SPECIAL OLYMPICS, INC. lobbying for SPECIAL OLYMPICS, INC.

Filing 3rd Quarter - Report

Reporting period

3rd Quarter 2025

July 1 - Sep 30 · Posted Oct 17, 2025

Expenses

$160,000.00

What this organization spent lobbying with its own staff. Reported using B: the three LDA methods count different costs, so an expenses figure is not comparable across filers that used different ones.

Client based in

District of Columbia

Official filing document

Lobbyists on this filing 2

SHAWN M FERGUSON

Previously held: Senior Advisor to the Senator, Senator Kent Conrad Legislative Director, Representative Brian Baird Office Manager & Director of Scheduling, Representative Marcy Kaptur
CHRISTIAN CLESI

Previously held: Science and Technology Policy Fellow, Senate Special Committee on Aging; Disability Policy Aide, Senate Special Committee on Aging

A "covered position" is a government job the lobbyist held in the 20 years before registering, which the law requires them to name. See the revolving door for former members of Congress across all filings.

Government bodies contacted 7

Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC)
Education, Dept of
Executive Office of the President (EOP)
Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS)
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Office of the Vice President of the United States
SENATE

The chambers, agencies and offices the filer named. It does not say who inside them was contacted, or when.

Bills named in this filing 2

HR 3420
Words Matter Act of 2025
HR 3409
HEADs UP Act of 2025

Lobbying activity 5

Civil Rights/Civil Liberties

H.R.3420 - Words Matter Act of 2025 - The Words Matter Act replaces more than two dozen instances of the term mentally retarded in U.S. Code with contemporary, respectful language.

Education

Special Olympics Uniﬁed Champion Schools (programming aimed at promoting social inclusion through intentionally planned and implemented activities affecting systems-wide change. With sports as the foundation, the three component model offers a unique combination of effective activities that equip young people with tools and training to create sports, classroom and school climates of acceptance.)

Health Issues

Special Olympics Healthy Athletes and Healthy Communities programming (Healthy Athletes provides free health screenings and education for Special Olympics athletes and Healthy Communities is a recognition program within Special Olympics, working to increase access to quality health care and effective prevention programming to improve the health of people with intellectual disabilities), H.R.3409 - HEADs UP Act of 2025: The HEADs UP Act would designate people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) as a Medically Underserved Population, opening up many government programs aimed at improving access to care and reducing health disparities.

Budget/Appropriations

Special Olympics Uniﬁed Champion Schools (programming aimed at promoting social inclusion through intentionally planned and implemented activities affecting systems-wide change. With sports as the foundation, this three component model offers a unique combination of effective activities that equip young people with tools and training to create sports, classroom and school climates of acceptance.), Special Olympics Healthy Athletes and Healthy Communities programming (Healthy Athletes provides free health screenings and education for Special Olympics athletes and Healthy Communities is a recognition program within Special Olympics, working to increase access to quality health care and effective prevention programming to improve the health of people with intellectual disabilities)

Sports/Athletics

Special Olympics Unified 3x3 Basketball World Cup (San Juan, Puerto Rico, will be the host site for the very first Special Olympics Unified 3x3 Basketball World Cup, marking the first time in the 57-year history of the global sporting movement that a Unified 3x3 Basketball World Cup will take place. Modeled after the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) World Cup, this historic event will bring together 20 mens teams and 18 womens teams comprised of Special Olympics basketball players and Unified partners (teammates without intellectual disabilities) representing each Special Olympics region around the world.)