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Heather Matson for Iowa Senate

Candidate committee · code SWGA51420 · candidate: Matson, Heather · 5 filings on record

$85,456.38 on hand as of the 2026 “Jul 15 – Oct 14” report. The filing.

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Heather Matson for Iowa Senate: dated and sourced figures, sized for each platform.

Format

Time rangeJan 2025 – Jul 2026

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.

5 reports in the range Jan 2025 – Jul 2026: raised $293,406.74, spent $207,950.36, in-kind $285,727.72, as reported. Cash on hand at the end of the most recently filed of them (2026 · Jul 15 – Oct 14, filed 2026-10-19): $85,456.38.

Cash on hand at end of period, 2025 to 2026 · hover for details
$85,456
Money raised each filing period (donations of money, not goods or services), per state filings · hover any bar
$145,555

Itemized money, month by month

Time rangeNov 2025 – Oct 2026

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 Nov 2025 – Oct 2026: $293,406.74. From individuals $186,175.42, from organizations $4,000.00, from other committees $103,231.32. Cash only: in-kind support and loans received are not counted here.

Money out, itemized payments dated Nov 2025 – Oct 2026: $207,950.36. To vendors and people $34,150.36, to other committees $173,800.00. Loan repayments are not counted here.

Where the money comes from

$293,406.74 received across 1,704 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). Separately, and not counted above or in the mix below: $285,727.72 in in-kind support (41 filings) — goods and services donated rather than money .

Individuals 63% ($186,175.42) · PACs & committees 35% ($103,231.32) · Other organizations 1% ($4,000.00)

Where these donors live, of the $293,406.74 whose donor listed an address: In Iowa 62% ($180,893.92) · Outside Iowa 38% ($112,512.82).

Heather Matson for Iowa Hous…
$29,604.32 2025-12-30 Iowa State Education Assn. P…
$25,000.00 2026-08-20 Ankeny Area Democrats
$11,727.00 2026-09-16 Justice For All Political Ac…
$10,000.00 2026-09-25 International Brotherhood of…
$5,000.00 2026-08-10 Iowans for Health Liberty PA…
$4,000.00 2025-12-18 Iowa State Building & Trades…
$2,500.00 2026-10-01 Iowa State U.A.W. PAC
$2,000.00 2026-10-14 Iowa Staff Union-National St…
$2,000.00 2026-09-24 Heavy Highway Political Acti…
$2,000.00 2026-08-24 Operating Engineers Local 23…
$2,000.00 2026-08-19 Central Iowa Building and Co…
$1,000.00 2026-05-07 See committee 8730 North Cen…
$1,000.00 2026-09-01 Great Plains Laborers' Distr…
$1,000.00 2026-06-11 Credit Union PAC
$1,000.00 2026-06-11 IOWA MEDICAL POLITICAL ACTIO…
$1,000.00 2026-10-05 Iowa Committee on Political …
$1,000.00 2026-10-10 Casey's PAC
$1,000.00 2026-10-01 MID-AMERICA CARPENTERS REGIO…
$1,000.00 2026-09-24 Local Union No 347 IBEW PAC …
$500.00 2026-06-12 Wellmark, Inc. PAC or WellPA…
$500.00 2026-08-03 Iowa Beverage Association PA…
$500.00 2026-10-01 Iron Workers Local 67 PAC
$500.00 2026-07-08 Iowa Health PAC
$500.00 2026-10-09 Planned Parenthood Advocates…
$250.00 2026-09-09 I-Vet PAC or Iowa Veterinary…
$200.00 2026-10-13 United Steelworkers of Ameri…
$200.00 2026-09-15 We Told You So PAC
$150.00 2026-10-13 Iowa Chiropractic Society Pa…
$100.00 2026-06-11 Individual gifts (lumped) across 1,674 gifts, not to scale $186,175.42

$139,188.55 of the individuals' money is from recent rows read from the Ethics Board's public search, which does not say whether a giver is a person or an organization. We count a giver there as an individual unless the state's older records list the same name as an organization or the name is plainly one (a PAC, party, committee, business, trust or union).

Every donation on record: 1,704 contributions, $293,406.74 →

Where the money went

$207,950.36 in 126 payments to 23 different recipients since 2023, as this committee itemized them. Itemized payments run through 2026-10-14. Its filings report $207,950.36 spent since 2023 (newest report in our copy filed 2026-10-19). The two are the same to the cent.

Paid to Total Payments
Iowa Democratic Party $173,800.00 3
Foundation Blue $8,000.00 2
Carter Printing $5,476.26 7
ActBlue Technical Services $4,550.97 55
Brainstorm Iowa $3,315.22 1
USPS $3,227.00 1
Malbert Media $2,500.00 2
Scale to Win $1,559.93 3
Oath $1,192.42 22
Big Green Umbrella Media $1,048.00 1
Raygun $637.29 1
Southwest Airlines $636.40 1

The 12 biggest of 23 recipients. Source: Iowa Ethics & Campaign Disclosure Board expenditure filings.

Filing history

Period Filed Timing Raised Spent In-kind Unpaid bills Cash on hand Source
2026 · Jul 15 – Oct 14 2026-10-19 on time $145,555.45$190,034.62$278,367.72$0 $85,456.38 PDF
2026 · May 15 – Jul 14 2026-07-17 on time $66,260.10$10,313.05$7,195.00$0 $129,935.55 PDF
2026 · May 15 – Tuesday Preceding Primary 2026-05-28 on time $12,901.00$564.06$0$0 $73,988.50 PDF
2026 · Jan 1 – May 14 2026-05-19 on time $27,014.37$6,691.65$50.00$0 $61,651.56 PDF
2025 · Jan 1 – Dec 31 2026-01-09 on time $41,675.82$346.98$115.00$0 $41,328.84 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

$173,800.00 across 3 payments this term (since 2023), as itemized in this committee's own spending reports.

Recipient committee Total
Iowa Democratic Party $173,800.00