National Sporting Goods Association — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
National Sporting Goods Association
Illinois
35 filings from 1 registrant · 2015–2023 · latest filed Dec 6, 2023
Reported on its behalf
$40K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$40K
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.
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.
Sports/Athletics
SPO
16 filings
$10K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
15 filings
$30K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
Paul M KanitraLOBBYIT.COMCovered position: Field Director, U.S. House of Representatives18 filingsthrough 2018
Jason OrtegaLOBBYIT.COM16 filingsthrough 2021
Richard HoarLOBBYIT.COMCovered position: Professional Staff Member, House Committee on Education and the Workforce (2004-2010); Deputy Chief of Staff & Legislative Director, U.S. Rep Gus Bilirakis (2010-2014)8 filingsthrough 2023
Casin Daniel SperoLOBBYIT.COM7 filingsthrough 2023
The filings
The 20 most recent of 35 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: national-sporting-goods-association.
LBR
8 filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
8 filings
Science/Technology
SCI
7 filings
Small Business
SMB
3 filings
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)
TAR
2 filings
$20K 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.
117th Congress
American Innovation and Choice Online Act
5 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 6912116th CongressCOVID–19 Youth Sports and Working Families Relief Act3 filingsthrough 2020
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.
Ashley SolleLOBBYIT.COM
7 filingsthrough 2022
Ashley DelgadoLOBBYIT.COMCovered position: Professional Staff Member, House Committee on Homeland Security; March 2014-May 20166 filingsthrough 2017
Luke WallworkLOBBYIT.COM5 filingsthrough 2016
Justin Maxwell PerkinsLOBBYIT.COMCovered position: Staff Assistant - Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, 08-104 filingsthrough 2020
WILLIAM NILE ELAM ivLOBBYIT.COMCovered position: Legislative Correspondent, U.S House of Representatives4 filingsthrough 2015
Justin Ryan LewisLOBBYIT.COM3 filingsthrough 2020
Covered positions · 5 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
