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.
Nathan H SmithGlsen, Inc. (Formerly Known as Gay Lesbian & Straight Education Network)32 filingsthrough 2018
Aaron RidingsGlsen, Inc. (Formerly Known as Gay Lesbian & Straight Education Network)Covered position: Chief of Staff and Deputy Director for Public Policy and Research20 filingsthrough 2023
Shawn GaylordGlsen, Inc. (Formerly Known as Gay Lesbian & Straight Education Network)18 filingsthrough 2012
Eric MastenGlsen, Inc. (Formerly Known as Gay Lesbian & Straight Education Network)Covered position: legislative correspondent, Sen. Patty Murray13 filings
The filings
The 20 most recent of 67 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
Period
Registrant
Type
Reported
Record
1st Quarter (Jan 1 - Mar 31) 2026
Glsen, Inc. (Formerly Known as Gay Lesbian & Straight Education Network)
Glsen, Inc. (Formerly Known as Gay Lesbian & Straight Education Network)
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: glsen-inc.
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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.
3 filings
$180K on those filings
Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
CIV
3 filings
$170K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
2 filings
$200K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
2 filings
$200K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
1 filing
$80K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
1 filing
$50K 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.
114th Congress
Student Non-Discrimination Act of 2015
8 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1199113th CongressSafe Schools Improvement Act of 20137 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 1652113th CongressStudent Non-Discrimination Act of 20137 filingsthrough 2014
H.R. 2902114th CongressSafe Schools Improvement Act of 20156 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1957115th CongressSafe Schools Improvement Act of 20175 filingsthrough 2018
S. 506112th CongressSafe Schools Improvement Act of 20115 filingsthrough 2012
S. 555112th CongressStudent Non-Discrimination Act of 20114 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2262111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 4530111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3132110th CongressSafe Schools Improvement Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1024111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3017111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1584111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 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.
through 2011
Brian DittmeierGlsen, Inc. (Formerly Known as Gay Lesbian & Straight Education Network)Covered position: Director of Public Policy8 filingsthrough 2025
Brenda BarronGlsen, Inc. (Formerly Known as Gay Lesbian & Straight Education Network)Covered position: Director of Public Policy6 filingsthrough 2019
S Leigh ThompsonGlsen, Inc. (Formerly Known as Gay Lesbian & Straight Education Network)3 filingsthrough 2009
Victoria Minerva Rodriguez-RoldanGlsen, Inc. (Formerly Known as Gay Lesbian & Straight Education Network)Covered position: Director of Public Policy2 filingsthrough 2022
Susan KilbourneGlsen, Inc. (Formerly Known as Gay Lesbian & Straight Education Network)2 filingsthrough 2008
Eliza ByardGlsen, Inc. (Formerly Known as Gay Lesbian & Straight Education Network)2 filingsthrough 2008
Kate MolskiGlsen, Inc. (Formerly Known as Gay Lesbian & Straight Education Network)2 filingsthrough 2008
Benny VasquezGlsen, Inc. (Formerly Known as Gay Lesbian & Straight Education Network)1 filingthrough 2009
Covered positions · 5 of 12 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
