Federal Election Commission political committee

BIG SKY VALUES

FEC committee C00741611. Which candidates it gave to and spent on, with direct contributions and independent expenditures kept apart.

Registration

A hybrid committee, sometimes called a Carey committee. It keeps a separate non-contribution account for independent spending alongside a contribution account, so it may do both, and the FEC requires it to keep the two apart.

Federal Election Commission registration for committee C00741611
FEC committee ID C00741611
Reported name BIG SKY VALUESNames change; this page is keyed to the committee ID, so an old name still reaches it.
Committee type Hybrid PAC, nonqualified V
Designation Unauthorized U
Party affiliation DEM
Connected organization None reported This is the relationship the committee itself reported to the FEC. It is not a MyRepTracker judgement about who controls the committee.
Registered to candidate S0MT00173 ↗
Registration read from The FEC's committee master for the 2022 cycle
Registration date Not availableThe FEC's published committee master carries no registration date. The FEC record linked below shows it.
FEC record Committee C00741611 at FEC.gov ↗

Who runs this committee, and what it advances

Sponsor type and interest assignment for committee C00741611 in the 2022 cycle
Kind of committee Other candidates' committees Derived from the registration this committee filed for the 2022 cycle. This is the FEC's own record, not a MyRepTracker judgement.
Interest advanced None, and none is owed. A leadership PAC, a candidate's own committee, and a party committee are not interest groups: their giving is an officeholder's or a party's decision, so no interest label describes it. MyRepTracker never assigns one.

What this committee raised and spent on itself

These are the committee's own figures, from the summary the FEC publishes of the reports it has filed, covering the period ending Dec 31, 2022. The FEC rebuilds that summary as new reports arrive, so these figures move; these are the figures the file the FEC built on Aug 20, 2026 reported.

Nothing here is added to the candidate-by-candidate amounts elsewhere on this page. Those are money this committee moved to or against specific campaigns; these are its own accounts.

What it raised

Receipts reported by committee C00741611 for the 2022 cycle
Measure Amount
Total receipts $565,266
Contributions received Before refunds $93,893
From individuals $93,893
From individuals, itemized Contributions the FEC requires be reported one by one $28,589
From individuals, unitemized Reported only as a total, so no detail exists for them here or at the FEC $65,304
From other political committees $0
From party committees $0
From the candidate Self-funding, not counting loans $0
Loans from the candidate $0
Other loans $0
Total loans $0
Transfers in from affiliated committees Already raised money moving, not new money $0
Other receipts $80,289

What it spent

Disbursements reported by committee C00741611 for the 2022 cycle
Measure Amount
Total disbursements $303,604
Operating expenditures $29,023
Other disbursements $73,800
Operating expenditures, net of offsets As the FEC reports it, not derived here -$209,845
Transfers out to affiliated committees $0
Loan repayments to the candidate $0
Other loan repayments $0
Total loan repayments $0

What it holds, owes, and gave back

Cash, debts, and refunds reported by committee C00741611 for the 2022 cycle
Measure Amount
Cash on hand at the end of the period $1,211,012
Cash on hand at the start of the period $949,350
Debts the committee owes $0
Debts owed to the committee $0
Contributions refunded $43,665
Refunded to individuals $33,069
Refunded to other political committees $7,571
Refunded to party committees $3,025
Contributions net of refunds As the FEC reports it, not derived here $50,228

Its own totals for candidate activity

These will not match the per-candidate rows on this page, and are not meant to. These are the committee's own totals across every federal candidate. They will not match the per-candidate rows on this page, which are read from the contribution and independent-expenditure filings and cover only the candidates MyRepTracker tracks. The two are never added together.

As the committee reported it

Candidate-facing totals reported by committee C00741611 for the 2022 cycle
Measure Amount
Contributions to federal candidates $4,900
Independent expenditures For and against candidates combined; this figure carries no support or oppose split $0
Coordinated party expenditures Only party committees may make these $0

This committee's record at the FEC ↗

What this committee did in the 2022 cycle

Each row below is a different kind of money and they are never added together. A contribution is money a campaign received. An independent expenditure was never the campaign's money at all. Adding them would state a relationship the filings do not support. These figures cover candidate filings through Dec 31, 2022.

Activity by kind for committee C00741611 in the 2022 cycle
Kind of activity Amount Candidates Transactions
Contributions to candidates $4,900 3 3
Distinct candidates involved No combined total 3

Every recipient

Every candidate this committee gave to or spent on in the 2022 cycle, sorted by amount with ties broken by FEC candidate ID so the order is the same on every request. Each row links to that candidate's own page, where the same money appears from their side. Itemized rows as published by the FEC on Aug 16, 2026.

MyRepTracker reads these amounts from what the giving and spending committees filed. A candidate's own summary of what they received often differs, which is normal and is explained on the candidate's page; it is not a reason to doubt this committee's own filing, and nothing here is adjusted to make the two agree.

Every candidate below has a recorded party, office, and state, so no filter hides rows for missing data.

All 3 shown $4,900 total
Every candidate receiving activity from committee C00741611 in the 2022 cycle, ranked by amount
Rank Candidate Activity Office Party State Amount Share Transactions Latest activity Coverage
1 Monica Tranel H2MT02092 Contribution to the campaign House district 2 Democratic MT $2,900 59.2% 1 Aug 10, 2022 2022 cycle, through Dec 21, 2022
2 Patrick Schmidt H2KS02143 Contribution to the campaign House district 2 Democratic KS $1,000 20.4% 1 Oct 3, 2022 2022 cycle, through Dec 31, 2022
3 Penny Ronning H2MT02134 Contribution to the campaign House district 2 Democratic MT $1,000 20.4% 1 Aug 10, 2022 2022 cycle, through Dec 31, 2022

Contributions to candidates

Money this committee gave to candidates' authorized campaign committees out of its own funds. This is a contribution the campaign received and reported; it is not outside spending.

All 3 shown $4,900 total
Contributions to candidates by committee C00741611 in the 2022 cycle, ranked by amount
Rank Candidate Office Party State Amount Share Transactions Latest activity Coverage
1 Monica Tranel H2MT02092 House district 2 Democratic MT $2,900 59.2% 1 Aug 10, 2022 2022 cycle, through Dec 21, 2022
2 Patrick Schmidt H2KS02143 House district 2 Democratic KS $1,000 20.4% 1 Oct 3, 2022 2022 cycle, through Dec 31, 2022
3 Penny Ronning H2MT02134 House district 2 Democratic MT $1,000 20.4% 1 Aug 10, 2022 2022 cycle, through Dec 31, 2022

How the 2022 cycle's activity was distributed

Each kind of activity is distributed on its own. Contributions and independent expenditures are never combined into one distribution, because the two are not the same kind of money. Every bar below repeats its amount, share, and candidate count as text in the same row.

Contributions to candidates

$4,900 across 3 candidates in the 2022 cycle, covering filings through Dec 31, 2022. Every share below is a share of that amount, and no other kind of activity is included in it.

By the recipient's party

Contributions to candidates distributed by the recipient candidate's party
Party Amount Share Candidates
Democratic $4,900 100.0% 3
Total $4,900 100%

By office and chamber

Contributions to candidates distributed by the office the recipient candidate sought
Office Amount Share Candidates
House $4,900 100.0% 3
Total $4,900 100%

By the candidate's state

Contributions to candidates distributed by the recipient candidate's state
State Amount Share Candidates
MT $3,900 79.6% 2
KS $1,000 20.4% 1
Total $4,900 100%

A distribution covering candidates from more than one party is a fact about where the money went. It is not evidence of a motive, a strategy, or an agreement, and this page does not suggest one.

Activity over time

Each kind of activity by the month the FEC records date it to, across the 2022 cycle, covering filings through Dec 31, 2022. Bars are drawn from a zero baseline against one shared scale of $3,900, so the series are directly comparable, and every value is repeated in its own row. Each series adds up to the same total as its section above.

Contributions to candidates

$4,900 placed by month.

Contributions to candidates by month in the 2022 cycle
Month Amount Transactions
Aug 2022 $3,900 2
Oct 2022 $1,000 1
Date not reported $0
Total for the cycle $4,900

Money moved to and from affiliated committees

A transfer moves money that has already been raised, between committees the FEC treats as affiliated. It is not a contribution and it is not new money, so none of it is counted anywhere else on this page. Both committees file their own record of the same transfer; the rows below are only this committee's own filings, and the counterparty's version is on its page rather than added here.

This committee reported no transfer to or from an affiliated committee in the 2022 cycle.

Filings behind these figures

Every amount on this page was reported on a filing. These are those filings. 12 of 13 are in force for the 2022 cycle; the other 1 was replaced by a later version and is kept here so the correction history stays readable. A superseded filing contributes to no total, ranking, or comparison anywhere on this site.

Clear

All 13 filings shown

Filings for the 2022 cycle, newest coverage period first
Filing Coverage Filed Version Document
Committee report (Form 3X) YEAR-END 2022 · filing 1682391 Nov 29, 2022 to Dec 31, 2022 Jan 30, 2023 In force At the FEC ↗
Committee report (Form 3X) POST-GENERAL 2022 · filing 1667688 Oct 20, 2022 to Nov 28, 2022 Dec 8, 2022 In force At the FEC ↗
Committee report (Form 3X) PRE-GENERAL 2022 · filing 1650894 Oct 1, 2022 to Oct 19, 2022 Oct 26, 2022 In force At the FEC ↗
Committee report (Form 3X) OCTOBER QUARTERLY 2022 · filing 1634760 Jul 1, 2022 to Sep 30, 2022 Oct 7, 2022 In force At the FEC ↗
Committee report (Form 3X) JULY QUARTERLY 2022 · filing 1612318 Apr 1, 2022 to Jun 30, 2022 Jul 15, 2022 In force At the FEC ↗
Committee report (Form 3X) APRIL QUARTERLY 2022 · filing 1579686 Jan 1, 2022 to Mar 31, 2022 Apr 11, 2022 In force At the FEC ↗
Committee report (Form 3X) YEAR-END 2021 · filing 1579683 Jul 1, 2021 to Dec 31, 2021 Apr 11, 2022 In force, and itself an amendment amendment 1 At the FEC ↗
Committee report (Form 3X) YEAR-END 2021 · filing 1558432 Jul 1, 2021 to Dec 31, 2021 Jan 24, 2022 Superseded by filing 1579683 Counted toward nothing on this site. At the FEC ↗
Committee report (Form 3X) JULY QUARTERLY 2021 · filing 1525307 Apr 1, 2021 to Jun 30, 2021 Jul 14, 2021 In force At the FEC ↗
House or Senate campaign report (Form 3) APRIL QUARTERLY 2021 · filing 1509043 Jan 1, 2021 to Mar 31, 2021 Apr 9, 2021 In force At the FEC ↗
Miscellaneous submission (Form 99) filing 1519011 No coverage period reported Jun 8, 2021 In force At the FEC ↗
Miscellaneous submission (Form 99) filing 1519010 No coverage period reported Jun 8, 2021 In force At the FEC ↗
Statement of organization (Form 1) filing 1514073 No coverage period reported Apr 21, 2021 In force, and itself an amendment amendment 13 At the FEC ↗

What these numbers mean

A contribution is not an independent expenditure
A contribution is money a committee gave to a candidate's own campaign committee, which the campaign received and reported. An independent expenditure is money spent about a candidate without coordinating with them; the campaign never received or controlled it. The Federal Election Commission treats these as different activities, and so does this page.
Money forwarded through a conduit was given by individuals
Some committees exist to transmit contributions that individual donors earmarked for a campaign. The FEC records name the conduit as the filer, but the donors are people, and the conduit did not give the money.
This page reads the giving side
Every amount here comes from what the giving or spending committee filed. A candidate's own summary of what they received is a separate record, made at a different time, and the two routinely differ. Neither is a correction of the other, and MyRepTracker does not adjust either one.
Coverage is the candidates MyRepTracker follows
These pages are built from the FEC records of the federal candidates in MyRepTracker's coverage. A committee may have given to candidates outside that coverage, so the recipients here are the complete list within it, not necessarily everything the committee did.
A committee ID is the identity
Committees are renamed and their registrations change between cycles. This page is keyed to the FEC committee ID, so an old name reaches the same page, and the registration shown is the one filed for the cycle you are viewing.
A transfer is not a contribution
Money moved between affiliated committees was raised once and is being moved. It is never counted as money raised or as money given to a candidate, and the sending and receiving committees each file their own record of it, so a total that added both sides would report the same money twice.
A superseded filing is kept, and counted toward nothing
An amendment replaces a report rather than adjusting it, so exactly one filing is in force for each committee and coverage period. The filing ledger lists the replaced versions too, because the correction history is worth being able to read, and none of them contributes to any amount, ranking, or comparison here.
A request for additional information is not a finding
The FEC routinely asks committees to clarify or correct something in a report. A request is correspondence, not a violation, an enforcement action, or a judgement about the committee, and nothing on this page is ranked, scored, or adjusted because one was sent.
A leadership PAC is not a campaign committee
A leadership PAC is established or controlled by a candidate or officeholder to support other candidates, and is separate from their own campaign. Its receipts are not their campaign's receipts and its contributions are not their campaign's contributions. Where a sponsor is named here, the FEC published that sponsor's own candidate ID on the committee's record; no sponsor is ever matched by name.

Source: Federal Election Commission ↗. MyRepTracker ingests FEC records directly and does not add its own influence, risk, or corruption score.