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LIFEWAY FOODS, INC

Lobbying client · Illinois · filed 2025 to 2026

Manufacturing and distributing kefir, a cultured dairy product

$40,000 Reported spend
7 Filings counted
2 Outside firms hired
0 Bills named

Spend is reported income plus in-house expenses across 7 filings. 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. These filings have also been reported as LIFEWAY FOODS, INC.

 Who filed for this client 2

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 $0 3 filings
  • 2025 $40,000 4 filings
 Issues lobbied 7

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 2
  • Food & Drug Administration (FDA) 4
  • SENATE 4
 Recent filings 7 total
Q2 terminationNo activity
LOBBYING FOR IMPROVEMENTS
2nd Quarter 2026 (Apr 1 - June 30) · posted Aug 3, 2026
View → Q1 reportNo activity
LOBBYING FOR IMPROVEMENTS
1st Quarter 2026 (Jan 1 - Mar 31) · posted Jun 1, 2026
View → Q4 termination
PENN AVENUE PARTNERS
4th Quarter 2025 (Oct 1 - Dec 31) · Senate · $10,000 income · posted Jan 16, 2026
View → Registration
LOBBYING FOR IMPROVEMENTS
1st Quarter 2026 (Jan 1 - Mar 31) · posted Jan 5, 2026
View → Q3 report
PENN AVENUE PARTNERS
3rd Quarter 2025 (July 1 - Sep 30) · Senate · $10,000 income · posted Oct 4, 2025
View → Q2 report
PENN AVENUE PARTNERS
2nd Quarter 2025 (Apr 1 - June 30) · Senate · $10,000 income · posted Jul 9, 2025
View → Q1 report
PENN AVENUE PARTNERS
1st Quarter 2025 (Jan 1 - Mar 31) · Senate · $10,000 income · posted Apr 16, 2025
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 Foreign entities disclosed 1
  • DANONE France named on 1 filing · highest disclosed ownership 20% · largest disclosed contribution $0

Section 7 of the LD-2: a foreign company or government that owns part of the client, pays toward the lobbying, or benefits from it. Figures are the highest single disclosure across these filings, not a sum: the same stake is re-disclosed each quarter.

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Filings through , 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.

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