• General appropriations and government affairs support for the Next Avenue project; and the Reauthorization of the Older Americans Act.

Duration: September 1, 2010 to October 5, 2012

General Issues: Budget/Appropriations

Spending: about $190,000 (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 2010: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate,, U.S. Senate, Social Security Administration (SSA), Administration on Aging,, Commerce - Dept of (DOC), Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Administration on Aging, Labor - Dept of (DOL), Office of Faith-Based & Community Initiatives, Office of the Vice President of the United States, Veterans Affairs - Dept of (VA), Natl Institutes of Health (NIH)