Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Start Early (for First Five Years Fund) Fka Ounce of Prevention (for Ffyf)
Illinois
69 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2026 · latest filed Jul 20, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$2.7M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$2.7M
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.
Education
EDU
67 filings
$2.6M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
64 filings
$2.5M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Jennifer Castagna Educationcounsel LLCCovered position: Legislative Correspondent, Office of Senator Arlen Specter54 filingsthrough 2026
- Reginal Leichty Educationcounsel LLCCovered position: Deputy Legislative Director and Counsel, Senator Bill Nelson26 filingsthrough 2014
- Scott Palmer Educationcounsel LLCCovered position: Sched C, Dept. of Justice, White House, U.S. Ed21 filingsthrough 2016
- Sarah Rittling Educationcounsel LLCCovered position: Congressman Shays, Temporary Employee
The filings
The 20 most recent of 69 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: start-early-for-first-five-years-fund-fka-ounce-of-prevention-for-ffyf.