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Ed Gallrein

Republican candidate · 2026 general election · Kentucky

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Ed Gallrein

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Campaign finance

FEC data through Jun 30, 2026. Covering the 2026 two-year cycle only.

Possibly out of date. last refreshed 2026-08-20

The 2026 cycle at a glance

Total receipts
$3,567,324
Everything the campaign took in
Individual contributions
$3,511,194
Itemized and unitemized split not reported
PAC and other committees
$56,130
Received from political committees
Campaign spending
$3,388,014
Total disbursements
Cash on hand
$179,309
At the end of the reporting period

Where the money came from

These categories divide total receipts of $3,567,324 exactly once, so they add back up to the reported total.

Receipts by funding category for the 2026 cycle
Source Amount Share of receipts
Individual contributions $3,511,194 98.4%
PAC and other committee contributions $56,130 1.6%
Party committee contributions $0 0.0%
Candidate self-funding $0 0.0%
Loans $0 0.0%
Other receipts, including transfers $0 0.0%
Total receipts $3,567,324 100%

Financial position

Cash, debt, refunds, loans, and transfers as reported through Jun 30, 2026 for the 2026 cycle. These are factual reported values, not a judgement about whether a campaign is healthy, viable, or strong. Independent expenditures are never added to or subtracted from any of them: that money was never the campaign's.

Reported financial position for the 2026 cycle
Measure Amount
Cash on hand at coverage end $179,309
Debts and obligations owed by the committee $0
Debts and obligations owed to the committee Not reported
Contributions refunded to individuals $8,252
Contributions refunded to committees $0
Transfers received from other authorized committeesAlready raised money moving between the candidate's own committees, not new fundraising. $0
Transfers made to other authorized committees $0
Repayments of candidate loans $0
Repayments of other loans $0

Calculated from the reported values

Each row below is arithmetic MyRepTracker performed on the values above. Where the FEC published the figure itself, the row says so and no calculation was made.

Values calculated from the reported financial position, with the formula for each
Measure Amount How it was produced
Contributions net of refunds $3,559,072 Calculated as individual + committee + party + candidate contributions, minus contributions refunded to individuals and committees.
Operating expenditures net of offsets Not reported An input this calculation needs is not published by the source behind this record.
Outstanding candidate loans $0 Calculated as loans received from the candidate minus repayments of those loans.
Other outstanding loans $0 Calculated as other loans received minus repayments of those loans.
Total contributions refunded $8,252 Calculated as refunds to individuals plus refunds to committees.

Change since the previous filing

Both columns come from committee C00923995, so the two periods are comparable. A change is the difference between what 12P 2026 reported and what Q2 2026 reported, and the direction is stated in words rather than shown only as a sign. 12P 2026 reported through Apr 29, 2026 and Q2 2026 through Jun 30, 2026.

Financial position at the two most recent controlling filings of committee C00923995
Measure 12P 2026Reported through Apr 29, 2026 Q2 2026Reported through Jun 30, 2026 Change
Cash on hand at period end $543,653 $179,309 Down $364,344
Debts owed by the committee $0 $0 No change
Contribution refunds in the period $3,500 $3,502 Up $2

Cash compared with one period's spending

Cash on hand of $179,309 set beside the $767,775 this campaign spent during Q2 2026, through Jun 30, 2026, which is 0.2 times that period's spending. This is a ratio between two reported numbers over one named period. It is not a forecast of how long the money will last, and campaigns do not spend evenly across a cycle.

Outside spending

Independent expenditures are spending by other organizations that is not coordinated with the campaign. This money was never received or controlled by Ed Gallrein. Supporting and opposing spending are kept apart rather than combined into one number, and neither is added to campaign receipts.

Spent supporting

$5,378,133
Independent expenditures in the 2026 cycle

Spent opposing

$7,006,952
Independent expenditures in the 2026 cycle

What the money was spent on

These spending categories were produced by taxonomy spend-1.2 and the current rules are spend-1.3, so they are withheld until this record is refreshed.

Political committees that contributed directly

Money received by the authorized campaign committee from PACs and other political committees. This is not outside spending.

This total will usually differ from the PAC figure in the summary above. The summary is what the campaign reported receiving in total; this ranking adds up the individual contributions that were itemized, which is a different record made at a different time. Neither is a correction of the other, and the gap is not an error in either one.

All 16 shown $109,627 total

Itemized rows as published by the FEC on Aug 16, 2026. The summary figures above come from the candidate's own reports through the coverage date.

Political committees ranked by direct contributions
Rank Committee Amount Share Transactions Last activity
1 REPUBLICAN JEWISH COALITION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (RJC-PAC) C00345132 $54,398 49.6% 35 Dec 15, 2025
2 BUILDING AMERICA'S REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATION PAC C00572271 $8,729 8.0% 4 Jun 23, 2026
3 SUN POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE C00378216 $5,000 4.6% 1 Feb 2, 2026
4 SEAL PAC SUPPORTING ELECTING AMERICAN LEADERS PAC C00570226 $5,000 4.6% 1 Jun 18, 2026
5 ELECTING MAJORITY MAKING EFFECTIVE REPUBLICANS PAC C00592089 $5,000 4.6% 1 Jun 26, 2026
6 AMERICAN REVIVAL PAC C00639229 $5,000 4.6% 1 Jun 24, 2026
7 BUCKEYE LIBERTY POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE C00693796 $5,000 4.6% 1 Jun 17, 2026
8 RAPTOR PAC C00749481 $5,000 4.6% 1 May 22, 2026
9 SEND IN THE SEAL PAC C00845099 $5,000 4.6% 1 Apr 16, 2026
10 AMERICAN OPTOMETRIC ASSOCIATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE C00024968 $2,500 2.3% 1 Jun 24, 2026
11 CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA PAC (US CHAMBER PAC) C00082040 $2,500 2.3% 1 Nov 7, 2025
12 JIM JORDAN FOR CONGRESS C00416594 $2,000 1.8% 1 Jun 17, 2026
13 EMMER FOR CONGRESS C00545749 $2,000 1.8% 1 Jun 26, 2026
14 U.S. ISRAEL PAC (USI PAC) C00127811 $1,000 0.9% 1 Feb 16, 2026
15 NO LABELS PAC C00629709 $1,000 0.9% 1 Feb 2, 2026
16 AMERICAN PRINCIPLES C00492579 $500 0.5% 1 Feb 19, 2026

Organizations spending independently

Supporting Ed Gallrein

All 3 shown $5,378,133 total

Itemized rows as published by the FEC on Aug 16, 2026. The summary figures above come from the candidate's own reports through the coverage date.

Organizations ranked by independent spending supporting this candidate
Rank Committee Amount Share Transactions Last activity
1 RJC Victory Fund C00528554 $3,515,615 65.4% 10 May 15, 2026
2 MAGA KY C00908723 $1,283,199 23.9% 26 May 14, 2026
3 UNITED DEMOCRACY PROJECT (UDP) C00799031 $579,319 10.8% 5 May 12, 2026

Opposing Ed Gallrein

All 3 shown $7,006,952 total

Itemized rows as published by the FEC on Aug 16, 2026. The summary figures above come from the candidate's own reports through the coverage date.

Organizations ranked by independent spending opposing this candidate
Rank Committee Amount Share Transactions Last activity
1 KENTUCKY 4TH PAC C00943753 $6,698,000 95.6% 11 May 14, 2026
2 HOLD THE LINE PAC C00736140 $285,000 4.1% 5 May 11, 2026
3 Gun Rights America C00742635 $23,952 0.3% 6 May 14, 2026

What that outside spending purchased

Each independent expenditure carries a short description the spending committee wrote, and these categories are those descriptions sorted under taxonomy outside-1.0. Spending supporting Ed Gallrein and spending opposing them are broken down separately and never combined, and every share below is a share of that one direction's total.

The largest category is usually "Advertising, medium not specified". That is not a leftover: it is spending the committee described only as a media buy or as advertising, without saying whether it aired on television, ran online, or arrived in the mail. MyRepTracker reports what was filed rather than assigning it a medium.

Supporting Ed Gallrein

Independent spending supporting this candidate, by reported purpose for the 2026 cycle, ranked by amount
Purpose Amount % Share Transactions
Advertising, medium not specified Reported as a media buy or as advertising, with no medium named. $4,094,934 76.1% 15
Digital and online advertising $710,625 13.2% 13
Broadcast, cable, and radio advertising $563,019 10.5% 11
Phone calls and text messages $9,556 0.2% 2
Classified $5,378,133 100.0%
Unclassified filing descriptions $0 0.0%
Total independent spending $5,378,133 100% 41

Opposing Ed Gallrein

Independent spending opposing this candidate, by reported purpose for the 2026 cycle, ranked by amount
Purpose Amount % Share Transactions
Broadcast, cable, and radio advertising $6,635,000 94.7% 6
Direct mail $254,483 3.6% 9
Digital and online advertising $85,009 1.2% 4
Phone calls and text messages $32,460 0.5% 3
Classified $7,006,952 100.0%
Unclassified filing descriptions $0 0.0%
Total independent spending $7,006,952 100% 22

Who the committees behind this money were

Every committee here is placed by the registration it filed with the FEC for the 2026 cycle: its designation, its committee type, and the organizational form it reported. That is the FEC's own record and involves no judgement by MyRepTracker, so this covers every itemized dollar. A committee's registration can change between cycles, and each cycle is judged by its own.

Contributed to Ed Gallrein

Committees itemized $109,627 in contributions to this campaign.

Political committees contributing to this campaign, grouped by who the FEC says runs them in the 2026 cycle, ranked by amount
Kind of committee Amount % Share Committees Transactions
Membership organization PACs $57,898 52.8% 3 37
Leadership PACs $23,729 21.6% 4 7
Non-connected committees $21,500 19.6% 6 6
Other candidates' committees $4,000 3.6% 2 2
Trade association PACs $2,500 2.3% 1 1
Itemized total for this direction $109,627

Spent supporting Ed Gallrein

Committees itemized $5,378,133 in independent spending supporting Ed Gallrein.

Independent spenders supporting this candidate, grouped by who the FEC says runs them in the 2026 cycle, ranked by amount
Kind of committee Amount % Share Committees Transactions
Non-connected committees $5,378,133 100.0% 3 41
Itemized total for this direction $5,378,133

Spent opposing Ed Gallrein

Committees itemized $7,006,952 in independent spending opposing Ed Gallrein.

Independent spenders opposing this candidate, grouped by who the FEC says runs them in the 2026 cycle, ranked by amount
Kind of committee Amount % Share Committees Transactions
Non-connected committees $7,006,952 100.0% 3 22
Itemized total for this direction $7,006,952

What interests those committees advance

The FEC publishes no industry or interest field, so unlike the section above this one is a claim MyRepTracker makes. A committee is placed here only when there is a document behind the claim that a reader can open: its own statement of organization, its own published mission statement, or a named third party. Every assignment carries that document on the committee's own page. A committee's name is never evidence of anything.

Categorized is not the same as reviewed. Most of these sectors were assigned by machine from the committee's own filing rather than read by a person. Each committee's own page says which of the two its assignment is, and names the document behind it either way.

Coverage is partial on purpose, and the part that is not covered is shown at full size rather than left out. Leadership PACs, party committees, and other candidates' committees are excluded outright: their giving is an officeholder's or a party's decision, so no interest label describes it. Categories are taxonomy interest-1.7.

Contributed to Ed Gallrein

Committees itemized $109,627 in contributions to this campaign. $27,729 of that came from leadership PACs, party committees, and other candidates' committees, which are not interest groups. Of the remaining $81,898, committees categorized as advancing an interest account for $0 and committees not yet categorized account for $81,898.

Political committees contributing to this campaign, grouped by the interest they are categorized as advancing in the 2026 cycle, ranked by amount
Interest Amount % Share Committees Transactions
Committees not yet categorized $81,898 100.0% 10 44
Leadership PACs, party committees, and other candidates' committees Not part of the base the shares beside it are taken over. $27,729 Not applicable 6 9
Base the shares are taken over $81,898 100%
Itemized total for this direction $109,627

Spent supporting Ed Gallrein

Committees itemized $5,378,133 in independent spending supporting Ed Gallrein. Of that, committees categorized as advancing an interest account for $4,094,934 and committees not yet categorized account for $1,283,199.

Independent spenders supporting this candidate, grouped by the interest they are categorized as advancing in the 2026 cycle, ranked by amount
Interest Amount % Share Committees Transactions
Pro-Israel Ideological and single-issue $4,094,934 76.1% 2 15
Committees not yet categorized $1,283,199 23.9% 1 26
Base the shares are taken over $5,378,133 100%
Itemized total for this direction $5,378,133

Spent opposing Ed Gallrein

Committees itemized $7,006,952 in independent spending opposing Ed Gallrein. Of that, committees categorized as advancing an interest account for $0 and committees not yet categorized account for $7,006,952.

Independent spenders opposing this candidate, grouped by the interest they are categorized as advancing in the 2026 cycle, ranked by amount
Interest Amount % Share Committees Transactions
Committees not yet categorized $7,006,952 100.0% 3 22
Base the shares are taken over $7,006,952 100%
Itemized total for this direction $7,006,952

Last-minute contributions reported before an election

In the days just before an election, a campaign must tell the FEC within 48 hours about any contribution or loan of $1,000 or more. These notices arrive faster than the regular reporting schedule, and the same money is reported again in the report covering those days. Nothing here is added to receipts: it is a preview of money the ordinary reports will carry, not money beside them.

Reported on notices

$39,792
Across 4 notices, received Apr 30, 2026 to May 11, 2026

Still only provisional

$0
Every notice is now covered by a regular report

The most recent notice was filed on May 13, 2026. A notice stops being the only record of its money once a regular report covers the same days; those are marked reconciled below and the amounts appear in Ed Gallrein's reported totals through the ordinary schedule.

48-hour notices filed for the 2026 cycle, newest first
Filed Amount Entries Covers State Filing
May 13, 2026 $12,000 7 May 11 to May 11, 2026 Covered by a regular report FEC filing ↗
May 11, 2026 $4,101 3 May 11 to May 11, 2026 Covered by a regular report FEC filing ↗
May 7, 2026 $22,041 9 May 5 to May 6, 2026 Covered by a regular report FEC filing ↗
May 1, 2026 $1,650 1 Apr 30 to Apr 30, 2026 Covered by a regular report FEC filing ↗

Where the individual money was reported from

Contributions from individuals that the campaign itemized, grouped by the state each contributor gave as their address. Contributions of $200 or less in aggregate are not itemized and carry no address, so they are not here at all. These places account for $3,120,736 of the $3,511,194 this campaign reported from individuals and from transfers by its other authorized committees, across 5,135 itemized contributions.

From Kentucky

$133,009
4.3% of the itemized money that has a place

From everywhere else

$2,987,727
95.7% of the itemized money that has a place

Money from outside Kentucky is not money from outside the country, and neither figure is evidence that anything unlawful happened. People may contribute to campaigns in states they do not live in, and United States citizens living abroad may contribute at all.

What kind of place it came from

Itemized individual contributions by kind of place, 2026 cycle
Kind of place Amount Contributions Share
States and the District of ColumbiaContributors who gave an address in one of the fifty states or the District of Columbia. $3,119,736 5,133 >99.9%
United States territoriesPuerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands. $1,000 2 <0.1%

Places, largest first

Top 10 of 48 places shown as bars. Every place is in the table below.

  • California $780,415
  • Florida $571,408
  • New York $495,448
  • Texas $173,387
  • Kentucky this campaign's state $133,009
  • Illinois $127,758
  • Georgia $116,551
  • Pennsylvania $93,554
  • New Jersey $76,849
  • Maryland $62,754
Every place with itemized individual contributions reported for the 2026 cycle
Place Amount Contributions Share
California $780,415 762 25.0%
Florida $571,408 741 18.3%
New York $495,448 411 15.9%
Texas $173,387 1,030 5.6%
Kentucky this campaign's state $133,009 192 4.3%
Illinois $127,758 176 4.1%
Georgia $116,551 161 3.7%
Pennsylvania $93,554 141 3.0%
New Jersey $76,849 89 2.5%
Maryland $62,754 65 2.0%
Connecticut $55,275 49 1.8%
Ohio $49,980 69 1.6%
Massachusetts $49,170 38 1.6%
Michigan $47,620 77 1.5%
Arizona $43,723 47 1.4%
Nevada $32,948 51 1.1%
Colorado $28,851 41 0.9%
Minnesota $21,750 25 0.7%
Washington $18,621 30 0.6%
Oregon $18,145 23 0.6%
Kansas $16,408 82 0.5%
Tennessee $14,963 200 0.5%
Missouri $12,953 24 0.4%
Virginia $12,748 140 0.4%
New Mexico $7,158 41 0.2%
Delaware $7,085 20 0.2%
North Carolina $6,884 59 0.2%
Utah $5,672 14 0.2%
Oklahoma $5,390 34 0.2%
Wyoming $5,293 4 0.2%
Iowa $5,000 2 0.2%
South Carolina $3,610 12 0.1%
District of Columbia $3,569 8 0.1%
Indiana $3,289 37 0.1%
Wisconsin $2,638 47 0.1%
Louisiana $1,972 29 0.1%
Arkansas $1,874 6 0.1%
New Hampshire $1,350 2 <0.1%
Idaho $1,081 9 <0.1%
Montana $1,047 24 <0.1%
Mississippi $908 100 <0.1%
Alabama $879 10 <0.1%
Puerto Rico $500 1 <0.1%
Virgin Islands $500 1 <0.1%
Nebraska $412 3 <0.1%
Rhode Island $250 1 <0.1%
South Dakota $51 3 <0.1%
North Dakota $36 4 <0.1%
Reported with a place $3,120,736 5,135 100%

Contributions are transactions, not people: one contributor giving every month is counted once for each contribution. No contributor's name, address, employer, or occupation is stored or shown anywhere on this site.

How this compares

Compared with U.S. House campaigns in Kentucky, 2026 cycle: 37 campaigns with a complete Federal Election Commission record for the cycle. This is a position in that group, not a score, a grade, or a judgement about the campaign.

Total receipts

Everything the authorized campaign committee took in for this cycle, including contributions, loans, and transfers.

  • This campaign $3,567,324
  • Cohort median $118,755
Total receipts for this campaign and for U.S. House campaigns in Kentucky, 2026 cycle
Measure Value
This campaign $3,567,324
Lowest in the cohort$0
25th percentile$7,539
Median$118,755
75th percentile$849,758
Highest in the cohort$9,916,442
Campaigns counted 37

32 of the 37 campaigns counted reported less than this one, which puts it at the 86th percentile of the cohort. Campaigns reporting the same value sit at the same position.

Share of receipts from political committees

Direct contributions from PACs and other political committees as a share of total receipts. Campaigns reporting no receipts at all have no share and are left out of this measure.

  • This campaign 1.6%
  • Cohort median 0.1%
Share of receipts from political committees for this campaign and for U.S. House campaigns in Kentucky, 2026 cycle
Measure Value
This campaign 1.6%
Lowest in the cohort0.0%
25th percentile0.0%
Median0.1%
75th percentile4.5%
Highest in the cohort64.3%
Campaigns counted 36

21 of the 36 campaigns counted reported less than this one, which puts it at the 58th percentile of the cohort. Campaigns reporting the same value sit at the same position.

Cash on hand

The balance reported at the end of the coverage period. Campaigns report at different times, so this compares balances as of each campaign's own coverage end.

  • This campaign $179,309
  • Cohort median $3,715
Cash on hand for this campaign and for U.S. House campaigns in Kentucky, 2026 cycle
Measure Value
This campaign $179,309
Lowest in the cohort-$420
25th percentile$184
Median$3,715
75th percentile$91,275
Highest in the cohort$3,041,112
Campaigns counted 37

28 of the 37 campaigns counted reported less than this one, which puts it at the 76th percentile of the cohort. Campaigns reporting the same value sit at the same position.

Outside spending supporting

Independent expenditures by other organizations supporting the candidate. This money was never received or controlled by the campaign.

  • This campaign $5,378,133
  • Cohort median $0
Outside spending supporting for this campaign and for U.S. House campaigns in Kentucky, 2026 cycle
Measure Value
This campaign $5,378,133
Lowest in the cohort$0
25th percentile$0
Median$0
75th percentile$0
Highest in the cohort$7,170,138
Campaigns counted 37

35 of the 37 campaigns counted reported less than this one, which puts it at the 95th percentile of the cohort. Campaigns reporting the same value sit at the same position.

Outside spending opposing

Independent expenditures by other organizations opposing the candidate, not coordinated with any campaign.

  • This campaign $7,006,952
  • Cohort median $0
Outside spending opposing for this campaign and for U.S. House campaigns in Kentucky, 2026 cycle
Measure Value
This campaign $7,006,952
Lowest in the cohort$0
25th percentile$0
Median$0
75th percentile$0
Highest in the cohort$10,140,726
Campaigns counted 37

35 of the 37 campaigns counted reported less than this one, which puts it at the 95th percentile of the cohort. Campaigns reporting the same value sit at the same position.

Every comparison is drawn from one two-year cycle and one office. Only campaigns whose FEC record for that cycle is complete are counted; the rest are reported beside the cohort and are never counted as zero. One authorized committee is counted once however many candidacies report it, so where a candidate's committees are all reported by another FEC record, that record supplies the figures for both. A campaign is never compared with another cycle, with a career total, or with a candidate for a different office.

What these numbers mean

Receipts are not the same as contributions
Total receipts include everything the campaign took in, such as contributions, loans, and transfers. Contributions are only the money given by people and committees.
Direct contributions are not outside spending
A direct contribution is money received by the campaign's own authorized committee. An independent expenditure is money another organization spent on its own, without coordinating with the campaign. The Federal Election Commission treats these as different activities, and so does this page.
The organizations named here are political committees
Direct rankings count what one political committee gave to a campaign; outside-spending rankings count what a committee spent independently. A separate conduit section groups individual contributions only when the campaign's memo record supplies a registered conduit committee's FEC ID. It never attributes donors to employers or interest groups, and it never exposes contributor names. Sites using broader attribution rules may therefore report different organization totals.
A cycle may be only partly reported
Filings arrive throughout a two-year cycle. A current cycle shows only what has been filed and processed through the coverage date shown above, so it is not comparable with a finished cycle.
This view is cycle specific
It covers the 2026 two-year cycle only.

Source: Federal Election Commission ↗. MyRepTracker ingests FEC records directly and does not add its own influence, risk, or corruption score.