Melvin Burgess

Assessor of Property Democratic

Currently serving — not seeking re-election in the 2026 election

Also gives as Committee To Elect Melvin Burgess — money this campaign’s own committee gave to other candidates.

Latest filing: Year-End 2025 · Feb 2, 2026 · source: Shelby County

Cash on Hand The campaign’s ending cash balance from its most recent filing. Cash shown as “carried over” was held before this election cycle began — usually from a prior campaign for the same office. Full definition →
$1,003
$90 carried over
Why this number?
Funds Raised The money the campaign took in — cash and checks, plus the candidate’s own money, loans, and transfers from affiliated committees. It does not include the value of donated goods and services; where a campaign received any, that is shown separately as In-Kind Received. Full definition →
$0
Why this number?
Total Spent
$2,119
Why this number?
Donors
0
0 shown · 0 below $200

The ending cash balance the campaign reported on its most recent filing (as filed, not computed).

Reported on this filing:

Sum of every cash receipt bucket: itemized contributions from others + the candidate's own contributions + loans + filer-stated unitemized + (federal) transfers and other receipts.

Itemized expenditure rows plus the stated spending a filer reported as a lump sum without itemizing it.

Inputs behind Total spent
Itemized expenditures $2,119
Total spent $2,119
From each filing:
Raised
$0
Spent
$2,119

Contributions

Showing 0 donors who gave $200 or more cumulatively.

No itemized contributions on record.

Expenditures

8 vendors 8 payments

Campaign payments consolidated by vendor, ranked by total
Vendor Payments Total Share
Maria Wooter 1 $511.20 24%
Providental BluePRINT Agency 1 $500.00 24%
George Boyington 1 $257.50 12%
BTW Class of 73 1 $250.00 12%
Shelby County Packers 1 $250.00 12%
Kappa Alpha Psi Achievement Foundation 1 $125.00 6%
Keith Winston Boyd 1 $125.00 6%
Jacqueline Rice 1 $100.00 5%

Where the money went Each expenditure carries a short description of what it was for, written by the campaign. We sort those descriptions into a fixed set of categories; one expenditure goes in one category, so the amounts add up to Melvin Burgess’s itemized spending. Descriptions that don’t clearly fit a category are counted under Other rather than guessed at.

Prior Elections 1 past cycle

2022 Election

Raised $19,675 · Spent $43,081 · 42 donors

Includes $1,175 raised not itemized below — gifts under the $200 disclosure floor, unnamed sources, and refunds netted out of the total. A further $31,628 raised and $23,859 spent across 2 filings is not counted above: those reports are still being checked, so neither their totals nor their line items are published yet.

2022 election contributions
Donor Location Employer Total
Tennessee Realtors Political Action Nashville, TN 37212 $2,500.00
Build PAC Collierville, TN 38017 $2,000.00
Tyrone Burroughs Germantown, TN 38139 R. S. Lewis & Sons Funeral Home $1,600.00
Evans Petree PAC Memphis, TN 38120 $1,000.00
Td Transportation LLC HORN Lake, MS 38637 $1,000.00
Andy Raines EADS, TN 38028 Evans Petree $1,000.00
Drive Committee Washington, DC 20001 $1,000.00
William Terrell Jr MEMPHIS, TN 38125 Self-Employed $1,000.00
Douglas Scarboro Memphis, TN 38111 Not Employed $500.00
Innovative Counseling Consulting Inc. Memphis, TN 38104 $500.00
23 more donors not shown
2022 election expenditures
Payee Purpose Amount Date
JAVIER Bailey Reimb Robo Calls $2,000.00
Black Market Strategies Ballot/Mailer Hand out Election Day $3,000.00
Diamond Printing Mailer General Election $4,931.00
Shaun Franklin Reimb Postage P.O. Box $113.00
All Lives MATTER DONATION BACK TO School Supplies $250.00
George Boyington Reimb - GAS - STAKES - CAMPAIGN HQ OPENING $1,358.00
WIllIAM JONES DJ HQ OPENING $375.00
Jacqueline Rice Reimb HQ Opening - table cloTHS - decorations $267.80
Darrick Harris Mailer/Robo Calls PRIMARY $5,000.00
Terrence Canter STAKES For Signs Home Depot $500.00
49 more expenditures not shown

Filing History

Campaign filing history
Filing Cash Beginning Cash Ending Source
Year-End 2025 $1,002.79 $1,002.79 Source ↗
Mid-Year 2024 Late $1,002.79 $1,002.79 Source ↗
Year-End 2023 $1,870.89 $1,002.79 Source ↗
Mid-Year 2023 Late $89.89 $1,870.89 Source ↗
Q4 2022 Historical $4,320.89 $3,120.89 Source ↗
Q3 2022 Historical $2,719.16 $4,320.89 Source ↗
Pre-General 2022 Historical $7,313.16 $2,719.16 Source ↗
Q2 2022 Historical $13,116.51 $7,313.16 Source ↗
Pre-Primary 2022 Late Historical $20,567.39 $13,116.59 Source ↗
Q1 2022 Historical $26,004.39 $20,567.39 Source ↗
Year-End 2021 Figures pending review Historical Source ↗
Mid-Year 2021 Figures pending review Historical Source ↗
Year-End 2020 Late Historical $5,499.93 $5,399.93 Source ↗
Mid-Year 2020 Late Historical $5,599.93 $5,499.93 Source ↗
Year-End 2019 Historical $5,549.93 $5,599.93 Source ↗
Mid-Year 2019 Historical $5,599.93 $5,599.93 Source ↗