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Orlando Cano

Orlando Cano reported $2.5M in lobbying compensation over 2019–2026, from 36 clients.

$2.5M

reported in compensation

Reported by this firm to the Public Disclosure Commission as compensation received for lobbying.

Source WA Public Disclosure Commission lobbying reports · as of 2026-08-12 · 2019–2026, money received

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What they were paid, by year

Lobbying is reported monthly and totalled here by calendar year. A year with no row is a year with no reported compensation, not a year we have not read.

Reported lobbying compensation by year
Year Compensation Share of their largest year
2026 $145K
2025 $540K
2024 $483K
2023 $541K
2022 $338K
2021 $280K
2020 $140K
2019 $12,000

Source WA Public Disclosure Commission lobbying reports · as of 2026-08-12 · 8 years on record

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Who paid them

Every organisation that this firm named as a source of its compensation. Self-funded filings — the firm reporting its own money — are excluded.

Clients
Client Reported
ONEAMERICA $300K
Historic South Downtown $236K
Inatai Foundation $199K
WA STEM CENTER $195K
PHARMACEUTICAL CARE MANAGEMENT ASSN $186K
WA CHARTERS ACTION $151K
Wa St Public Stadium Authority $145K
YOUTHCARE $119K
Visa U.S.A. Inc. $100K
YAKIMA NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH SERVICES $96,000
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON $94,000
Washington Immigrant Solidarity Network $92,500
Chief Seattle Club $67,400
COMMUNITY HEALTH NETWORK OF WA $49,500
University Heights Center for the Community Association $43,000
SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION $39,500
Rivian Automotive LLC $34,555
Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle $31,000
Western States Regional Council of Carpenters $30,000
Western States Regional Council of Carpenters (contracted through Palattao Burnes Strategies) $30,000
Mount Baker Housing Association $26,000
Civil Survival Project $24,000
Northwest Immigrant Rights Project $24,000
Western States Regional Council of Carpenters(Palattao Burnes Strategies) $24,000
Always Be Learning, Inc. $18,000
Washington Community Alliance Action Fund $16,000
Aurora Commons $14,000
Civic Ventures $12,500
Washington Immigrant Solidarity Network through Group Health Foundation $12,500
AMERICAN HEART ASSN $12,000
MOMSRISING TOGETHER $11,875
STATEWIDE POVERTY ACTION NETWORK (ALEX HUR) $10,000
Sea Mar Community Health Centers $8,000
Washington State Board of Education $8,000
North Coast States Regional Council of Carpenters $6,000
WA ASSN FOR COMMUNITY HEALTH $2,500
Registered lobbyists
Registered lobbyist Years registered
Mr. Orlando Cano 2019, 2020
Orlando Cano 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026

Source WA Public Disclosure Commission lobbying reports · as of 2026-08-12 · 36 listed

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Connected records

Every link in this section is an edge in the entity graph: a row in one table, carrying the document that states it. Grouped by how well the record supports it.

Filed · 32

One document states the relation in its own words.

Source Entity graph, synced from the pipeline · as of 2026-08-12 · Bills lobbied on are not in the graph yet — the L-2 bill lines are not loaded.

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What this page will not compute

Each of these is a number a reader might reasonably expect. None of them follow from the records we hold, so we do not publish them.

What this money bought
Compensation is what was paid, not what was achieved. The record does not connect a payment to a bill, a vote or an outcome, and we will not infer one — a firm retained all session may have lost every argument it made.
Who was lobbied
Washington requires lobbyists to report what they were paid and by whom. It does not require them to report which legislators they spoke to, so nothing here names an officeholder.
Everything this firm earned
This is reported lobbying compensation. Other work the firm does for the same clients is not lobbying and is not reported here.
Whose number this is
Every figure on this page comes from the lobbying firm’s own report naming its funding source. Employers file separately, and the two accounts need not agree. Where they differ we show the firm’s, because that is the filing that itemises by source.

Cite this page

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“Orlando Cano,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-12, accessed 2026-08-15. https://washingtonindependents.org/lobbying/orlando-cano/

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Where this page comes from

Every figure above is read from a primary source and rebuilt on a schedule. Nothing here is modelled or inferred; where a source is silent the page says so rather than filling the gap.

WA Public Disclosure Commission — lobbyist compensation (L2 reports)
https://www.pdc.wa.gov/political-disclosure-reporting-data/browse-search-data/lobbyists
WA Public Disclosure Commission — lobbyist employment registrations
https://www.pdc.wa.gov/political-disclosure-reporting-data/browse-search-data/lobbyists