FRIENDS OF BEN MCADAMS

DemocraticFEC reportedHouse campaign committee · Principal campaign committee · Quarterly filerC00658633

Overview

Raised: $2.8Mvs $0 2023–2024
Spent: $2.5Mvs $2,398 2023–2024
Cash on hand: $377.8Kvs $15K 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

1 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 · 1 integrity · 0 fundraising patterns

Financial integrity review →Associated amount: $0
The FEC issued 1 notice(s) to FRIENDS OF BEN MCADAMS about reports it had not filed, most recently on 2026-07-06, and no filing covering those periods appears in the loaded archive.
Evidence date: Jul 6, 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
MCADAMS, BENDemocraticFEC reported
U.S. House · Utah · District 1
Election 2026 · Challenger · Current candidate
Candidate details & sources
FEC candidate ID: H8UT04053 · 2025–2026 reporting cycle

Money in

Sources

Itemized individual contributions$2.1M
Unitemized individual contributions$300.4K
Other committees$341.8K
Transfers from affiliates$89.6K

Top contributors

BETTER BLUE FUNDDemocraticInferred from FEC-reported participants$89.6K1 contribution
RUGA, TINADemocraticDerived from contributions$10.8K4 contributions
ABELE, CHRIS99% DemocraticDerived from contributions$10.5K

Money out

Spending by kind

Operating expenditures$2.4M
Contribution refunds$3,600
Other disbursements$10.5K

Largest transfers and contributions to committees

FAIR SHOT PACDemocraticLinked candidate$4,5002 transactions

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Largest operating payments

OLD TOWN MEDIA LLC$198.4KMEDIA BUY · Jun 4, 2026
OLD TOWN MEDIA LLC$147KMEDIA BUY · Jun 12, 2026
OLD TOWN MEDIA LLC$126.1KMEDIA BUY · May 28, 2026
OLD TOWN MEDIA LLC$126.1KMEDIA BUY · May 21, 2026
IMPACT RESEARCH, INC.$83.3KPOLLING · Jan 29, 2026

Over time

Itemized receipts and reported spending by month

Data

Month	Raised	Spent
Oct 25	$94,500	$0
Nov 25	$428,208	$0
Dec 25	$247,948	$0
Jan 26	$88,235	$4,050
Feb 26	$97,232	$0
Mar 26	$248,906	$0
Apr 26	$190,799	$0
May 26	$129,246	$0
Jun 26	$311,122	$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: LARKIN, ERINN
Filing cadence: Quarterly filer
Organization type: Not reported
Connected organization: BETTER BLUE FUND
Registration snapshot cycle: 2025–2026
Cycles loaded: 2026, 2024
Registered address: P.O. BOX 522340 · SALT LAKE CITY, UT, 84152

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.

BETTER BLUE FUNDC00940890 Joint fundraising participantFRIENDS OF BEN MCADAMSC00658633
FEC reportedObserved: Sep 12, 2026Registration filing: 1978416Official FEC source ↗
Current registration observation; not a historical filing-date assertion.
FRIENDS OF BEN MCADAMSC00658633 Authorized candidateMCADAMS, BENH8UT04053
FEC reportedLoaded: Sep 7, 2026Official FEC source ↗
Cycle-specific FEC candidate–committee linkage. The date is local ingestion, not the original filing date.
FRIENDS OF BEN MCADAMSC00658633 Connected organizationBETTER BLUE FUNDReported name only · no identity match assumed
FEC reportedLoaded: Sep 6, 2026Official FEC source ↗
Cycle-specific FEC committee master: reported connected organization / affiliated committee name. This name-only field does not establish an entity identity match. 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 ↗

Reported counterparty	Date	Reported value	Asset / units	Reported purpose	Source
WOOD, TRAVIS	Jun 18, 2026	$217	Other in-kind	IN-KIND: MEAL/BEVERAGE (COFFEE SHOP AT LITTLE AMERICA) * IN-KIND RECEIVED Derived classification: in-kind-offset	FEC filing ↗ Provenance FEC reported description · source row b7ee631ac90c6a0a1819f536688b44bd23946b99833a5d16f1b10220a3f7bef3 Raw artifact: data/raw/fec/bulk/cycle=2026/dataset=operating_expenditures/d6108c0a87ca0a02a72d333e1c0fad879a14af446f39504772d0d9369940ee7a.zip
JOHNSON, JOEL	Jun 18, 2026	$217	Other in-kind	IN-KIND: MEAL/BEVERAGE (COFFEE SHOP AT LITTLE AMERICA) * IN-KIND RECEIVED Derived classification: in-kind-offset	FEC filing ↗ Provenance FEC reported description · source row f5423c94144f7b7d2ae9f9d237b6beaf312df05b30a0415e5eb0b7b3cc62932b Raw artifact: data/raw/fec/bulk/cycle=2026/dataset=operating_expenditures/d6108c0a87ca0a02a72d333e1c0fad879a14af446f39504772d0d9369940ee7a.zip

FRIENDS OF BEN MCADAMS

Overview

Candidate connections

Money in

Sources

Top contributors

Money out

Spending by kind

Largest transfers and contributions to committees

Largest operating payments

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Records

FEC-reported relationships

FEC-reported relationships

Political alignment

FEC-reported relationships

Top employers

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Cash, assets & liabilities

Money network

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