Mike Cortese — 2026 U.S. Representative, District 4 campaign
2026 U.S. Representative, District 4 · totals since Jul 1, 2025
Latest filing: Q3 2026 · Oct 15, 2026 · source: FEC
6 filings · Q3 2025–Q3 2026
Cash on Hand The campaign’s ending cash balance from its most recent filing. Cash shown as “carried over” was held before this election cycle began — usually from a prior campaign for the same office. Full definition →
$461
Receipts The sum of Total Receipts on the selected published reports. Open the receipt to check each report and any exclusions. Full definition →
$788,549
includes $367,203 in small gifts the filer reported as a lump sum
Total disbursed
$788,088
Donors
544
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 →
47% 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 53%.
Itemized $411K · 53% Small unitemized gifts $367K · 47%
Largest part: individuals, itemized (line 11a), 52% of receipts on these reports.
Individuals, itemized (line 11a) $411K · 52%Individuals, unitemized (line 11a) $367K · 47%PACs and other committees (line 11c) $10K · 1%
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 →
64% of located dollars came from within Tennessee (36% from out of state).
Tennessee $271,097 Out of state $149,538
- Nashville $158K38%
- Palo Alto, CA $28K7%
- Chattanooga $22K5%
- Knoxville $19K5%
- Brentwood $14K3%
- Elsewhere in Tennessee $58K
- Other out-of-state $122K
Contributions & Spending Over Time
Itemized monetary contributions and expenditures by month — Jul 2025 – Sep 2026. Peak $79,172 in Sep 2025. Spending peaked at $135,511 in Jul 2026.
Cash contributions Spent
Contributions
The donor total above includes everyone who gave. This table names 463 donors: organizations, and people whose cumulative giving reached $200. 81 people gave less than $200 in cash; their gifts total $7,856 and their names are withheld.
| Donor | Donations | Net |
|---|---|---|
| Kathy Olsen ↺ paid $3,500.00 | 2 | $7,000.00 |
| Paul Neely ↺ paid $3,500.00 | 4 | $7,000.00 |
| Mark Heising ↺ paid $3,500.00 | 3 | $7,000.00 |
| Simone Coxe ↺ paid $3,500.00 | 2 | $7,000.00 |
| Mimi Sternlicht ↺ paid $3,500.00 | 2 | $7,000.00 |
| Tench Coxe ↺ paid $3,500.00 | 2 | $7,000.00 |
| Mary Penniman ↺ paid $3,500.00 | 2 | $7,000.00 |
| Deborah Simon ↺ paid $3,500.00 | 2 | $7,000.00 |
| Eric Mindich ↺ paid $3,500.00 | 2 | $7,000.00 |
| Diana Walsh ↺ paid $3,500.00 | 2 | $7,000.00 |
Dates
| Donor | Location | Employer | Amount | Date |
|---|
Expenditures
| Vendor | Payments | Total | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Key Lime Strategies | 10 | $283,464.96 | |
| Valkyrie Strategies | 10 | $61,384.50 | |
| Gusto | 43 | $50,702.48 | |
| Sunport Strategies | 13 | $49,328.00 | |
| JCBR Consulting | 9 | $41,985.00 | |
| Left Lane Compliance | 9 | $31,200.00 | |
| Actblue | 90 | $28,656.45 | |
| Numero | 20 | $21,324.98 | |
| Tiller Sheridan Strategies | 14 | $18,750.00 | |
| Symmetry Media | 2 | $15,000.00 | |
| Rawlings, Cameron | 5 | $14,304.25 | |
| Moore, Angel | 7 | $12,250.00 | |
| Whalen, Ireland | 4 | $10,788.46 | |
| Precinct | 1 | $10,000.00 | |
| Monroe, Angel | 5 | $7,373.34 | |
| Sb Digital | 2 | $7,300.00 | |
| Sitting Made Simple | 1 | $5,937.00 | |
| Frontier Pioneers | 6 | $5,750.00 | |
| Edith Tiller | 5 | $5,500.00 | |
| Kivas | 2 | $5,000.00 | |
| Kg LLC | 1 | $5,000.00 | |
| Switchboard | 3 | $4,908.71 | |
| Coxe, Simone ↺ donor $7,000.00 | 1 | $3,500.00 | |
| Coxe, Tench ↺ donor $7,000.00 | 1 | $3,500.00 | |
| Heising, Mark ↺ donor $7,000.00 | 1 | $3,500.00 | |
| Mindich, Eric ↺ donor $7,000.00 | 1 | $3,500.00 | |
| Neely, Paul ↺ donor $7,000.00 | 2 | $3,500.00 | |
| Olsen, Kathy ↺ donor $7,000.00 | 1 | $3,500.00 | |
| Penniman, Mary ↺ donor $7,000.00 | 1 | $3,500.00 | |
| Simon, Deborah ↺ donor $7,000.00 | 1 | $3,500.00 | |
| Sternlicht, Mimi ↺ donor $7,000.00 | 1 | $3,500.00 | |
| Walsh, Diana ↺ donor $7,000.00 | 1 | $3,500.00 | |
| 19 | $3,445.35 | ||
| Grassroots Analytics | 6 | $3,250.00 | |
| Printing Etc | 4 | $3,248.20 | |
| Sprout Social | 6 | $2,627.46 | |
| Tiller Sheridan Strategies | 2 | $2,500.00 | |
| Tennessee Democratic Party | 2 | $2,400.00 | |
| Oath | 3 | $2,235.72 | |
| Benge Media | 1 | $2,140.00 | |
| Neely, David ↺ donor $5,500.00 | 1 | $2,000.00 | |
| Stillman, Barry ↺ donor $5,000.00 | 1 | $1,500.00 | |
| Stillman, Leslie ↺ donor $5,000.00 | 1 | $1,500.00 | |
| Southwest | 9 | $1,456.06 | |
| Campaign Deputy | 1 | $1,350.00 | |
| Hotel.Com | 2 | $1,282.85 | |
| Davidson County Democrats | 1 | $1,250.00 | |
| Owen, William ↺ donor $1,235.00 ⇄ in-kind (given, not paid) | 1 | $1,235.00 | |
| Jeff Hoehne | 3 | $1,200.00 | |
| Truist | 13 | $1,106.00 | |
| Boston, Harry ↺ donor $4,450.00 | 1 | $1,050.00 | |
| Dobson, Mary-Lynn ↺ donor $4,550.00 | 2 | $1,050.00 | |
| Brown, Marshall ↺ donor $4,400.00 | 1 | $1,000.00 | |
| Neely, Cynthia ↺ donor $4,500.00 | 1 | $1,000.00 | |
| Wendt, Charles ↺ donor $4,500.00 | 1 | $1,000.00 | |
| Verizon | 10 | $952.80 | |
| Moran, Garrett ↺ donor $4,422.22 | 1 | $922.22 | |
| NGP | 2 | $662.50 | |
| Ups | 2 | $625.46 | |
| Sam's Place | 1 | $597.82 | |
| Davidson County Dem | 1 | $500.00 | |
| Kroger | 3 | $430.59 | |
| Caron, Maia | 2 | $400.00 | |
| Crighton, Madeleine | 2 | $400.00 | |
| Higgs, Hunter | 2 | $400.00 | |
| Holloway, Hailey | 2 | $400.00 | |
| Kanakrieh, Arabeia | 2 | $400.00 | |
| Kap, Ciin | 2 | $400.00 | |
| Le, Olivia | 2 | $400.00 | |
| Lehman, Jonah | 2 | $400.00 | |
| Longman, Alexander | 2 | $400.00 | |
| McKenzie, Euodia | 2 | $400.00 | |
| Nobles, Daniel | 2 | $400.00 | |
| Ordus, John | 2 | $400.00 | |
| Sjobolm, Maya | 2 | $400.00 | |
| Snyder, Gabrielle | 2 | $400.00 | |
| American Press | 1 | $339.13 | |
| GoDaddy | 1 | $280.26 | |
| Amazon | 5 | $271.14 | |
| Nashville Pride | 5 | $270.25 | |
| T-Mobile | 4 | $257.68 | |
| Discovery Center | 1 | $250.00 | |
| Kroger | 4 | $210.87 | |
| Walmart | 4 | $184.72 | |
| Shell | 3 | $167.05 | |
| Bumperactive.Com | 1 | $162.94 | |
| Quickbooks | 3 | $153.89 | |
| Trenthem, Lisa | 1 | $150.00 | |
| Ava Waters | 1 | $110.00 | |
| Gottlieb, Larry ↺ donor $3,750.00 | 1 | $100.00 | |
| Cotton Cleaners | 1 | $61.38 | |
| Canva | 1 | $38.97 | |
| MCC Parking | 1 | $20.00 |
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 Mike Cortese’s itemized spending. Descriptions that don’t clearly fit a category are counted under Other rather than guessed at.
- Advertising & media $359,252 46%
- Consulting & professional services $150,416 19%
- Staff & payroll $95,419 12%
- Office & operations $65,588 8%
- Other $57,440 7%
- Printing & mail $33,629 4%
- Fundraising & events $14,535 2%
- Field & voter contact $5,600 0.8%
- Travel $3,176 0.5%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q3 2026 | $122,257.73 | $460.70 | Source: Q3 2026 filing |
| These numbers come straight from the report the committee filed with the FEC, before the FEC has finished processing it. They update automatically once the FEC’s processed version is ready. The filed report is in the Source column. | |||
| 12P 2026 | $157,102.18 | $122,257.73 | Source: 12P 2026 filing |
| Q2 2026 | $150,285.15 | $157,102.18 | Source: Q2 2026 filing |
| Q1 2026 | $163,673.53 | $150,285.15 | Source: Q1 2026 filing |
| YE 2025 | $115,633.44 | $163,673.53 | Source: YE 2025 filing |
| Q3 2025 | $0.00 | $115,633.44 | Source: Q3 2025 filing |