The Great Plains Institute for Sustainable — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
The Great Plains Institute for Sustainable Development, Inc.
Minnesota
14 filings from 1 registrant · 2023–2026 · latest filed May 15, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$510K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$510K
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.
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
13 filings
$510K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
13 filings
$510K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 1262118th CongressCCU Parity Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
S. 542118th CongressCCU Parity Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
Mj KennyKountoupes Denham Carr & Reid, LLCCovered position: Deputy Floor Director, Floor Assistant - Office of the Senate Democratic Whip; Legislative Aide, Legislative Correspondent - Senator Richard J. Durbin , D-IL14 filingsthrough 2026
David Paul PelusoKountoupes Denham Carr & Reid, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff - Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-WA; Chief of Staff, Communications Director, Legislative Assistant, Deputy Press Secretary and Executive Assistant - Rep. Gus Bilirakis, R-FL13 filingsthrough 2026
Mary R "Randi" ReidKountoupes Denham Carr & Reid, LLCCovered position: Legislative Director, Legislative Assistant and projects Director, Legislative Assistant - Senator Michael Enzi, R-WY; Legislative Director - Rep. Michael Burgess, R-TX11 filingsthrough 2026
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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-great-plains-institute-for-sustainable-development-inc.
9 filings
$360K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
3 filings
$120K 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.
118th Congress
PIPES Act of 2023
2 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 7655118th CongressPipeline Safety, Modernization, and Expansion Act of 20242 filingsthrough 2024
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.
Lindsay GarciaKountoupes Denham Carr & Reid, LLCCovered position: Clerk, Senate Committee on Appropriations Energy and Water Development Subcommittee; Policy Director, Senate Republican Policy Committee; Legislative Director, Energy Policy Director & Chief Counsel, Counsel, Senator Lamar Alexander R-TN.4 filingsthrough 2026
Clayton Patrick HayesKountoupes Denham Carr & Reid, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Legislative Director - Sen. Joe Manchin, D-WV; Deputy Legislative Director, Legislative Assistant - Sen. Evan Bayh, D-IN; Staff Director - Senate Democratic Steering and Outreach Committee.4 filingsthrough 2024
Lisa KountoupesKountoupes Denham Carr & Reid, LLCCovered position: Deputy Asst to the President & House Liaison,Special Asst to the President for Legislative Affairs,Asst. Director for Legislative Affairs at OMB,Special Asst to Undersecretary,Dept of Energy,Policy Advisor to Chairman of Energy&Commerce Committee1 filingthrough 2023
Covered positions · 6 of 6 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
