Every filing period on record, as reported. One column per filed period — a period with no column is a period with no filing, not a zero.
Basis · Amendments and terminations supersede the original report for the same registrant, client and period, so a revised quarter is counted once at its latest filed value. Registration-only filings carry no activity money and are excluded from these totals.
Who lobbies for them
This organization files only for itself — no outside firm has reported fees for it.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
68 filings
$2.7M on those filings
Arts/Entertainment
ART
68 filings
$2.7M on those filings
Education
EDU
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 158 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1260116th CongressTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the charitable deduction to all taxpayers regardless of whether a taxpayer itemizes deductions in order to encourage and increase charitable giving.10 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1519116th CongressCREATE Act of 201910 filingsthrough 2020
This record groups every filed spelling of the client's name into one entity, so "MERCK & CO., INC." and "MERCK & CO INC" read as the same company. The grouping is the client's normalized name — organizations that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: americans-for-the-arts.
Reading this · LD-2 reports a hired firm's fee and a registrant's reported expenses on separate lines and never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. Firm names link to their own record as the firms chapter lands.
67 filings
$2.7M on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
43 filings
$1.3M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
42 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
32 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
25 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
23 filings
$1M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
22 filings
$1M on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
22 filings
$955K on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
18 filings
$660K on those filings
Defense
DEF
17 filings
$260K on those filings
Note · A filing names one to several issue areas and reports a single dollar figure for the period, so the same money appears beside every issue that filing declares. The dollar column is therefore spend on filings that named this issue — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
116th Congress
Artist-Museum Partnership Act of 2019
10 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1963116th CongressExpanding Care for Veterans Act10 filingsthrough 2020
S. 566118th CongressCharitable Act8 filingsthrough 2024
H.Con.Res. 13115th CongressSupporting the Local Radio Freedom Act.8 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 102115th CongressExpanding Care for Veterans Act8 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1649115th CongressCREATE Act of 20178 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1830115th CongressArtist-Museum Partnership Act of 20178 filingsthrough 2018
S. 661115th CongressCREATE Act of 20178 filingsthrough 2018
S.Con.Res. 6115th CongressA concurrent resolution supporting the Local Radio Freedom Act.8 filingsthrough 2018
How these are found · Bill references are extracted from the free-text activity description each filing writes, then matched to the Congress in session that filing year. A reference we can't match to a bill on file is still shown, unlinked — we cite what the filing said rather than guess at what it meant. Naming a bill is not a position on it: LD-2 records that a client lobbied on the bill, never which side.
21 filings
through 2018
GLADSTONE ANTHONY PAYTON esqAmericans for the Arts18 filingsthrough 2013
Tooshar SwainAmericans for the ArtsCovered position: Staff Assistant, Legislative Correspondent, Legislative Assistant, Senator Rick Santorum17 filingsthrough 2026
Peter GordonAmericans for the Arts12 filingsthrough 2021
Jay DickAmericans for the ArtsCovered position: Legislative Correspondent, Legislative Assistant, Frank Lautenberg11 filingsthrough 2026
Olivia TarpleyAmericans for the Arts11 filingsthrough 2026
