FRIENDS OF BENNIE THOMPSON

DemocraticFEC reportedHouse campaign committee · Principal campaign committee · Quarterly filerC00279851

Overview

Raised: $928.2Kvs $1.2M 2023–2024
Spent: $1.3Mvs $1.3M 2023–2024
Cash on hand: $1.3Mvs $1.6M 2023–2024
Debts owed: $0vs $0 2023–2024

OpenFEC processed totals through Oct 14, 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 indicators

4 open

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: Oct 18, 2026 · Index refreshed: Oct 18, 2026. Coverage is limited to loaded records and implemented checks.

Scan coverage and freshness

Receipt eligibility: last successful scan Oct 18, 2026 · latest scheduled check skipped (Oct 18, 2026).
Integrity: last successful scan Oct 18, 2026 · latest scheduled check succeeded (Oct 18, 2026).
Fundraising patterns: last successful scan Oct 18, 2026 · latest scheduled check skipped (Oct 18, 2026).

0 receipt eligibility · 4 integrity · 0 fundraising patterns

Operating expenditures concentrated at one payee →Associated amount: $109,635
AMERICAN EXPRESS received 70.2% of positive itemized operating spending in FRIENDS OF BENNIE THOMPSON's report. This is a concentration pattern for review.
Evidence date: Sep 11, 2025
Operating expenditures concentrated at one payee →Associated amount: $69,738
AMERICAN EXPRESS received 55.1% of positive itemized operating spending in FRIENDS OF BENNIE THOMPSON's report. This is a concentration pattern for review.
Evidence date: May 29, 2026
Operating expenditures concentrated at one payee →Associated amount: $68,409
AMERICAN EXPRESS received 52.6% of positive itemized operating spending in FRIENDS OF BENNIE THOMPSON's report. This is a concentration pattern for review.
Evidence date: Dec 5, 2025
Financial integrity review →Associated amount: $0
The FEC issued 1 notice(s) to FRIENDS OF BENNIE THOMPSON about reports it had not filed, most recently on 2026-06-28, and no filing covering those periods appears in the loaded archive.
Evidence date: Jun 28, 2026

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

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Candidate connections

Principal candidate campaign
THOMPSON, BENNIE G.DemocraticFEC reported
U.S. House · Mississippi · District 2
Election 2026 · Incumbent · Current candidate
Candidate details & sources
FEC candidate ID: H4MS02068 · 2025–2026 reporting cycle

Money in

Sources

Itemized individual contributions$216.3K
Unitemized individual contributions$8,897
Other committees$696.3K
Party committees$5,500

Top contributors

GRAIN, DAVIDDemocraticDerived from contributions$8,1635 contributions
OF CREEK INDIANS, POARCH BAND28% Democratic / 72% RepublicanDerived from contributions$8,0004 contributions
ARISON, MADELEINE MRS.DemocraticDerived from contributions$7,000

Money out

Spending by kind

Operating expenditures$1.3M
Contribution refunds$2,164
Other disbursements$7,700

Largest disbursements

AMERICAN EXPRESS$104.1KCREDIT CARD PAYMENT · Jul 11, 2025
AMERICAN EXPRESS$58.9KCREDIT CARD PAYMENT · Nov 14, 2025
AMERICAN EXPRESS$57.5KCREDIT CARD PAYMENT · Apr 30, 2026
PATRIOT SIGNAGE, INC.$16.8KSIGNS · Jan 9, 2026
MS. SANDRA MCCALL$15.2KSALARIES, TRANSPORTATION, FOOD: SEE BELOW · Mar 2, 2026
ANDREW CAMPHOR$15KRENT · Jan 16, 2026
THOMPSON, BENNIE G.$14.9KREIMBURSEMENT: FUNDRAISING EXPENSE · Jun 2, 2025
EOI MEDIA$14.9KMEDIA SERVICES · Mar 4, 2026
AMERICAN EXPRESS

Over time

Itemized receipts and reported spending by month

Data

Month	Raised	Spent
Jan 25	$5,979	$0
Feb 25	$1,499	$0
Mar 25	$2,519	$0
Apr 25	$5,979	$0
May 25	$19,752	$0
Jun 25	$28,300	$0
Jul 25	$2,760	$0
Aug 25	$3,644	$0
Sep 25	$3,500	$0
Oct 25	$17,091	$0
Nov 25	$7,720	$0
Dec 25	$5,520	$0
Jan 26	$12,150	$0
Feb 26	$8,761	$0
Mar 26	$19,970	$0
Apr 26	$25,787	$0
May 26	$14,788	$0
Jun 26	$10,789	$0

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: Democratic
Treasurer: ANDERSON, REUBEN V.
Filing cadence: Quarterly filer
Organization type: Not reported
Connected organization: Not reported
Registration snapshot cycle: 2025–2026
Cycles loaded: 2026, 2024
Registered address: PO BOX 100 · BOLTON, MS, 390410100

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.

FRIENDS OF BENNIE THOMPSONC00279851 Authorized candidateTHOMPSON, BENNIE G.H4MS02068
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 classificationDemocratic affiliation reportedDemocraticFEC reported

FEC registration: House campaign committee; Democratic 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 ↗

FRIENDS OF BENNIE THOMPSON

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