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
Every outside firm that has filed on this client's behalf, by fees reported.
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: better-world-fund.
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.
HCR
84 filings
$7.1M on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
7 filings
$420K on those filings
Utilities
UTI
5 filings
$80K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
4 filings
$380K 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.
S. 3108116th CongressConsumer Transaction Account Protection Act of 20195 filingsthrough 2020
H.Con.Res. 312110th CongressRevising the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2008, establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2009, and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2010 through 2013.5 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2419110th CongressFood, Conservation, and Energy Act of 20085 filingsthrough 2008
S.Con.Res. 70110th CongressAn original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2009 and including the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2008 and 2010 through 2013.5 filingsthrough 2008
S. 2499113th CongressDepartment of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 20154 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 5857112th CongressDepartment of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 20134 filingsthrough 2012
S. 3241112th CongressDepartment of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 20134 filingsthrough 2012
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.
George HannumBetter World FundCovered position: Former Congressional Staff44 filingsthrough 2018
Lester MunsonBgr Government AffairsCovered position: Staff Dir SFRC; COS Sen. Kirk; COS Rep. Kirk; Dep. Asst. Admin. USAID; COS, Global Health Bureau, USAID, Pub Aff Advisor, Leg and Pub Affairs Bureau, USAID; Comms Dir SFRC; Comms Dir and Prof Staff HFAC; Press Sec, Legis Asst, Intern, Rep. Hyde33 filingsthrough 2025
Maya SeidenBgr Government AffairsCovered position: Intern, WH Counsels Office; Intern, Rep. Sam Gejdenson; Sp. Asst to Cab Sec., WH; Advisor to CoS, Energy Dept.; Sp Asst to Sec of Energy; Sen Advisor, Off of Dep. Sec of State; CoS Office of the Dep Sec of State for Management and Res.33 filingsthrough 2025
Amy PorterKyle House GroupCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Ed Royce17 filingsthrough 2026
Mark TavlaridesBgr Government AffairsCovered position: Dir., Leg. Affairs, NSC; Sr. Spec. Asst., Intl Sec. Affairs, Sec'y of Defense; Staff Dir., Staff Cons., H. For. Aff. Subcomm on Human Rights and Intl Orgs.; Leg. Asst, Intern, Rep. Yatron; Staff Cons., H. For. Aff. Subcomm on Inter-American Affairs15 filingsthrough 2025
Julian FleischmanKyle House GroupCovered position: Senior Legislative Assistant, Rep. Peter Meijer; Legislative Assistant, Rep. Brian Mast14 filingsthrough 2026
Reid DetchonBetter World Fund8 filingsthrough 2009
Bill VineyBgr Government AffairsCovered position: See prior filing7 filingsthrough 2012
Loren MonroeBgr Government AffairsCovered position: See prior filing7 filingsthrough 2012
Douglas W SmithVan Ness Feldman, LLPCovered position: General Counsel, Federal Energy RegulatoryCommission,1997-01Deputy General Counsel for Energy Policy, DOE, 1995-19977 filingsthrough 2010
David HongKyle House GroupCovered position: Foreign Affairs Fellow, Rep. Karen Bass6 filingsthrough 2024
Michele WymerKyle House GroupCovered position: Professional Staff, Senate Appropriations Committee6 filingsthrough 2013
Nicole SawranBetter World Fund6 filingsthrough 2009
Deborah DerrickBetter World FundCovered position: former Congressional staff/State Department6 filingsthrough 2008
Mary VotavaBetter World Fund5 filingsthrough 2008
Hunter StruppBgr Government AffairsCovered position: Staff Dir, Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific; Asia Policy Analyst, HFAC; Staff Asst, Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade Subcommittee; Leg Asst, Rep. Ed Royce; Leg Corr, Rep. Ed Royce; Intern, Subcommittee on Africa4 filingsthrough 2025
Martin BayrBetter World Fund3 filingsthrough 2023
Kendyl WilloxKyle House GroupCovered position: Staff Assistant - Senator Cruz; Confidential Assistant - Department of Education; Legislative Assistant - Rep. Miller-Meeks; Professional Staff Member - House Veterans Affairs Committee; Legislative Assistant - Senator Wicker2 filingsthrough 2026
Porter DelaneyBetter World Fund1 filingthrough 2023
Timothy E WirthBetter World FundCovered position: former Senator/Rep., Under Secretary of State1 filingthrough 2008
Covered positions · 18 of 24 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
