Steve Southerland — 2022 Tennessee Senate, District 01 campaign

Tennessee Senate, District 01 Republican

2022 Tennessee Senate, District 01

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 → · 4 filings · Mid-Year 2019–Year-End 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 →
$91,660
as of the Year-End 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 →
$76,250
includes $350 in small gifts the filer reported as a lump sum
Why this number?
Total Spent
$55,945
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 →
73%
$55,945 spent of $76,250 raised (cash)
Donors
70
total donors; qualifying names are listed below
Out-of-State
33%
$24,800 from outside TN
Why this number?

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:

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 $9,948.95 the filer reported on Schedule A as a refund or reimbursement — money paid back to the committee, not money it raised, so it is not counted here. It remains in the filing's own totals.

Inputs behind Raised (cash)
Itemized contributions from others $75,900
Unitemized contributions (filer-stated lump sum) $350
Raised (cash) $76,250
From each filing:
  • Year-End 2020 Supplemental $28,250 derived
  • Mid-Year 2020 Supplemental $1,250 derived
  • Year-End 2019 Supplemental $46,250 mixed
    • Itemized contributions from others $45,900 derived
    • Unitemized contributions (filer-stated lump sum) $350 filing-stated
  • Mid-Year 2019 Supplemental $500 derived

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 $55,365
Stated spending not itemized (credited) $580
Total spent $55,945
From each filing:
  • Year-End 2020 Supplemental $31,849 mixed
    • Itemized expenditures $31,753 derived
    • Stated spending not itemized (credited) $96 filing-stated
  • Mid-Year 2020 Supplemental $6,406 mixed
    • Itemized expenditures $6,381 derived
    • Stated spending not itemized (credited) $25 filing-stated
  • Year-End 2019 Supplemental $8,602 mixed
    • Itemized expenditures $8,341 derived
    • Stated spending not itemized (credited) $261 filing-stated
  • Mid-Year 2019 Supplemental $9,088 mixed
    • Itemized expenditures $8,890 derived
    • Stated spending not itemized (credited) $198 filing-stated

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: $24,800 ÷ Raised incl. in-kind: $76,250
Inputs behind Out-of-state share
From outside Tennessee $24,800
Raised incl. in-kind
$76,250
Spent
$55,945

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 9%; organizations and PACs gave 91%.

Individuals $7K · 9% Organizations & PACs $69K · 91%
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: $7,200 ÷ Everything the campaign raised: $76,250
Inputs behind Share from individuals
From individuals $7,200
From organizations and PACs $69,050

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 →

$457average gift
$250median gift
15individual donors
Share of donors Share of dollars
Under $50
0%
0%
$50–200
0%
0%
$200–1K
80%
49%
$1K–5K
20%
51%
$5K+
0%
0%
Why this number?

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: $6,850 ÷ Individual donors: 15
Inputs behind Average gift per individual donor
Total from individual donors $6,850
Median gift $250
Individual donors 15

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 →

67% of located dollars came from within Tennessee (33% from out of state).

Tennessee $51,100 Out of state $24,800
  • Nashville $29K38%
  • Washington, DC $9K12%
  • Chattanooga $8K11%
  • Morristown $3K4%
  • Elsewhere in Tennessee $11K
  • Other out-of-state $16K
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: $24,800 ÷ Itemized money with a known state: $75,900
Inputs behind Out-of-state share of located dollars
From outside Tennessee $24,800

Contributions & Spending Over Time

Itemized monetary contributions and expenditures by month — Feb 2019 – Jan 2021. Peak $16,000 in Jan 2020. Spending peaked at $25,999 in Aug 2020.

Cash contributions Spent

Contributions

The donor total above includes everyone who gave. This table names donors whose cumulative giving reached $200.

Named donor list 87 donations

Campaign contributions consolidated by donor, ranked by net amount
Donor Donations Net
Blue Cross Blue Shield of TN PAC 2 $5,000.00
Amazon.com Services LLC PAC 2 $4,500.00
Tennessee Action Committee for Rural Electrification 2 $3,500.00
Wholesalers Assn PAC 2 $3,000.00
Unitedhealth Group Incorporated 1 $3,000.00
Housing Industry PAC 2 $2,250.00
Tennessee Realtors PAC 3 $2,000.00
Wellcare Health Plans, Inc. 1 $1,600.00
Tennessee Hospital Association (THA) 1 $1,500.00
BIV-PAC (Bivens) 2 $1,500.00

Expenditures

52 vendors 309 payments

Campaign payments consolidated by vendor, ranked by total
Vendor Payments Total Share
Senate Republican Caucus 1 $20,000.00 36%
Rose, Paul 2 $3,100.00 6%
Weigels 94 $2,122.92 4%
Verizon 24 $1,827.71 3%
Dickerson, Steven 1 $1,600.00 3%
Reeves, William S. 1 $1,600.00 3%
Walley, Page 1 $1,600.00 3%
Powers, Bill 1 $1,600.00 3%
Insurance 8 $1,279.79 2%
Ruth's Chris Steak House 1 $1,202.62 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 Steve Southerland’s itemized spending. Descriptions that don’t clearly fit a category are counted under Other rather than guessed at.

  • Contributions & donations $37,225 67%
  • Other $9,146 17%
  • Travel $3,375 6%
  • Office & operations $3,112 6%
  • Advertising & media $2,250 4%
  • Printing & mail $257 0.5%

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
Year-End 2020 $93,945.04 $91,660.08 Source ↗
Mid-Year 2020 $96,910.39 $93,945.04 Source ↗
Year-End 2019 $55,977.20 $96,910.39 Source ↗
Mid-Year 2019 $61,405.90 $55,977.20 Source ↗