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Funding profile

Matt Van Epps

Republican · Representative for Tennessee’s 7th district

Career totals · 1 election · 2026–2026

$2.3 million

raised by Van Epps’s campaigns, everything from the 2026 election added together.

26%

of it came from organized groups rather than from people giving on their own: at least $597,000 from PACs, plus donations that organizations collected and directed.

$4.1 million

was spent about Van Epps by outside groups. These are ads for or against them that their campaign cannot control, and none of it is part of the money above.

Every number on this page comes from Federal Election Commission filings, read on August 24, 2026. An election still under way keeps raising money, so its figure will have grown since. Check Van Epps on FEC.gov

Where the money came from

Everything Van Epps’s campaigns have reported raising, split by who gave it.

$2.3 millionraised
  • Individual donorsMoney given by people, in their own name.72%$1.7 million
  • Political action committeesOrganized groups: company-run committees, unions, trade associations.25%$582,000
  • Other sourcesParty transfers, the candidate's own money, loans and smaller categories.2%$53,000
Federal Election Commission filings across 1 election. Percentages may not total 100 because each is rounded.

Money bundled through organizations

Not every “individual” donation arrives on its own. An organization can collect checks from its members, already earmarked for Van Epps, and deliver them in a bundle. The law counts that as individual money, but the organization still chose where it went.

$15,000

reached Van Epps this way, 1% of everything they raised from individuals. Each donation came from a real person. The organization picked who got it.

  • AIPACThe American Israel Public Affairs Committee's political arm. It backs candidates of both parties it considers strong supporters of the U.S.-Israel relationship.$8,253
  • Senate Conservatives FundA PAC founded by former senator Jim DeMint that bundles donations for conservative Senate candidates, often in Republican primaries.$6,431

We can only count the organizations we have measured, so the real figure could be higher than this, never lower. Bundling is legal and widely used, and appearing here is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Who gave the most

Committee contributions from the 2024 and 2026 election periods, grouped by how the FEC classifies each giver. This covers a slice of the career total, and giving to a campaign is legal and ordinary.

  • Corporation18%$105,000
  • Trade association9%$51,000
  • Membership organization9%$53,000
  • Unclassified64%$373,000

Largest committee givers

  1. 1Buckeye Victory FundOther · Unclassified$16,000
  2. 2Tractor Supply CompanyOther · Corporation$15,000
  3. 3Emmer Victory CommitteeOther · Unclassified$14,000
  4. 4Scalise Leadership FundOther · Unclassified$14,000
  5. 5National Association of RealtorsReal estate & construction · Membership organization$14,000
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  1. 6American Israel Public Affairs Committee Political Action CommitteeOther · Membership organization$14,000
  2. 7Commander ZinkeOther · Unclassified$13,000
  3. 8Building America's Republican Representation PACOther · Unclassified$10,000
  4. 9Pfluger Victory FundOther · Unclassified$10,000
  5. 10WilliamsOther · Unclassified$10,000

“Unclassified” means the FEC records no organization type for that committee, which usually means a leadership PAC. We show it as unclassified rather than guessing which industry it belongs to.

Money spent about this member

Outside groups, usually super PACs, may spend without limit on ads for or against a candidate, as long as they do not coordinate with the campaign. Van Epps has no legal control over any of it.

This is not a donation. Nobody gave this money to Van Epps. It was spent on advertising about Van Epps, and money spent against a candidate is plainly not funding them. So it never gets added to the figures above.

$4.1 million

has been spent for or against Van Epps by outside groups. That is roughly 2 times what the campaigns themselves raised. $2.5 million supported Van Epps; $1.7 million opposed Van Epps.

Largest outside spenders

Summed across 1 election, using the Commission's aggregated totals so amended filings and 24-hour notices are not double-counted.

Spent supporting

$2.2 million

Ads urging people to vote for this member. Still not their money, and they cannot direct how it is spent.

  • MAGA INC.$844,000
  • AMERICAN LIBERTY FOUNDATION$384,000
  • AMERICAN PATRIOTS PAC$330,000
  • CONSERVATIVES FOR AMERICAN EXCELLENCE INC.$297,000
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  • PATRIOTIC FUND, INC.$199,000
  • CLUB FOR GROWTH ACTIONA conservative group focused on lower taxes and smaller government. It is known for backing primary challengers against Republicans it considers insufficiently conservative.$166,000

Spent opposing

$1.5 million

Ads urging people to vote against this member. This money was spent to defeat them.

  • YOUR COMMUNITY PAC$738,000
  • HMP$724,000

Election by election

The career figures above are the sum of these elections. Each row links to the Commission’s page for that election, where the numbers match line for line.

ElectionRaisedFrom PACsOutside spending
2026in progress$2.3 million$582,000 25%$4.1 millionFEC

Raised is everything the campaign took in for that election. From PACs is the slice of it given by political action committees. Outside spending is what other groups spent on ads about the race, for and against—it is not part of “Raised”. An election marked in progress is still raising money, so its figures are not final.

We never publish the names of individual donors, and anything we cannot source stays off the page. The methodology explains every such choice.