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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
58 filings
$930K on those filings
Education
EDU
54 filings
$958K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Corinne TakkinenTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Senior Director61 filingsthrough 2026
Benjamin GoldeenTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Rep. Jim Costa LD, LA; Rep. Dennis Cardoza LA26 filingsthrough 2025
Samantha MacielTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Sen. Kamala Harris District Representative19 filingsthrough 2026
Laura KroegerTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Senior Associate
The filings
The 20 most recent of 64 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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: discovery-science-foundation.
40 filings
$613K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
22 filings
$270K on those filings
Real Estate/Land Use/Conservation
RES
10 filings
$178K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
10 filings
$155K on those filings
Arts/Entertainment
ART
9 filings
$210K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
9 filings
$195K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
4 filings
$46K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
3 filings
$90K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
2 filings
$60K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
2 filings
$40K 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.
18 filingsthrough 2021
Christopher TownsendTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: President15 filingsthrough 2014
Dana DebeaumontTownsend Public Affairs15 filingsthrough 2013
Jessica FernandezTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Senior Associate9 filingsthrough 2015
Bryan LanzaTownsend Public Affairs9 filingsthrough 2014
James PetersonTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Director8 filingsthrough 2017
Kristen CarpentierTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Associate8 filingsthrough 2015
Cindy BoydTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Senior Associate8 filingsthrough 2014
Jonathan B JacksonTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Senior Associate3 filingsthrough 2019
Zachary ComminsTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Associate2 filingsthrough 2018
A J WebsterTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Senior Associate1 filingthrough 2018
Sean FitzgeraldTownsend Public Affairs1 filingthrough 2009
Catherine TownsendTownsend Public Affairs1 filingthrough 2009
Covered positions · 12 of 16 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
