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John Stevens — 2020 Tennessee Senate, District 24 campaign

Tennessee Senate, District 24 Republican

2020 Tennessee Senate, District 24

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 → · 12 filings · Mid-Year 2017–Q4 2020

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 →
$93,729
as of the Q4 report
Why this number?
Raised (cash) Cash and cash-like receipts the campaign took in: contributions, the candidate’s own money, loans, and transfers from affiliated committees. Donated goods and services are not cash; they appear separately as In-Kind Received. Bookkeeping entries such as a carried balance, accounting adjustment, or refund also stay only in the filing’s own totals. Full definition →
$179,200
includes $100 in small gifts the filer reported as a lump sum
Why this number?
In-Kind Received 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. Full definition →
$7,945
goods or services
Total Spent
$157,594
Why this number?
Spent of Cash Raised How much of the cash this campaign took in it went on to spend, measured now that its reporting has closed. Above 100% means it spent more than it raised for this race, drawing on money it already had when the cycle opened. Full definition →
88%
$157,594 spent of $179,200 raised (cash)
Donors
At least 125 named
full total unavailable for this combined term
Out-of-State
18%
$33,950 from outside TN
Why this number?

Cash on hand is the amount reported on the filings listed below.

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The ending cash balances the campaign's 2 committees each reported on their most recent filing, added together (each as filed, not computed).

Source filings:

Raised (cash) adds together the amounts listed below.

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Sum of every cash receipt bucket: itemized contributions from others + the candidate's own contributions + loans + filer-stated unitemized + (federal) transfers and other receipts. Excludes the value of donated goods & services, shown separately as In-Kind Received.

Inputs behind Raised (cash)
Itemized contributions from others $179,100
Unitemized contributions (filer-stated lump sum) $100
Raised (cash) $179,200
From each filing:
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  • Pre-General 2020 Initial $3,500 derived
  • Q3 2020 Initial $7,700 derived
  • Pre-Primary 2020 Amendment $20,300 derived
  • Q2 2020 Amendment $8,400 derived
  • Year-End 2019 Amendment $64,850 mixed
    • Itemized contributions from others $64,750 derived
    • Unitemized contributions (filer-stated lump sum) $100 filing-stated

Total spent adds together the amounts listed below.

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Itemized expenditure rows plus the stated spending a filer reported as a lump sum without itemizing it.

Inputs behind Total spent
Itemized expenditures $157,594
Total spent $157,594
From each filing:
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Out-of-state share compares itemized money from outside tennessee with raised incl. in-kind.

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Itemized contributions from a state other than Tennessee, divided by everything the campaign raised (shown only when the state of most itemized money is known — above 99% coverage).

Itemized money from outside Tennessee: $33,950 ÷ Raised incl. in-kind: $187,145
Inputs behind Out-of-state share
From outside Tennessee $33,950
Source filings:
Raised incl. in-kind
$187,145
Spent
$157,594

Who funds this campaign The sources split breaks down everything the campaign raised: the candidate’s own money (including self-loans), individuals (including unitemized small gifts), organizations and PACs, and “other” (in-kind contributions, loans other than the candidate’s, and the like) — open its “Why this number?” for the full breakdown. 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 →

Individuals gave 10%; organizations and PACs gave 85%; other sources made up 4%.

Individuals $20K · 10% Organizations & PACs $160K · 85% Other sources $8K · 4%
Why this number?

Share from individuals compares from individuals with everything the campaign raised.

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Everything the campaign raised, split into the candidate's own money (own contributions plus self- and family loans), individuals, organizations and PACs, and everything else — loans other than the candidate's, in-kind contributions, and (for federal filers) committee transfers and other receipts. Unitemized small donations count as individual money. The parts add up to the total raised. The headline share is individuals divided by the total.

From individuals: $19,600 ÷ Everything the campaign raised: $187,145
Inputs behind Share from individuals
From individuals $19,600
From organizations and PACs $159,600
In-kind contributions (goods & services) $7,945
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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 →

81% of located dollars came from within Tennessee (19% from out of state).

Tennessee $145,150 Out of state $33,950
  • Nashville $83K46%
  • Washington, DC $16K9%
  • Brentwood $11K6%
  • Franklin $9K5%
  • Memphis $7K4%
  • Elsewhere in Tennessee $36K
  • Other out-of-state $18K
Why this number?

Out-of-state share of located dollars compares itemized money from outside tennessee with itemized money with a known state.

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Itemized contribution dollars from outside Tennessee, divided by all itemized dollars whose contributor state is known. 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-in-Tennessee and other-out-of-state. Shown only above 99% state coverage. Based on itemized contributions only (loans and money a filer reported as an unitemized lump sum are not included).

Itemized money from outside Tennessee: $33,950 ÷ Itemized money with a known state: $179,100
Inputs behind Out-of-state share of located dollars
From outside Tennessee $33,950
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Contributions & Spending Over Time

Itemized monetary contributions and expenditures by month — Jan 2017 – Jan 2021. Peak $26,000 in Sep 2019. Spending peaked at $29,425 in Jul 2020.

Cash contributions Spent

Contributions

The donor figure above is a named-donor floor. A complete combined-term total is unavailable. This table names donors whose cumulative giving reached $200.

Named donor list 127 donations

Campaign contributions consolidated by donor, ranked by net amount
Donor Donations Net
Senate Republican Caucus In-Kind 1 $7,595.00
BOWPAC (Bo Watson) 1 $4,000.00
Tennessee Realtors PAC 2 $4,000.00
Jack Johnson 1 $3,200.00
Randy McNally 1 $3,200.00
Blue Cross Blue Shield of TN PAC 1 $3,000.00
JACK PAC (Jack Johnson) 2 $3,000.00
Amazon.com Services LLC PAC 1 $2,500.00
Tennessee Highway Contractors PAC 1 $2,500.00
Tennessee Chamber of Commerce and Industry PAC 1 $2,500.00

Expenditures

79 vendors 169 payments

Campaign payments consolidated by vendor, ranked by total
Vendor Payments Total Share
Margin of Victory Partners 5 $37,635.00 24%
Senate Republican Caucus 1 $25,000.00 16%
Kaegi Resources 2 $10,884.76 7%
Abbotts Print Shop 7 $7,428.80 5%
Thunderbold Broadcasting 4 $6,391.00 4%
Murphy's Oil 8 $6,238.95 4%
Milan Mirror 1 $5,080.00 3%
Fielder, Tracey 7 $4,600.00 3%
1796 Media LLC 2 $4,000.00 3%
Stevens, John 3 $3,849.17 2%

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 Stevens’s itemized spending. Descriptions that don’t clearly fit a category are counted under Other rather than guessed at.

  • Advertising & media $62,712 40%
  • Contributions & donations $46,389 29%
  • Consulting & professional services $13,694 9%
  • Travel $12,385 8%
  • Fundraising & events $7,085 4%
  • Other $7,040 4%
  • Office & operations $6,872 4%
  • Printing & mail $1,418 0.9%

Filing History

Totals as filed with the Tennessee Registry of Election Finance; see About for how this data is processed.

Campaign filing history
Filing Cash Beginning Cash Ending Source
Q4 2020 Amended $89,878.03 $93,729.03 Source ↗
Pre-General 2020 $89,325.50 $89,878.03 Source ↗
Q3 2020 $105,619.33 $89,325.50 Source ↗
Pre-Primary 2020 Amended $114,744.33 $105,619.33 Source ↗
Q2 2020 Amended $117,668.80 $114,744.33 Source ↗
Q1 2020 $118,101.71 $117,668.80 Source ↗
Year-End 2019 Amended $66,186.71 $118,101.71 Source ↗
Mid-Year 2019 Amended $68,985.13 $66,186.71 Source ↗
Year-End 2018 Amended $75,827.59 $68,985.13 Source ↗
Mid-Year 2018 $99,252.89 $75,827.59 Source ↗
Year-End 2017 Amended $63,763.25 $99,252.89 Source ↗
Mid-Year 2017 Amended $72,086.30 $63,763.25 Source ↗