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Tom Townsend for Iowa

Candidate committee · code SWGA50654 · candidate: Townsend, Thomas · 8 filings on record

$37,181.32 on hand as of the 2025 “Jan 1 – Dec 31” report. The filing.

Cash on hand at end of period, 2023 to 2025 · hover for details
$37,181
Money raised each filing period (donations of money, not goods or services), per state filings · hover any bar
$36,060

Where the money comes from

$147,107.32 received across 270 itemized cash contributions since 2023-01-01, per state disclosure records. Separately, and not counted above or in the mix below: $11,168.53 in in-kind support (4 filings) — goods and services donated rather than money .

Individuals 9% ($13,782.32) · PACs & committees 87% ($128,225.00) · Other organizations 3% ($5,100.00)

International Brotherhood of…
$67,750.00 2025-09-24 IBEW Local 364 PAC
$6,000.00 2025-09-11 Great Plains Laborers' Distr…
$6,000.00 2025-08-19 IBEW Local Union No. 55
$5,000.00 2023-12-14 Iowa State Building & Trades…
$4,500.00 2024-07-24 North Central States Carpent…
$4,500.00 2025-09-16 Plumbers and Pipe Fitters Lo…
$4,000.00 2025-07-16 Operating Engineers Local 23…
$2,500.00 2023-12-18 State Conference of IBEW IL …
$2,500.00 2024-05-17 Heavy Highway Political Acti…
$2,500.00 2025-09-16 International Union of Opera…
$2,000.00 2024-08-20 Cedar Rapids Trades Council …
$2,000.00 2024-09-24 Plumbers & Steamfitters Loca…
$2,000.00 2025-09-09 IBEW Local Union #124 Volunt…
$2,000.00 2024-05-16 Iowa State U.A.W. PAC
$2,000.00 2024-06-04 Iowa NECA PAC
$2,000.00 2025-09-10 Credit Union PAC
$1,500.00 2025-09-15 IRONWORKERS LOCAL #89 POLITI…
$1,250.00 2025-07-21 Southeastern Iowa Building T…
$1,000.00 2024-07-17 DRIVE -(Democrat, Republican…
$1,000.00 2023-12-20 Central Iowa Building and Co…
$1,000.00 2023-12-31 Iowa Committee on Political …
$1,000.00 2024-07-18 Justice For All Political Ac…
$1,000.00 2024-10-15 Electrical Workers Local 145…
$1,000.00 2025-10-24 CWA Council of the State of …
$750.00 2024-09-27 Iowa Professional Fire Fight…
$750.00 2025-12-15 Local Union No 347 IBEW PAC …
$750.00 2025-08-12 Great River Area Labor Feder…
$750.00 2025-08-25 United Steelworkers District…
$750.00 2025-08-28 Iowa Letter Carriers Committ…
$600.00 2024-08-08 Plumbers and Pipefitters UA …
$500.00 2024-08-07 Teamsters Local 90 D.R.I.V.E…
$500.00 2025-09-22 Boyd Gaming Diamond Jo Emplo…
$500.00 2025-12-19 Dissolved Iowa Association o…
$300.00 2025-10-14 Laborers' Local 43 PAC
$250.00 2024-05-21 Iron Workers Local 67 PAC
$250.00 2025-07-22 Millwright Local Union 2158 …
$250.00 2025-07-23 State Police Officers Counci…
$200.00 2025-12-29 LS2group PAC
$125.00 2025-09-16 David George A Cynthia Georg…
$100.00 2024-08-08 Individual gifts (lumped) across 195 gifts, not to scale $13,782.32

Every donation on record: 270 contributions, $147,107.32 →

Where the money went

$109,926.00 in 54 payments to 20 different recipients since 2023, as this committee itemized them. Itemized payments run through 2025-12-19. Its Spent column below is the full reported figure; where that is larger, the difference is spending the state's itemized file does not carry — most recently because the newest reports have not reached it yet.

Paid to Total Payments
Belva Campaign Builders LLC $25,500.00 8
Quad City Press $24,921.83 6
Iowa Democratic Party $20,900.00 7
Dubuque County Democratic Central Committee $6,750.00 4
Radio Dubuque $6,480.00 1
Red 5 interactive Inc. $5,800.00 1
IBEW Local Union No. 55 $5,000.00 1
Woody Post LLC $4,512.50 2
Davenport Printing Company $2,621.50 1
USPS $2,340.80 4
Thomas Townsend $1,500.53 4
City of Dubuque Parks & Recreation Department $1,200.00 1

The 12 biggest of 20 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 2026-01-14 on time $36,060.00$18,373.50$0$0 $37,181.32 PDF
2024 · Oct. 15 – Dec. 31 2025-01-16 on time $143.55$31,957.69$0$0 $19,494.82 PDF
2024 · Oct. 15 – Tuesday Preceding Genera… 2024-10-31 on time $1,352.66$22,841.35$9,586.53$0 $51,308.96 PDF
2024 · Jul 15 – Oct 14 2024-10-21 on time $30,052.72$20,268.92$1,470.00$0 $72,797.65 PDF
2024 · May 15 – Jul 14 2024-07-17 on time $10,992.00$5,662.24$0$0 $63,013.85 PDF
2024 · May 15 – Tuesday Preceding Primary 2024-05-30 on time $5,476.39$8.96$0$0 $57,684.09 PDF
2024 · Jan 1 – May 14 2024-05-20 on time $19,830.00$10,794.34$112.00$0 $52,216.66 PDF
2023 · Jan 1 – Dec 31 2024-01-18 on time $43,200.00$19.00$0$0 $43,181.00 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.

Contributions to other committees

$37,750.00 to 2 committees this term (since 2023), as itemized by the committees that received it.

Recipient committee Total
Iowa Democratic Party $31,000.00
Dubuque County Democratic Central Committee · files outside this dataset $6,750.00