Candidate committee · code SWGA51587 · candidate: Varley, Karen
· 4 filings on record
$11,348.70 on hand as of the 2026
“Jul 15 – Oct 14” report.
The filing.
2026, Iowa House District 23: Karen Varley (Democrat)
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Time range
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.
4 reports in the range Jan 2026 – Jul 2026: raised $18,530.25, spent $7,181.55, in-kind $479.66, as reported. Cash on hand at the end of the most recently filed of them (2026 · Jul 15 – Oct 14, filed 2026-10-19): $11,348.70.
Cash on hand at end of period, 2026 to 2026 · hover for details
Money raised each filing period (donations of money, not goods or services), per state filings
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Itemized money, month by month
Time range
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 Mar 2026 – Oct 2026: $18,530.25. From individuals $9,980.25, from organizations $1,050.00, from other committees $7,500.00. Cash only: in-kind support and loans received are not counted here.
Money out, itemized payments dated Mar 2026 – Oct 2026: $7,181.55. To vendors and people $6,781.55, to other committees $400.00. Loan repayments are not counted here.
Where the money comes from
$18,530.25 received across 102 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: $479.66 in in-kind
support (6 filings) —
goods and services donated rather than money
.
$100.002026-06-15Individual gifts (lumped)
across 89 gifts, not to scale
$9,980.25
$5,552.25 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).
$7,181.55 in 46 payments to 21 different recipients since 2023, as
this committee itemized them.
Itemized payments run through 2026-10-11. Its filings report $7,181.55 spent since 2023 (newest report in our copy filed 2026-10-19). The two are the same to the cent.
Paid to
Total
Payments
Carter Printing
$3,370.50
1
Unionist Printing
$1,353.83
2
Lewis Place LLC
$658.05
1
Hometown Foods
$450.24
5
Iowa Democratic Party
$400.00
2
FALPRES Inc
$300.00
3
Hy-Vee 1889
$146.40
1
Art Allen
$80.00
1
US Postal Service
$64.80
3
Act Blue
$58.39
13
Sandee Dawdy
$50.00
1
Winterset Public LIbrary
$50.00
1
The 12 biggest of 21 recipients. Source: Iowa Ethics &
Campaign Disclosure Board expenditure filings.
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
$400.00 across 2
payments this term (since 2023), as itemized in this committee's
own spending reports.