Children'S Defense Fund — lobbying record — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Children'S Defense Fund
District of Columbia
47 filings from 3 registrants · 2008–2019 · latest filed Nov 6, 2019
Reported on its behalf
$325K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$122K
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$203K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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: childrens-defense-fund.
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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.
27 filings
$202K on those filings
Family issues/Abortion/Adoption
FAM
24 filings
$89K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
18 filings
$75K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
7 filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
6 filings
$8K on those filings
Firearms/Guns/Ammunition
FIR
5 filings
$12K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
5 filings
Housing
HOU
4 filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
3 filings
$17K on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
3 filings
$8K 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.
115th Congress
Child Care for Working Families Act
5 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1806115th CongressChild Care for Working Families Act5 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 3205113th CongressPromoting Adoption and Legal Guardianship for Children in Foster Care Act5 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 3461113th CongressStrong Start for America's Children Act of 20135 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1628115th CongressAmerican Health Care Act of 20174 filingsthrough 2017
S. 1169114th CongressJuvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Reauthorization Act of 20154 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1732113th CongressStrengthening the Child Welfare Response to Human Trafficking Act of 20134 filingsthrough 2014
S. 1697113th CongressStrong Start for America's Children Act4 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2188110th CongressKinship Caregiver Support Act4 filingsthrough 2008
S. 661110th CongressKinship Caregiver Support Act4 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2115th CongressAgriculture Improvement Act of 20183 filingsthrough 2018
S. 3042115th CongressAgriculture Improvement Act of 20183 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 5456114th CongressFamily First Prevention Services Act of 20163 filingsthrough 2016
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.
The Children'S Defense Fund
3 filingsthrough 2010
Elizabeth Davis-PrattThe Children'S Defense Fund3 filingsthrough 2010
William KinderThe Children'S Defense Fund3 filingsthrough 2010
