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SARA STEWART

SARA STEWART reported $1.5M in lobbying compensation over 2016–2026, from 28 clients.

$1.5M

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 · 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 $123K
2025 $221K
2024 $248K
2023 $201K
2022 $201K
2021 $190K
2020 $184K
2019 $18,000
2018 $3,400
2017 $43,925
2016 $19,500

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
Washington Smoke-Free Association $385K
ELI LILLY & COMPANY $271K
WA MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELORS ASSN $214K
PIERCE CO ALLIANCE $129K
NW GROCERY ASSN (HOLLY CHISA) $108K
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS $90,000
WA ASSN OF DRUG COURTS $39,500
WA ST SOCIETY FOR CLINICAL SOCIAL WORK $25,500
Northwest Integrated Health $25,000
ADVANCED MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSN $20,000
ELI LILLY & COMPANY (MELANIE STEWART & ASSOC LLC*) $20,000
Orchard Therapeutics North America c/o MultiState Associates LLC $16,000
Tabor 100 $13,200
GIrls Who Code (CASCADE GOVT AFFAIRS LLC*) $10,000
Dynamic Language (CHRISTOPHERSEN INC*) $7,000
WA ST DIST & MUNICIPAL COURT JUDGES ASSN (MELANIE STEWART & ASSOC LLC*) $6,500
AMERICAN MASSAGE THERAPY ASSN- WA CHAPTER (MELANIE STEWART & ASSOC LLC*) $6,000
PIERCE CO ALLIANCE (MELANIE STEWART & ASSOC LLC*) $6,000
VIRGINIA MASON FRANCISCAN HEALTH (MELANIE STEWART & ASSOC LLC*) $6,000
Washington State Podiatric Medical Association (MELANIE STEWART & ASSOC LLC*) $6,000
Pediatrix Medical Group (CHRISTOPHERSEN INC*) $5,044
WA CANNABUSINESS ASSN (CHRISTOPHERSEN INC*) $5,044
THE COLLEGE BOARD (CHRISTOPHERSEN INC*) $5,037
Community Employment Alliance $5,000
JAKES FIREWORKS (BOSWELL CONSULTING*) $4,500
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS WA COUNCIL (BOSWELL CONSULTING*) $3,250
Diageo North America, Inc. (MELANIE STEWART & ASSOC LLC*) $500
WA BEVERAGE ASSN (BOSWELL CONSULTING*) $250
Registered lobbyists
Registered lobbyist Years registered
SARA STEWART 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026

Source WA Public Disclosure Commission lobbying reports · as of 2026-08-12 · 28 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 · 14

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.

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“SARA STEWART,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-12, accessed 2026-08-14. https://washingtonindependents.org/lobbying/sara-stewart/

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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