SETH BODNAR FOR MONTANA

IndependentFEC reportedSenate campaign committee · Principal campaign committee · Quarterly filerC00941708

Overview

Raised: $4.9M
Spent: $4.3M
Cash on hand: $580.9K
Debts owed: $0

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 · 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
BODNAR, SETHIndependentFEC reported
U.S. Senate · Montana · Statewide
Election 2026 · Open seat · Current candidate
Candidate details & sources
FEC candidate ID: S6MT00287 · 2025–2026 reporting cycle

Money in

Sources

Itemized individual contributions$4M
Unitemized individual contributions$726.7K
Other committees$163.1K
Party committees$2,500
Other receipts$298

Top contributors

GUYETTE, JAMESIndependent contributionsDerived from contributions$49K8 contributions
GALLINGER, SEANIndependent contributionsDerived from contributions$21K4 contributions
NELSON, STEPHEN

Money out

Spending by kind

Operating expenditures$4.2M
Contribution refunds$102K

Largest disbursements

ASCEND DIGITAL STRATEGIES$334.2KLIST ACQUISITION · Apr 20, 2026
ASCEND DIGITAL STRATEGIES$166KLIST ACQUISITION · Apr 1, 2026
UPCARD$135.7KPETITIONING · Jun 25, 2026
ASCEND DIGITAL STRATEGIES$125KLIST ACQUISITION · May 19, 2026
BALLOT ACCESS MARKETING, LLC$125KPETITIONING · Mar 12, 2026
GROUNDSWELL CONTACT$103.3KPETITIONING · Jun 25, 2026
BRYSON GILLETTE$84.6KADVERTISING PRODUCTION · Apr 28, 2026
GROUNDSWELL CONTACT$77.4KPETITIONING · May 4, 2026
GROUNDSWELL CONTACT$77.4KPETITIONING · May 20, 2026

Over time

Itemized receipts and reported spending by month

Data

Month	Raised	Spent
Feb 26	$13,000	$0
Mar 26	$1,118,954	$0
Apr 26	$468,829	$0
May 26	$479,664	$0
Jun 26	$681,962	$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: Independent
Treasurer: LEE, LAUREN DECOT
Filing cadence: Quarterly filer
Organization type: Not reported
Connected organization: Not reported
Registration snapshot cycle: 2025–2026
Cycles loaded: 2026
Registered address: PO BOX 7188 · MISSOULA, MT, 59807

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.

SETH BODNAR FOR MONTANAC00941708 Authorized candidateBODNAR, SETHS6MT00287
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 classificationIndependent affiliation reportedIndependentFEC reported

FEC registration: Senate campaign committee; Independent 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
SNYDER, KIRA	Jun 10, 2026	$2,000	Other in-kind	SOFTWARE SUBSCRIPTION * IN-KIND RECEIVED Derived classification: in-kind-offset	FEC filing ↗ Provenance FEC reported description · source row 52214f95b73a7582ff720380f802be71bafc7425e3e65e95d1e5006079af33bd Raw artifact: data/raw/fec/bulk/cycle=2026/dataset=operating_expenditures/d6108c0a87ca0a02a72d333e1c0fad879a14af446f39504772d0d9369940ee7a.zip
APELBAUM, PERRY	Mar 19, 2026	$446	Other in-kind	CATERING * IN-KIND RECEIVED Derived classification: in-kind-offset	FEC filing ↗ Provenance FEC reported description · source row 98264d9b6d0956a34356e15a0b8294045789b1a993f55f269686577fdc09d564 Raw artifact: data/raw/fec/bulk/cycle=2026/dataset=operating_expenditures/d6108c0a87ca0a02a72d333e1c0fad879a14af446f39504772d0d9369940ee7a.zip
LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS ACTION FUND	Jun 4, 2026	$50	Other in-kind	ENDORSEMENT RELATED EXPENSES * IN-KIND RECEIVED Derived classification: in-kind-offset	FEC filing ↗ Provenance FEC reported description · source row 07b6b495b7592e15d043701a4a0a0850771c96c1f767e61ff11ac0ac75d5cc07 Raw artifact: data/raw/fec/bulk/cycle=2026/dataset=operating_expenditures/d6108c0a87ca0a02a72d333e1c0fad879a14af446f39504772d0d9369940ee7a.zip
LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS ACTION FUND

SETH BODNAR FOR MONTANA

Overview

Candidate connections

Money in

Sources

Top contributors

Money out

Spending by kind

Largest disbursements

Over time

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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