Doers Network: The Endorsement List

01Entity Structure

At least three separate legal entities carry the Doers Network name, and their paperwork doesn't line up neatly with the money.

1. The original giving vehicle that made roughly $70,000 in 2026 candidate contributions (below) — the exact entity/EIN behind these earliest filings is still unconfirmed.
2. Utah Doers Network, a 501(c)(4), incorporated July 16, 2026 — after most of that $70,000 had already gone out the door. Its incorporator, Matthew T. Sanderson, is a nationally known campaign-finance attorney (Caplin & Drysdale) who has also incorporated All In For Utah Foundation and All In For Utah PAC, entities already tied to a separate Cox-orbit money network documented elsewhere on this site.
3. Utah Doers PAC, a registered Utah PAC created July 20, 2026, four days after the 501(c)(4). Its treasurer is a CPA whose phone number matches a separate "Doers Network Inc." filing that reported one independent expenditure — for Jake Hunsaker's campaign.

The money, dated

Payments with dates documented on this site, set against the dates the named entities were formed. Three different return addresses appear over the year.

02Who Runs It

The Doers Network organizes its board by county. Utah County, Salt Lake County, and Davis County each have their own regional board; nearly every seat across all three is held by a current or former elected official, party officer, or professional in government relations/lobbying — not a cross-section of community volunteers.

02bWhat Board Members Do Outside the Doers Network

Added Oct. 4, 2026 · starting with the three board members who are registered Utah lobbyists

Three Doers Network board members are registered lobbyists, paid to represent clients before the Legislature and other government bodies. This section lists each one’s registration, the gifts the Hive has found from them in state records, and places where a client’s name also shows up as a donor in other Hive files. Lobbying, serving on this board and giving to campaigns are all legal. A shared name is a connection, not an accusation.

Where the names meet

Clients of these lobbyists whose names also appear as donors in other Hive case files. Each line is a name match in the filings; the Hive has not found any record showing why a donor gave.

• Energy Fuels is a client of both Gardiner (since 4/16/24) and Stewart. Energy Fuels gave the Senate Republican caucus PAC $2,500 on Sept. 2, 2026. On the caucus PAC’s report, that gift lists the same West Jordan address as Gardiner’s firm, ASG Consulting. Energy Fuels’ own address on both lobbyists’ registrations is in Denver. See PAC-17.
• Select Health is a Gardiner client (since 1/10/24). “SelectHealth” gave the Senate Republican caucus PAC $35,500 from 2022 through May 2026 and $2,500 on Sept. 15, 2026. See PAC-17.
• Wolverine Fuels is listed as a Gardiner client on his registration as of Oct. 4, 2026 (an August read of the registration showed an end date of March 2, 2026). Wolverine Fuels Holding, LLC gave the caucus PAC $2,500 on Sept. 2, 2026.
• Oakwood Consulting was a Gardiner client from 2021 to Feb. 23, 2023. Oakwood Consulting gave the caucus PAC $25,000 from 2022 through May 2026.
• Utah Credit Union Association is a Gardiner client (since 1/7/25). A committee filed as “UCU Political Action Committee” gave Rep. Rob Bishop $2,000 (5/5/26) and, as “UCUPAC,” gave the caucus PAC $6,000 (9/2/26). Both reports list the PAC at 455 E 500 S, Suite 400, Salt Lake City, the same address Gardiner’s registration gives for the Utah Credit Union Association. The Hive has not confirmed the PAC’s registered sponsor.
• Rob Bishop received gifts from all three lobbyists on this board ($2,100 combined). Stewart previously worked for him on the House Natural Resources Committee.

Sources: Utah lobbyist registrations for Steve A. Hiatt, Adam Gardiner and Cody Stewart (disclosures.utah.gov; all three read as pasted text Oct. 4, 2026; Gardiner’s dated client history from an Aug. 11, 2026 read); Rob Bishop’s 2026 Convention, Primary and September 30th Reports; the Utah Republican Senate Campaign Committee’s exports and 2026 September 30th Report. Registrations do not show which clients a lobbyist worked for on any particular issue. Other board members’ gifts and roles will be added as they are checked.

03The Endorsement List

The Doers Network's own "All" page lists 36 endorsed candidates across federal, state, and county races, as of 9/10/26. (Earlier versions of this page said 34; that was a miscount, corrected 9/23/26.)

04Who It Paid

Utah campaign-finance disclosures show direct 2026 contributions from Doers Network entities to a list that overlaps with, but differs from, the 36 public endorsements — $84,550 documented across the year in the table below, entirely a 2026 phenomenon (no 2025 activity exists).

"Katrina Hall" appears in the contribution filings; the endorsement page lists "Katy Hall" for HD 11. Whether these are the same person is not yet confirmed.

05Endorsed vs. Funded

Overlaying both lists shows they aren't the same list. The clearest examples are Utah's two legislative leaders: Senate President Stuart Adams and House Speaker Mike Schultz both received Doers Network money in 2026, and neither appears on the organization's own public endorsement page. Several other sitting legislators — Melissa Garff Ballard, Steven Eliason, Jason Thompson, and Daniel McCay among them — are in the same position. Conversely, several endorsed candidates in county-level races (Salt Lake County Council, Salt Lake County Sheriff, Davis County Clerk, and others) have no matching contribution yet found in this year's disclosures. Money and formal endorsement, in other words, are two separate signals from the same organization, not two views of the same list.

"Katy Hall" (endorsed) and "Katrina Hall" (paid) may be the same person; they are counted separately until confirmed.

05bNew: Utah Doers PAC’s First Report

Added Oct. 4, 2026 · from the PAC’s 2026 September 30th Report, read as pasted text

Utah Doers PAC, registered July 20, 2026, filed its first report covering June 12 to Sept. 25, 2026. It was submitted Sept. 30, its due date. The report lists a beginning balance of $0.00, one contribution of $25,000 and 14 payments totaling $21,000, leaving $4,000.

• Money in: $25,000 from Utah Doers Network on Sept. 8, 2026, at the same Arbor Lane address as the PAC. Comment on the report: “Contribution.”
• Money out: all 14 payments are dated Sept. 4, 2026, each listed as “Political Support.”
• Dates as filed: the 14 payments are dated four days before the PAC’s only contribution, on a report that starts at $0.00. The report does not explain the order of the dates.

The recipient-side entries come from a disclosures.utah.gov Individual Contributions search pulled Oct. 2, 2026. Recipient dates and senders differ from the PAC’s report in several places: the PAC lists every payment on 9/4, while recipients list dates from 9/9 to 9/30, some under “Doers Network, Inc.” or “Utah Doers Network” rather than the PAC. Okerlund’s campaign lists $500; the PAC lists $1,500. Five recipients are county candidates who file with Salt Lake County, not the state, so their side is not in the state search.

06Networks

The Doers Network doesn't operate alone. Digging into individual candidates' own disclosures surfaces the same names, addresses, and vendors reaching into other parts of Utah's political-money system.

Shared incorporator and address

Matthew T. Sanderson, a Washington DC campaign-finance attorney, incorporated both Utah Doers Network and All In For Utah Foundation/PAC — a separate entity documented elsewhere on this site. On Tamara Tran's own disclosures, All In For Utah PAC and Doers Network file from the exact same suite address, 6905 S 1300 E #224. Two separately registered political committees list the same suite.

Board members giving personally, beyond the PAC's own checks

• Adam Gardiner (Salt Lake County board) gave Stephanie Gricius $250 via ASG Consulting and Mike Bird $500 directly.
• Seth Sunderland (Salt Lake County board) gave JR Bird $143.70 personally and Mike Bird $500 via his firm, Spring Canyon Capital LLC.

Two separate Salt Lake County board members, each funding two separate candidates individually — on top of whatever the Doers Network PAC itself gave.

Candidate-to-candidate money

Mike Bird's own disclosures show small contributions from Luke Searle (HD-59, CASE 11) and Casey Saxton (a Doers-endorsed HD-37 candidate) — the endorsed roster isn't just receiving from the same PAC, some of them are funding each other directly.

Shared vendors

Tactical Campaigns appears in both Tamara Tran's and Stephanie Gricius's expenditures. Majority 51 shows up as a vendor paid by both Tran's and Erik Craythorne's (CASE 13) campaigns. Tran's campaign also paid $12,000 to a vendor called "Gathering" — not yet confirmed as the same Gathering Inc. tied to the 2025 signature-forgery prosecutions documented elsewhere on this site, but the name match is worth tracking.

A succession pipeline

Davis County board member Steve Hiatt is the former Kaysville Mayor who preceded Tamara Tran in that office, and a registered lobbyist — she's now the Doers-backed candidate for the state Senate seat Jerry Stevenson is vacating. Separately, Salt Lake County Council Chair Aimee Winder Newton gave Mike Bird $6,000 personally.

07Questions Worth Asking

• Which exact legal entity funded the earliest 2026 contributions, before either the 501(c)(4) or the PAC existed on paper?
• Do the county-level endorsed candidates with no matching contribution reflect a later filing period not yet reported, or a purely endorsement-only relationship?
• Why did some sitting legislators receive contributions without a matching public endorsement — a lag in updating the website, or a deliberate distinction between "funded" and "endorsed"?
• Who or what is at 421 Office Park Drive, Mountain Brook, AL — the address used for the two most recent (9/9/26) payments?
• What does Titan Investments, LLC (JR Bird's undisclosed entity) actually do?
• Is "Gathering," Tamara Tran's $12,000 vendor, the same Gathering Inc. tied to the 2025 forgery prosecutions?