• As a Congressionally-chartered Foundation, NFWF met with federal agencies, Members of Congress and Congressional staff to discuss FY 2010 funding for grant programs
• As a Congressionally-chartered Foundation, NFWF responded to requests for information regarding our conservation grants and upcoming Foundation reauthorization.

Duration: January 1, 2008 to June 30, 2009

General Issues: Budget/Appropriations, Natural Resources

Spending: about $220,000 (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 2008: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Natl Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Interior - Dept of (DOI), Army - Dept of (Corps of Engineers),, Agriculture - Dept of (USDA), Army - Dept of (Corps of Engineers), U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS), U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management (BLM)