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VOLUNTEERS FOR SHIMKUS

RepublicanFEC reportedHouse campaign committee · Principal campaign committee · Quarterly filerC00258855

Overview

Raised: $244vs $311 2023–2024
Spent: $83.6Kvs $85.7K 2023–2024
Cash on hand: $446Kvs $529.4K 2023–2024
Debts owed: $0vs $0 2023–2024

OpenFEC processed totals through Sep 30, 2026; figures change when amended reports are filed.

Raised is total receipts and Spent is total disbursements as the committee reported them; both can include transfers, loans and refunds. Cash on hand and debts are the balances at the end of the last report. The comparison is the same figure for 2023–2024.

Compliance review · No open linked indicators

Automated review indicators, not findings of a violation. Exact reported records are linked; identity is not independently verified. Reported lobbyist-bundling disclosures are not counted as issues.

Latest cycle-wide scan: Nov 5, 2026 · Index refreshed: Nov 5, 2026. Coverage is limited to loaded records and implemented checks.

Scan coverage and freshness

Receipt eligibility: last successful scan Nov 5, 2026 · latest scheduled check skipped (Nov 5, 2026).
Integrity: last successful scan Nov 5, 2026 · latest scheduled check succeeded (Nov 5, 2026).
Fundraising patterns: last successful scan Nov 5, 2026 · latest scheduled check skipped (Nov 5, 2026).

No open indicators are linked in the published index. This is not a compliance clearance.

Across the cycle, some findings could not be linked safely to entities; ambiguous identities are withheld.

Candidate connections

Principal candidate campaign
SHIMKUS, JOHN MRepublicanFEC reported
U.S. House · Illinois · District 15
Election 2020 · Incumbent · Prior-cycle candidate
Candidate details & sources
FEC candidate ID: H2IL20042 · 2025–2026 reporting cycle

Money in

Sources

Other receipts$244

Largest itemized receipts

PNC BANK$34Mar 31, 2026
PNC BANK$33Jun 30, 2026
PNC BANK$33Sep 30, 2026

All receipts →

Sources are the committee's reported totals by line; the lists rank itemized receipts of $200 or more and exclude memo entries.

Money out

Spending by kind

Operating expenditures$36.9K
Other disbursements$46.7K

Largest disbursements

MAXWELL, MARY ELLEN$5,000RETAINER FOR COMMITTEE FINANCE AND BANKING SERVICES · Jul 7, 2026
MAXWELL, MARY ELLEN$4,500RETAINER FOR COMMITTEE FINANCE AND BANKING SERVICES · May 18, 2026
MAXWELL, MARY ELLEN$4,500RETAINER FOR COMMITTEE FINANCE AND BANKING SERVICES · Apr 9, 2026
MAXWELL, MARY ELLEN$4,500RETAINER FOR COMMITTEE FINANCE AND BANKING SERVICES · Jan 5, 2026
MAXWELL, MARY ELLEN$3,000RETAINER FOR COMMITTEE FINANCE AND BANKING SERVICES · Dec 1, 2025
MAXWELL, MARY ELLEN$2,000QUARTERLY RETAINER FOR COMMITTEE FINANCE AND BANKING SERVICES · Jul 7, 2025
MAXWELL, MARY ELLEN$2,000QUARTERLY RETAINER FOR COMMITTEE FINANCE AND BANKING SERVICES · Apr 1, 2025
MAXWELL, MARY ELLEN$2,000QUARTERLY RETAINER FOR COMMITTEE FINANCE AND BANKING SERVICES · Jan 2, 2025

Over time

Itemized receipts and reported spending by month

Data

Month	Raised	Spent
Feb 25	$0	$5,000
Apr 25	$0	$500
Jun 25	$0	$2,000
Sep 25	$0	$750
Dec 25	$0	$1,000
Feb 26	$0	$500
Mar 26	$0	$1,000
May 26	$0	$250
Aug 26	$0	$500

Months follow the reported transaction date; itemized records only, so unitemized small-dollar giving is not in the bars.

Money network · top contributors and recipients as a graph

Records

Registration

Committee type: House campaign committee
Designation: Principal campaign committee
Party affiliation: Republican
Treasurer: MAXWELL, MARY ELLEN
Filing cadence: Quarterly filer
Organization type: Not reported
Connected organization: Not reported
Registration snapshot cycle: 2025–2026
Cycles loaded: 2026, 2024
Registered address: 5 STONEHILL CT · EDWARDSVILLE, IL, 620256764

Relationships

FEC-reported relationships

Registration evidence · 2025–2026

Reported relationships are not contributions or transfers. They do not establish that any money changed hands. The reporting committee and related entity are shown separately. Only loaded relationship types are shown; this is not a complete organization chart.

VOLUNTEERS FOR SHIMKUSC00258855 Authorized candidateSHIMKUS, JOHN MH2IL20042
FEC reportedLoaded: Sep 7, 2026Official FEC source ↗
Cycle-specific FEC candidate–committee linkage. The date is local ingestion, not the original filing date.

FEC-reported relationships

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Political alignment

Registration, linked-candidate, and disclosed money-flow evidence

Evidence-based classificationRepublican affiliation reportedRepublicanFEC reported

FEC registration: House campaign committee; Republican affiliation reported. Classification basis: FEC reported. This describes disclosed financial activity, not an official party registration or ideological score. The figures below separately preserve the filer’s Schedule E support and opposition designations.

No candidate support/oppose spending foundThis cycle has no locally ingested Schedule E rows for this committee. Registration, linked-candidate, committee-transfer, and recipient-reported conduit evidence can still establish the alignment shown above.

$0 supporting · $0 opposing · 0 rowsOfficial FEC outside spending ↗

Overview

Candidate connections

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Largest itemized receipts

Money out

Spending by kind

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Records

FEC-reported relationships

FEC-reported relationships

Political alignment

FEC-reported relationships

Cash, assets & liabilities

Money network

Over time