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ENGAGE STRATEGIES SPC

ENGAGE STRATEGIES SPC reported $1.9M in lobbying compensation over 2016–2026, from 20 clients.

$1.9M

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 · 2016–2026, 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 $0
2025 $272K
2024 $285K
2023 $253K
2022 $245K
2021 $230K
2020 $219K
2019 $224K
2018 $151K
2017 $28,851
2016 $42,250

Source WA Public Disclosure Commission lobbying reports · as of 2026-08-12 · 11 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
LUMMI TRIBE $426K
KALISPEL TRIBE $320K
WA State Community Action Partnership $234K
Sightline Institute $220K
ISLANDWOOD $209K
NORTHWEST ENERGY COALITION $153K
FairVote Washington $90,000
Washington Outdoor School Consortium on behalf Wa School Principals Education Foundation $62,003
WA PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP $54,000
Sierra Club Washington State Chapter $47,700
Article IV $33,000
Expedia Group $30,000
TEACH FOR AMERICA – WA $27,250
Opportunity Council $22,500
Sierra Club $6,000
CANNABIS ALLIANCE $5,000
Tiny Trees $3,600
REI Co-op $3,000
ZERO WASTE WA $2,500
COALITION FOR CANNABIS STANDARDS & ETHICS $1,250
Registered lobbyists
Registered lobbyist Years registered
CRAIG ENGELKING 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026

Source WA Public Disclosure Commission lobbying reports · as of 2026-08-12 · 20 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 · 20

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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“ENGAGE STRATEGIES SPC,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-12, accessed 2026-08-29. https://washingtonindependents.org/lobbying/engage-strategies-spc/

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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