University at Buffalo — lobbying record — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
University at Buffalo
New York
53 filings from 1 registrant · 2012–2026 · latest filed May 15, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$472K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$466K
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$6K
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.
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Education
EDU
29 filings
$342K on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI
28 filings
$392K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
S. 590114th CongressCampus Accountability and Safety Act1 filingthrough 2015
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.
Megan Elizabeth TooheyState University of New York at BuffaloCovered position: Director of Government Relations19 filingsthrough 2026
Katherine GormanState University of New York at BuffaloCovered position: Director of Federal Relations16 filingsthrough 2015
ROBERT M MAYER jrState University of New York at BuffaloCovered position: Director of Government Relations10 filingsthrough 2017
Mackenzie SolomonState University of New York at Buffalo Director of Federal Relations
The filings
The 20 most recent of 53 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: university-at-buffalo.
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.
17 filings
$376K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
8 filings
$10K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
5 filings
$60K on those filings
Immigration
IMM
3 filings
$30K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
2 filings
$20K on those filings
Defense
DEF
2 filings
$20K on those filings
Urban Development/Municipalities
URB
1 filing
$20K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
1 filing
$10K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
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 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.
Covered position:
6 filingsthrough 2026
Amy SchmitState University of New York at BuffaloCovered position: Director of Administrative Services for CBLS and CMI4 filingsthrough 2017
Beth Del GenioState University of New York at BuffaloCovered position: Chief of Staff to the President and VP, Government and Community Relations2 filingsthrough 2023
Venu GovindarajuState University of New York at BuffaloCovered position: Vice President for Research and Economic Development2 filingsthrough 2023
Jinjun XiongState University of New York at BuffaloCovered position: Professor of Empire Innovation2 filingsthrough 2023
Kemper LewisState University of New York at BuffaloCovered position: Dean, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences2 filingsthrough 2022
Satish TripathiState University of New York at BuffaloCovered position: President2 filingsthrough 2017
Michael CainState University of New York at BuffaloCovered position: Dean1 filingthrough 2017
Liesl FolksState University of New York at BuffaloCovered position: Dean of School of Engineering & Applied Sciences1 filingthrough 2014
Alexander CartwrightState University of New York at BuffaloCovered position: Vice President for Research1 filingthrough 2014
Covered positions · 13 of 13 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
