Shapiro Fundraising Machine Continues to Churn, As Campaign Brings in $4.285M Haul Over Last 30 Days

It seems like they are just printing money at Shapiro For PA headquarters these days.

The most recent filing to the Department of State is in and the reelection campaign for Gov. Josh Shapiro brought in $4.285 million from May 8 through June 6. That brings the cash on hand for his campaign to $38.3 million.

His Republican challenger – State Treasurer Stacy Garrity – raised $685K in the same period and has $1.1 million in the bank.

Shapiro For PA

The governor received nearly $1 million in contributions from political action committees, including $250,000 from Committee For A Better Tomorrow, established by the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association.

Other large donor PACs included:

  • $250,000 | Committee For A Better Tomorrow
  • $125,000 | Laborers’ District Council of The Metro Area of Philadelphia and Vicinity PAC
  • $125,000 | PA Laborers Jobs PAC
  • $100,000 | Local 0005 IBEW PAC
  • $100,000 | Mid-Atlantic Laborers’ Political League
  • $50,000 | Pennsylvania First

Individual contributions totaled $2.82 million, led by a pair of $250,000 contributions from John F. Fish, chair of Suffolk (Mass.) Construction, and Mitch Morgan of Pennsylvania

Other big donor gifts came from:

  • $100,000 | John Middleton, Owner, Philadelphia Phillies (Bryn Mawr, Pa.)
  • $100,000 | Joseph M. Field, Founder, Entercom Communications Corp. (Philadelphia, Pa.)
  • $100,000 | Joe Neubauer (Philadelphia, Pa.)
  • $100,000 | Shari Redstone (Atlanta, Ga.)
  • $50,000 | Robert J. Fisher (San Francisco, Calif.)
  • $50,000 | Nicole Cooper, Psychologist (Beverly Hills, Calif.)
  • $50,000 | Michael Nemeroff, CEO, Printfly Corp. (Philadelphia, Pa.)
  • $50,000 | Eric Baker, Executive, StubHub (Beverly Hills, Calif.)
  • $50,000 | Ballard Spahr LLP (Philadelphia, Pa.)
  • $30,000 | Marissa Simone Costonis (Lower Gwynedd, Pa.)
  • $30,000 | Matthew Marcus, Chiropractor (Philadelphia, Pa.)
  • $25,000 | Huaguang Qu, Carepath Injury Centers of PA (Ambler, Pa.)
  • $25,000 | Steven C. Rattner, Willett Advisors LLC (New York, N.Y.)
  • $25,000 | Gretchen Sisson, University of California San Francisco (San Francisco, Calif.)
  • $25,000 | Amy Vogt, CEO, Lovance (West Norriton, Pa.)
  • $25,000 | Andrew Youngman, CEO, Citizens Disability LLC (Newton, Mass.)
  • $25,000 | Brian Labovick, Attorney, Labovick Law Group (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.)
  • $25,000 | David Messer, Managing Member, Cresson Management (Greenwich, Conn.)
  • $25,000 | Sheldon Pang, Commerce, Freepoint Solar (Greenwich, Conn.)
  • $25,000 | Ron Philip (Flourtown, Pa.)

Some of the campaign’s expenditures included:

  • $1,016,368.54 | Pennsylvania Democratic Party, contributions
  • $554,904 | Grassroots Media LLC (Pa.), media buys
  • $500,569 | GPS Impact (Iowa), Ad Production
  • $450,203.65 | Ascend Digital Strategies LLC (Colo.), digital fundraising consulting & texting services
  • $201,727.25 | RWT Production LLC (Va.), printing of campaign materials
  • $156,784.39 | Weymouth Watson (D.C.), event production and management

Shapiro For PA also spent over $73,000 with private jet operator JET-A, LLC, in Allentown for travel during the period.

Garrity For PA


The State Treasurer received $90,900 in contributions from political action committees, including $55,000 from Keystone Honor in Pittsburgh.

Other large donor PACs included:

  • $25,000 | PA Future Fund
  • $5,000 | Capozzi and Associates PAC (Pa.)

Individual contributions totaled $470,247.94, including $60,000 from Robert Asher, co-chair of Asher’s Chocolate Co.

Other big donor gifts came from:

  • $25,000 | Daniel A. Klingerman, Chair and CEO, The Liberty Group (Williamsport, Pa.)
  • $10,000 | Frank P. Crivello, Chair, Phoenix Investors Group (Milwaukee, Wis.)
  • $10,000 | Deborah Dunn, Owner, Lancaster School of Cosmetology (Lancaster, Pa.)
  • $10,000 | D. Scott Kroh, CEO, Robindale (Latrobe, Pa.)

Some of the campaign’s expenditures included:

  • $536,007.92 | Brabender Cox *(Pa.), TV Advertising
  • $139,794.83 | Fulfillment Solutions, Inc. (Va.), fundraising direct mail
  • $69,264.64 | MDI Imaging and Mail (Va.), direct mail fundraising
  • $35,018.59 | OnPoint Data Strategy LLC (Va.), direct mail fundraising
  • $29,312.16 | HSP Direct LLC (Va.), fundraising direct mail

The Garrity campaign also reported an in-kind contribution of $33,500 from Michael Pace, founder of skills games developer Pace-O-Matic (Ga.).

Garrity’s campaign also reported $193,336.02 in debt, while Shapiro’s campaign has no reportable debts.

Steve Ulrich

Ulrich has worked as managing editor of PoliticsPA since January 2022 after spending two years as the Director of Elections in York (Pa.) County. Prior to that, he spent 35 years as a college athletics administrator. Send email to [email protected]