Has Ilhan Omar released personal financial disclosure forms and what do they show?
Executive summary
Ilhan Omar has filed personal financial disclosure reports required of House members — most recently a 2024 report filed in May 2025 — and those filings list multiple assets that third‑party trackers and news outlets have interpreted as implying a possible net‑worth range from several million up to tens of millions of dollars (the 2024 disclosure was filed May 14, 2025 and parsed by outlets afterward) [1] [2]. Several outlets and data sites parsed her filing and estimated holdings including large reported valuations in entities tied to her husband, Timothy Mynett; Omar and some outlets stress those valuations reflect businesses run in part by Mynett and do not necessarily equal her personal liquid net worth [1] [3] [2].
1. What the disclosures are and where to find them
Members of the U.S. House must file annual personal financial disclosure statements; Omar’s reports appear in the official House public disclosure system and are also mirrored by third‑party databases such as LegiStorm, OpenSecrets and FEC filings for campaign receipts [4] [5] [6] [7]. Omar’s congressional office also links to her disclosures and notes the timing and legal requirement for availability [8].
2. What the 2024 (filed May 2025) disclosure shows on paper
Reporting based on Omar’s 2024 disclosure lists multiple assets and liabilities where some entries are broad ranges. Media and data parsers noted entries including partnership or LLC interests that were reported with valuation ranges — examples reported in parsing include a Rose Lake Capital LLC valuation listed in a multi‑million dollar range and other LLC interests showing high upper bounds — leading private trackers to calculate net‑worth estimates that span from low millions up to figures as high as $30 million [1] [3] [9].
3. Where interpretation diverges: ownership, control, and valuation ranges
Key to the debate is that several of the assets flagged by reporters are described on the disclosure as interests in businesses run in part by Timothy Mynett, Omar’s husband; outlets emphasize those entries are not necessarily equivalent to Omar’s own liquid personal wealth. The disclosure form’s use of large valuation ranges for private entities means headline net‑worth totals are estimates and depend on how parsers allocate ownership, which the filings do not always make explicit [1] [2] [10].
4. How outside trackers and outlets turned disclosures into headline net‑worth numbers
Commercial trackers and news sites (for example Quiver Quantitative and various news reports) parsed the line‑items and assigned midpoint or maximum values to opaque ranges, producing estimates such as Quiver’s $18.1 million figure and other outlets’ reporting of a $6 million–$30 million possible range. Those calculations are model‑dependent: different assumptions about the upper/lower bounds and whether interests are jointly held by Mynett versus Omar change the headline number materially [3] [9].
5. Omar’s and others’ responses and competing narratives
Omar has publicly disputed characterizations that she personally became a multimillionaire, saying she has “barely thousands,” no stocks or real estate, and still carries student‑loan debt; reporting notes the filings still show student loan liabilities in the modest five‑figure range and a different asset profile in earlier years [2] [1]. Critics say the filings raise unanswered questions about rapid increases in reported private‑business valuations, while supporters and some reporters warn that conflating business valuations tied to a spouse with a member’s personal liquid net worth misleads the public [10] [1].
6. What is clear in the public record and what remains unresolved
The public record clearly shows Omar filed the required 2024 disclosure in May 2025 and that the form lists multi‑million dollar valuation ranges for certain business interests; third‑party parsers used those ranges to produce large net‑worth estimates [1] [3]. What is not settled in available reporting is the precise breakdown of ownership and control between Omar and her husband for those specific private entities, and therefore how much of the reported valuations should be attributed to Omar personally — the filings themselves use ranges and descriptions that leave room for differing interpretations [1] [3].
7. Why this matters for readers and voters
Financial disclosures exist to allow public scrutiny of potential conflicts and interests; when disclosures include wide valuation ranges for private entities, they produce a high level of uncertainty that reporters, critics and defenders will interpret according to agenda and methodology — transparency in line‑item detail and consistent parsing rules would reduce that ambiguity [4] [8] [3]. Readers should treat headline net‑worth numbers derived from these filings as model‑based estimates rather than definitive statements of liquid personal wealth, and consult the original disclosure PDFs and multiple parsers to see the underlying entries themselves [4] [3].
Limitations: This analysis draws only on publicly available reporting and the disclosure entries summarized by those sources; the underlying House PDF filings and the exact text of each line item are available at the Clerk’s public disclosure site and through LegiStorm and OpenSecrets for readers seeking the primary documents [4] [5] [7].