Karen Gertz — 2024 Tennessee House, District 20 campaign
2024 Tennessee House, District 20 · totals since Jan 16, 2024
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 · Pre-General 2024–Q4 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 →
Largest part: individuals, itemized, 59% of receipts on these reports.
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 →
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 →
87% of located dollars came from within Tennessee (13% from out of state).
- Maryville $4K57%
- Washington, DC $6038%
- Oak Ridge $5007%
- Elsewhere in Tennessee $2K
- Other out-of-state $350
Contributions & Spending Over Time
Itemized monetary contributions and expenditures by month — Jul 2024 – Oct 2024. Peak $2,254 in Oct 2024. Spending peaked at $3,581 in Oct 2024.
Contributions
The donor total above includes everyone who gave. This table names 16 donors: organizations, and people whose cumulative giving reached $200. 21 people gave less than $200 in cash; their gifts total $2,266 and their names are withheld.
| Donor | Donations | Net |
|---|---|---|
| Blount County Democratic Party PAC ↺ paid $50.00 | 2 | $1,000.00 |
| Blue Tennessee PAC | 1 | $602.52 |
| Anne Child | 1 | $500.00 |
| Ed Harper | 1 | $500.00 |
| Harvesting Democracy PAC | 1 | $250.00 |
| Sherry Brewer | 1 | $250.00 |
| Betsy Smith | 1 | $250.00 |
| Cary Hammond | 1 | $250.00 |
| Susan Sneed | 1 | $250.00 |
| Wendy Markham | 1 | $250.00 |
| Donor | Location | Employer | Amount | Date |
|---|
Expenditures
| Vendor | Payments | Total | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Signs.Com | 2 | $1,597.94 | |
| Enspot.Com | 1 | $1,197.00 | |
| The Daily Times | 3 | $860.00 | |
| Point Blank Political | 2 | $850.00 | |
| Burns Mailing & Printing | 1 | $820.60 | |
| Gena Tussey Station House Photography | 2 | $375.00 | |
| Tennessee Democratic Party | 1 | $342.00 | |
| Kroger Fuel Center | 7 | $294.79 | |
| Vistaprint | 1 | $226.30 | |
| Webcousa | 2 | $191.88 | |
| Oriental Trading Company | 1 | $186.55 | |
| Office Depot | 10 | $165.71 | |
| Towntable | 1 | $150.00 | |
| Academy Sports | 1 | $142.01 | |
| NGP VAN | 1 | $137.19 | |
| Suffrage Coalition | 2 | $129.83 | |
| Davidson County Democratic Executive Committee | 1 | $125.00 | |
| Jennifer Vallez | 1 | $114.87 | |
| Smallpdf | 1 | $108.00 | |
| Tennessee Health Care Campaign | 1 | $103.75 | |
| Gloria for Tennessee | 1 | $100.00 | |
| Downtown Digital Usa | 1 | $92.86 | |
| Buc-ee's | 2 | $85.75 | |
| Amazon | 2 | $74.60 | |
| Papa John's | 1 | $60.79 | |
| Flywheel | 4 | $60.00 | |
| Blount County Democratic Party PAC ↺ donor $1,000.00 | 1 | $50.00 | |
| United States Postal Service | 3 | $43.80 | |
| Target | 2 | $41.70 | |
| Highlander Research and Education Center | 1 | $35.00 | |
| 4 | $32.13 | ||
| Loews Nashville Hotel | 1 | $30.00 | |
| Kroger | 1 | $29.19 | |
| 120 4th and Peabody Lot | 1 | $28.00 | |
| Gem Awards | 1 | $19.74 | |
| Park Happy LLC | 1 | $14.96 | |
| Riverview Tower Garage | 1 | $12.00 | |
| Blount County United | 1 | $10.00 | |
| Market Square Garage | 1 | $2.00 |
| 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 Karen Gertz’s itemized spending. Descriptions that don’t clearly fit a category are counted under Other rather than guessed at.
- Advertising & media $5,108 57%
- Printing & mail $1,683 19%
- Fundraising & events $803 9%
- Office & operations $595 7%
- Travel $381 4%
- Other $371 4%
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 | $439.71 | $33.73 | Source: Q4 2024 filing Report 120668 |
| As filed on this report: cash beginning $439.71, receipts $0.00, disbursements $0.00, cash ending $33.73. | |||
| Pre-General 2024 | $1,494.02 | $439.71 | Source: Pre-General 2024 filing Report 119010 |
| Q3 2024 Amended | $698.81 | $1,494.02 | Source: Q3 2024 filing Report 119032 |
| Pre-Primary 2024 | $182.11 | $698.81 | Source: Pre-Primary 2024 filing Report 116185 |
| Q2 2024 | $146.05 | $182.11 | Source: Q2 2024 filing Report 114818 |
| As filed on this report: cash beginning $146.05, receipts $0.00, disbursements $0.00, cash ending $182.11. | |||
| Q1 2024 | $0.00 | $146.05 | Source: Q1 2024 filing Report 113103 |
| As filed on this report: cash beginning $0.00, receipts $0.00, disbursements $0.00, cash ending $146.05. | |||
After the election
Reports ending after Jan 15, 2025.
Contributions and spending
No contributions or expenditures reported 2 filings · Mid-Year 2025–Year-End 2025
No individual donors or expenditures are published for this campaign.
| Filing | Cash Beginning | Cash Ending | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Year-End 2025 | $4.84 | $4.84 | Source: Year-End 2025 filing Report 124345 |
| Mid-Year 2025 | $33.73 | $4.84 | Source: Mid-Year 2025 filing Report 122604 |
| As filed on this report: cash beginning $33.73, receipts $0.00, disbursements $0.00, cash ending $4.84. | |||