HOW TO USE THE BOARD
The site is organized around three switchable views. The labels on the site are the same labels used here.
Choose Firm to see results rolled up by lobbying firm. Choose Individual to see results rolled up by the named lobbyist.
Choose Dollars to rank by total funded dollars attached to that entity. Choose Projects to rank by the number of funded projects attached to that entity.
Choose House to see House-side funded matches only. Choose Senate to see Senate-side funded matches only. Choose Combined to see House and Senate results added together.
METHODOLOGY
This site tracks which Florida local funding requests made it into the filed budget and ties those projects back to the lobbyists and firms listed on the underlying request forms.
The source budget texts for this build were the filed 2026 House and Senate budgets, each provided as PDF filings, plus the joint conference report PDF titled confrpt_2026.pdf. The filed budget PDFs were compared against House and Senate budget request-form PDFs to identify matching project numbers, funded amounts, and listed lobbyist contacts.
After that match step, the data was cleaned, standardized, and rolled up into leaderboard views by individual, by firm, by chamber, and in a combined House and Senate view.
This is a funded-project leaderboard. It is designed to show who appears on funded requests and how much money is attached to those wins.
HOW A PROJECT IS COUNTED
A project is counted when a request form can be matched back to a funded project number in the filed House or Senate budget text.
- For House requests, the comparison point was H 5001, as filed.
- For Senate requests, the comparison point was S 2500, as filed.
If a request matched the filed budget text and carried a funded amount, that project was eligible to be counted in the leaderboard.
HOW CREDIT IS ASSIGNED
Credit is assigned from the lobbyist contact information listed on the budget request form itself.
- On individual boards, the project is credited to the named lobbyist.
- On firm boards, the project is credited to the listed firm.
- Combined boards add the House and Senate results together.
IMPORTANT LIMITS
This site depends on the quality of the public request forms and the quality of the chamber matching process. Some records required manual cleaning and standardization after the initial scrape.
DISCLAIMER
This site is an independent public analysis built from filed budget text and underlying request-form data. It is not an official publication of the Florida House, the Florida Senate, or any state agency. Errors can occur in public filings, in scraping, in matching, or in attribution. Users should review the underlying project records when precision matters.