Super PAC · TX · C00918227

Kentucky First PAC

Can raise unlimited money from people, companies and unions, and spend it on ads for or against candidates. It can’t give directly to campaigns or coordinate with them.

Treasurer: Deanna Hayes. View on FEC.gov (opens in a new tab)

  • Raised (2025-26)
    $1,576,358
  • Spent
    $1,534,843
  • Cash on hand
    $41,514
  • Outside spending
    $1,467,486

Raised, spent and cash on hand through reports covering Sept. 30, 2026. Outside spending from FEC filings through Oct. 30, 2026.

Donors and outside spending

Protect Freedom Political Actio…$1.3MAbby Aldrich$100KRichard Runestad$40KJennifer Runestad$40KKenneth Hahn$25KFrancis Najafi$25KEveryone else$36KFor Thomas Massie (R)$1.5MKentucky First PAC
  • Raised from its largest donors
  • Outside spending for
  • Outside spending against

Left: what the group raised, from reports through Sept. 30, 2026. Donors are ranked by what they gave among the group’s 100 largest contributions. “Everyone else” is the rest of what it raised; select it to see more donors. Right: its outside spending through Oct. 30, 2026, including 24- and 48-hour reports. The two sides come from different reports, so they don’t add up to each other.

Where its money went

  • Given: the group’s own contributions to the campaign
  • Bundled: donors’ contributions the group collected and forwarded
  • For: outside spending supporting
  • Against: outside spending opposing
    • For$1.5M

Bundled contributions (money donors route through a PAC to specific candidates) are broken out only for groups on our issue pages.

Who funds it

Biggest donors by total given

Each donor’s contributions combined, among the group’s 100 largest this cycle, as of Oct. 31, 2026. A donor who gave many smaller amounts may be missing.

Biggest donors by total given
DonorTypeContributionsTotal
Protect Freedom Political Action CommitteeCommittee3$1,310,000
Abby AldrichPerson1$100,000
Richard RunestadPerson3$40,000
Jennifer RunestadPerson3$40,000
Kenneth HahnPerson1$25,000
Francis NajafiPerson1$25,000
Balbir RataulPerson1$20,000
Parviz TayebatiPerson1$12,000
Wende RactliffePerson1$3,000
David SommersPerson1$1,000

Largest single contributions

Largest single contributions this cycle, as of Oct. 31, 2026. Committees and organizations link to their own pages when they file with the FEC; an organization that doesn’t file won’t show its own donors here.

Largest contributions received this cycle
ContributorTypeFromDateAmount
Protect Freedom Political Action CommitteeCommitteeAthens, GAOct. 23, 2025$1,000,000
Protect Freedom Political Action CommitteeCommitteeAthens, GAApril 15, 2026$300,000
Abby AldrichPersonInformation RequestedNov. 17, 2025$100,000
Kenneth HahnRetired, RetiredPersonNew York, NYMay 13, 2026$25,000
Francis NajafiCEO, Pivotal GroupPersonPhoenix, AZApril 8, 2026$25,000
Balbir RataulRetired, RetiredPersonMorgan Hill, CAMay 2, 2026$20,000
Richard RunestadExecutive, Runestad Financial ServicesPersonLeo, INApril 29, 2026$20,000
Jennifer RunestadFinancial Advisor, Runestad Financial ServicesPersonLeo, INApril 29, 2026$20,000
Parviz TayebatiFounder, Camros Capital LLCPersonKey Biscayne, FLMarch 9, 2026$12,000
Richard RunestadExecutive, Runestad Financial ServicesPersonLeo, INMarch 20, 2026$10,000
Richard RunestadExecutive, Runestad Financial ServicesPersonLeo, INFeb. 24, 2026$10,000
Jennifer RunestadFinancial Advisor, Runestad Financial ServicesPersonLeo, INMarch 20, 2026$10,000
Jennifer RunestadFinancial Advisor, Runestad Financial ServicesPersonLeo, INFeb. 24, 2026$10,000
Protect Freedom Political Action CommitteeCommitteeAthens, GASept. 18, 2025$10,000
Wende RactliffeRetired, RetiredPersonSebastopol, CAMay 8, 2026$3,000
David SommersRetired, RetiredPersonNew York, NYApril 2, 2026$1,000

See every contribution to Kentucky First PAC on FEC.gov (opens in a new tab). Contributions of $200 or less aren’t listed by name.