RALPH NORMAN FOR CONGRESS

RepublicanFEC reportedHouse campaign committee · Principal campaign committee · Quarterly filerC00633610

Overview

Raised: $101.1Kvs $397.5K 2023–2024
Spent: $610.5Kvs $334.5K 2023–2024
Cash on hand: $85.2Kvs $594.6K 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 indicators

2 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 · 2 integrity · 0 fundraising patterns

Operating expenditures concentrated at one payee →Associated amount: $16,635
CHALMERS, ADAMS, BACKER & KAUFMAN, LLC received 53.2% of positive itemized operating spending in RALPH NORMAN FOR CONGRESS's report. This is a concentration pattern for review.
Evidence date: Dec 12, 2025
Financial integrity review →Associated amount: $0
The FEC issued 1 notice(s) to RALPH NORMAN FOR CONGRESS about reports it had not filed, most recently on 2026-09-24, and no filing covering those periods appears in the loaded archive.
Evidence date: Sep 24, 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
NORMAN, RALPH W. JR.RepublicanFEC reported
U.S. House · South Carolina · District 5
Election 2026 · Incumbent · Current candidate
Candidate details & sources
FEC candidate ID: H8SC05158 · 2025–2026 reporting cycle

Money in

Sources

Itemized individual contributions$11.8K
Unitemized individual contributions$862
Other committees$63.5K
Candidate contributions$7,000
Other receipts$10.7K

Top contributors

NORMAN, RALPH W MR.$7,0001 contribution
RYDIN, MICHAEL96% Republican · 4% unclassifiedDerived from contributions$3,5001 contribution
ZUCKER, JONATHANRepublicanDerived from contributions$3,3001 contribution

Money out

Spending by kind

Operating expenditures$273.6K
Contribution refunds$3
Other disbursements$336.9K

Largest disbursements

RIVET STRATEGIES LLC$30KFUNDRAISING CONSULTING · Jul 23, 2025
CMN CONSULTING LLC$22.5KRESEARCH CONSULTING · Aug 26, 2025
BASSWOOD RESEARCH$22.1KPOLLING EXPENSE · Jul 23, 2025
CHALMERS, ADAMS, BACKER & KAUFMAN, LLC$15.6KLEGAL CONSULTING · Jul 23, 2025
JAMESTOWN ASSOCIATES$11.5KSTRATEGIC MANAGEMENT CONSULTING · Jul 23, 2025
CHALMERS, ADAMS, BACKER & KAUFMAN, LLC$7,320LEGAL CONSULTING · Nov 20, 2025
CHALMERS, ADAMS, BACKER & KAUFMAN, LLC$6,877LEGAL CONSULTING · Aug 12, 2025
WRHI$6,500MEDIA BUY · Feb 10, 2025

Over time

Itemized receipts and reported spending by month

Data

Month	Raised	Spent
Jan 25	$100	$0
Feb 25	$100	$0
Mar 25	$4,000	$102,500
Apr 25	$4,800	$0
May 25	$1,300	$0
Jun 25	$850	$0
Jul 25	$7,600	$5,000
Sep 25	$0	$4,000
Mar 26	$0	$25,000

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: CURTIS, ELIZABETH
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 37467 · ROCK HILL, SC, 29732

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.

LEAN FORWARD AMERICAC00930396 Joint fundraising participantRALPH NORMAN FOR CONGRESSC00633610
FEC reportedObserved: Sep 12, 2026Registration filing: 1930604Official FEC source ↗
Current registration observation; not a historical filing-date assertion.
RALPH NORMAN FOR CONGRESSC00633610 Authorized candidateNORMAN, RALPH W. JR.H8SC05158
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 ↗

RALPH NORMAN FOR CONGRESS

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