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Ian Zahren for Iowa

Candidate committee · code SWGA50418 · candidate: Zahren, Ian (Independent, the party on file with the state) · 6 filings on record

$228.78 on hand as of the 2025 “Jan 1 – Dec 31” report. The filing.

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Time rangeJan 2023 – Jan 2025

Adds up every report whose period starts in the range, as the committee reported it on its DR-2 filings; a report the state lists with only a year counts under January of that year, and the sentence says how many there are. Cash on hand is never added up: it is the closing figure of the most recently filed report in the range, named in the sentence. The money-raised bars and the filing history below follow the range; the cash-on-hand line always shows every report.

6 reports in the range Jan 2023 – Jan 2025: raised $18,541.00, spent $18,312.22, in-kind $0.00, as reported. Cash on hand at the end of the most recently filed of them (2025 · Jan 1 – Dec 31, filed 2026-01-02): $228.78.

Cash on hand at end of period, 2023 to 2025 · hover for details
$228
Money raised each filing period (donations of money, not goods or services), per state filings · hover any bar
$0

Itemized money, month by month

Time rangeDec 2023 – Dec 2024

Adds up the itemized rows we hold whose date falls in the range: cash given to this committee, and payments it made, as listed donor-by-donor and payee-by-payee in the state's files. These are itemized figures, a different basis from the reported totals above, and the state's itemized files run behind its filings (see the notes below). The ranked lists of givers and payees below cover since 2023, whatever range is chosen.

Money in, itemized cash dated Dec 2023 – Dec 2024: $18,541.00. From individuals $18,041.00, from organizations $0.00, from other committees $500.00. Cash only: in-kind support and loans received are not counted here.

Money out, itemized payments dated Dec 2023 – Dec 2024: $18,312.22. To vendors and people $18,312.22, to other committees $0.00. Loan repayments are not counted here.

Where the money comes from

$18,541.00 received across 136 itemized cash contributions since 2023-01-01, per state disclosure records (the rows we hold reach 2026-10-20: the publisher's extract, dated 2026-07-14, plus the Ethics Board's public search, read 2026-10-19).

Individuals 97% ($18,041.00) · PACs & committees 3% ($500.00)

Where these donors live, of the $17,815.00 whose donor listed an address: In Iowa 83% ($14,790.00) · Outside Iowa 17% ($3,025.00).

The shares leave out $726.00 from donors with no usable address.

Iowa State Education Assn. P…
$500.00 2024-09-23 Individual gifts (lumped) across 135 gifts, not to scale $18,041.00

Where the money went

$18,312.22 in 86 payments to 25 different recipients since 2023, as this committee itemized them. Itemized payments run through 2024-12-31. Its filings report $18,312.22 spent since 2023 (newest report in our copy filed 2026-01-02). The two are the same to the cent.

Paid to Total Payments
Quad Cities Press $7,387.54 2
Signs on the Cheap $1,808.78 1
USPS $1,785.80 3
Meta $1,391.85 34
LA Communications $912.00 2
Riverland Expressions $885.62 3
KCTN $864.00 2
QCP Press $633.64 1
Color Copies USA $506.34 1
Campaign Partner $250.00 8
TexVisions $241.94 1
Finger Publishing Inc $240.00 1

The 12 biggest of 25 recipients. Source: Iowa Ethics & Campaign Disclosure Board expenditure filings.

Filing history

Period Filed Timing Raised Spent In-kind Unpaid bills Cash on hand Source
2025 · Jan 1 – Dec 31 2026-01-02 on time $0$0$0$0 $228.78 PDF
2024 · Oct. 15 – Dec. 31 2025-01-13 on time $650.00$7,800.22$0$0 $228.78 PDF
2024 · Jul 15 – Oct 14 2024-10-21 on time $9,397.00$6,186.64$0$0 $7,379.00 PDF
2024 · May 15 – Jul 14 2024-07-18 on time $2,424.00$4,023.54$0$0 $4,168.64 PDF
2024 · Jan 1 – May 14 2024-05-19 on time $5,870.00$301.82$0$0 $5,768.18 PDF
2023 · Jan 1 – Dec 31 2024-01-06 on time $200.00$0$0$0 $200.00 PDF

On time or late is figured from the filed and due dates — hover a flag to see both. "Cash on hand" is the period-end figure; period-start cash appears in the chart above. Amended reports show the amended PDF.