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FRIENDS OF JOHN COWAN

RepublicanFEC reportedHouse campaign committee · Principal campaign committee · Quarterly filerC00938175

Overview

Raised: $2.8M
Spent: $2.7M
Cash on hand: $145.8K
Debts owed: $1.8M

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).

1 receipt eligibility · 3 integrity · 0 fundraising patterns

Operating expenditures concentrated at one payee →Associated amount: $279,962
STRATEGIC IMPACT received 71.5% of positive itemized operating spending in FRIENDS OF JOHN COWAN's report. This is a concentration pattern for review.
Evidence date: Jun 16, 2026
Operating expenditures concentrated at one payee →Associated amount: $243,051
NEW PROSPECT STRATEGIES received 65.8% of positive itemized operating spending in FRIENDS OF JOHN COWAN's report. This is a concentration pattern for review.
Evidence date: Mar 31, 2026
Apparent corporate or labor receipt →Associated amount: $500
Reported organization name appears incorporated, a bank, or a labor organization; direct treasury contributions to candidate committees are generally prohibited. Verify entity form and source of funds.
Evidence date: Mar 3, 2026
Financial integrity review →Associated amount: $0

Candidate connections

Principal candidate campaign
COWAN, JOHNRepublicanFEC reported
U.S. House · Georgia · District 11
Election 2026 · Open seat · Current candidate
Candidate details & sources
FEC candidate ID: H0GA14048 · 2025–2026 reporting cycle

Money in

Sources

Itemized individual contributions$604K
Unitemized individual contributions$15.1K
Other committees$331.5K

Top contributors

COWAN, JOHN$1.8M7 contributions
COWAN VICTORY COMMITTEERepublicanInferred from FEC-reported participants$124K7 contributions
FOLEY, KEVIN DR.$10.5K2 contributions
MARTIN, RACHELRepublicanDerived from contributions$10.5K3 contributions

Money out

Spending by kind

Operating expenditures$2.6M
Loan repayments$20
Contribution refunds$6,500
Other disbursements$54.2K

Largest disbursements

STRATEGIC IMPACT$623.2KMEDIA PLACEMENT/PRODUCTION · Apr 20, 2026
STRATEGIC IMPACT$496.7KMEDIA PLACEMENT/PRODUCTION · Apr 2, 2026
STRATEGIC IMPACT$160KMEDIA PLACEMENT/PRODUCTION · May 26, 2026
STRATEGIC IMPACT$150KMEDIA PLACEMENT/PRODUCTION · Jun 2, 2026
STRATEGIC IMPACT$100KMEDIA PLACEMENT/PRODUCTION · Jun 4, 2026
NEW PROSPECT STRATEGIES$58.4KRESEARCH/PRINTING · Apr 30, 2026
NEW PROSPECT STRATEGIES$55.5KRESEARCH/PRINTING · May 13, 2026
NEW PROSPECT STRATEGIES

Over time

Itemized receipts and reported spending by month

Data

Month	Raised	Spent
Feb 26	$1,566,520	$0
Mar 26	$147,443	$0
Apr 26	$127,127	$3,265
May 26	$223,566	$0
Jun 26	$143,546	$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: Republican
Treasurer: KILGORE, PAUL
Filing cadence: Quarterly filer
Organization type: Not reported
Connected organization: COWAN VICTORY COMMITTEE
Registration snapshot cycle: 2025–2026
Cycles loaded: 2026
Registered address: PO BOX 217 · WOODSTOCK, GA, 30188

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.

COWAN VICTORY COMMITTEEC00940700 Joint fundraising participantFRIENDS OF JOHN COWANC00938175
FEC reportedObserved: Sep 12, 2026Registration filing: 1989243Official FEC source ↗
Current registration observation; not a historical filing-date assertion.
THE 218 FUNDC00963363 Joint fundraising participantFRIENDS OF JOHN COWANC00938175
FEC reportedObserved: Oct 11, 2026Official FEC source ↗
Current registration observation; not a historical filing-date assertion. Observed in the FEC API; the public FEC registration page is linked for inspection.
FRIENDS OF JOHN COWANC00938175 Authorized candidateCOWAN, JOHNH0GA14048
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 JOHN COWANC00938175 Connected organizationCOWAN VICTORY COMMITTEEReported 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 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 ↗

Reported counterparty	Date	Reported value	Asset / units	Reported purpose	Source
MCCAIN, RAY MR.	Mar 31, 2026	$572	Other in-kind	IN-KIND:EVENT CATERINGDerived classification: in-kind-offset	FEC filing ↗ Provenance FEC reported description · source row 427461b4148fd175f583e0a81a612fc69f4c2fd52427ee5d760ca6c69ec067c6 Raw artifact: data/raw/fec/bulk/cycle=2026/dataset=operating_expenditures/d6108c0a87ca0a02a72d333e1c0fad879a14af446f39504772d0d9369940ee7a.zip
SMITH, JIM MR.	Mar 31, 2026	$572	Other in-kind	IN-KIND:EVENT CATERINGDerived classification: in-kind-offset	FEC filing ↗ Provenance FEC reported description · source row 7644e35656102129634ceddbee5460456517c3a75e2da8d1b34926ce577964e3 Raw artifact: data/raw/fec/bulk/cycle=2026/dataset=operating_expenditures/d6108c0a87ca0a02a72d333e1c0fad879a14af446f39504772d0d9369940ee7a.zip
JONES, EUNICE MS.	Mar 31, 2026	$572	Other in-kind	IN-KIND:EVENT CATERINGDerived classification: in-kind-offset	FEC filing ↗ Provenance FEC reported description · source row ebef69cdeb704be6c0ce865971b671b0ad292e2d95420c27e8c9ddc47518ae14 Raw artifact: data/raw/fec/bulk/cycle=2026/dataset=operating_expenditures/d6108c0a87ca0a02a72d333e1c0fad879a14af446f39504772d0d9369940ee7a.zip

Reported counterparty

Date

Reported value

Asset / units

Reported purpose

Source

MCCAIN, RAY MR.

Mar 31, 2026

$572

Other in-kind

IN-KIND:EVENT CATERINGDerived classification: in-kind-offset

FEC filing ↗

Provenance

FEC reported description · source row 427461b4148fd175f583e0a81a612fc69f4c2fd52427ee5d760ca6c69ec067c6

Raw artifact: data/raw/fec/bulk/cycle=2026/dataset=operating_expenditures/d6108c0a87ca0a02a72d333e1c0fad879a14af446f39504772d0d9369940ee7a.zip

SMITH, JIM MR.

Mar 31, 2026

$572

Other in-kind

IN-KIND:EVENT CATERINGDerived classification: in-kind-offset

FEC filing ↗

Provenance

FEC reported description · source row 7644e35656102129634ceddbee5460456517c3a75e2da8d1b34926ce577964e3

Raw artifact: data/raw/fec/bulk/cycle=2026/dataset=operating_expenditures/d6108c0a87ca0a02a72d333e1c0fad879a14af446f39504772d0d9369940ee7a.zip

JONES, EUNICE MS.

Mar 31, 2026

$572

Other in-kind

IN-KIND:EVENT CATERINGDerived classification: in-kind-offset

FEC filing ↗

Provenance

FEC reported description · source row ebef69cdeb704be6c0ce865971b671b0ad292e2d95420c27e8c9ddc47518ae14

Raw artifact: data/raw/fec/bulk/cycle=2026/dataset=operating_expenditures/d6108c0a87ca0a02a72d333e1c0fad879a14af446f39504772d0d9369940ee7a.zip

FRIENDS OF JOHN COWAN

Overview

Candidate connections

Money in

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Top contributors

Money out

Spending by kind

Largest disbursements

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FEC-reported relationships

Political alignment

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Cash, assets & liabilities

Money network