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Exhibit 1288

Lobbying Disclosure Act filings: Ballard Partners (registrant 401104288), all LD-2 and registration filings, 2017 to third quarter 2026

Exhibit 1288 ยท Dataset query

Lobbying Disclosure Act filings: Ballard Partners (registrant 401104288), all LD-2 and registration filings, 2017 to third quarter 2026

All 6,179 filings for filing_year 2016 to 2026 read from the API (none for 2016). For each client and quarter the latest posted filing is used. Income by year in $ million: 2017 9.67; 2018 18.02; 2019 18.79; 2020 23.80; 2021 17.44; 2022 17.81; 2023 17.52; 2024 19.27; 2025 88.06; 2026 Q1 to Q3 97.27 (30.15, 32.23, 34.89). Without reports typed "No Activity": 2025 81.62; 2026 Q1 to Q3 90.40.

Source
U.S. Congress (Lobbying Disclosure Act database, lda.gov); query by Lacuna
Date
run 10 November 2026
Grade
Primary record
Document
https://lda.gov/api/v1/filings/?registrant_id=401104288
Accessed
2026-11-10
Cited by
Findings citing this exhibit
Note
Saved with the dataset exhibit lda-2026-top-firms-run: rows in lda-raw-slim-filings.jsonl.gz (query_file ballard-YYYY).

Cited by

Finding POL-1.17
Primary record Ballard Partners reported $88.06 million in lobbying income for 2025 and $19.27 million for 2024. For the first three quarters of 2026 it reported $97.27 million: $30.15 million, $32.23 million and $34.89 million.
Finding POL-1.19
Primary record RAI Services Company has been a Ballard client every year from 2017. It paid $440,000 in each of 2017, 2018 and 2019, $560,000 in 2025 and $550,000 for the first three quarters of 2026. In 2025 it reported 20 outside lobbying firms with $3.445 million in income, and Ballard's fee was the largest.
Finding MED-6.4
Reported Bayer spent $9.19 million on federal lobbying in 2025. Ballard Partners reported $97.27 million in lobbying income for the first three quarters of 2026, and $88.06 million for 2025, in its Lobbying Disclosure Act filings.