WASHINGTON — It’s time, once again, to check on the coffers of Minnesota’s congressional candidates, now a mere 113 days until Election Day (and less than a month removed from two contested congressional primaries on Aug. 14).

Fundraising reports were due to the Federal Election Commission on Sunday, and here are some of the more interesting items we found sifting through the numbers over the weekend:

• Some of candidates have begun loaning their campaigns personal money to bolster fundraising numbers. The most egregious of these was 1^st District Republican Allen Quist, who cut himself a $170,000 cut and raised only about $8,000 from outside the Quist family. Democrat Jim Graves ($150,000) and Republican Lee Byberg ($45,000) also loaned themselves sizable amounts of personal funds to get their campaigns off the ground.

• For many reasons, incumbents always have a natural fundraising advantage over their challengers, but nothing makes them happier than when the opposing party waits until mid-August to pick a candidate. With primary battles rage in their districts, Democrat Tim Walz and Republican Chip Cravaack are quietly amassing sizable war chests for a quick-and-dirty three-month fall campaign: Walz is sitting on $810,000 and holds a nearly 8-to-1 advantage over the best-funded Republican, and Cravaack has collected nearly $900,000 while the three DFLers looking to oppose him are spending themselves silly in the run-up to their primary.

• Few neutral political prognosticators expect Michele Bachmann to face much of a challenge in November, but her national prominence and Tea Party appeal still make her the top fundraiser in the state’s congressional delegation. In raising $1.9 million, she accounts for nearly one-third of all the money collected by Minnesota incumbents and challengers this quarter.

Without further ado, here’s a run-down of (rounded) fundraising totals from the last three months, as of June 30:

U.S. Senate

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D): Raised: $950,000; On Hand: $5.5 million

Kurt Bills: Raised: $243,000

Bills won the GOP’s endorsement in the U.S. Senate race in late May, giving Republicans less than half the fundraising quarter to coalesce around their newly crowned candidate and, by extension, send him their money. In the end, his fundraising was pretty lackluster, just about one-fourth of Klobuchar’s haul.

This was technically Klobuchar’s weakest quarter this cycle, but well in line with her usual $1 million, give-or-take $100,000, showing. In her first re-election campaign, Klobuchar has a high approval rating, a sizable lead in early polling and a commanding money lead (Bills has raised about $280,000 total, but his cash-on-hand number wasn’t available over the weekend).

1^st District

Rep. Tim Walz (D): Raised: $238,000; On hand: $809,000

Mike Parry: Raised: $53,000; On hand: $31,000

Allen Quist: Raised: $178,000; On hand: $165,000

As mentioned above, Quist’s fundraising total comes almost entirely from personal loans he’s made to the campaign. He’s putting that money to good use, at least, hitting the airwaves this week with the first ad in the GOP primary campaign between himself and state Sen. Mike Parry.

Parry’s fundraising numbers aren’t great, but a spokesman notes that his second quarter effort effectively doubles his fundraising total in the campaign so far (he’s been running since October). But whoever wins on Aug. 14 will have a significant fundraising hurdle ahead of them: Walz has saved up more than $800,000 for the fall campaign after his 2010 contest nearly depleted his funds.

2^nd District

Rep. John Kline (R): Raised: $428,000; On hand: $1.3 million

Mike Obermueller: Raised: $250,000; On hand: $214,000

Kline remains a potent fundraiser and has a sizable cash advantage over his opponent, but that’s to be expected given his seniority in the delegation and his stature in Washington.

Obermueller, meanwhile, raised his quarter-million in just two months of work, well off Kline’s pace but still stronger than any other challenger in the state. Obermueller is the lone Minnesotan on the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s "Red to Blue" list of up-and-coming Democratic candidates, so decent fundraising should be in the cards from here on out.

3^rd District

Rep. Erik Paulsen (R): Raised: $454,000; On hand: $1.5 million

Brian Barnes: Raised: $107,000; On hand: $56,500

Paulsen has proven a robust fundraiser and has now collected nearly $2.2 million for his second re-election campaign. That’s second most in the delegation, and no one is going to catch up with the leader (a one Michele Bachmann).

Barnes had his best fundraising quarter of the cycle so far, more than doubling his sum over the last six months of the campaign. But Paulsen still holds a staggering 27-to-1 edge.

4^th District

Rep. Betty McCollum (D): Raised: $90,000; On hand: $206,000

Anthony Hernandez: Raised: $16,600; On hand: $5,000

While most lawmakers were ramping up their fundraising during the second quarter, McCollum reported her lowest three-month total since the first quarter of 2011. But McCollum is in a safe district, and, given her opponent’s fundraising numbers, not likely to need the extensive funding of other campaigns.

5^th District

Rep. Keith Ellison (D): Raised: $260,000; On hand: $143,000

Chris Fields: Raised: $40,000; On hand: $34,000

Ellison is in a district as safe as McCollum’s, but he nearly tripled her fundraising number. Ellison holds only a 4-to-1 bankroll advantage over Fields (which is better than challengers in more competitive districts, like Obermueller, who trails Kline 6-to-1 in the 2nd), but the district demographics make it so that Ellison probably won’t astounding fundraising numbers to win in November.

6^th District

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R): Raised: $1.9 million; On hand: $1.7 million

Jim Graves: Raised: $400,000; On hand: $404,500

Bachmann is a fundraising juggernaut, pulling in more than $1.8 million in individual contributions during her first full fundraising quarter as a U.S. representative seeking re-election. On Twitter, she reported more than 40,000 contributions, and it turns out many of those came from small donors: of the total $1.86 million in individual contributions she received, $1.2 million of them came from those giving less than $200. Between PAC contributions and miscellaneous business transactions (such as renting out office space to the Wisconsin Recall Action Fund), Bachmann raised nearly $2 million last quarter.

Since Bachmann’s fundraising prowess was obviously not at all damaged by her failed presidential bid, challenger Jim Graves’ job just quite a bit harder. After a $150,000 personal loan, he raised only about $250,000 this quarter, and finds himself $1.3 million in the hole in the cash banked department.

(While we’re at it, Bachmann’s presidential campaign is still nearly $940,000 in debt, but she’s working to pay that down, transferring $80,000 from her congressional campaign committee between April and May.)

7^th District

Rep. Collin Peterson (D): Raised: $191,000; On hand: $820,000

Lee Byberg: Raised: $153,500; On hand: $119,500

For a Democrat in a red district and the ranking member on a important committee (Agriculture), Peterson is not a prolific fundraiser, evidenced by the $191,000 he raised last quarter being his best showing this cycle. Still, he has $820,000 in the bank for his November rematch with Byberg.

For his part, Byberg raised $110,000 and loaned himself $40,000, the third time in as many years he’s given himself a five-figure donation. His campaign is now $117,000 in debt.

8^th District

Rep. Chip Cravaack (R): Raised: $394,000; On hand: $899,000

Rick Nolan: Raised: $128,000; On hand: $93,500

Tarryl Clark: Raised: $213,000; On hand: $259,000

Jeff Anderson: Raised: $50,000; On hand: $18,000

At the moment, Cravaack is sitting back and letting Nolan, Clark and Anderson beat themselves up and spend themselves dry ahead of their Aug. 14 primary. Cravaack raised nearly $400,000 last quarter, easily his best of the cycle, and the 8^th District Republican, seen by most observers as the single most vulnerable Minnesota incumbent this cycle, finds himself with enormous cash advantages over all three of them.

Cravaack has a nearly 10-to-1 lead on the DFL-endorsed candidate Rick Nolan, who, after raising $93,000, had his best quarter of the cycle. At the moment, he has $93,500 to spend on both his primary campaign and, should he win there, the fall general election.

Clark raised $213,000, nearly $110,000 less than she raised in the first quarter, before the DFL endorsement convention. She has a 2.5-to-1 fundraising edge over Nolan in the primary. She’s raised more than $1 million for her campaign, behind only Cravaack ($1.4 million).

Jeff Anderson raised $50,000 and has an anemic $18,000 left to spend, with the DFL primary less than a month away.

Devin Henry can be reached at dhenry@minnpost.com. Follow him on Twitter: @dhenry