Friends of Byron Donalds

Kept separate. The committee also reported $56,000.00 in 5 refunds to contributors and $1,321,369.81 in interest earned on its bank account (Chain Bridge Bank, as filed). Interest is income on money already raised, not a contribution, and is not included in any total above.

72% of the money came in contributions of $100,000 or more.

346 contributions of $100,000 or more total $93,747,015. Gifts under $10,000 are 38% of all contributions by count but 3% of the money. Florida political committees can accept contributions of any size.

The top 20 contributors gave $49.4M, or 38% of the total.

Where contributors are, by address

Contributions came from addresses in 44 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Florida addresses account for 71% of the money. None came from Alaska, Hawaii, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, or Vermont. An address is where the contributor filed from; a company’s address may be a headquarters or a mailing office.

Florida Division of Elections, campaign finance database, committee account 89043; retrieved Oct. 16, 2026.

How the committee spent its money

From March 6, 2025 through Oct. 9, 2026, the committee reported $99,648,956 in expenditures in 1,464 entries to 182 payee names. The top 20 payees received $98.1M, or 98%. These are payments out, reported separately from contributions; the two are not added, subtracted or compared on one scale here.

Download expenditures CSV (1,464 rows)

Florida Division of Elections, campaign finance database, expenditures by committee account 89043; retrieved Oct. 16, 2026.

Every contribution

All 2,537 rows the committee reported, including refunds and interest. Search by contributor, city, occupation or amount.

What these records show, and what they don’t

• They show contributions the committee reported to the Division of Elections, from Feb. 26, 2025 through Oct. 9, 2026. Contributions received after Oct. 9, 2026 are not yet included.
• Expenditures (March 6, 2025 through Oct. 9, 2026) show whom the committee paid and the purpose it filed. They do not show where a payee passed money on: a media buyer, consultant or another political committee may spend it again, and those payments appear only in that payee’s own records, if it files any. Contributions minus expenditures is not the committee’s cash on hand; the state reports that separately.
• The contribution list combines two exports of the same account with no overlapping dates. Rows from the later export (contribution search) have no filing-period code, and that export cuts occupations at 30 characters rather than 20 and does not cut names.
• A contribution records a transfer of money. It does not show what, if anything, a contributor sought or received in return.
• Totals are gross. Refunds ($56,000.00) are listed separately, and interest ($1,321,369.81) is not a contribution.
• Names, occupations and addresses are as filed, with two kinds of change, each tagged where it appears: a final word the state database cut off is completed where only one word fits (FLORI becomes FLORIDA), and a plainly misspelled word is corrected (COMPNAY becomes COMPANY). Proper names are never changed. The state database cuts names at 30 characters, occupations at 20 and in-kind descriptions at 23, so some names remain incomplete. The CSV has each value as filed alongside the changed one. The database does not link one contributor’s different spellings, and a person and a company they control appear as separate contributors.
• Some contributors are other political committees. Byron Donalds for Congress, his federal campaign committee, gave $1.2 million on Feb. 26–27, 2025.
• The state record shows the address redacted for 3 contributors (as filed: GROSS KEITH; TRETTIS ROBERT; YOUNG CHRISTOPHER ALLEN).
• 4 contributions totaling $275,000 list “information requested” in place of the contributor’s address: GONZMART CASEY, $5,000, Feb. 2, 2026; SCHMIDT ERIC, $250,000, Aug. 13, 2026; WHITE ABRAHAM, $10,000, Sept. 16, 2026; AARON TODD, $10,000, Sept. 18, 2026. They are counted in totals but not on the map.

Registration

Connections