As U.S. Rep. Celeste Maloy prepares for the Republican primary election in June, the southern Utah incumbent has a significant fundraising edge over everyone else in the race.

In the first quarter of 2026, she raised just over $287,000 in campaign contributions, according to Federal Election Commission filings posted Tuesday. Maloy is running in Utah’s new 3rd Congressional District, where she faces three GOP primary challengers.

Several prominent Utah Republicans have thrown their financial support behind the congresswoman.

U.S. Rep. Blake Moore, a fellow incumbent to the north who is also facing a primary challenge, donated $6,000 to Maloy’s campaign in mid-March. She also received $2,000 from state Sen. Evan Vickers, R-Cedar City, and $5,000 from Walter J. Plumb, III, a businessman who founded Drug Safe Utah and a former law partner of the late U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch.

Maloy, who sits on the House Committee on Natural Resources, received a number of contributions from oil, gas and energy companies, including $5,000 from Chevron Employees Political Action Committee and $1,000 from the National Mining Association’s CoalPAC.

The lawmaker also received $3,300 from Augustus Doricko, the CEO of cloudseeding company Rainmaker. Though cloud seeding has attracted some controversy among supporters of the Trump administration’s Make America Healthy Again agenda, many Utah Republicans have embraced the practice, and Maloy attended one of the company’s events last fall.

The lawmaker’s main expenses were payments for signature gathering and event planning.

Retired U.S. Air Force major general and Operation Desert Storm veteran David Harris, who is also seeking the Republican nomination in the new 3rd District, raised $28,995 so far this year. Most of that came from Utahns contributing between $200 and $500. He personally loaned $14,000 to his campaign.

Michigan native and software developer Steven Merrill, who is running as a Democrat, raised just over $3,000.

And Phil Lyman, a former state lawmaker and gubernatorial candidate who has also declared his candidacy in the Republican primary, had only one filing on the FEC website as of Thursday. It noted that he had not raised more than $5,000. Candidates raising less than $5,000 are not required to report contributions.

In a statement Friday morning, a spokesperson for Lyman’s campaign said the low fundraising figures were “not an oversight or a capacity issue,” but rather a “deliberate choice,” as Lyman has not asked anyone for money in the first quarter of the year.

“The race is a convention race on April 25, and his focus has been entirely on delegates, not donors,” spokesperson Alex Thompson said in an email. “The FEC threshold the story references reflects that, not a campaign that is struggling to raise funds.”

There were also no contributions reported as of the filing deadline by Republicans Ayden Tate Scott and Tyler Murset, Democrat Kent Udell, Libertarian Michael Stoddard and Constitution Party candidate Cassie Easley.

On Tuesday, days after this story was first published, Cherise Udell, Kent Udell’s wife and campaign manager, told The Salt Lake Tribune that Udell’s fundraising disclosure was late due to a “software glitch.”

The campaign, according to the filing, has raised just over $14,000.

Tribune reporter Emily Anderson Stern contributed to this story.

Note to readers, April 21, 4:45 a.m. • This story has been updated to include a comment and new details from Phil Lyman and Kent Udell’s campaigns.