Goldman Sachs

Child Organization: Spear, Leeds & Kellogg

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a global investment banking and securities firm which engages in investment banking, securities, investment management, and other financial services primarily with institutional clients. Goldman Sachs was founded in 1869 and is headquartered at 200 West Street in the Lower Manhattan area of New York City, with additional offices in major international financial centers. The firm provides mergers and acquisitions advice, underwriting services, asset management, and prime brokerage to its clients, which include corporations, governments and individuals. The firm also engages in proprietary trading and private equity deals, and is a primary dealer in the United States Treasury security market.

Source: Wikipedia

Campaign Finance

Information

Figures are based on itemized contributions reported to the Federal Election Commission and state agencies. Please note that:

  • contributions under $200 are not reported, and so are not included in totals.
  • only contributions from individuals and organizations to candidates are included. Various accounting measures and more exotic contribution types are excluded.
  • contributions are matched based on organization and recipient name reported within each election cycle. Contributions using an incorrect or non-standard version of the name may be missed.
  • corporate name changes and mergers may cause figures to differ from those of the Center for Responsive Politics.
  • organization totals include known subsidiaries of the organization.

For more information, please see our campaign finance methodology page. Lobbyist bundling data is described on our lobbyist bundling methodology page.

Latest FEC Data

covers through committee's May 31, 2012 filing.
  • Summary

    overview of the committee's finances
    Total Raised:
    $1,180,641
    Total Spent:
    $1,159,586
    Cash on Hand:
    $557,945
    Debts:
    $0

Standardized Donation Information

covers through 2011. may lag behind FEC section above, as donors and industries are identified by hand.
  • Top Recipients

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    Includes contributions from the organization’s employees, their family members, and its political action committee.
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  • State vs. Federal

    in dollars
  • Top PAC Recipients

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View all campaign finance data for Goldman Sachs Sources: OpenSecrets.org FollowTheMoney.org

Lobbying

$3,200,000 Spent
Information

Figures are based on lobbying activity reported to the Senate Office of Public Records. Reported dollar amounts are required to be accurate only to the nearest $20,000. For organizations whose primary business is lobbying, we display total income and top clients. For organizations that are not primarily lobbying firms, we display total amount spent on lobbying and top lobbying firms hired.

For more information, please see our lobbying methodology page.

covers through Q3, 2011

Lobbying On Behalf of Goldman Sachs

View all lobbying data for Goldman Sachs Sources: Lobbyist Registration Tracker OpenSecrets.org

Regulations

26 Mentions
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All data is based on documents downloaded from Regulations.gov. The first table shows mentions: all documents that include the name of the company anywhere in the document or document metadata. The second table shows submissions: all documents where the submitter metadata included the company name. Each table shows the top 10 dockets, ranked by number of occurrences.

Matches are based on a search for the company name. Variations in the company name, such as acronyms, nicknames or alternate names may cause documents to be missed. The mention of a company name in a document may be incidental and does not necessarily indicate that the company has any relevance to the document. Company names that are common English words may erroneously match with text that is not referring to the company.

Not all agencies submit public comments to Regulations.gov. For a list of participating and non-participating agencies see here. Agencies that do submit to Regulations.gov have varying levels of accuracy and completeness.

Regulations and public comments can be downloaded in bulk here.

updated from Regulations.gov on September 27, 2011

The tables show occurrences of "Goldman Sachs" in public comments on proposed federal regulations.

  • Mentions in Document Text
    • Mentions
    • Agency
    • Docket
    • Date
    • Toggle 3 OCC Margin and Capital Requirements for Covered Swap Entities 2011
    • Toggle 3 OCC Volcker Rule - Prohibition on Proprietary Trading and Certain Relationships with Hedge Funds and Private Equity Funds 2011
    • Toggle 2 FSOC Authority To Require Supervision and Regulation of Certain Nonbank Financial Companies 2011
    • Toggle 2 OCC Credit Risk Retention by Securitizers 2011
    • Toggle 1 SEC Self-Regulatory Organizations; Proposed Rule Changes: Fixed Income Clearing Corp. 2011
    • Toggle 1 SEC Self-Regulatory Organizations; Proposed Rule Changes: International Securities Exchange, LLC 2011
    • Toggle 1 SEC Filing of National Market System Plan to Address Extraordinary Market Volatility: BATS Exchange, Inc., BATS Y-Exchange, Inc., Chicago Board Options Exchange, Inc. et al. 2011
    • Toggle 1 HUD Credit Risk Retention 2011
    • Toggle 1 SEC Self-Regulatory Organizations; Proposed Rule Changes: NYSE Amex LLC 2011
    • Toggle 1 SEC Applications for Deregistration under Section 8(f) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 2011

Advisory Committees

4 people on 5 committees
Information

Data is based on disclosures required by the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA). Matches are based on the occurrence of the company name in the committee member affiliation. Variations in company names may cause some matches to be missed.

The table shows only the top 10 agencies. To search and download raw records from the complete dataset see the FACA data section.

covers through 2011

Table shows employees of "Goldman Sachs" that sat on federal advisory committees.

  • Agency
  • Representation
  • Toggle Department of the Treasury 1 person on 2 committees
  • Toggle Commodity Futures Trading Commission 1 person on 1 committee
  • Toggle Department of State 1 person on 1 committee
  • Toggle Office of the United States Trade Representative 1 person on 1 committee
View all advisory committee data for Goldman Sachs