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
This organization files only for itself — no outside firm has reported fees for it.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
38 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
30 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Science/Technology
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 51 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 5097118th CongressProducing Real Opportunities for Technology and Entrepreneurs Investing in Nutrition Act6 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 4356117th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20225 filingsthrough 2022
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: the-good-food-institute.
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.
SCI
11 filings
$740K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
7 filings
$10K on those filings
Intelligence
INT
3 filings
$230K on those filings
Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
CIV
2 filings
$240K on those filings
Small Business
SMB
1 filing
$50K 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.
H.R. 1769116th CongressDAIRY PRIDE Act3 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1752115th CongressVoluntary Checkoff Program Participation Act3 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 1753115th CongressOpportunities for Fairness in Farming Act of 20173 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 5961115th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20193 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 778115th CongressDAIRY PRIDE Act3 filingsthrough 2018
S. 130115th CongressDAIRY PRIDE Act3 filingsthrough 2018
S. 1603115th CongressAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20183 filingsthrough 2018
S. 740115th CongressVoluntary Checkoff Program Participation Act3 filingsthrough 2018
S. 741115th CongressOpportunities for Fairness in Farming Act of 20173 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:
4 filingsthrough 2022
Michael RyanThe Good Food InstituteCovered position: Leg. Dir, Rep. Steve Israel, May '07-Dec'10; Sr Leg. Asst, Rep. Bud Cramer, Jan. '06-Apr. '07, Leg Asst, Oct. '04-Jan. '06.3 filingsthrough 2022
Michael RyanMichael RyanCovered position: Leg. Dir, Rep. Steve Israel, Sr Leg. Asst, Rep. Bud Cramer2 filingsthrough 2022
Gabriel A. WildgenThe Good Food Institute2 filingsthrough 2021
Covered positions · 4 of 8 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
