Federal Election Commission political committee

COMMANDER ZINKE LEADERSHIP FUND

FEC committee C00778159. Which candidates it gave to and spent on, with direct contributions and independent expenditures kept apart.

A leadership PAC, not a campaign committee

The FEC registers this committee as a leadership PAC: a committee established or controlled by a candidate or officeholder to support other candidates. It is not that person's authorized campaign committee. Money it raises is not money their campaign raised, and money it gives is not money their campaign gave. Nothing on this page is combined with any campaign total.

The FEC's committee record names Ryan K. Zinke as the sponsoring candidate or officeholder. This is not their campaign committee.

Sponsorship the FEC reports for committee C00778159
Sponsoring candidate or officeholder Ryan K. Zinke The FEC publishes this as a candidate ID on the committee's own record. MyRepTracker never matches a sponsor by name.
FEC candidate record reported H4MT01041 ↗

Registration

A multicandidate political action committee. It may contribute to candidates within federal limits.

Federal Election Commission registration for committee C00778159
FEC committee ID C00778159
Reported name COMMANDER ZINKE LEADERSHIP FUNDNames change; this page is keyed to the committee ID, so an old name still reaches it.
Committee type PAC, qualified Q
Designation Leadership PAC D
Party affiliation REP
Connected organization None reported This is the relationship the committee itself reported to the FEC. It is not a MyRepTracker judgement about who controls the committee.
Registered to candidate H4MT01041 ↗
Registration read from The FEC's committee master for the 2026 cycle
Registration date Not availableThe FEC's published committee master carries no registration date. The FEC record linked below shows it.
FEC record Committee C00778159 at FEC.gov ↗

Who runs this committee, and what it advances

Sponsor type and interest assignment for committee C00778159 in the 2026 cycle
Kind of committee Leadership PACs Derived from the registration this committee filed for the 2026 cycle. This is the FEC's own record, not a MyRepTracker judgement.
Interest advanced None, and none is owed. A leadership PAC, a candidate's own committee, and a party committee are not interest groups: their giving is an officeholder's or a party's decision, so no interest label describes it. MyRepTracker never assigns one.

What this committee raised and spent on itself

These are the committee's own figures, from the summary the FEC publishes of the reports it has filed, covering the period ending Aug 31, 2026. The FEC rebuilds that summary as new reports arrive, so these figures move; these are the figures the file the FEC built on Sep 23, 2026 reported.

Nothing here is added to the candidate-by-candidate amounts elsewhere on this page. Those are money this committee moved to or against specific campaigns; these are its own accounts.

What it raised

Receipts reported by committee C00778159 for the 2026 cycle
Measure Amount
Total receipts $4,962,407
Contributions received Before refunds $4,012,332
From individuals $3,601,818
From individuals, itemized Contributions the FEC requires be reported one by one $2,245,594
From individuals, unitemized Reported only as a total, so no detail exists for them here or at the FEC $1,356,224
From other political committees $410,514
From party committees $0
From the candidate Self-funding, not counting loans $0
Loans from the candidate $0
Other loans $0
Total loans $0
Transfers in from affiliated committees Already raised money moving, not new money $929,622
Other receipts $0

What it spent

Disbursements reported by committee C00778159 for the 2026 cycle
Measure Amount
Total disbursements $4,056,622
Operating expenditures $1,905,712
Other disbursements $261,246
Operating expenditures, net of offsets As the FEC reports it, not derived here $2,919,275
Transfers out to affiliated committees $0
Loan repayments to the candidate $0
Other loan repayments $0
Total loan repayments $0

What it holds, owes, and gave back

Cash, debts, and refunds reported by committee C00778159 for the 2026 cycle
Measure Amount
Cash on hand at the end of the period $1,586,316
Cash on hand at the start of the period $680,531
Debts the committee owes $0
Debts owed to the committee $0
Contributions refunded $497,148
Refunded to individuals $227,503
Refunded to other political committees $269,644
Refunded to party committees $0
Contributions net of refunds As the FEC reports it, not derived here $3,515,185

Its own totals for candidate activity

These will not match the per-candidate rows on this page, and are not meant to. These are the committee's own totals across every federal candidate. They will not match the per-candidate rows on this page, which are read from the contribution and independent-expenditure filings and cover only the candidates MyRepTracker tracks. The two are never added together.

As the committee reported it

Candidate-facing totals reported by committee C00778159 for the 2026 cycle
Measure Amount
Contributions to federal candidates $358,500
Independent expenditures For and against candidates combined; this figure carries no support or oppose split $0
Coordinated party expenditures Only party committees may make these $0

This committee's record at the FEC ↗

What this committee did in the 2026 cycle

Each row below is a different kind of money and they are never added together. A contribution is money a campaign received. An independent expenditure was never the campaign's money at all. Adding them would state a relationship the filings do not support. These figures cover candidate filings through Jul 1, 2026.

Activity by kind for committee C00778159 in the 2026 cycle
Kind of activity Amount Candidates Transactions
Contributions to candidates $8,500 3 4
Distinct candidates involved No combined total 3

Every recipient

Every candidate this committee gave to or spent on in the 2026 cycle, sorted by amount with ties broken by FEC candidate ID so the order is the same on every request. Each row links to that candidate's own page, where the same money appears from their side. Itemized rows as published by the FEC on Aug 16, 2026.

MyRepTracker reads these amounts from what the giving and spending committees filed. A candidate's own summary of what they received often differs, which is normal and is explained on the candidate's page; it is not a reason to doubt this committee's own filing, and nothing here is adjusted to make the two agree.

Every candidate below has a recorded party, office, and state, so no filter hides rows for missing data.

All 3 shown $8,500 total
Every candidate receiving activity from committee C00778159 in the 2026 cycle, ranked by amount
Rank Candidate Activity Office Party State Amount Share Transactions Latest activity Coverage
1 Aaron Flint H6MT01152 Contribution to the campaign House district 1 Republican MT $4,000 47.1% 2 Mar 3, 2026 2026 cycle, through Jun 30, 2026
2 Kurt Alme S6MT00295 Contribution to the campaign Senate Republican MT $3,500 41.2% 1 May 13, 2026 2026 cycle, through Jun 30, 2026
3 Juan Ciscomani H2AZ02360 Contribution to the campaign House district 2 Republican AZ $1,000 11.8% 1 May 13, 2026 2026 cycle, through Jul 1, 2026

Contributions to candidates

Money this committee gave to candidates' authorized campaign committees out of its own funds. This is a contribution the campaign received and reported; it is not outside spending.

All 3 shown $8,500 total
Contributions to candidates by committee C00778159 in the 2026 cycle, ranked by amount
Rank Candidate Office Party State Amount Share Transactions Latest activity Coverage
1 Aaron Flint H6MT01152 House district 1 Republican MT $4,000 47.1% 2 Mar 3, 2026 2026 cycle, through Jun 30, 2026
2 Kurt Alme S6MT00295 Senate Republican MT $3,500 41.2% 1 May 13, 2026 2026 cycle, through Jun 30, 2026
3 Juan Ciscomani H2AZ02360 House district 2 Republican AZ $1,000 11.8% 1 May 13, 2026 2026 cycle, through Jul 1, 2026

How the 2026 cycle's activity was distributed

Each kind of activity is distributed on its own. Contributions and independent expenditures are never combined into one distribution, because the two are not the same kind of money. Every bar below repeats its amount, share, and candidate count as text in the same row.

Contributions to candidates

$8,500 across 3 candidates in the 2026 cycle, covering filings through Jul 1, 2026. Every share below is a share of that amount, and no other kind of activity is included in it.

By the recipient's party

Contributions to candidates distributed by the recipient candidate's party
Party Amount Share Candidates
Republican $8,500 100.0% 3
Total $8,500 100%

By office and chamber

Contributions to candidates distributed by the office the recipient candidate sought
Office Amount Share Candidates
House $5,000 58.8% 2
Senate $3,500 41.2% 1
Total $8,500 100%

By the candidate's state

Contributions to candidates distributed by the recipient candidate's state
State Amount Share Candidates
MT $7,500 88.2% 2
AZ $1,000 11.8% 1
Total $8,500 100%

A distribution covering candidates from more than one party is a fact about where the money went. It is not evidence of a motive, a strategy, or an agreement, and this page does not suggest one.

Activity over time

Each kind of activity by the month the FEC records date it to, across the 2026 cycle, covering filings through Jul 1, 2026. Bars are drawn from a zero baseline against one shared scale of $4,500, so the series are directly comparable, and every value is repeated in its own row. Each series adds up to the same total as its section above.

Contributions to candidates

$8,500 placed by month.

Contributions to candidates by month in the 2026 cycle
Month Amount Transactions
Mar 2026 $4,000 2
May 2026 $4,500 2
Date not reported $0
Total for the cycle $8,500

Money moved to and from affiliated committees

A transfer moves money that has already been raised, between committees the FEC treats as affiliated. It is not a contribution and it is not new money, so none of it is counted anywhere else on this page. Both committees file their own record of the same transfer; the rows below are only this committee's own filings, and the counterparty's version is on its page rather than added here.

Transfers in from affiliated committees

$929,606 across 35 transfers this committee reported receiving, largest first. The largest 25 are listed; the total covers all of them.

Transfers in reported by committee C00778159 in the 2026 cycle
Date From To Amount Filing
Jun 30, 2025 GROW THE MAJORITY C00858373 COMMANDER ZINKE LEADERSHIP FUND C00778159 $93,370 FEC filing ↗
Mar 31, 2025 GROW THE MAJORITY C00858373 COMMANDER ZINKE LEADERSHIP FUND C00778159 $80,273 FEC filing ↗
Mar 31, 2025 DEFEND OUR MAJORITY C00895821 COMMANDER ZINKE LEADERSHIP FUND C00778159 $79,323 FEC filing ↗
Jun 26, 2025 DEFEND OUR MAJORITY C00895821 COMMANDER ZINKE LEADERSHIP FUND C00778159 $60,724 FEC filing ↗
Dec 31, 2025 GROW THE MAJORITY C00858373 COMMANDER ZINKE LEADERSHIP FUND C00778159 $60,000 FEC filing ↗
Jun 30, 2025 GROW THE MAJORITY C00858373 COMMANDER ZINKE LEADERSHIP FUND C00778159 $58,722 FEC filing ↗
Mar 31, 2025 GROW THE MAJORITY C00858373 COMMANDER ZINKE LEADERSHIP FUND C00778159 $50,015 FEC filing ↗
Jun 25, 2025 EMMER MAJORITY BUILDERS C00859058 COMMANDER ZINKE LEADERSHIP FUND C00778159 $48,274 FEC filing ↗
Dec 31, 2025 GROW THE MAJORITY C00858373 COMMANDER ZINKE LEADERSHIP FUND C00778159 $48,000 FEC filing ↗
Dec 17, 2025 DEFEND OUR MAJORITY C00895821 COMMANDER ZINKE LEADERSHIP FUND C00778159 $40,740 FEC filing ↗
Sep 30, 2025 GROW THE MAJORITY C00858373 COMMANDER ZINKE LEADERSHIP FUND C00778159 $38,522 FEC filing ↗
Dec 31, 2025 EMMER MAJORITY BUILDERS C00859058 COMMANDER ZINKE LEADERSHIP FUND C00778159 $30,262 FEC filing ↗
Sep 30, 2025 EMMER MAJORITY BUILDERS C00859058 COMMANDER ZINKE LEADERSHIP FUND C00778159 $29,598 FEC filing ↗
Mar 31, 2025 COMMANDER ZINKE C00805192 COMMANDER ZINKE LEADERSHIP FUND C00778159 $28,966 FEC filing ↗
Mar 31, 2025 DEFEND OUR MAJORITY C00895821 COMMANDER ZINKE LEADERSHIP FUND C00778159 $26,446 FEC filing ↗
Jun 25, 2025 EMMER MAJORITY BUILDERS C00859058 COMMANDER ZINKE LEADERSHIP FUND C00778159 $26,204 FEC filing ↗
Dec 17, 2025 DEFEND OUR MAJORITY C00895821 COMMANDER ZINKE LEADERSHIP FUND C00778159 $24,440 FEC filing ↗
Mar 28, 2025 EMMER MAJORITY BUILDERS C00859058 COMMANDER ZINKE LEADERSHIP FUND C00778159 $21,326 FEC filing ↗
Mar 31, 2025 ZINKE VICTORY FUND C00820548 COMMANDER ZINKE LEADERSHIP FUND C00778159 $12,629 FEC filing ↗
Sep 30, 2025 GROW THE MAJORITY C00858373 COMMANDER ZINKE LEADERSHIP FUND C00778159 $10,100 FEC filing ↗
Sep 30, 2025 EMMER MAJORITY BUILDERS C00859058 COMMANDER ZINKE LEADERSHIP FUND C00778159 $9,411 FEC filing ↗
Jun 26, 2025 DEFEND OUR MAJORITY C00895821 COMMANDER ZINKE LEADERSHIP FUND C00778159 $9,029 FEC filing ↗
Mar 31, 2025 COMMANDER ZINKE C00805192 COMMANDER ZINKE LEADERSHIP FUND C00778159 $8,726 FEC filing ↗
Mar 28, 2025 EMMER MAJORITY BUILDERS C00859058 COMMANDER ZINKE LEADERSHIP FUND C00778159 $6,069 FEC filing ↗
Jun 26, 2025 ZINKE VICTORY FUND C00820548 COMMANDER ZINKE LEADERSHIP FUND C00778159 $5,684 FEC filing ↗

Filings behind these figures

Every amount on this page was reported on a filing. These are those filings. 16 of 23 are in force for the 2026 cycle; the other 7 were replaced by a later version and are kept here so the correction history stays readable. A superseded filing contributes to no total, ranking, or comparison anywhere on this site.

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All 23 filings shown

Filings for the 2026 cycle, newest coverage period first
Filing Coverage Filed Version Document
Committee report (Form 3X) SEPTEMBER MONTHLY 2026 · filing 2013179 Aug 1, 2026 to Aug 31, 2026 Sep 18, 2026 In force At the FEC ↗
Committee report (Form 3X) AUGUST MONTHLY 2026 · filing 2008517 Jul 1, 2026 to Jul 31, 2026 Aug 20, 2026 In force At the FEC ↗
Committee report (Form 3X) JULY MONTHLY 2026 · filing 1999885 Jun 1, 2026 to Jun 30, 2026 Jul 20, 2026 In force At the FEC ↗
Committee report (Form 3X) JUNE MONTHLY 2026 · filing 1985508 May 1, 2026 to May 31, 2026 Jun 19, 2026 In force At the FEC ↗
Committee report (Form 3X) MAY MONTHLY 2026 · filing 1977484 Apr 1, 2026 to Apr 30, 2026 May 20, 2026 In force At the FEC ↗
Committee report (Form 3X) APRIL QUARTERLY 2026 · filing 1964549 Jan 1, 2026 to Mar 31, 2026 Apr 15, 2026 In force At the FEC ↗
House or Senate campaign report (Form 3) YEAR-END 2025 · filing 1938858 Oct 1, 2025 to Dec 31, 2025 Jan 30, 2026 In force At the FEC ↗
House or Senate campaign report (Form 3) OCTOBER QUARTERLY 2025 · filing 1927384 Jul 1, 2025 to Sep 30, 2025 Dec 3, 2025 In force, and itself an amendment amendment 2 At the FEC ↗
House or Senate campaign report (Form 3) OCTOBER QUARTERLY 2025 · filing 1921930 Jul 1, 2025 to Sep 30, 2025 Oct 16, 2025 Superseded by filing 1927384 amendment 1 Counted toward nothing on this site. At the FEC ↗
House or Senate campaign report (Form 3) OCTOBER QUARTERLY 2025 · filing 1920796 Jul 1, 2025 to Sep 30, 2025 Oct 15, 2025 Superseded by filing 1927384 Counted toward nothing on this site. At the FEC ↗
House or Senate campaign report (Form 3) JULY QUARTERLY 2025 · filing 1927382 Apr 1, 2025 to Jun 30, 2025 Dec 3, 2025 In force, and itself an amendment amendment 1 At the FEC ↗
House or Senate campaign report (Form 3) JULY QUARTERLY 2025 · filing 1901720 Apr 1, 2025 to Jun 30, 2025 Jul 15, 2025 Superseded by filing 1927382 Counted toward nothing on this site. At the FEC ↗
House or Senate campaign report (Form 3) APRIL QUARTERLY 2025 · filing 1927235 Jan 1, 2025 to Mar 31, 2025 Dec 2, 2025 In force, and itself an amendment amendment 2 At the FEC ↗
House or Senate campaign report (Form 3) APRIL QUARTERLY 2025 · filing 1899954 Jan 1, 2025 to Mar 31, 2025 Jul 11, 2025 Superseded by filing 1927235 amendment 1 Counted toward nothing on this site. At the FEC ↗
House or Senate campaign report (Form 3) APRIL QUARTERLY 2025 · filing 1886537 Jan 1, 2025 to Mar 31, 2025 Apr 15, 2025 Superseded by filing 1927235 Counted toward nothing on this site. At the FEC ↗
Miscellaneous submission (Form 99) filing 1976016 No coverage period reported May 18, 2026 In force At the FEC ↗
Notification of multicandidate status (Form 1M) filing 1974557 No coverage period reported May 13, 2026 In force At the FEC ↗
Miscellaneous submission (Form 99) no file number published No coverage period reported May 11, 2026 In force At the FEC ↗
Miscellaneous submission (Form 99) filing 1968057 No coverage period reported Apr 16, 2026 In force At the FEC ↗
Statement of organization (Form 1) filing 1951671 No coverage period reported Mar 5, 2026 In force, and itself an amendment amendment 12 At the FEC ↗
Statement of organization (Form 1) filing 1951553 No coverage period reported Mar 4, 2026 Superseded by filing 1951671 amendment 11 Counted toward nothing on this site. At the FEC ↗
Statement of organization (Form 1) filing 1874790 No coverage period reported Feb 5, 2025 Superseded by filing 1951671 amendment 10 Counted toward nothing on this site. At the FEC ↗
Miscellaneous submission (Form 99) filing 1874501 No coverage period reported Feb 4, 2025 In force At the FEC ↗

What the FEC asked about these filings

2 requests for additional information were sent about the 2026 cycle's filings. These are routine correspondence between the FEC and committees, they say nothing about whether anything was wrong, and no amount, ranking, or comparison on this site is affected by them.

Request for additional information

The FEC asked this committee for more information about the APRIL QUARTERLY 2026 report (filing 1964549), covering Jan 1, 2026 to Mar 31, 2026, on May 6, 2026. A request for additional information asks a committee to clarify or correct something in a report. It is not a violation, an enforcement action, or a finding that anything was wrong, and nothing on this page is ranked, scored, or adjusted because of it.

FEC request type 2, published as the FEC's own code and not translated here. Read the request at the FEC ↗

Request for additional information

The FEC asked this committee for more information about the APRIL QUARTERLY 2025 report (filing 1886537), covering Jan 1, 2025 to Mar 31, 2025, on Jun 16, 2025. A request for additional information asks a committee to clarify or correct something in a report. It is not a violation, an enforcement action, or a finding that anything was wrong, and nothing on this page is ranked, scored, or adjusted because of it.

An amendment to the same report was filed afterwards, on Jul 11, 2025 (filing 1899954). The FEC does not publish whether the two are connected, so this is the order the dates fall in and nothing more.

FEC request type 2, published as the FEC's own code and not translated here. Read the request at the FEC ↗

What these numbers mean

A contribution is not an independent expenditure
A contribution is money a committee gave to a candidate's own campaign committee, which the campaign received and reported. An independent expenditure is money spent about a candidate without coordinating with them; the campaign never received or controlled it. The Federal Election Commission treats these as different activities, and so does this page.
Money forwarded through a conduit was given by individuals
Some committees exist to transmit contributions that individual donors earmarked for a campaign. The FEC records name the conduit as the filer, but the donors are people, and the conduit did not give the money.
This page reads the giving side
Every amount here comes from what the giving or spending committee filed. A candidate's own summary of what they received is a separate record, made at a different time, and the two routinely differ. Neither is a correction of the other, and MyRepTracker does not adjust either one.
Coverage is the candidates MyRepTracker follows
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A committee ID is the identity
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A transfer is not a contribution
Money moved between affiliated committees was raised once and is being moved. It is never counted as money raised or as money given to a candidate, and the sending and receiving committees each file their own record of it, so a total that added both sides would report the same money twice.
A superseded filing is kept, and counted toward nothing
An amendment replaces a report rather than adjusting it, so exactly one filing is in force for each committee and coverage period. The filing ledger lists the replaced versions too, because the correction history is worth being able to read, and none of them contributes to any amount, ranking, or comparison here.
A request for additional information is not a finding
The FEC routinely asks committees to clarify or correct something in a report. A request is correspondence, not a violation, an enforcement action, or a judgement about the committee, and nothing on this page is ranked, scored, or adjusted because one was sent.
A leadership PAC is not a campaign committee
A leadership PAC is established or controlled by a candidate or officeholder to support other candidates, and is separate from their own campaign. Its receipts are not their campaign's receipts and its contributions are not their campaign's contributions. Where a sponsor is named here, the FEC published that sponsor's own candidate ID on the committee's record; no sponsor is ever matched by name.

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