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2025–2026 federal committee · official FEC data

AMERICAN CRAFT SPIRITS ASSOCIATION PAC

Receipts, contributions, spending, cash, committee classification, and connected records from Federal Election Commission filings.

Political action committeeFEC C00671479
Direct answer · 2025–2026 cycle

How much money has AMERICAN CRAFT SPIRITS ASSOCIATION PAC reported?

$11,120.94 in total receipts and $6,301.01 in total disbursements.

These are committee filing totals. They do not establish who benefited from every dollar; candidate support and opposition require transaction-level independent-expenditure records.

Source: Federal Election Commission · data through .

Total receipts$11,121
Total spending$6,301
Independent expenditures$0
Campaign money

Committee finance details

FEC COMMITTEE SUMMARY
2025–2026 federal-cycle totals through June 30, 2026.
MetricReported amountWhat it means
Total receipts$11,120.94All receipts reported by the committee for the cycle.
Individual contributions$9,120.94Contributions reported in the FEC individual-contribution category.
Other committee contributions$2,000.00Contributions received from other political committees.
Total disbursements$6,301.01All disbursements reported by the committee for the cycle.
Contributions to other committees$3,000.00Contributions the committee reported making to federal candidate committees.
Independent expenditures$0.00Spending expressly advocating the election or defeat of a clearly identified candidate, made without coordination.
Cash on hand$13,962.64Cash reported at the end of the covered filing period.
Debts owed by committee$0.00Outstanding debts the committee reported owing.

“Not reported” means the current committee-summary file has no value for that field; it does not mean zero. Independent expenditures are distinct from contributions made directly to candidate committees.

Itemized political activity

Candidate giving and outside spending by AMERICAN CRAFT SPIRITS ASSOCIATION PAC

FEC ITEMIZED DATA

The categories below remain separate: contributions go to a recipient committee; independent expenditures are outside activity reported as supporting or opposing a candidate.

Direct candidate contributions$1,500.002 transactions
Coordinated party spending$0.000 transactions
Independent spending to support$0.000 transactions
Independent spending to oppose$0.000 transactions
Direct contribution

Money reported as given to a candidate or candidate committee. It enters the recipient committee’s campaign-finance record.

Coordinated party expenditure

Party spending reported in the FEC’s coordinated-expenditure category. It is separate from a direct contribution.

Independent expenditure

Outside spending expressly supporting or opposing a candidate. By definition, it is not made in coordination with the candidate or party.

Direct contributions by candidate

Hillary Scholten1 itemized transaction · latest Dec 13, 2025
Mike Mr. Thompson1 itemized transaction · latest May 19, 2026

Source: FEC contributions-from-committees-to-candidates and independent-expenditure bulk files, checked Aug 24, 2026. The totals shown here sum the itemized current-file rows displayed by category; they are not substituted for the committee’s official summary totals.

Money graph · dates, geography, and operating expenditures

How money moved through AMERICAN CRAFT SPIRITS ASSOCIATION PAC

FEC ITEMIZED FILES

These panels show privacy-thresholded itemized individual-receipt activity and amendment-normalized operating expenditures. They are descriptive slices of filings—not a complete substitute for the official financial summary.

Itemized individual receipt activity over time

Monthly transaction activity from the FEC individual-contributions file. Current-cycle files can contain earlier-dated transactions; signed amendments, refunds, reattributions, and memo entries remain in the source-defined analysis.

2 months

Reported operating-expenditure categories

FEC filer-selected categories from Schedule B operating expenditures. Memo-code X rows are excluded because the FEC says they are not included in the itemization total.

2 published categories
Solicitation and Fundraising Expenses1 current organization-payment row$2,569.16
Administrative/Salary/Overhead Expenses16 current organization-payment rows$121.43

Top organization payees in operating expenditures

Organization payees only. Election.org excludes individual payees and conservatively normalizes names; similar names are not asserted to be one legal entity.

Browse vendor graph →
American Craft Spirits Association1 current itemized payment · latest 2026-05-05
$2,569.16
Chase Bank5 current itemized payments · latest 2025-12-02
$104.00
Paypal Holdings Incorporated11 current itemized payments · latest 2025-12-24
$17.43

Source: FEC operating expenditures bulk file, checked 2026-08-24. These totals cover published current organization-payment rows after amendment normalization and are not equivalent to the committee’s total disbursements.

Official registration

Committee details

2026 CYCLE
Committee type
PAC — qualified · code Q
Designation
Unauthorized committee · code U
Filing frequency
Quarterly filer
Party affiliation
Not listed
Connected organization
AMERICAN CRAFT SPIRITS ASSOCIATION
Organization type
Trade association
Treasurer
COTTON, JORDAN
Mailing address
PO BOX 470, OAKTON VA 22124
FEC committee ID
C00671479
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