Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Start Early (Formerly Known as Ounce of Prevention Fund)
Illinois
29 filings from 1 registrant · 2015–2022 · latest filed Apr 19, 2022
Reported on its behalf
$240K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$240K
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
25 filings
$220K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
16 filings
$160K 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 — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Reginal Leichty Foresight Law + Policy PLLCCovered position: Deputy Legislative Director and Counsel, Senator Bill Nelson ; ; Legislative Assistant, Senator Bill Nelson ; ; Legislative Assistant, Senator Bob Kerrey ; ; Legislative Correspondent, Senator Bob Kerrey26 filingsthrough 2021
- Amy Starzynski Foresight Law + Policy PLLCCovered position: Director of Communications, Senator Johnny Isakason17 filingsthrough 2018
- Alexander Perry Foresight Law + Policy PLLC6 filingsthrough 2020
- Steven Voytek Foresight Law + Policy PLLC5 filingsthrough 2021
The filings
The 20 most recent of 29 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-formerly-known-as-ounce-of-prevention-fund.