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Michael James Faris

Campaign donations, fundraising, spending, and cash on hand from the latest included Federal Election Commission filings.

U.S. Senate — KentuckyREPOpen seatFEC S6KY00278
Direct answer · 2025–2026 cycle

How much has Michael James Faris raised?

$61,529.95 in total campaign receipts.

$50,310.93 is reported as individual contributions. Total receipts can also include transfers, offsets, loans, and other FEC receipt categories, so it is broader than donations alone.

Total receipts$61,530
Total spending$78,371
Cash on hand-$16,841

Official sourceFederal Election Commission · data through .

Filing-driven activity & election calendar

Michael James Faris 2026 timeline

REAL DATES

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Latest included campaign summary

End date of the candidate financial summary in Election.org's current FEC bulk-data release.

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Scheduled primary election

Congressional primary date listed in the FEC's 2026 calendar.

Official election schedule · schedule subject to change
Federal general election

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Campaign money

Michael James Faris campaign finance details

FEC BULK DATA
2025–2026 federal-cycle totals through March 31, 2026.
MetricReported amountWhat it means
Total receipts$61,529.95All campaign receipts reported in the FEC summary, not only individual donations.
Individual contributions$50,310.93Contributions reported in the FEC individual-contribution category.
Candidate contributions$10,219.02Contributions from the candidate in the summary record.
Total disbursements$78,371.26Campaign spending and other disbursements reported for the cycle.
Cash on hand-$16,841.31Reported campaign cash remaining at the end of the covered period.
Debts owed by campaign$0.00Outstanding debts the campaign reported owing.
Net cash after reported debt-$16,841.31Election.org calculation: cash on hand minus debts owed by the campaign.

Dollar amounts preserve the cents in the FEC record. These figures are campaign-finance totals, not personal wealth, polling, odds, endorsements, or Election.org scores. “Not reported” means the current bulk file contains no summary; it does not mean zero.

Money graph · dates, geography, and operating expenditures

How money moved through Michael James Faris

FEC ITEMIZED FILES

These panels show privacy-thresholded itemized individual-receipt activity and amendment-normalized operating expenditures. They are descriptive slices of filings—not a complete substitute for the official financial summary.

Itemized individual receipt activity over time

Monthly transaction activity from the FEC individual-contributions file. Current-cycle files can contain earlier-dated transactions; signed amendments, refunds, reattributions, and memo entries remain in the source-defined analysis.

3 months

Where itemized contributor addresses were reported

State is taken from the contributor address on the FEC row. It does not prove residence, citizenship, employer location, or the ultimate economic source of funds.

0.0% outside Kentucky
Kentucky24 distinct reported contributors · 50 rows$22,208.00100.0%

Only committee/state groups with at least 5 distinct reported contributors are published. The percentages use only the displayed dataset’s publishable, state-coded itemized rows; they are not a percentage of all campaign receipts.

Reported operating-expenditure categories

FEC filer-selected categories from Schedule B operating expenditures. Memo-code X rows are excluded because the FEC says they are not included in the itemization total.

6 published categories
Advertising Expenses20 current organization-payment rows$36,262.47
Campaign Materials9 current organization-payment rows$5,411.68
Category not reported1 current organization-payment row$3,097.63
Campaign Event Expenses1 current organization-payment row$371.00
Solicitation and Fundraising Expenses1 current organization-payment row$350.00
Travel Expenses1 current organization-payment row$64.00

Top organization payees in operating expenditures

Organization payees only. Election.org excludes individual payees and conservatively normalizes names; similar names are not asserted to be one legal entity.

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God Prints LLC12 current itemized payments · latest 2026-03-27
$14,550.13
Political Print Guru2 current itemized payments · latest 2026-02-01
$13,000.00
Big Vibe Promotions3 current itemized payments · latest 2026-02-03
$7,549.75
Sticker Mule4 current itemized payments · latest 2025-09-25
$4,614.18
Curative Printing1 current itemized payment · latest 2025-07-30
$1,897.25
1swipe1 current itemized payment · latest 2025-07-10
$1,190.35
Amazon4 current itemized payments · latest 2025-10-15
$846.71
Two To Fly1 current itemized payment · latest 2025-08-25
$654.41
Kazi Graphix2 current itemized payments · latest 2025-05-28
$469.00
Campbell Country Agricultural Society1 current itemized payment · latest 2025-08-19
$371.00
Hardin County Republican Party1 current itemized payment · latest 2025-05-05
$350.00
Fivestar1 current itemized payment · latest 2025-09-30
$64.00

Source: FEC operating expenditures bulk file, checked 2026-08-24. These totals cover published current organization-payment rows after amendment normalization and are not equivalent to the committee’s total disbursements.

Transparent calculations

What the reported totals show

81.8%Individual-contribution shareIndividual contributions ÷ total receipts
127.4%Spending-to-receipts ratioTotal disbursements ÷ total receipts
-$16,841.31Net cash after debtCash on hand − debts owed by campaign

These are Election.org calculations from the displayed FEC totals, included to make the filing easier to understand. They are descriptive, not a score or comparison.

Official record

Candidate filing details

2026 CYCLE
Candidate
Michael James Faris
Office sought
U.S. Senate — Kentucky
Party affiliation
REP
Incumbency
Open seat
Candidate status
Current candidate
Principal committee
MIKE FARIS FOR U.S. SENATE →
FEC candidate ID
S6KY00278
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