Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 1 client
20 filings
$6.3M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD · 1 client
16 filings
$3.4M on those filings
Government Issues
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
Daniel SchumanCovered position: N/A19 filings1 client · through 2022
Sarah ChristophersonCovered position: House of Representatives: Staff assistant, Legislative correspondent, Legislative assistant, Senior legislative assistant, Legislative director, Legislative director/Washington director12 filings1 client · through 2023
John Foti7 filings1 client · through 2026
Christine Soderstrom6 filings1 client · through 2015
Sean Vitka3 filings
Foreign interests disclosed
Every foreign entity named on this registrant's filings.
Ikea Foundation
Netherlands
2 filings
through 2015
What this discloses · An LD-2 reports foreign entities that hold an interest in, or contribute to, the client — so these are foreign interests behind the organizations this registrant files for, not owners of the registrant itself. Disclosure is a reporting requirement, not an allegation.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 50 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
This record groups every filed spelling of the registrant's name into one entity, so punctuation variants of the same firm read as one. The grouping is the registrant's normalized name — firms that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: new-venture-fund.
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.
Reading this · An LD-2 reports either a fee the registrant charged or expenses it spent, never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. The expenses basis is what an organization lobbying on its own behalf files — usually for itself, sometimes for an affiliate under a different name — so a name on the second list is the client the filing names, not necessarily a claim that the registrant lobbied for someone else's account. Across every relationship on file — not just those shown — this registrant reported $0 in fees and $14.1M in expenses.
GOV · 1 client
13 filings
$4.2M on those filings
Welfare
WEL · 1 client
6 filings
$233K on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM · 1 client
6 filings
$233K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV · 1 client
5 filings
$420K on those filings
Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
CIV · 1 client
4 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM · 1 client
4 filings
$1M on those filings
Intelligence
INT · 1 client
3 filings
$955K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC · 1 client
3 filings
$955K on those filings
Defense
DEF · 1 client
2 filings
$620K on those filings
Immigration
IMM · 1 client
1 filing
$40K 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 money 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.
1 client · through 2017
Sandra Salstrom2 filings1 client · through 2017
Reginald DarbyCovered position: House of Representatives: Staff Assistant, Legislative Correspondent, Legislative Assistant, Legislative Director, Deputy Chief of Staff1 filing1 client · through 2023
Covered positions · 3 of 7 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. A covered official position is the LD-2 field a lobbyist uses to report having held one; the text is reproduced exactly as filed.
