Tennessee
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Michael D. Pope

Sheriff Democratic

Latest filing: Pre-Primary 2026 · Aug 25, 2026 · source: Shelby County

5 filings · Mid-Year 2025–Q2 2026

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 →
$5,616
Raised (cash) Cash and cash-like receipts the campaign took in: contributions, the candidate’s own money, loans, and transfers from affiliated committees. Donated goods and services appear separately. Full definition →
$53,556
Total Spent
$45,694
Donors
97
total donors; qualifying names are listed below
Self-Funded
7%
$3,862 of $53,556 raised · self-contributions

Cash on hand is the amount reported on the filing listed below.

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

Reported on this filing:

Raised (cash) adds together the amounts listed below.

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Sum of every cash receipt bucket: itemized contributions from others + the candidate's own contributions + loans + filer-stated unitemized + (federal) transfers and other receipts. Excludes $6.50 the filer reported on Schedule A as an accounting adjustment — a correction to its books, not money it raised, so it is not counted here. It remains in the filing's own totals.

Inputs behind Raised (cash)
Itemized contributions from others $49,695
Candidate's own contributions $3,862
Raised (cash) $53,556
From each filing:

Total spent adds together the amounts listed below.

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

Inputs behind Total spent
Itemized expenditures $43,447
Stated spending not itemized (credited) $2,246
Total spent $45,694
From each filing:

Totals exclude 1 filing pending review (the filer reported $6,171 on it).

Raised incl. in-kind
$53,556
Spent
$45,694

Who funds this campaign The sources split breaks down everything the campaign raised: the candidate’s own money (including self-loans), individuals (including unitemized small gifts), organizations and PACs, and “other” (in-kind contributions, loans other than the candidate’s, and the like) — open its “Why this number?” for the full breakdown. Gift-size and location figures cover itemized contributions only. Aggregates count everyone who gave, including donors below the $200 disclosure floor — a share across all donors identifies no one. Full definition →

The candidate’s own money made up 7% of the campaign’s funds — individuals gave 85%, organizations and PACs 7%.

Candidate’s own money $4K · 7% Individuals $46K · 85% Organizations & PACs $4K · 7%

Share from the candidate compares from the candidate's own money with everything the campaign raised.

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Everything the campaign raised, split into the candidate's own money (own contributions plus self- and family loans), individuals, organizations and PACs, and everything else — loans other than the candidate's, in-kind contributions, and (for federal filers) committee transfers and other receipts. Unitemized small donations count as individual money. The parts add up to the total raised. The headline share is the candidate divided by the total.

From the candidate's own money: $3,862 ÷ Everything the campaign raised: $53,556
Inputs behind Share from the candidate
Candidate's own money (incl. self-loans) $3,862
From individuals $45,776
From organizations and PACs $3,919
Source filings:

Gift size Each individual donor’s total giving to this campaign this cycle. Organizations, PACs, and the candidate’s own money are excluded (this is about people); a donor who gave under several name spellings is counted once. A donor named on the page can still sit in a small bucket — these are cycle totals, not “unnamed donors.” Full definition →

$498average gift
$250median gift
92individual donors
Share of donors Share of dollars
Under $100
24%
2%
$100–200
20%
4%
$200–500
27%
14%
$500–1K
11%
13%
$1K+
18%
66%

Average gift per individual donor compares total from individual donors with individual donors.

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Every individual donor's total contributions to this campaign, divided by the number of individual donors. Organizations and PACs are excluded (this measures people); a donor who gave under several name spellings is counted once. The median and the gift-size buckets are computed over the same individual-donor totals. Based on itemized contributions only (loans and money a filer reported as an unitemized lump sum are not included).

Total from individual donors: $45,776 ÷ Individual donors: 92
Inputs behind Average gift per individual donor
Total from individual donors $45,776
Median gift $250
Individual donors 92
Source filings:

Contributions & Spending Over Time

Itemized monetary contributions and expenditures by month — Jan 2025 – Apr 2026. Peak $12,600 in Feb 2026. Spending peaked at $19,651 in Apr 2026.

Cash contributions Spent

Bars show $49,191 of $49,695 in itemized contributions. The other $504 can’t be placed in a month — the filing gave no usable date, or recorded no identifiable source.

Contributions

The donor total above includes everyone who gave. This table names 60 donors: organizations, and people whose cumulative giving reached $200. 40 people gave less than $200 in cash; their gifts total $2,971 and their names are withheld.

60 named donors 88 donations

Campaign contributions consolidated by donor, ranked by net amount
Donor Donations Net
Mr John Hackmeyer 1 $3,500.00
MRS John Hackmeyer 1 $3,500.00
Clarence Carr 2 $3,378.20
Act Blue 11 $2,615.18
Gene Comer 2 $2,550.00
Michael Pope Self 2 $2,200.00
Jeff Kiestler 1 $1,900.00
Mike Pope 1 $1,900.00
Lisa Pope 1 $1,900.00
Corine Comer 1 $1,900.00

Expenditures

97 vendors 129 payments

Campaign payments consolidated by vendor, ranked by total
Vendor Payments Total Share
Uptown Event Center 1 $10,000.00 23%
POWER MEdiNA Solution 1 $4,000.00 9%
MARGARET'S Family RESTAURANT 1 $2,000.00 5%
A1 Printing 1 $2,000.00 5%
Frank Cole 1 $2,000.00 5%
Mle Media 3 $1,955.00 4%
ABACUS Strategic 1 $1,200.00 3%
Mariah Scruggs 2 $1,150.00 3%
WLOK Radio 1 $920.00 2%
Amy HAVER 2 $765.00 2%

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 Michael D. Pope’s itemized spending. Descriptions that don’t clearly fit a category are counted under Other rather than guessed at.

  • Fundraising & events $15,091 35%
  • Printing & mail $8,644 20%
  • Field & voter contact $8,104 19%
  • Other $7,741 18%
  • Advertising & media $2,479 6%
  • Office & operations $1,087 3%
  • Travel $303 0.7%

Filing History

Campaign filing history
Filing Cash Beginning Cash Ending Source
Q2 2026 Late Detail pending review — — Source: Q2 2026 filing
Pre-Primary 2026 $20,620.46 $5,615.70 Source: Pre-Primary 2026 filing
Q1 2026 $3,831.22 $50,620.46 Source: Q1 2026 filing

As filed on this report: cash beginning $3,831.22, receipts $24,331.50, disbursements $7,542.26, cash ending $50,620.46.
Year-End 2025 $570.02 $3,831.22 Source: Year-End 2025 filing
Mid-Year 2025 $0.00 $570.02 Source: Mid-Year 2025 filing