First Focus Campaign for Children — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
First Focus Campaign for Children
District of Columbia
48 filings from 2 registrants · 2009–2024 · latest filed Jan 22, 2025
Reported on its behalf
$1.1M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$830K
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$300K
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: first-focus-campaign-for-children.
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.
EDU
30 filings
$820K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
28 filings
$800K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
27 filings
$690K on those filings
Housing
HOU
13 filings
$450K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
12 filings
$390K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
10 filings
$150K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
8 filings
$200K on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
8 filings
$200K on those filings
Welfare
WEL
8 filings
$110K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
7 filings
$230K 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.
113th Congress
Equal Access to Quality Education Act of 2013
8 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 576114th CongressHomeless Children and Youth Act of 20157 filingsthrough 2016
S. 1062113th CongressEducator Preparation Reform Act7 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2234112th CongressCARE Act of 20117 filingsthrough 2012
S. 952112th CongressDREAM Act of 20117 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.7 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1064111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.7 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1105111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.7 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1256111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.7 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1723111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.7 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1751111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.7 filingsthrough 2010
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.
Wendy CervantesFirst Focus Campaign for Children3 filingsthrough 2011
Phillip LovellFirst Focus Campaign for Children3 filingsthrough 2010
Ralph ForshtFirst Focus Campaign for Children2 filingsthrough 2010
Lisa ShapiroFirst Focus Campaign for Children2 filingsthrough 2010
Catherine HodgettsFirst Focus Campaign for Children2 filingsthrough 2010
