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Jeff Ettinger

Democratic-Farmer-Labor candidate · 2022 general election · Minnesota

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Jeff Ettinger

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Campaign finance

FEC data through Dec 31, 2022. Covering the 2022 two-year cycle only.

The 2022 cycle at a glance

Total receipts
$2,592,367
Everything the campaign took in
Individual contributions
$881,369
Itemized and unitemized split not reported
PAC and other committees
$90,000
Received from political committees
Campaign spending
$2,582,636
Total disbursements
Cash on hand
$9,731
At the end of the reporting period

Where the money came from

These categories divide total receipts of $2,592,367 exactly once, so they add back up to the reported total.

Receipts by funding category for the 2022 cycle
Source Amount Share of receipts
Individual contributions $881,369 34.0%
PAC and other committee contributions $90,000 3.5%
Party committee contributions $1,000 0.0%
Candidate self-funding $400,000 15.4%
Loans $1,200,000 46.3%
Other receipts, including transfers $19,997 0.8%
Total receipts $2,592,367 100%

Financial position

Cash, debt, refunds, loans, and transfers as reported through Dec 31, 2022 for the 2022 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 2022 cycle
Measure Amount
Cash on hand at coverage end $9,731
Debts and obligations owed by the committee $1,200,000
Debts and obligations owed to the committee Not reported
Contributions refunded to individuals $12,300
Contributions refunded to committees $0
Transfers received from other authorized committeesAlready raised money moving between the candidate's own committees, not new fundraising. $1,500
Transfers made to other authorized committees $1,500
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 $1,360,069 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 $1,200,000 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 $12,300 Calculated as refunds to individuals plus refunds to committees.

Change since the previous filing

Both columns come from committee C00808329, so the two periods are comparable. A change is the difference between what 30G 2022 reported and what YE 2022 reported, and the direction is stated in words rather than shown only as a sign. 30G 2022 reported through Nov 28, 2022 and YE 2022 through Dec 31, 2022.

Financial position at the two most recent controlling filings of committee C00808329
Measure 30G 2022Reported through Nov 28, 2022 YE 2022Reported through Dec 31, 2022 Change
Cash on hand at period end $64,837 $9,731 Down $55,106
Debts owed by the committee $1,200,000 $1,200,000 No change
Contribution refunds in the period $2,500 $0 Down $2,500

Cash compared with one period's spending

Cash on hand of $9,731 set beside the $61,061 this campaign spent during YE 2022, through Dec 31, 2022, 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 Jeff Ettinger. Supporting and opposing spending are kept apart rather than combined into one number, and neither is added to campaign receipts.

Spent supporting

$7,790
Independent expenditures in the 2022 cycle

Spent opposing

$0
Independent expenditures in the 2022 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 20 shown $94,450 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 FOLLOW THE NORTH STAR FUND C00431874 $15,000 15.9% 3 Sep 30, 2022
2 AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS, AFL-CIO COMMITTEE ON POLITICAL EDUCATION C00028860 $10,000 10.6% 2 Oct 14, 2022
3 VELVET HAMMER PAC C00692111 $10,000 10.6% 2 Jul 29, 2022
4 MACHINISTS NON PARTISAN POLITICAL LEAGUE OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MACHINISTS & AEROSPACE WORKERS C00002469 $5,000 5.3% 1 Oct 21, 2022
5 AMERICAN FEDERATION OF STATE COUNTY & MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES P E O P L E C00011114 $5,000 5.3% 1 Oct 31, 2022
6 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR JUSTICE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (AAJ PAC) C00024521 $5,000 5.3% 1 Sep 30, 2022
7 INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE C00027342 $5,000 5.3% 1 Sep 14, 2022
8 NATIONAL TURKEY FEDERATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITEE/TURPAC C00076182 $5,000 5.3% 1 May 9, 2022
9 AMERICAN CRYSTAL SUGAR COMPANY POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE C00110338 $5,000 5.3% 1 Jul 26, 2022
10 AMERIPAC: THE FUND FOR A GREATER AMERICA C00271338 $5,000 5.3% 1 Sep 19, 2022
11 MIDWEST VALUES PAC C00416131 $5,000 5.3% 1 Aug 23, 2022
12 DEMOCRACY ENGINE, INC., PAC C00468314 $3,375 3.6% 6 Nov 7, 2022
13 BRINGING EVERYONE TOGETHER THROUGH ADVOCACY C00405050 $3,000 3.2% 2 Oct 3, 2022
14 BROTHERHOOD OF LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS & TRAINMEN PAC FUND C00099234 $2,500 2.6% 1 Oct 6, 2022
15 OCEANS PAC C00431601 $2,500 2.6% 1 Oct 3, 2022
16 FRIENDS OF DAN FEEHAN C00649327 $2,000 2.1% 1 May 15, 2022
17 BEN SAMUELS FOR CONGRESS C00784074 $2,000 2.1% 1 Sep 16, 2022
18 LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS ACTION FUND C00252940 $1,575 1.7% 3 Nov 3, 2022
19 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LETTER CARRIERS OF UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BRANCH 9 P.A.L. C00114314 $1,500 1.6% 3 Jun 30, 2022
20 SMART TD PAC C00001636 $1,000 1.1% 1 Oct 6, 2022

Organizations spending independently

Supporting Jeff Ettinger

1 organization shown $7,790 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 Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party C00025254 $7,790 100.0% 27 Nov 8, 2022

Opposing Jeff Ettinger

No opposing independent expenditures are reported for this cycle.

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 Jeff Ettinger 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 Jeff Ettinger

Independent spending supporting this candidate, by reported purpose for the 2022 cycle, ranked by amount
Purpose Amount % Share Transactions
Advertising, medium not specified Reported as a media buy or as advertising, with no medium named. $3,750 48.1% 11
Digital and online advertising $3,000 38.5% 15
Broadcast, cable, and radio advertising $1,040 13.4% 1
Classified $7,790 100.0%
Unclassified filing descriptions $0 0.0%
Total independent spending $7,790 100% 27

Opposing Jeff Ettinger

No independent expenditures in this direction are reported for this cycle.

Who the committees behind this money were

Every committee here is placed by the registration it filed with the FEC for the 2022 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 Jeff Ettinger

Committees itemized $94,450 in contributions to this campaign.

Political committees contributing to this campaign, grouped by who the FEC says runs them in the 2022 cycle, ranked by amount
Kind of committee Amount % Share Committees Transactions
Leadership PACs $40,500 42.9% 6 10
Labor union PACs $30,000 31.8% 7 10
Membership organization PACs $6,575 7.0% 2 4
Cooperative PACs $5,000 5.3% 1 1
Trade association PACs $5,000 5.3% 1 1
Other candidates' committees $4,000 4.2% 2 2
Corporate PACs $3,375 3.6% 1 6
Itemized total for this direction $94,450

Spent supporting Jeff Ettinger

Committees itemized $7,790 in independent spending supporting Jeff Ettinger.

Independent spenders supporting this candidate, grouped by who the FEC says runs them in the 2022 cycle, ranked by amount
Kind of committee Amount % Share Committees Transactions
Party committees $7,790 100.0% 1 27
Itemized total for this direction $7,790

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 Jeff Ettinger

Committees itemized $94,450 in contributions to this campaign. $44,500 of that came from leadership PACs, party committees, and other candidates' committees, which are not interest groups. Of the remaining $49,950, committees categorized as advancing an interest account for $42,500 and committees not yet categorized account for $7,450.

Political committees contributing to this campaign, grouped by the interest they are categorized as advancing in the 2022 cycle, ranked by amount
Interest Amount % Share Committees Transactions
Public sector unions Labor $15,000 30.0% 2 3
Agribusiness Agriculture $5,000 10.0% 1 1
Building trades unions Labor $5,000 10.0% 1 1
Food and beverage Agriculture $5,000 10.0% 1 1
Industrial unions Labor $5,000 10.0% 1 1
Lawyers and law firms Professional services $5,000 10.0% 1 1
Transportation unions Labor $2,500 5.0% 1 1
Leadership PACs, party committees, and other candidates' committees Not part of the base the shares beside it are taken over. $44,500 Not applicable 8 12
Committees not yet categorized $7,450 14.9% 4 13
Base the shares are taken over $49,950 100%
Itemized total for this direction $94,450

Spent supporting Jeff Ettinger

Committees itemized $7,790 in independent spending supporting Jeff Ettinger. $7,790 of that came from leadership PACs, party committees, and other candidates' committees, which are not interest groups. Of the remaining $0, committees categorized as advancing an interest account for $0 and committees not yet categorized account for $0.

Independent spenders supporting this candidate, grouped by the interest they are categorized as advancing in the 2022 cycle, ranked by amount
Interest Amount % Share Committees Transactions
Leadership PACs, party committees, and other candidates' committees Not part of the base the shares beside it are taken over. $7,790 Not applicable 1 27
Base the shares are taken over $0 100%
Itemized total for this direction $7,790

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

$96,700
Across 20 notices, received May 5, 2022 to Nov 1, 2022

Still only provisional

$0
Every notice is now covered by a regular report

The most recent notice was filed on Nov 2, 2022. 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 Jeff Ettinger's reported totals through the ordinary schedule.

48-hour notices filed for the 2022 cycle, newest first
Filed Amount Entries Covers State Filing
Nov 2, 2022 $6,000 2 Nov 1 to Nov 1, 2022 Covered by a regular report FEC filing ↗
Nov 1, 2022 $2,900 1 Oct 30 to Oct 30, 2022 Covered by a regular report FEC filing ↗
Oct 30, 2022 $2,000 1 Oct 28 to Oct 28, 2022 Covered by a regular report FEC filing ↗
Oct 28, 2022 $5,000 1 Oct 27 to Oct 27, 2022 Covered by a regular report FEC filing ↗
Oct 25, 2022 $1,000 1 Oct 24 to Oct 24, 2022 Covered by a regular report FEC filing ↗
Oct 25, 2022 amendment $4,400 3 Oct 20 to Oct 21, 2022 Covered by a regular report FEC filing ↗
Oct 24, 2022 $1,000 1 Oct 22 to Oct 22, 2022 Covered by a regular report FEC filing ↗
Aug 6, 2022 $5,400 2 Aug 4 to Aug 5, 2022 Covered by a regular report FEC filing ↗
Aug 4, 2022 $11,900 5 Aug 3 to Aug 3, 2022 Covered by a regular report FEC filing ↗
Aug 2, 2022 $5,500 3 Aug 1 to Aug 1, 2022 Covered by a regular report FEC filing ↗

The 10 most recent notices of 20 are listed. The amount and count above cover all of them.

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 $720,596 of the $882,869 this campaign reported from individuals and from transfers by its other authorized committees, across 1,016 itemized contributions.

From Minnesota

$523,481
72.7% of the itemized money that has a place

From everywhere else

$196,365
27.3% of the itemized money that has a place

Money from outside Minnesota 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, 2022 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. $719,846 1,014 100.0%
Not placedContributions the FEC could not attribute to a place. They are reported here and are never assigned to a state or counted in the in-state and out-of-state split. $750 2 Not counted

Places, largest first

Top 10 of 23 places shown as bars. Every place is in the table below.

  • Minnesota this campaign's state $523,481
  • California $31,865
  • District of Columbia $19,200
  • Massachusetts $18,400
  • Texas $17,250
  • Arizona $16,800
  • Florida $16,750
  • Illinois $16,300
  • Washington $13,500
  • Maryland $12,600
Every place with itemized individual contributions reported for the 2022 cycle
Place Amount Contributions Share
Minnesota this campaign's state $523,481 854 72.7%
California $31,865 25 4.4%
District of Columbia $19,200 24 2.7%
Massachusetts $18,400 7 2.6%
Texas $17,250 18 2.4%
Arizona $16,800 7 2.3%
Florida $16,750 18 2.3%
Illinois $16,300 11 2.3%
Washington $13,500 10 1.9%
Maryland $12,600 6 1.8%
New York $10,800 5 1.5%
Pennsylvania $5,800 3 0.8%
Colorado $4,350 7 0.6%
Wisconsin $4,000 3 0.6%
Hawaii $2,000 2 0.3%
Virginia $2,000 3 0.3%
Montana $1,750 3 0.2%
Iowa $1,250 2 0.2%
Missouri $1,000 1 0.1%
Not reported not placed $750 2 Not counted
Idaho $400 1 0.1%
Georgia $300 2 <0.1%
New Mexico $50 2 <0.1%
Reported with a place $719,846 1,014 100%

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.

  • $750 could not be attributed to a place and is left out of the in-state and out-of-state figures rather than assigned to a state.

How this compares

Compared with U.S. House campaigns in Minnesota, 2022 cycle: 25 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 $2,592,367
  • Cohort median $694,758
Total receipts for this campaign and for U.S. House campaigns in Minnesota, 2022 cycle
Measure Value
This campaign $2,592,367
Lowest in the cohort$0
25th percentile$33,555
Median$694,758
75th percentile$2,485,203
Highest in the cohort$7,801,458
Campaigns counted 25

19 of the 25 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.

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 3.5%
  • Cohort median 7.5%
Share of receipts from political committees for this campaign and for U.S. House campaigns in Minnesota, 2022 cycle
Measure Value
This campaign 3.5%
Lowest in the cohort0.0%
25th percentile0.0%
Median7.5%
75th percentile26.6%
Highest in the cohort42.0%
Campaigns counted 22

9 of the 22 campaigns counted reported less than this one, which puts it at the 41th 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 $9,731
  • Cohort median $9,731
Cash on hand for this campaign and for U.S. House campaigns in Minnesota, 2022 cycle
Measure Value
This campaign $9,731
Lowest in the cohort$0
25th percentile$180
Median$9,731
75th percentile$51,823
Highest in the cohort$645,627
Campaigns counted 25

12 of the 25 campaigns counted reported less than this one, which puts it at the 48th 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 $7,790
  • Cohort median $0
Outside spending supporting for this campaign and for U.S. House campaigns in Minnesota, 2022 cycle
Measure Value
This campaign $7,790
Lowest in the cohort$0
25th percentile$0
Median$0
75th percentile$8,000
Highest in the cohort$1,538,065
Campaigns counted 25

17 of the 25 campaigns counted reported less than this one, which puts it at the 68th 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 $0
  • Cohort median $0
Outside spending opposing for this campaign and for U.S. House campaigns in Minnesota, 2022 cycle
Measure Value
This campaign $0
Lowest in the cohort$0
25th percentile$0
Median$0
75th percentile$0
Highest in the cohort$8,176,629
Campaigns counted 25

0 of the 25 campaigns counted reported less than this one, which puts it at the 0th 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 2022 two-year cycle only.

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