filing Report 105238 |
| Pre-Primary 2022 | $40,744.64 | $42,179.89 | Source: Pre-Primary 2022 filing Report 102123 |
| Q2 2022 | $46,270.63 | $40,744.64 | Source: Q2 2022 filing Report 100606 |
| Q1 2022 | $51,818.54 | $46,270.63 | Source: Q1 2022 filing Report 98009 |
| Year-End 2021 | $21,995.02 | $51,818.54 | Source: Year-End 2021 filing Report 96488 |
| Mid-Year 2021 | $3,684.18 | $21,995.02 | Source: Mid-Year 2021 filing Report 94797 |