JIM CARLIN FOR US SENATE

RepublicanFEC reportedSenate campaign committee · Principal campaign committee · Quarterly filerC00898148

Overview

Raised: $494.4K
Spent: $489.2K
Cash on hand: $5,266
Debts owed: $355.5K

OpenFEC processed totals through Jun 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: 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).

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
CARLIN, JAMESRepublicanFEC reported
U.S. Senate · Iowa · Statewide
Election 2026 · Open seat · Current candidate
Candidate details & sources
FEC candidate ID: S6IA00249 · 2025–2026 reporting cycle

Money in

Sources

Itemized individual contributions$82.5K
Unitemized individual contributions$54.6K
Loans received$352K
Other receipts$18

Top contributors

CARLIN, JAMES$352K52 contributions
PHILIP, KELLYRepublicanDerived from contributions$7,0002 contributions
KELLY, BRENDARepublicanDerived from contributions$5,0001 contribution
KELLY, CHRISTOPHER

Money out

Spending by kind

Operating expenditures$483.2K
Contribution refunds$401
Other disbursements$5,532

Largest disbursements

BPM MARKETING LLC$65KDIGITAL ADVERTISING · Apr 30, 2026
CASTALDO, RICH$25KCAMPAIGN CONSULTING · Apr 3, 2026
MUDD, INC.$20.7KADVERTISING · May 13, 2026
AMERICAN SYSTEMS GROUP$20KDIGITAL CONSULTING · Mar 4, 2025
BPM MARKETING LLC$17.5KDIGITAL ADVERTISING · May 26, 2026
OLSON, WALSTROM$10KMEDIA CONSULTING · Jun 2, 2025
OLSON, WALSTROM$10KMEDIA CONSULTING · May 2, 2025
RUBICON POTOMAC STRATEGIES LLC$10KCAMPAIGN CONSULTING · Feb 5, 2026
OLSON, WALSTROM

Over time

Itemized receipts and reported spending by month

Data

Month	Raised	Spent
Dec 24	$100	$0
Feb 25	$7,000	$0
Mar 25	$31,500	$0
Apr 25	$25,763	$0
May 25	$33,821	$0
Jun 25	$24,500	$0
Jul 25	$6,671	$0
Aug 25	$850	$0
Sep 25	$34,600	$0
Oct 25	$3,050	$0
Nov 25	$2,825	$0
Dec 25	$40,410	$0
Jan 26	$150	$0
Feb 26	$150	$0
Mar 26	$40,896	$0
Apr 26	$137,500	$1,701
May 26	$44,106	$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: Senate campaign committee
Designation: Principal campaign committee
Party affiliation: Republican
Treasurer: CARLIN, JAMES
Filing cadence: Quarterly filer
Organization type: Not reported
Connected organization: Not reported
Registration snapshot cycle: 2025–2026
Cycles loaded: 2026
Registered address: 5728 SUNNYBROOK DRIVE · SIOUX CITY, IA, 51106

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.

JIM CARLIN FOR US SENATEC00898148 Authorized candidateCARLIN, JAMESS6IA00249
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: Senate 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 ↗

JIM CARLIN FOR US SENATE

Overview

Candidate connections

Money in

Sources

Top contributors

Money out

Spending by kind

Largest disbursements

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Records

FEC-reported relationships

FEC-reported relationships

Political alignment

FEC-reported relationships

Top employers

Top industries

Top states

Cash, assets & liabilities

Money network

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