Tennessee

Michael R. Williams

County Clerk Democratic

Choose financial history for Michael R. Williams
This cycle · 2026
1 earlier entry
Memphis City Court Clerk

Latest filing: Pre-Primary 2026 · Apr 28, 2026 · source: Shelby County

3 filings · Year-End 2025–Q1 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 →
$17,080
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 →
$21,292
Total Spent
$20,984
Donors
40
total donors; qualifying names are listed below
Self-Funded
20%
$4,212 of $21,292 raised · campaign loans

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.

Inputs behind Raised (cash)
Itemized contributions from others $17,080
Loans received $4,212
Raised (cash) $21,292
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 $20,984
Total spent $20,984
From each filing:
Raised incl. in-kind
$21,292
Spent
$20,984

Headline figures, 2023 · Memphis City Court Clerk

2 filings · Q2 2023–Q4 2023

No contributions reported · Spent $200

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 20% of the campaign’s funds — individuals gave 33%, organizations and PACs 47%.

Candidate’s own money $4K · 20% Individuals $7K · 33% Organizations & PACs $10K · 47%

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: $4,212 ÷ Everything the campaign raised: $21,292
Inputs behind Share from the candidate
Candidate's own money (incl. self-loans) $4,212
From individuals $7,080
From organizations and PACs $10,000
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 →

$186average gift
$100median gift
38individual donors
Share of donors Share of dollars
Under $100
39%
10%
$100–200
29%
16%
$200–500
18%
23%
$500–1K
8%
23%
$1K+
5%
28%

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: $7,080 ÷ Individual donors: 38
Inputs behind Average gift per individual donor
Total from individual donors $7,080
Median gift $100
Individual donors 38
Source filings:

Contributions & Spending Over Time

Itemized monetary contributions and expenditures by month — Jan 2026 – Apr 2026. Peak $7,500 in Jan 2026. Spending peaked at $13,052 in Apr 2026.

Cash contributions Spent

Contributions

The donor total above includes everyone who gave. This table names 14 donors: organizations, and people whose cumulative giving reached $200. 26 people gave less than $200 in cash; their gifts total $1,830 and their names are withheld.

14 named donors 16 donations

Campaign contributions consolidated by donor, ranked by net amount
Donor Donations Net
Memphis Fire Fighters Association PAC 1 $5,000.00
Memphis Police Association PAC 2 $5,000.00
Glen Clark 1 $1,000.00
Memphis Ad Spec 1 $1,000.00
Neva Burke 2 $600.00
Kenneth Robinson 1 $500.00
Karen Camper 1 $500.00
Barbara Blake 1 $300.00
Michele Mitchell 1 $250.00
Joe & Annie Brown 1 $250.00

Expenditures

19 vendors 36 payments

Campaign payments consolidated by vendor, ranked by total
Vendor Payments Total Share
Signs on the Cheap 7 $5,791.08 28%
iHeartMedia 1 $3,000.00 14%
Trevekia Taylor 4 $1,840.00 9%
David Wicks 4 $1,720.00 8%
Wlok 1 $1,500.00 7%
Telissa Franklin 1 $1,300.00 6%
Kwam 990 1 $1,000.00 5%
Faye Burt 2 $780.00 4%
Tjuana Kinard 2 $660.00 3%
Billboard 1 $650.00 3%

Loans

$4,211.99 in loan balances shown. The filings date all of it to this campaign. Later reports can repeat an outstanding loan, so each reconstructed lender balance is counted once below.

Loan principal shown adds together the amounts listed below.

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Loan schedules can repeat an outstanding debt on later reports. This is the reconstructed principal for each lender, counted once, split between candidate or family loans and all other lenders. Repayments and outstanding balances are shown separately in the ledger.

Inputs behind Loan principal shown
Candidate and family loans $4,212
Loan principal shown $4,212
Source filings:
Itemized campaign loans
Lender Type Received Balance shown Repaid Outstanding
Self (Michael R. Williams) Candidate loan Jan 13, 2026 $4,211.99 $308.14 $3,903.85

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

  • Advertising & media $7,450 36%
  • Printing & mail $6,120 29%
  • Field & voter contact $4,880 23%
  • Other $2,533 12%

Loans

Campaign loans
Lender Amount Date Received Outstanding Repaid

Each loan shows its balance from the candidate's most recent filing; a candidate's self-loans are combined into a single line. Repayments since that filing appear when the next report is filed.

Financial history 1 entries

2023 · Memphis City Court Clerk

No contributions reported · Spent $200

2 filings · Q2 2023–Q4 2023

2023 election expenditures
Payee Purpose Amount Date
Michael Renee' Williams Loan Re-Payment $200.00 10/01/2023

Filing History

Campaign filing history
Filing Cash Beginning Cash Ending Source
Pre-Primary 2026 $15,730.00 $17,080.00 Source: Pre-Primary 2026 filing

As filed on this report: cash beginning $15,730.00, receipts $1,350.00, disbursements $16,771.86, cash ending $17,080.00.
Q1 2026 — $15,730.00 Source: Q1 2026 filing
Year-End 2025 $0.00 $7,600.00 Source: Year-End 2025 filing