Senate LDA · 2023–2024 combined

Top Organizations by Lobbying Spend (2026)

Ranked by combined Senate LDA lobbying spend across 16,606 organizations that reported any lobbying activity, 2023–2024. Same lobbying totals each organization's own profile page charts.

$142.2M
Leader · Chamber of Commerce of the U.S.A.
$19.3M
#100 cutoff
16,606
Orgs with any reported lobbying spend

Top lobbying spender

Chamber of Commerce of the U.S.A. leads this board at $142.2M in combined Senate LDA lobbying spend, 2023–2024. The #100 cutoff to make this list is $19.3M, placing it in roughly the top 1% of the 16,606 organizations that reported any lobbying spend in the period.

$142.2M
#1 · Chamber of Commerce of the U.S.A.
$19.3M
#100 cutoff
top 1%
of 16,606 reporting orgs

Amounts are Senate LDA reported lobbying expenditures, combined across the years shown per organization, not campaign contributions or federal contract awards.

Top organizations

Top 12 of 100 shown here; the full list is in the table below.

Largest combined lobbying spend

Top 12 of 100, 2023–2024 combined

  1. 1
    Chamber of Commerce of the U.S.A. $142,180,000 2023–2024
  2. 2
    National Association of Realtors $140,580,000 2023–2024
  3. 3
  4. 4
    American Hospital Association $55,330,000 2023–2024
  5. 5
    American Medical Association $47,614,091 2023–2024
  6. 6
    Business Roundtable $47,530,000 2023–2024
  7. 7
  8. 8
    American Chemistry Council $41,880,000 2023–2024
  9. 9
    Amazon.com Services LLC $39,110,000 2023–2024
  10. 10
    AARP $38,890,200 2023–2024
  11. 11
    Ctia-The Wireless Association $36,280,000 2023–2024
  12. 12
    Comcast Corporation $36,056,750 2023–2024

Source Senate LDA via PlainInfluence lobbying · 2023–2024

Where the #100 cutoff sits among reporting organizations

Every organization with reported lobbying spend, 2023–2024 combined

$19,322,500 Top 1% higher than 99%+ of 16,606 reporting organizations

Combined lobbying spend, bucketed by dollar band

Source Senate LDA via PlainInfluence lobbying · 2023–2024

Bars are uneven dollar bands (lobbying spend is heavily concentrated among a small number of organizations, so equal-width bands would flatten into one giant near-zero bar). The dashed line marks the #100 cutoff. Hover or tap any bar for its full count.

Full ranking, top 100

# Organization Lobbying spend
1 Chamber of Commerce of the U.S.A. $142.2M
2 National Association of Realtors $140.6M
3 Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America $65.7M
4 American Hospital Association $55.3M
5 American Medical Association $47.6M
6 Business Roundtable $47.5M
7 Meta Platforms, INC. and Various Subsidiaries $44.0M
8 American Chemistry Council $41.9M
9 Amazon.com Services LLC $39.1M
10 AARP $38.9M
11 Ctia-The Wireless Association $36.3M
12 Comcast Corporation $36.1M
13 Altria Client Services $33.7M
14 Pharmaceutical Care Management Association $33.7M
15 Ncta - the Internet & Television Association $32.1M
16 General Motors Company $31.5M
17 Google Client Services L.L.C. $30.9M
18 General Dynamics Corporation $30.9M
19 Lockheed Martin Corporation $29.5M
20 Pfizer INC. $28.8M
21 Amgen INC. $28.5M
22 Boeing $27.9M
23 American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers $27.5M
24 Charter Communications INC. $27.3M
25 National Association of Broadcasters $27.2M
26 Fedex Corporation $27.1M
27 America's Health Insurance Plans (ahip) $27.0M
28 RTX Corporation and Affiliates $26.8M
29 Qualcomm Incorporated $26.4M
30 Verizon Communications INC and Various Subsidiaries $26.3M
31 T-Mobile USA, INC. $26.2M
32 Oracle Corporation $25.7M
33 Edison Electric Institute $25.1M
34 Southern Company $24.8M
35 Genentech INC. $24.4M
36 Occidental Petroleum Corporation $23.9M
37 Microsoft Corporation $23.8M
38 Gilead Sciences, INC. $23.1M
39 Apple, INC. $22.8M
40 Merck & CO., INC. $22.1M
41 Honeywell International $22.0M
42 Cvs Health (and Subsidiaries) $21.5M
43 AT&T Services, INC. and Its Affiliates $21.3M
44 Unitedhealth Group Incorporated $21.1M
45 Johnson & Johnson Services INC $20.3M
46 National Association of Manufacturers $20.1M
47 Northrop Grumman Corporation $19.8M
48 Bytedance INC. $19.7M
49 Walmart INC. $19.5M
50 Nextera Energy, INC $19.3M
51 Koch Government Affairs $19.3M
52 Visa INC $19.2M
53 The Cigna Group and Subsidiaries (formerly Cigna Corporation and Subsidiaries) $18.7M
54 National Retail Federation $18.5M
55 Eli Lilly and Company $18.1M
56 Biotechnology Innovation Organization $18.0M
57 American Bankers Association $17.8M
58 Chevron U.S.A., INC. $17.7M
59 Conocophillips $17.6M
60 American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, INC. $16.7M
61 Intel Corporation $16.0M
62 Fresenius Medical Care North America $15.8M
63 Bayer Corporation (consolidated Report) $15.8M
64 Aflac $15.8M
65 Elevance Health, INC. $15.7M
66 American Airlines INC. $15.7M
67 Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association $15.5M
68 Bristol-Myers Squibb Company $15.4M
69 Recording Industry Association of America $15.3M
70 Huntington Ingalls Industries, INC. $15.2M
71 National Multifamily Housing Council $15.2M
72 General Atomics $15.1M
73 UPS (united Parcel Service) $15.1M
74 Duke Energy Corporation $14.9M
75 Novartis Corporation $14.7M
76 Anheuser-Busch Companies INC. $14.5M
77 Delta Air Lines INC $14.5M
78 American Petroleum Institute $14.4M
79 Shell USA, INC. (fka Shell Oil Company) $14.1M
80 National Automobile Dealers Association $14.0M
81 United Airlines, INC. $13.9M
82 American Property Casualty Insurance Association $13.9M
83 Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association $13.9M
84 Dell Technologies, INC. $13.8M
85 Novo Nordisk INC. $13.5M
86 National Shooting Sports Foundation, INC. $13.3M
87 Entertainment Software Association $13.1M
88 Open Society Action Fund $13.1M
89 National Association of Children's Hospitals (n.a.c.h.) $12.8M
90 Credit Union National Association, INC. DBA Americas Credit Unions $12.8M
91 Rai Services Company $12.7M
92 Samsung Electronics America INC $12.6M
93 Sanofi US Services INC $12.5M
94 Pmi US Corporate Services INC. (fka Pmi Global Services INC.) $12.2M
95 Toyota Motor North America INC (tma) $12.0M
96 American Health Care Association $11.9M
97 Palantir Technologies INC. $11.9M
98 Investment Company Institute $11.9M
99 Centene Corporation $11.7M
100 American Electric Power Company, INC. and Affiliated Corporations $11.7M

Year-over-year change boards and PAC contribution rankings also live on rankings. Source: U.S. Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings.

Every figure on PlainInfluence is rendered directly from official FEC, Senate LDA and USAspending records, no number is typed in by an editor. Rankings are computed directly from Senate LDA lobbying bulk data (SUM/GROUP BY on stored yearly rows), no figure is hand-entered. Disclosed contributions, lobbying, and contracts are lawful, regulated activities, appearing on this page is not an allegation of wrongdoing. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, our disclaimer, or report a data error. Data current as of 2023–2024.