Elevate Government Affairs, LLC lobbying analysis

Gov Influence analytical brief

Bottom-line assessment

Gov Influence assessmentModerate confidence

Elevate Government Affairs, LLC’s reviewed filing pattern across 2 reviewed clients continued across both quarters, with Copyright/Patent/Trademark recurring.

CPT appears in 4 retained filings across Q1 and Q2; the firm’s profile contains 4 filings and 11 official issue codes.

Evidence and reasoning

Reasoning: The same approved registrant identity appears in canonical client filings in both quarters, and the same official issue code recurs across that span. Together those observations support a bounded assessment of a continuing disclosed filing pattern, while filing cadence and issue codes cannot establish priority, access, position, effectiveness, or policy impact.

Scope: 2026 Q1–Q2, within the reviewed Gov Influence collection for Elevate Government Affairs, LLC.

Other plausible interpretation

Quarterly LDA reporting cadence and the breadth of the CPT category may account for part of the recurrence; this two-quarter selection does not establish a longer-term pattern or work beyond the retained filings.

Method: firm-profile-assessment-v1

Editorial review: Gov Influence editorial review; Sep 8, 2026

These findings measure activity in retained disclosures; they do not rate access, effectiveness, or policy impact.

Supporting analysis

Key findings

Calculated from recordsHigh confidence

Elevate Government Affairs, LLC appears in 4 retained filings for 2 reviewed clients.

2 filings in 2026 Q1 and 2 filings in 2026 Q2; every client link resolves to its supporting canonical filings.

Evidence and reasoning

Reasoning: The calculation groups retained records by the approved LDA registrant ID, then counts distinct organization identities only after each client name passes that organization’s exact-name rule. It measures filing and client coverage in this collection, not total business, access, or influence.

Scope: 2026 Q1–Q2, within the reviewed Gov Influence collection for Elevate Government Affairs, LLC.

Method: firm-client-coverage-v1

Editorial review: Gov Influence editorial review; Sep 8, 2026

Calculated from recordsHigh confidence

Comparable outside-firm income was unchanged between Q1 and Q2.

2026 Q1 totals $110,000 and 2026 Q2 totals $110,000 from additive reported fields.

Evidence and reasoning

Reasoning: The calculation adds only reported and reported-zero outside-firm income fields within each quarter. Below-threshold, unreported, and absent values remain non-additive rather than becoming zero, and firm income is never combined with organization-reported expenses or interpreted as profit, access, effectiveness, or influence.

Scope: 2026 Q1–Q2, within the reviewed Gov Influence collection for Elevate Government Affairs, LLC.

Method: firm-income-comparison-v1

Editorial review: Gov Influence editorial review; Sep 8, 2026

Calculated from recordsHigh confidence

Elevate Government Affairs, LLC’s retained filings contain 11 official issue codes.

CPT (Copyright/Patent/Trademark) appears in 4 filings across both quarters, the strongest recurring code pattern selected by filing frequency and deterministic code-order tie breaking.

Evidence and reasoning

Reasoning: Each official code is counted once per retained filing, while different codes may overlap. The result identifies breadth and recurrence in the source categories; broad LDA codes do not show a client’s position, the amount of work, importance, success, or influence.

Scope: 2026 Q1–Q2, within the reviewed Gov Influence collection for Elevate Government Affairs, LLC.

Method: firm-issue-breadth-v1

Editorial review: Gov Influence editorial review; Sep 8, 2026

Focused starting collection

Why this is in the initial collection

Elevate was selected because it combines cross-client reach, two-quarter continuity, and unusually wide policy breadth. The recurring intellectual-property category supplies a common thread while the remaining codes show how the Meta and Microsoft relationships diverge.

What this edition covers: This profile brings together 4 retained 2026-Q1 through 2026-Q2 filings for Meta and Microsoft, with issue codes, amount states, and source wording preserved.

Questions this page helps answer

Which common issue connects Elevate's Meta and Microsoft filings?

Reviewed clients

Each relationship below comes from retained LDA filings that identify this firm's reviewed registrant ID and the client name admitted by that organization's exact-name rule.

Identified filing relationship

Microsoft

Filing basis: 2 retained canonical LDA filings identify registrant ID 401105417 and a client name admitted by Microsoft's reviewed exact-name rule.

This relationship does not establish a policy outcome or the nature of work beyond the filing text.

Inspect the 2 supporting filings

Issue activity

Official issue codes are broad. Plain-language themes appear only where an existing reviewed code mapping applies.

Official issue-code frequency in 2026-Q1 through 2026-Q2
Official code and label	Reviewed theme	Filings	Activity entries
`CPT` — Copyright/Patent/Trademark	No reviewed plain-language mapping	4	4
`CSP` — Consumer Issues/Safety/Products	No reviewed plain-language mapping	4	4
`HOM` — Homeland Security	No reviewed plain-language mapping	4	4
`SCI` — Science/Technology	Artificial Intelligence, Technology and Data Privacy	4	4
`COM` — Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV	No reviewed plain-language mapping	2	2
`ENV` — Environment/Superfund	No reviewed plain-language mapping	2	2
`GOV` — Government Issues	No reviewed plain-language mapping	2	2
`INT` — Intelligence	No reviewed plain-language mapping	2	2
`LBR` — Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace	No reviewed plain-language mapping	2	2
`TEC` — Telecommunications	Artificial Intelligence, Technology and Data Privacy	2	2
`TRA` — Transportation	No reviewed plain-language mapping	2	2

Reported income by quarter

These amounts are income reported by the firm for represented clients. They are not client in-house expenses, profit, political access, or influence.

Accessible income detail for 2026-Q1 through 2026-Q2
Client	Quarter	Amount reported by firm	Status
Meta	2026 Q1	$50,000	reported
Microsoft	2026 Q1	$60,000	reported
Meta	2026 Q2	$50,000	reported
Microsoft	2026 Q2	$60,000	reported

The comparable numeric total is $220,000. Every retained income field in this profile is additive.

Filing timeline

This chronology shows retained quarterly filings, not every registration, contact, or amendment version.

2026 1st Quarter (Jan 1 - Mar 31)Meta · 1st Quarter - Report
6 reported issue entries; $50,000.
2026 1st Quarter (Jan 1 - Mar 31)Microsoft · 1st Quarter - Report
9 reported issue entries; $60,000.
2026 2nd Quarter (Apr 1 - June 30)Meta · 2nd Quarter - Report
6 reported issue entries; $50,000.
2026 2nd Quarter (Apr 1 - June 30)Microsoft · 2nd Quarter - Report
9 reported issue entries; $60,000.

Detailed filings and source descriptions

Open each record to read the official source wording retained in the collection.

2026 1st Quarter (Jan 1 - Mar 31) · Meta · 6 issue entries

Client name as filed: META PLATFORMS, INC.
Registrant name as filed: ELEVATE GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS, LLC
Amount reported by firm: $50,000

`INT` — Intelligence

General tech issues, privacy and cyber issues, encryption issues, data security issues, online content issues, section 230 issues.