SAMUEL MERRITT UNIVERSITY

Lobbying client · California · filed 2025 to 2026

Private University

$120,000 Reported spend

8 Filings counted

2 Outside firms hired

0 Bills named

Spend is reported income plus in-house expenses across 8 filings. 1 further filing for this client was restated by a later amendment and is left out of every total here. The LDA keeps a separate client record for every registrant that files for a client, so this page adds up 2 records, one per registrant listed below. Records are combined when the client name matches once case, punctuation and endings such as Inc. or LLC are set aside; for a city, county or port the state has to match as well.

Who filed for this client 2

ACORN CONSULTING $60,000 Outside firm · 4 filings
TOWNSEND PUBLIC AFFAIRS, INC $60,000 Outside firm · 4 filings

Spend per registrant: fees an outside firm reported, or the costs the client reported for lobbying in-house. The rows add up to the total above.

Reported by year 2 years

2026 $60,000 4 filings
2025 $60,000 4 filings

Issues lobbied 4

The count is how many filings named that issue area. A filing reports one lump figure covering every issue on it, so the money above cannot be split between them.

Agencies and chambers lobbied 3

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 7
SENATE 6
Education, Dept of 1

Recent filings 9 total

Q3 report

TOWNSEND PUBLIC AFFAIRS, INC

3rd Quarter 2026 (July 1 - Sep 30) · House · $20,000 income · posted Oct 20, 2026

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TOWNSEND PUBLIC AFFAIRS

2nd Quarter 2026 (Apr 1 - June 30) · House · Senate · $20,000 income · posted Jul 20, 2026

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TOWNSEND PUBLIC AFFAIRS

1st Quarter 2026 (Jan 1 - Mar 31) · House · Senate · $20,000 income · posted Apr 21, 2026

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TOWNSEND PUBLIC AFFAIRS

1st Quarter 2026 (Jan 1 - Mar 31) · posted Jan 22, 2026

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ACORN CONSULTING

4th Quarter 2025 (Oct 1 - Dec 31) · House · Senate · $30,000 income · posted Jan 13, 2026

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ACORN CONSULTING Amended

4th Quarter 2025 (Oct 1 - Dec 31) · House · Senate · $30,000 income · posted Jan 13, 2026

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ACORN CONSULTING

3rd Quarter 2025 (July 1 - Sep 30) · House · Senate · $10,000 income · posted Oct 20, 2025

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ACORN CONSULTING

2nd Quarter 2025 (Apr 1 - June 30) · House · Senate · $10,000 income · posted Jul 11, 2025

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ACORN CONSULTING

1st Quarter 2025 (Jan 1 - Mar 31) · House · Senate · $10,000 income · posted Apr 8, 2025

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Filings through October 20, 2026, the newest posted date on this record. Source: federal Lobbying Disclosure Act filings, synced daily. Money is self-reported by the filer and often rounded. Lobbying is legal, disclosed activity.