Diving into Seminole County August primary candidates’ financial reports

With five Seminole County races on the Aug. 18 Florida Primary ballot, Oviedo Community News wanted to give voters a look into the candidates’ financial contribution data, including the amounts raised, amounts from Seminole County donors and contributions from political action committees. 

OCN will add the data for all county-wide candidates who qualify for the November election following the primary results.

This data will be updated weekly.

NOTE: An in-kind contribution is a non-monetary contribution given to a campaign. A protected donor is someone whose address is protected/not publicized on campaign finance disclosures.

Data updated as of 7/19/2026

Seminole County Court Judge

Group 3

Candidate: Sylvia Grunor (Incumbent)

Regular contributions: $89,740

In-kind contributions: $1,093.20

Total contributions: $90,833.20

Total expenditures: $59,761.32

Self-funded amount (percentage): $70,961 (78.1%)

Analysis: Grunor has received 40 contributions from people other than herself, totaling $19,872.20. She has received 21 contributions from Seminole County addresses totaling $11,445.98, 13 from the rest of Florida totaling $5,745, and six from protected voters totaling $2,681.22. 

Candidate: Nathan Skop

Regular contributions: $83,061.11

In-kind contributions: $1,299.12

Total contributions: $84,360.23

Total expenditures: $13,298.25

Self-funded amount (percentage): $80,665.92 (95.6%)

Analysis: Skop has received 12 contributions from people other than himself, totaling $3,694.31. He has received seven contributions from Seminole County addresses totaling $2,344.31, 1 from the rest of Florida totaling $200, one from out of state — Georgia — totaling $100 and three from protected voters totaling $1,050. 

Seminole County Court Judge

Group 6

Candidate: Alena Chaban

Regular contributions: $21,650

In-kind contributions: $1,093.94

Total contributions: $22,743.94

Total expenditures: $16,587.64

Self-funded amount (percentage): $13,000 (57.2%)

Analysis: Chaban has received 19 contributions from people other than herself, totaling $9,743.94. She has received 14 contributions from Seminole County addresses totaling $8,143.94, four from the rest of Florida totaling $1,100 and 1 from a protected voter totaling $500. 

Candidate: Wayne Culver (Incumbent)

Regular contributions: $70,495

In-kind contributions: $700

Total contributions: $71,195

Total expenditures: $60,854.42

Self-funded amount (percentage): $57,650 (81%)

Analysis: Culver has received 29 contributions from people other than himself, totaling $13,545. He has received 14 contributions from Seminole County addresses totaling $8,100, eight from the rest of Florida totaling $3,095, one from out of state — North Carolina — totaling $100 and six from protected voters totaling $2,250. 

Candidate: Erik Swenk

Regular contributions: $66,875

In-kind contributions: $766.98

Total contributions: $67,641.98

Total expenditures: $33,374.60

Self-funded amount (percentage): $35,044.53 (51.8%)

Analysis: Swenk has received 127 contributions from people other than himself, totaling $32,597.45. He has received 71 contributions from Seminole County addresses totaling $15,572.45, 37 from the rest of Florida totaling $12,075, three from out of state — Washington, D.C., Illinois and Virginia — totaling $250 and 16 from protected voters totaling $4,700. 

Seminole County School Board

District 1

Candidate: Kristine Kraus (Incumbent)

Regular contributions: $27,366.57

In-kind contributions: $8,056.60

Total contributions: $35,423.17

Total expenditures: $85,123.17

Self-funded amount (percentage): $57,756.60 (67.9%), including $1,365.41 in-kind venue contribution

Analysis: Kraus has received 189 contributions from people other than herself, totaling $57,756.60. She has received 129 contributions from Seminole County addresses totaling $16,520.28, 44 from the rest of Florida totaling $8,273.78, seven from out of state — Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and Kansas — totaling $858.13 and nine from protected voters totaling $1,714.38. 

The following political committees have contributed to Kraus:

• Ruth’s List Florida — $500
• The Cigna Group Employee PAC — $500
• Realtors PAC — $1,000
• Seminole Public Education PAC — $500
• GrayRobinson PA — $500

Candidate: Antonio Pizza

Regular contributions: $5,609

In-kind contributions: $120

Total contributions: $5,729

Total expenditures: $3,708.87

Self-funded amount (percentage): $1,000 (17.5%)

Analysis: Pizza has received 46 contributions from people other than himself, totaling $4,729. He has received 25 contributions from Seminole County addresses totaling $1,917, six from the rest of Florida totaling $1,315, three from out of state — Georgia, New Jersey and Pennsylvania — totaling $500 and 12 from protected voters totaling $997. 

Seminole County School Board

District 2

Candidate: Joshua Memminger

Regular contributions: $13,630.93

In-kind contributions: $395

Total contributions: $14,025.93

Total expenditures: $11,000.12

Self-funded amount (percentage): $10,000 (71.3%)

Analysis: Memminger has received 23 contributions from people other than himself, totaling $4,025.93. He has received 21 contributions from Seminole County addresses totaling $3,725.93 and two from the rest of Florida totaling $300.

Candidate: Holton Mills

Regular contributions: $19,299

In-kind contributions: $880.50

Total contributions: $20,179.50

Total expenditures: $11,867.33

Self-funded amount (percentage): $0 (0%)

Analysis: Mills has received 180 contributions from people other than himself, totaling $20,179.50. He has received 81 contributions from Seminole County addresses totaling $9,345.50, 82 from the rest of Florida totaling $8,784, five from out of state — New Jersey, Connecticut, California, Georgia, Illinois — totaling $225 and 12 from protected voters totaling $1,825. 

The following political committee has contributed to Mills:

• Seminole County Public Education PAC — $1,000

Seminole County School Board

District 5

Candidate: Autumn Garick (Incumbent)

Regular contributions: $31,483.59

In-kind contributions: $5,411.96

Total contributions: $36,895.55

Total expenditures: $16,907.55

Self-funded amount (percentage): $4,957.38 (13.4%)

Analysis: Garick has received 239 contributions from people other than herself, totaling $31,938.17. She has received 182 contributions from Seminole County addresses totaling $24,015.12, 34 from the rest of Florida totaling $6,038.54, 11 from out of state — Pennsylvania, Maryland, Massachusetts, Washington, D.C., Montana, Colorado and North Carolina — totaling $1,191.16 and 12 from protected voters totaling $693.35. 

The following political committees have contributed to Garick:

• Realtors Political Advocacy — $1,000
• Florida Project — $1,000
• Seminole Public Education PAC — $500
• The Cigna Group Employee PAC — $500
• Ruth’s List Florida — $500
• Seminole Public Education PAC — $400

Candidate: Brian Newsome

Regular contributions: $7,368.10

In-kind contributions: $0

Total contributions: $7,368.10

Total expenditures: $7,082.56

Self-funded amount (percentage): $4,513.60 (61.3%)

Analysis: Newsome has received 32 contributions from people other than himself, totaling $2,854.50. He has received eight contributions from Seminole County addresses totaling $1,250, 11 from the rest of Florida totaling $900, 12 from out of state — New Jersey, Massachusetts, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York and California — totaling $684.50 and one from a protected voter totaling $20. 

Correction: An original version of this story contained numbers that failed to account for a loan to Kraus’ campaign. That has since been corrected.