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Ned Pillersdorf

Kentucky U.S. House District 5

Democratic Party

Ned Pillersdorf is included in the 2026 FEC filing records for Kentucky U.S. House District 5. Explore the available source records below. A federal filing does not establish ballot qualification.

Direct answer · 2025–2026 cycle

How much has Ned Pillersdorf raised?

$367,878.23 in total campaign receipts.

$176,178.23 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
$367,878
Total spending
$225,272
Cash on hand
$142,631

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Ned Pillersdorf 2026 timeline

REAL DATES

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Latest included PAC or party transaction

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Scheduled primary election

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Latest included campaign summary

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Personal financial disclosures
House Clerk · personal filings

Personal financial disclosure filings

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Campaign finance details
Campaign money

Ned Pillersdorf campaign finance details

FEC BULK DATA
2025–2026 federal-cycle totals through September 30, 2026.
MetricReported amountWhat it means
Total receipts$367,878.23All campaign receipts reported in the FEC summary, not only individual donations.
Individual contributions$176,178.23Contributions reported in the FEC individual-contribution category.
Candidate contributions$191,450.00Contributions from the candidate in the summary record.
Total disbursements$225,272.13Campaign spending and other disbursements reported for the cycle.
Cash on hand$142,631.10Reported 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$142,631.10Election.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.

PAC contributions and outside spending
Who gave · who spent · what the filing says

PAC contributions and outside spending involving Ned Pillersdorf

FEC ITEMIZED DATA

Direct campaign support and independent spending are not combined. Support and opposition below are the positions reported by the spender to the Federal Election Commission.

Direct committee contributions$250.001 transactions
Coordinated party spending$0.000 transactions
Independent spending to support$0.000 transactions
Independent spending to oppose$0.000 transactions
Direct contribution

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Coordinated party expenditure

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Independent expenditure

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Federal committees reporting direct contributions

THE CENTER FOR FREETHOUGHT EQUALITY PAC1 itemized transaction · latest Nov 14, 2025

Source: FEC contributions-from-committees-to-candidates and independent-expenditure bulk files, checked Oct 16, 2026. Committee transactions retain only the latest filing version for stable transaction IDs. Independent-expenditure rows from superseded filings are removed through the FEC previous-filing chain. Memo entries remain included because the FEC bulk-file documentation instructs analysts to include them.

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How money moved through Ned Pillersdorf

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.

12 calendar months · 12 published cells

Only committee/month cells with at least 5 distinct reported contributors are published. A missing cell can reflect source absence or the privacy threshold; it does not mean zero activity. Published amounts are unchanged.

Source: FEC individual-contributions bulk file ↗, imported . This panel does not include PAC receipts.

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% of published positive state-cell amounts outside Kentucky
Kentucky87 distinct reported contributors · 179 rows$68,841.00100.0%

Only committee/state groups with at least 5 distinct reported contributors are published. Percentages divide by the sum of all positive published, privacy-thresholded committee/state cells, including cells beyond the top 12 shown. Zero and negative state cells are excluded from this denominator; these shares do not describe all contributions or all campaign receipts.

Source: FEC individual-contributions bulk file ↗, imported .

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.

5 published categories
Advertising Expenses26 current organization-payment rows$75,606.17
Category not reported30 current organization-payment rows$6,566.89
Campaign Event Expenses7 current organization-payment rows$1,930.60
Solicitation and Fundraising Expenses46 current organization-payment rows$1,880.81
Administrative/Salary/Overhead Expenses2 current organization-payment rows$522.58

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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Lamar Advertising Company Of E Ky1 current itemized payment · latest 2026-06-15
$29,378.00
Mountain Top Media14 current itemized payments · latest 2026-06-22
$23,840.00
Wymt2 current itemized payments · latest 2026-06-28
$9,596.00
Wsip2 current itemized payments · latest 2026-06-22
$9,000.00
Chronical Creative Media Company LLC10 current itemized payments · latest 2026-06-06
$6,925.00
James Butler5 current itemized payments · latest 2026-06-15
$2,450.00
State Wide Press4 current itemized payments · latest 2026-05-06
$1,571.14
Actblue58 current itemized payments · latest 2026-06-30
$1,465.92
US Postmaster8 current itemized payments · latest 2026-06-21
$843.74
Integrated Solutions Politics2 current itemized payments · latest 2025-08-04
$522.58
American Express2 current itemized payments · latest 2026-05-04
$401.17
Wmdj1 current itemized payment · latest 2026-05-08
$250.00
West Sixth Brewing1 current itemized payment · latest 2025-10-24
$185.50
Pillersdorf Law Office1 current itemized payment · latest 2025-09-30
$78.00

Source: FEC operating expenditures bulk file, checked 2026-10-16. These totals cover published current organization-payment rows after amendment normalization and are not equivalent to the committee’s total disbursements.

Calculated financial context
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What the reported totals show

47.9%Individual-contribution shareIndividual contributions ÷ total receipts
61.2%Spending-to-receipts ratioTotal disbursements ÷ total receipts
$142,631.10Net cash after debtCash on hand − debts owed by campaign

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Official filing details
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Candidate filing details

2026 CYCLE
Candidate
Ned Pillersdorf
Office sought
U.S. House — Kentucky District 5
Party affiliation
Democratic Party
Incumbency
Challenger
Candidate status
Current candidate
Principal committee
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FEC candidate ID
H6KY05152
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