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Rick Ewing — 2026 Tennessee House, District 59 campaign

Tennessee House, District 59 Democratic

2026 Tennessee House, District 59 · totals since Jul 1, 2025

Latest filing: Q3 2026 · Oct 14, 2026 · source: TN Registry of Election Finance

5 filings · Year-End 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 →
$2,731
Receipts The sum of Total Receipts on the selected published reports. Open the receipt to check each report and any exclusions. Full definition →
$93,379
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 →
$1,067
goods or services itemized on these reports
Total Spent
$90,648
Donors
263
total donors; qualifying names are listed below

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

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The ending cash balance the campaign reported on its most recent filing (as filed, not computed).

Reported on this filing:
  • Q3 2026 Initial $2,731 filing-stated

Reported receipts adds together the amounts listed below.

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Sum of Total Receipts reported on the selected source reports.

Inputs behind Reported receipts
Q3 2026 reported receipts $3,430
Pre-Primary 2026 reported receipts $8,130
Q2 2026 reported receipts $31,459
Q1 2026 reported receipts $50,360
Year-End 2025 reported receipts $0
Reported receipts $93,379
From each filing:
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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 $90,648
Total spent $90,648
From each filing:
Receipts
$93,379
Spent
$90,648

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, 99.2% of receipts on these reports.

Individuals, itemized $93K · 99.2%

Share of reported receipts: Individuals, itemized compares individuals, itemized with reported receipts.

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Each selected report's reported receipts split by the report's own lines; the parts of every report add up to its total, and the totals to the headline.

Individuals, itemized: $92,629 ÷ Reported receipts: $93,379
Inputs behind Share of reported receipts: Individuals, itemized
Individuals, itemized $92,629
Organizations and PACs, itemized $750
From each filing:
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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 →

$355average gift
$200median gift
261individual donors
Share of donors Share of dollars
Under $50
11%
0.7%
$50–200
37%
9%
$200–1K
41%
40%
$1K–5K
11%
50%
$5K+
0%
0%

Average gift per individual donor compares total from individual donors with individual donors.

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Every individual donor's total contributions to this campaign, divided by the number of individual donors. Organizations and PACs are excluded (this measures people); a donor who gave under several name spellings is counted once. The median and the gift-size buckets are computed over the same individual-donor totals. Based on itemized contributions only (loans and money a filer reported as an unitemized lump sum are not included).

Total from individual donors: $92,629 ÷ Individual donors: 261
Inputs behind Average gift per individual donor
Total from individual donors $92,629
Median gift $200
Individual donors 261
Source filings:

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 →

74% of located dollars came from within Tennessee (26% from out of state).

Tennessee $69,014 Out of state $24,365
  • Nashville $59K63%
  • Franklin $2K2%
  • Brentwood $2K2%
  • Elsewhere in Tennessee $6K
  • Other out-of-state $24K

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: $24,365 ÷ Itemized money with a known state: $93,379
Inputs behind Out-of-state share of located dollars
From outside Tennessee $24,365
Source filings:

Contributions & Spending Over Time

Itemized monetary contributions and expenditures by month — Jan 2026 – Oct 2026. Peak $26,610 in Mar 2026. Spending peaked at $40,516 in Jul 2026.

Cash contributions Spent

Contributions

The donor total above includes everyone who gave. This table names 139 donors: organizations, and people whose cumulative giving reached $200. 125 people gave less than $200 in cash; their gifts total $9,279 and their names are withheld.

139 named donors 182 donations

Campaign contributions consolidated by donor, ranked by net amount
Donor Donations Net
Byron Taylor 2 $2,000.00
Joseph Barker 1 $1,900.00
Walter Benjamin 1 $1,900.00
William Collier 1 $1,900.00
Ben Dehner 2 $1,900.00
Billy Eskind 1 $1,900.00
Zelma Ewing 1 $1,900.00
Alan Franklin 2 $1,900.00
Frank Garrison 2 $1,900.00
Bill Kearney 1 $1,900.00

Expenditures

39 vendors 95 payments

Campaign payments consolidated by vendor, ranked by total
Vendor Payments Total Share
Printing Etc. 5 $28,384.07 31%
Morris, Jeff 4 $14,000.00 15%
Roar Nashville 4 $10,048.00 11%
Ewing, Madeleine 3 $9,000.00 10%
Venable, Nicholas 3 $5,060.00 6%
Meta 10 $4,237.96 5%
Actblue 5 $3,024.54 3%
John Smith Marketing 1 $2,381.65 3%
Lee, Racheal 1 $2,000.00 2%
The Cafe At Thistle Farms 2 $1,554.41 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 Rick Ewing’s itemized spending. Descriptions that don’t clearly fit a category are counted under Other rather than guessed at.

  • Advertising & media $30,883 34%
  • Consulting & professional services $26,573 29%
  • Field & voter contact $15,560 17%
  • Printing & mail $8,926 10%
  • Fundraising & events $4,298 5%
  • Office & operations $1,709 2%
  • Other $1,495 2%
  • Contributions & donations $1,204 1%

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
Q3 2026 $28,347.38 $2,730.88 Source: Q3 2026 filing Report 130204
Pre-Primary 2026 $51,457.82 $28,347.38 Source: Pre-Primary 2026 filing Report 128552
Q2 2026 $43,105.33 $51,457.82 Source: Q2 2026 filing Report 127181
Q1 2026 $0.00 $43,105.33 Source: Q1 2026 filing Report 125782
Year-End 2025 $0.00 $0.00 Source: Year-End 2025 filing Report 124429