Matt Van Epps — 2025 U.S. Representative, District 7 campaign
2025 U.S. Representative, District 7 · totals since Apr 1, 2025
Campaign for the Dec 2, 2025 special election
This election filled an unexpired term ending in 2026. Source
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 · 12S 2025–YE 2025
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 →
$61,716
as of the Year-End report
Receipts The sum of Total Receipts on the selected published reports. Open the receipt to check each report and any exclusions. Full definition →
$1,794,117
includes $389,792 in small gifts the filer reported as a lump sum
$18,383 refunded
Total disbursed
$1,732,401
Donors
855
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 →
29% 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 71%.
Itemized $951K · 71% Small unitemized gifts $390K · 29%
Largest part: individuals, itemized (line 11a), 53% of receipts on these reports.
Individuals, itemized (line 11a) $958K · 53%Individuals, unitemized (line 11a) $390K · 22%PACs and other committees (line 11c) $439K · 24%
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 →
56% of located dollars came from within Tennessee (44% from out of state).
Tennessee $796,852 Out of state $621,764
- Nashville $301K21%
- Brentwood $94K7%
- Franklin $84K6%
- Clarksville $69K5%
- Athens, GA $61K4%
- Elsewhere in Tennessee $249K
- Other out-of-state $561K
Contributions & Spending Over Time
Itemized monetary contributions and expenditures by month — Jun 2025 – Dec 2025. Peak $536,315 in Nov 2025. Spending peaked at $944,652 in Nov 2025.
Cash contributions Spent
Contributions
The donor total above includes everyone who gave. This table names 833 donors: organizations, and people whose cumulative giving reached $200. 23 people gave less than $200 in cash; their gifts total $3,153 and their names are withheld.
| Donor | Donations | Net |
|---|---|---|
| Christopher R Jr Redlich | 4 | $14,000.00 |
| Andrew Miller Jr | 2 | $14,000.00 |
| Peter Bray | 3 | $12,500.00 |
| Claire Bray | 3 | $12,500.00 |
| Joanne Hazelwood | 3 | $10,643.56 |
| Damon Hininger | 3 | $10,500.00 |
| Julie Beaman | 3 | $10,500.00 |
| Lee Beaman | 2 | $10,500.00 |
| Raptor PAC | 2 | $10,000.00 |
| Electing Majority Making Effective Republicans PAC | 2 | $10,000.00 |
Dates
| Donor | Location | Employer | Amount | Date |
|---|
Expenditures
| Vendor | Payments | Total | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Advictory LLC | 14 | $726,534.34 | |
| Winred Technical Services LLC | 59 | $326,112.76 | |
| 1892 LLC | 3 | $79,334.50 | |
| Something Else Strategies LLC | 3 | $71,047.38 | |
| Joyner, Alex | 28 | $55,991.88 | |
| Marcum, Thomas | 19 | $39,927.21 | |
| Gray Fox Consulting LLC | 8 | $32,700.00 | |
| Mahaffey, Ben | 20 | $31,253.12 | |
| ADP | 26 | $30,041.26 | |
| Rightside Compliance | 6 | $28,641.76 | |
| Rachel Barrett and Company LLC | 1 | $23,806.28 | |
| Thompson, Hayden | 16 | $21,488.34 | |
| Victory Text | 3 | $20,351.07 | |
| Star News Digital | 4 | $18,405.00 | |
| Holtzman Vogel | 2 | $16,000.00 | |
| Main Thing Strategies LLC | 2 | $15,000.00 | |
| Millennium Hotel | 1 | $14,433.43 | |
| Fulcrum Intel | 1 | $12,500.00 | |
| Comperry, Scott | 4 | $12,127.50 | |
| Joyner & Hogan Company | 11 | $11,827.68 | |
| The Stanton Group LLC | 2 | $9,217.18 | |
| Mass Markets | 1 | $8,353.20 | |
| Shelby's Trio | 4 | $7,976.06 | |
| Goal Post Sporting Goods LLC | 3 | $7,726.73 | |
| Hall Strategies LLC | 1 | $7,500.00 | |
| Isaac Hughes Photography | 3 | $5,450.00 | |
| Southwest Airlines | 4 | $5,316.23 | |
| Wide Shot Events LLC | 1 | $5,250.70 | |
| Storytellers Group LLC | 3 | $5,249.98 | |
| Airbnb Inc. | 4 | $4,221.12 | |
| Campaignsidekick LLC | 5 | $4,025.84 | |
| Cmdi | 5 | $4,000.00 | |
| Tennessee Republican Party | 1 | $4,000.00 | |
| Johnny Haffner Catering | 1 | $4,000.00 | |
| Nicoletta's Catering | 2 | $3,112.54 | |
| Signtech | 2 | $3,000.00 | |
| American Mail & Insert Inc. | 2 | $2,773.00 | |
| Daily Report Media Inc. | 1 | $2,500.00 | |
| Delta Airlines | 2 | $2,187.42 | |
| Puckett's | 2 | $2,026.90 | |
| Expedia Group | 1 | $1,922.64 | |
| Mailchimp | 7 | $1,796.83 | |
| Halls Chophouse | 1 | $1,638.81 | |
| New York Butcher Shoppe | 1 | $1,574.29 | |
| PSR Events | 1 | $1,488.54 | |
| Pbody's | 1 | $1,418.20 | |
| Mere Bulles | 1 | $1,382.84 | |
| Que'd Up 615 | 1 | $1,365.62 | |
| Noe, Connor | 1 | $1,316.00 | |
| 10 | $1,268.79 | ||
| Flavor Catering LLC | 1 | $1,228.88 | |
| Fast Signs | 2 | $1,184.25 | |
| Democracy Engine LLC | 8 | $1,151.42 | |
| Amazon | 3 | $1,127.14 | |
| Jukebox Media LLC | 2 | $1,100.00 | |
| Victory Phones LLC | 1 | $1,043.00 | |
| The UPS Store | 32 | $1,029.83 | |
| Pardue, Charles T. ↺ donor $2,000.00 | 1 | $1,000.00 | |
| No. 2 Vance | 1 | $978.50 | |
| United States Postal Service | 2 | $902.00 | |
| Creative Direct | 1 | $895.00 | |
| Lyft | 5 | $824.64 | |
| Operation Stand Down Tennessee | 1 | $812.50 | |
| Citizen M Hotel | 6 | $754.89 | |
| Shively, David | 1 | $750.00 | |
| Tennessee Firearms Association | 1 | $750.00 | |
| Red River Republican Women | 3 | $679.88 | |
| Walmart | 4 | $675.16 | |
| Scott's Bartending | 1 | $650.00 | |
| Doubletree | 1 | $626.13 | |
| Robertson County Gop | 1 | $600.00 | |
| Cheatham County Gop | 1 | $595.00 | |
| Forrester, Bill Sr. | 1 | $570.00 | |
| Friends of Nra | 1 | $560.00 | |
| Bill's Package Store | 1 | $537.45 | |
| Chain Bridge Bank | 17 | $537.00 | |
| American Airlines | 1 | $495.87 | |
| Maggiano's | 1 | $432.44 | |
| Maelstrom Production Company LLC | 1 | $400.00 | |
| Intuit | 3 | $343.51 | |
| House Gift Shop | 1 | $320.15 | |
| Humphreys County Republican Party ↺ donor $1,000.00 | 1 | $300.00 | |
| Nashville Republican Women | 1 | $300.00 | |
| Office Depot | 2 | $285.14 | |
| Murrie, Eden ↺ donor $1,260.25 | 1 | $256.66 | |
| Friends of Ac Parks | 1 | $250.00 | |
| Civitan Club of Clarksville | 1 | $250.00 | |
| Taziki's Mediterranean Cafe | 2 | $247.38 | |
| Little Bite of Everything | 1 | $229.27 | |
| Capitol Hill Club | 2 | $216.92 | |
| Perry Strategies LLC | 1 | $209.04 | |
| Bricktop's | 1 | $206.67 | |
| Taco Mamacita | 2 | $196.08 |
Dates
| 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 Matt Van Epps’s itemized spending. Descriptions that don’t clearly fit a category are counted under Other rather than guessed at.
- Advertising & media $908,177 53%
- Office & operations $278,305 16%
- Consulting & professional services $260,700 15%
- Staff & payroll $126,589 7%
- Fundraising & events $45,214 3%
- Printing & mail $37,556 2%
- Travel $35,654 2%
- Other $29,630 2%
- Contributions & donations $4,510 0.3%
- Field & voter contact $750 0.1%
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 | $44,911.59 | $61,715.51 | Source: YE 2025 filing |
| 30S 2025 | $231,166.88 | $44,911.59 | Source: 30S 2025 filing |
| 12S 2025 | $54,297.99 | $231,166.88 | Source: 12S 2025 filing |
| Q3 2025 | $109,378.54 | $54,297.99 | Source: Q3 2025 filing |
| 12S 2025 | $106,167.62 | $109,378.54 | Source: 12S 2025 filing |
| Q2 2025 | $0.00 | $106,167.62 | Source: Q2 2025 filing |