BOTSFORD FOR ILLINOIS

DemocraticFEC reportedSenate campaign committee · Principal campaign committee · TerminatedC00920348

Overview

Raised: $372.7K
Spent: $372.6K
Cash on hand: $100
Debts owed: $0

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 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: $129,071
BOTSFORD, STEVE JR. received 100.0% of positive itemized operating spending in BOTSFORD FOR ILLINOIS's report. This is a concentration pattern for review.
Evidence date: Dec 31, 2025
Operating expenditures concentrated at one payee →Associated amount: $101,792
BOTSFORD, STEVE JR. received 100.0% of positive itemized operating spending in BOTSFORD FOR ILLINOIS's report. This is a concentration pattern for review.
Evidence date: Sep 30, 2025

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
BOTSFORD, STEVEDemocraticFEC reported
U.S. Senate · Illinois · Statewide
Election 2026 · Open seat · Current candidate
Candidate details & sources
FEC candidate ID: S6IL00656 · 2025–2026 reporting cycle

Money in

Sources

Itemized individual contributions$8,450
Unitemized individual contributions$1,267
Candidate contributions$363K
Other receipts$7

Top contributors

BOTSFORD, STEVE JR.$363K37 contributions
BOTSFORD, KATHLEENDemocraticDerived from contributions$3,5001 contribution
MAYER, RICHARDDemocraticDerived from contributions$1,0001 contribution
MCAUELY, THOMAS

Money out

Spending by kind

Operating expenditures$372.6K

Largest disbursements

CAUSAL IQ$45KADVERTISING · Feb 9, 2026
BOTSFORD, STEVE JR.$31.6KIN-KIND - COMMUNICATIONS CONSULTING · Oct 23, 2025
BOTSFORD, STEVE JR.$30KIN-KIND - MEDIA · Sep 11, 2025
BOTSFORD, STEVE JR.$27.3KIN-KIND - COMMUNICATIONS CONSULTING · Oct 2, 2025
REIN STRATEGIES$27KADVERTISING - SOCIAL MEDIA · Feb 4, 2026
REIN STRATEGIES$27KADVERTISING - SOCIAL MEDIA · Jan 7, 2026
BOTSFORD, STEVE JR.$17.5KIN-KIND - DIGITAL ADVERTISING · Dec 1, 2025
BOTSFORD, STEVE JR.$17.5KIN-KIND - DIGITAL ADVERTISING · Nov 5, 2025
BOTSFORD, STEVE JR.$16.9KIN-KIND - COMMUNICATIONS CONSULTING · Sep 25, 2025
CAUSAL IQ$15.7K

Over time

Itemized receipts and reported spending by month

Data

Month	Raised	Spent
Jul 25	$240	$0
Aug 25	$4,500	$0
Sep 25	$79,051	$0
Oct 25	$75,471	$0
Nov 25	$20,467	$0
Dec 25	$159,444	$0
Jan 26	$875	$0
Feb 26	$8,273	$0
Mar 26	$4,120	$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: Democratic
Treasurer: BOTSFORD, STEVE JR.
Filing cadence: Terminated
Organization type: Not reported
Connected organization: Not reported
Registration snapshot cycle: 2025–2026
Cycles loaded: 2026
Registered address: PO BOX 14047 · CHICAGO, IL, 60614

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.

BOTSFORD FOR ILLINOISC00920348 Authorized candidateBOTSFORD, STEVES6IL00656
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: Senate 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
BOTSFORD, STEVE JR.	Oct 23, 2025	$31,560	Other in-kind	IN-KIND - COMMUNICATIONS CONSULTINGDerived classification: in-kind-offset	FEC filing ↗ Provenance FEC reported description · source row c5631a92a6ae713f793339965b3d920f375c429bbf35d82b11af161ad3a3c757 Raw artifact: data/raw/fec/bulk/cycle=2026/dataset=operating_expenditures/d6108c0a87ca0a02a72d333e1c0fad879a14af446f39504772d0d9369940ee7a.zip
BOTSFORD, STEVE JR.	Sep 11, 2025	$30,000	Other in-kind	IN-KIND - MEDIADerived classification: in-kind-offset	FEC filing ↗ Provenance FEC reported description · source row 502e20259be2080a629c7e532aa50d15feacadc439ae3c32febb764cbefb34b1 Raw artifact: data/raw/fec/bulk/cycle=2026/dataset=operating_expenditures/d6108c0a87ca0a02a72d333e1c0fad879a14af446f39504772d0d9369940ee7a.zip
BOTSFORD, STEVE JR.	Oct 2, 2025	$27,288	Other in-kind	IN-KIND - COMMUNICATIONS CONSULTINGDerived classification: in-kind-offset	FEC filing ↗ Provenance FEC reported description · source row af75fd78d7f437813cd51c97279e4c8ed2afddff2ebf1db3101657ade718c18a Raw artifact: data/raw/fec/bulk/cycle=2026/dataset=operating_expenditures/d6108c0a87ca0a02a72d333e1c0fad879a14af446f39504772d0d9369940ee7a.zip
BOTSFORD, STEVE JR.	Aug 29, 2025

BOTSFORD FOR ILLINOIS

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