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Mark B. Messmer

Republican U.S. House · IN-8 · cycle 2024 · data as of 2026-11-02 · 2026 races in IN
90.3%
Direct-contributionshare
Aggregate-only · no individual donor names on the card

What the money says

Plain language · cited

Raised $1,545,284 in the 2024 cycle. FEC ↗ Placed at approximately the 32nd percentile among other U.S. House members this cycle.

1.7% of individual money came from small-dollar donors under $200. PACs supplied 26.4% of contributions. FEC ↗

Direct contributions — individuals, PACs, and party — make up 90.3% of receipts (excluding self-funding and loans); the rest is transfers from other committees and other receipts, also disclosed. FEC ↗

Auto-generated from the data above

Funding is spread across individual and committee sources, with no single category standing out from the rest of the U.S. House.

Funding profile

Unweighted · never a blended score
Small-donor (grassroots) share1.7%
From the unitemized (sub-$200) total, which reconciles exactly against FEC's individual-contribution figure. Small gifts that ActBlue/WinRed itemize aren't counted here — see the size-based measure below.
Small-dollar by transaction size1.5%
Share of itemized + unitemized contributions received in individual transactions under $200 (FEC schedule_a/by_size), counting each gift by its own amount — so it captures small repeat donors the unitemized field hides. Its denominator is raw itemized receipts, so it reads conservatively.
PAC share of contributions26.4%
Committee & JFC transfer share9.7%
Share of receipts (excluding self-funding and loans) that arrived as transfers from joint-fundraising and other authorized committees rather than direct contributions — reported in the sending committees’ filings, never undisclosed “dark” money. This bar is the transfer component only, not the whole non-direct remainder — a determined 0% means no transfer receipts (other complement receipts such as offsets may still exist); “—” means no external receipts to decompose.
In-state contributor share52.4%
Share of itemized individual dollars from in-state donors — unitemized (<$200) contributions have no state breakdown.
Top-20 donor concentration18.4%
Share from the 20 largest individual donors this 2-year period, by exact name — a neutral concentration measure, approximate (recurring small-dollar donors may be undercounted), not a score.

How the money splits

Exact, from FEC aggregates

Individual contributions

Small-dollar (<$200) vs. larger itemized giving
1.7%
98.3%
Small-dollar under $200Itemized $200+

All contributions

Individuals vs. political action committees
73.6%
26.4%
IndividualsPACs

Funding mix & position over time

Across every election cycle on record

Small-dollar share up from 1.7% (2024) to 2.3% (2026) A cycle with too little reported money to trust any ratio is left out entirely; a cycle where one specific figure can't be computed (e.g. an all-itemizing committee has no small-dollar figure to read) is left out of just that line.

Small-dollar share
2024 1.7%2026 2.3%
Direct-contribution share
2024 90.3%2026 58.1%
PAC share of contributions
2024 26.4%2026 62.1%
Cash on hand
2024 $207K2026 $714K

Committee assignments

congress-legislators (CC0)

Current committee and subcommittee seats, from the public congressional record. Listed independently of the funding figures on this page — a committee seat is not evidence of why any contribution was made.

House Committee on Agriculture
Majority
House Committee on Armed Services
Majority
House Committee on Education and Workforce
Majority
House Committee on Agriculture — Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry
Majority
House Committee on Agriculture — Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development
Majority
House Committee on Agriculture — Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology
Majority
House Committee on Armed Services — Strategic Forces
Majority
House Committee on Education and Workforce — Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education
Majority
House Committee on Armed Services — Readiness
Majority
House Committee on Education and Workforce — Workforce Protections
Majority

Outside spending

Separate FEC filings · not counted above

Outside groups reported $2.0M in independent expenditures naming this candidate this cycle: $2.0M supporting, $78K opposing (FEC Schedule E). These are filed by the groups themselves, not this candidate's committee, and are not part of the receipts above. FEC ↗

RJC VICTORY FUND FEC ↗
$955K supporting
DEFEND AMERICAN JOBS FEC ↗
$504K supporting
AMERICA'S FIRST FREEDOMS, INC. FEC ↗
$404K supporting
AMERICA LEADS ACTION INC. FEC ↗
$106K supporting
AMERICAN LEADERSHIP PAC FEC ↗
$78K opposing

Individual-donor detail

Held for the deep-table phase. v1 shows aggregate figures only — by design, not by omission.
NameCity / StateEmployerOccupationAmountDateStreet addressPhone

Statutory notice. When individual detail ships, street address and phone are never shown, and the data may not be used to solicit contributions or for any commercial purpose (52 U.S.C. §30111(a)(4)). Named individuals appear only here in the deep table — never on a shareable card — each with a match-confidence indicator.