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: open-society-action-fund.
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.
IMM
11 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
CIV
11 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
9 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
6 filings
$250K on those filings
Family issues/Abortion/Adoption
FAM
5 filings
$250K on those filings
Defense
DEF
3 filings
$9.9M on those filings
Education
EDU
3 filings
$760K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
2 filings
$660K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
2 filings
$100K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
1 filing
$1.6M 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
Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2018
6 filingsthrough 2018
H.J.Res. 52118th CongressAuthorization for Use of Military Force Resolution of 20234 filingsthrough 2023
H.R. 4928118th CongressNational Security Reforms and Accountability Act4 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 5354115th CongressCountering Foreign Propaganda Act of 20184 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1679115th CongressForeign Agent Lobbying Transparency Enforcement Act4 filingsthrough 2018
S. 2039115th CongressDisclosing Foreign Influence Act4 filingsthrough 2018
S. 2482115th CongressForeign Agents Registration Amendments Act of 20184 filingsthrough 2018
S. 2583115th CongressForeign Influence Transparency Act4 filingsthrough 2018
S. 625115th CongressForeign Agents Registration Modernization and Enforcement Act4 filingsthrough 2018
S. 924115th CongressNational Security Diversity and Inclusion Workforce Act of 20174 filingsthrough 2018
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.
Covered position: N/A
8 filingsthrough 2017
Adna Karamehic-OatesOpen Society Action Fund8 filingsthrough 2013
Charlie EllsworthPioneer Public AffairsCovered position: Budget & Appropriations Legis. Asst., Sen. Charles Schumer; Senior Policy Advisor, Democratic Policy and Comms. Cmte. (Sen. Harry Reid and Sen. Charles Schumer); Legis. Asst. & Deputy Legis. Asst., Sen. Ben Nelson7 filingsthrough 2025
Rachel EveretteOpen Society Action FundCovered position: N/A7 filingsthrough 2024
Alex JohnsonOpen Society Action FundCovered position: Oct 2015 - Jan 2017: Special Advisor, U.S. Department of Defense; Nov 2007 - Oct 2015: Policy Advisor, U.S. Helsinki Commission; May 2007 - Nov 2007: Policy Advisor, Rep. Alcee Hastings7 filingsthrough 2018
