Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Spark Institute
Connecticut
53 filings from 1 registrant · 2013–2026 · latest filed Jul 17, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$410K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$410K
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.
Retirement
RET
51 filings
$410K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
23 filings
$140K on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 52 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Michael L Hadley Davis & Harman LLP49 filingsthrough 2026
- Chris L Gaston Davis & Harman LLPCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Rush Holt48 filingsthrough 2026
- Adam Mcmahon Davis & Harman LLP18 filingsthrough 2026
- Derek B Dorn Davis & Harman LLPCovered position: Senior Finance Counsel, Senator Bingaman8 filingsthrough 2015
- Thomas A Davis
The filings
The 20 most recent of 53 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: spark-institute.