Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
The Independence Fund
North Carolina
47 filings from 3 registrants · 2018–2026 · latest filed Jul 20, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$1.5M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$210K
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.3M
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Veterans
VET
44 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Firearms/Guns/Ammunition
FIR
1 filing
$10K 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.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
- H.R. 1424 116th CongressFallen Warrior Battlefield Cross Memorial Act2 filingsthrough 2019
- S. 141 118th CongressSenator Elizabeth Dole 21st Century Veterans Healthcare and Benefits Improvement Act1 filingthrough 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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Hayden Rogers Integrated Strategy GroupCovered position: Chief of Staff, NC-11; Chief of staff, Senate WV23 filingsthrough 2026
- Raymond Kelley Two Branch Strategies17 filingsthrough 2026
- Raymond Kelley Integrated Strategy Group16 filingsthrough 2026
- Mervyn Jones The Independence FundCovered position: Spec. Asst., Rep. Joe Crowley; Spec. Asst., Rep. Tim Ryan12 filingsthrough 2021
The filings
The 20 most recent of 47 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: the-independence-fund.