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Who is the committee’s reported treasurer?
KILGORE, PAUL is the treasurer listed for this political committee in the included FEC registration data.
This is the political committee’s treasurer—not necessarily the treasurer or finance director of an organization with a similar name. This record does not establish a current corporate or public-office appointment.
2025–2026 federal-cycle totals through August 31, 2026.
Metric
Reported amount
What it means
Total receipts
$1,805,301.88
All receipts reported by the committee for the cycle.
Individual contributions
$1,768,056.72
Contributions reported in the FEC individual-contribution category.
Other committee contributions
$0.00
Contributions received from other political committees.
Total disbursements
$1,978,703.92
All disbursements reported by the committee for the cycle.
Contributions to other committees
$86,000.00
Contributions the committee reported making to federal candidate committees.
Independent expenditures
$40,000.00
Spending expressly advocating the election or defeat of a clearly identified candidate, made without coordination.
Cash on hand
$9,122.70
Cash reported at the end of the covered filing period.
Debts owed by committee
$623,125.46
Outstanding debts the committee reported owing.
Independent expenditures are distinct from contributions made directly to candidate committees.
Itemized political activity
Candidate giving and outside spending by FREEDOM'S DEFENSE FUND
FEC ITEMIZED DATA
The categories below remain separate: contributions go to a recipient committee; independent expenditures are outside activity reported as supporting or opposing a candidate.
Direct candidate contributions$81,000.0038 transactions
Coordinated party spending$0.000 transactions
Independent spending to support$40,000.002 transactions
Independent spending to oppose$0.000 transactions
Direct contribution
Money reported as given to a candidate or candidate committee. It enters the recipient committee’s campaign-finance record.
Coordinated party expenditure
Party spending reported in the FEC’s coordinated-expenditure category. It is separate from a direct contribution.
Independent expenditure
Outside spending expressly supporting or opposing a candidate. By definition, it is not made in coordination with the candidate or party.
Direct contributions by candidate
Matt Van Epps2 itemized transactions · latest Oct 24, 2025
Source: FEC contributions-from-committees-to-candidates and independent-expenditure bulk files, checked Oct 16, 2026. The totals shown here sum the itemized current-file rows displayed by category; they are not substituted for the committee’s official summary totals.
Money graph · dates, geography, and operating expenditures
How money moved through FREEDOM'S DEFENSE FUND
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.
20 calendar months · 20 published cells
Jan 25$10,132
Feb 25$22,096
Mar 25$40,320
Apr 25$23,576
May 25$18,442
Jun 25$27,729
Jul 25$27,932
Aug 25$38,932
Sep 25$34,542
Oct 25$31,037
Nov 25$54,110
Dec 25$53,100
Jan 26$18,371
Feb 26$34,231
Mar 26$25,776
Apr 26$23,011
May 26$17,702
Jun 26$28,508
Jul 26$25,869
Aug 26$28,885
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.
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.
94.5% of published positive state-cell amounts outside Georgia
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.
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.
2 published categories
Administrative/Salary/Overhead Expenses472 current organization-payment rows$1,546,431.83
Category not reported71 current organization-payment rows$150,438.10
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.
Donor Bureau41 current itemized payments · latest 2026-08-20
$21,241.61
Roc Media LLC11 current itemized payments · latest 2025-07-31
$20,535.34
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.
Official registration
Committee details
2026 CYCLE
Committee type
Hybrid PAC — qualified · code W
Designation
Unauthorized committee · code U
Filing frequency
Monthly filer
Treasurer
KILGORE, PAUL
Mailing address
824 S MILLEDGE AVE STE 101, ATHENS GA 30605
FEC committee ID
C00401786
How to read this page
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