Lobbying in California
21 organizations headquartered in California with federal lobbying disclosures.
Organizations HQ'd in California
Meta Platforms
Technology & Internet · 9 policy areas · 60 lobbyists
Alphabet Inc
Technology & Internet · 10 policy areas · 44 lobbyists
Chevron
Energy & Natural Resources · 7 policy areas · 30 lobbyists
Apple Inc
Technology & Internet · 8 policy areas · 28 lobbyists
Walt Disney Company
Media & Entertainment · 8 policy areas · 20 lobbyists
Amgen Inc
Pharmaceutical & Health Products · 4 policy areas · 15 lobbyists
Intel Corporation
Technology & Internet · 6 policy areas · 15 lobbyists
Qualcomm
Technology & Internet · 6 policy areas · 14 lobbyists
TikTok Inc
Technology & Internet · 6 policy areas · 14 lobbyists
Gilead Sciences
Pharmaceutical & Health Products · 5 policy areas · 11 lobbyists
Nvidia Corporation
Technology & Internet · 6 policy areas · 11 lobbyists
Wells Fargo
Finance & Banking · 6 policy areas · 10 lobbyists
JUUL Labs
Tobacco · 4 policy areas · 8 lobbyists
Visa Inc
Finance & Banking · 5 policy areas · 8 lobbyists
Kaiser Permanente
Healthcare · 5 policy areas · 8 lobbyists
Salesforce
Technology & Internet · 4 policy areas · 7 lobbyists
Cisco Systems
Technology & Internet · 5 policy areas · 7 lobbyists
Uber Technologies
Technology & Internet · 4 policy areas · 6 lobbyists
General Atomics
Defense & Aerospace · 4 policy areas · 5 lobbyists
Adobe Inc
Technology & Internet · 4 policy areas · 4 lobbyists
Netflix Inc
Technology & Internet · 5 policy areas · 3 lobbyists
Frequently Asked Questions
LobbySpend tracks 21 organizations headquartered in California with combined federal lobbying spending of $502.4M over the reporting period.
Meta Platforms leads lobbying spending in California with $98.6M in total reported expenditures, earning an Influence Score of B.
Organizations headquartered in California lobby on 30 different policy areas. 85 registered lobbyists have former government positions (revolving door connections).
The this entity record above pulls directly from the Senate Lobbying Disclosure Office LD-2 filings. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. federal lobbying disclosure distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.
The methodology behind every numeric value on this page is publicly documented on the the Senate Lobbying Disclosure Office LD-2 filings portal and described in detail on this site’s methodology page. Refresh cadence varies by underlying series; the page surfaces the as-of date for each number so readers can trace any figure back to the source release.
Practical use of this page is in combination with the comparison and ranking pages elsewhere on the site, which surface the same data for this entity’s peers within U.S. lobbying activity. A single-entity reading without peer context can be misleading when an entity is an outlier on one axis but typical on another.
Source: U.S. Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act database, 2026.