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Campaign contributions · 2025–26

Michael Burns

Committee: Michael Burns

$500

Raised 2025–26

$1,637

Outside spending to support

$0

Outside spending to oppose

For the general
$500

Loans of $720 are not counted as money raised.

Top contributors

Sized by amount given
Rhino Hunters of the Inland Northwest$500 · PAC

Contributions as filed with the Idaho Secretary of State. Individual donors are combined into one tile; each is listed below.

Top supporters

Michael Burns's largest contributors in 2025–26, by total given.

  1. 1Rhino Hunters of the Inland Northwest · PAC$500

Direct contributions only, net of refunds; loans aren't included. Outside groups' independent spending is listed separately. Companies and committees link to their own pages.

Where the money went

$1,220 reported spent in 2025–26, out of $500 raised plus $720 in loans.

Passed on to 1 campaign and committee

Raised minus spent in 2025–26 filings: $0. This isn't the same as cash on hand: money carried over from earlier campaigns isn't in these figures.

Through PACs & the 2026 primary

Money that moves from legislators through political action committees, and legislators who funded challengers to fellow incumbents.

Legislators behind the PACs in Michael Burns's race

Where the money came from

Loans
$720
Political Committee
$500

Loans are shown separately and are not counted as money raised.

Outside spending

Independent expenditures by other committees naming Michael Burns, as filed.

Supporting

Follow the money: who funds the groups involved

Every committee that gave Michael Burns money directly or spent for or against Michael Burns on its own, with what that committee raised in 2025–26 and its largest donors.

A committee's donors aren't earmarked for any one candidate; this shows who funds the group, not who paid for a specific ad.

Money & connections

Who is putting money behind Michael Burns, and who else the same groups fund. From 2025–26 Idaho campaign finance filings.

Funded by the same groups

Legislators and 2026 candidates backed by at least two of the same committees.

  • Cornel Rasor (R) · House B · District 12 shared

    Kootenai County Republican Central Committee · Rhino Hunters of the Inland Northwest

  • Dale Hawkins (R) · House B · District 22 shared

    Kootenai County Republican Central Committee · Rhino Hunters of the Inland Northwest

  • Elaine Price (R) · House B · District 42 shared

    Kootenai County Republican Central Committee · Rhino Hunters of the Inland Northwest

  • Heather Scott (R) · House A · District 22 shared

    Kootenai County Republican Central Committee · Rhino Hunters of the Inland Northwest

  • Jane Sauter (R) · House A · District 12 shared

    Kootenai County Republican Central Committee · Rhino Hunters of the Inland Northwest

  • Phil Hart (R) · Senate · District 22 shared

    Kootenai County Republican Central Committee · Rhino Hunters of the Inland Northwest

  • Scott Herndon (R) · Senate · District 12 shared

    Kootenai County Republican Central Committee · Rhino Hunters of the Inland Northwest

  • Tony Wisniewski (R) · House B · District 52 shared

    Kootenai County Republican Central Committee · Rhino Hunters of the Inland Northwest

Shares campaign vendors with

Firms Michael Burns paid for campaign services, and the other Idaho candidates and committees that paid them.

Every contribution

People are listed by name, city and state; donor committees that file in Idaho link to their own page.

2 contributions · $1,220

DateContributorTypeAmount
Oct 15, 2025Rhino Hunters of the Inland NorthwestPolitical Committee$500
Oct 1, 2025Michael Burns · Coeur D Alene, ID (loan received)Self$720

Source: Idaho Secretary of State campaign finance disclosures (Sunshine), reports filed through Oct 30, 2026. Amounts are as filed; returned contributions are negative. Street addresses are not shown — the full filings are on Sunshine.