Caterpillar INC Political Action Committ CATPAC

Political Action Committee

Registered Apr 2006 · Treasurer: Wayne Zemke · Irving, TX

Raised

$770,689

incl. $34,593 unitemized small gifts

Total Spent

$503,078

Spent outside Tennessee

$502,078

99.8% of spending

To TN candidates

$1,000

0.2% of spending

Where the Money Goes

Of the $503,078 this committee reported spending, the largest share — $502,078 (99.8%) — went to activity outside Tennessee.

Operating share of spending compares operating spending with total spent.

Show formula

Operating / overhead spending divided by everything this committee spent (each expenditure lands in exactly one bucket).

Operating spending: $0 ÷ Total spent: $503,078

Inputs behind Operating share of spending
Operating / overhead spending	$0
Contributions to candidates	$1,000

Source filings:

Spent outside Tennessee $502,078 99.8%
To TN candidates $1,000 0.2%

“Spent outside Tennessee” is money this committee sent out of state — a multi-state committee’s lump non-Tennessee line plus any individually-filed out-of-state contributions. Separate from out-of-state donors.

Contributions to Candidates

No contributions to tracked candidates on record.

This committee’s own filings report $1,000 to candidates, while tracked candidates reported receiving $0. Of the $1,000 difference, $1,000 went to recipients not tracked here (itemized below).

Its filing also reports $1,000 in candidate contributions to recipients not tracked here:

Sanderson, Bill $1,000.00

Tennessee caps what a PAC may give one candidate per election — $15,400 for statewide and House races, $30,800 for Senate races (2025–26 limits; a primary and a general count as separate elections). Registry of Election Finance limits.

Who Funds It

Donors funding this political action committee
Donor	Location	Employer	Total Given
Bradley M Halverson	Peoria, IL	Caterpillar Inc.	$5,000.00
Denise Carolyn Johnson	East Peoria, IL	Caterpillar	$5,000.00
Donald James Umpleby	Peoria, IL	Caterpillar	$5,000.00
Douglas McCallen	Cary, NC	Caterpillar Inc.	$5,000.00
Douglas Petterson	Clayton, NC	Caterpillar	$5,000.00
Evelyn Jean Savage	Mossville, IL	Caterpillar	$5,000.00
Frank Crespo	Mossville, IL	Caterpillar Inc.	$5,000.00
Gerald F Gorman	Nashville, TN	Caterpillar	$5,000.00
Howard Bush	Albertville, AL	Progress Rail Service	$5,000.00
James A Duensing	Nashville, TN	Caterpiller, Inc.	$5,000.00

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 2017 Historical	$310,385.19	$0.00	Source: Year-End 2017 filing Report 73286
Mid-Year 2017 Historical	$363,665.76	$310,385.19	Source: Mid-Year 2017 filing Report 71940