• FY13 Labor, HHS, Education Appropriations funding for grant programs Pell grant funding
• Competitive funding through Dept. of Education, DHS, HRSA FY13 Labor, HHS, Education Appropriations funding for grant programs Pell grant funding

Duration: September 16, 2011 to July 31, 2012

General Issues: Education, Budget/Appropriations, Environmental/Superfund

Spending: about $50,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

It can be tricky to figure out how much an organization spent on a particular lobbying engagement. The law only requires lobbyists to report the amount they were paid for federal lobbying each quarter rounded to the nearest $10,000—and if it's less than $3,000 in a given quarter (or less than $13,000 for organizations with in-house lobbyists), they don't have to disclose it at all. Plus, some organizations include spending that doesn’t belong in the report—for instance, money spent lobbying state governments or other legal work.

Agencies lobbied since 2011: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Education - Dept of,, Education - Dept of, Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA),, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)