Three out-of-state donors have given Kreiss-Tomkins $480,000, including $120,000 Tuesday

Four donors gave Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins' campaign for governor $150,000 on Tuesday, a week before the election. Three of them, from New York and California, have now given the campaign a combined $480,000, Alaska Public Offices Commission records show.

Dylan Mavrides, a quantitative researcher at Jane Street in New York, has given $215,000 in four contributions since April, including $40,000 Tuesday. Benjamin West, chief technology officer of Trajectory Labs in Berkeley, California, has given $135,000. Johannes Treutlein, a research scientist at Rethink Priorities in San Francisco, has given $130,000. West and Treutlein also gave $40,000 each on Tuesday.

Treutlein was among the campaign's largest donors from August into October. Rethink Priorities does research in areas including AI governance.

The fourth Tuesday donor, Joseph Kijewski, gave $30,000. Tara Blake gave $25,000 the same day, in a report filed Wednesday. Neither appears in the campaign's earlier reports. The 24-hour reports campaigns file in the final days don't list donors' addresses or jobs, so the filings don't say who they are.

For now, Alaska has no limit on how much an individual can give a candidate. The commission traces that to Thompson v. Hebdon, a 2021 federal appeals court ruling that struck down the state's voter-approved contribution limits. Voters approved new limits in the August primary. Ballot Measure 1 caps an individual's contributions to a governor and lieutenant governor ticket at $4,000 per election cycle, but it doesn't take effect until after the Nov. 3 election.

The late money adds to a campaign that had raised about $5.3 million through Oct. 24, up from $4.28 million at the start of October. In the three weeks before Oct. 24, it raised about $1.05 million and spent about $1.16 million, according to its seven-day report. It ended that period with about $1.1 million in cash and $667,000 in debts, up from about $96,000 in debts on Oct. 2.

During the last nine days before an election, campaigns must report any contribution over $250 within 24 hours. That window runs through Nov. 2, the day before Alaskans vote.