Nelnet

Why watched: Federal student loan servicer under Department of Education contract, watched for lobbying on the program that pays it. Power and Profit

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Every filing on record for this entity, latest version only, regardless of date: this page’s job is to be the complete evidentiary record a confluence traces back to, not a windowed view. 43 filings.

Last refreshed November 4, 2026 at 2:31 PM UTC.

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Last 90 days beside the year before

Contract awardsLobbying filings
1 in window 0.5 baseline per window
baseline year 2, of which Defense 0; window Defense 0
3 in window 3.0 baseline per window
baseline year 12

Two counts, never a ratio: filings dated in the last 90 days, and the 365 days before that scaled to the same length. USAspending publishes Defense contract data 90 days late, so for an entity with Defense work the window is missing awards the baseline year is not; the watchlist explains how to read the pair.

By year

Every filing on record for this entity, counted by the year of its own date: the Base Obligation Date for a contract award, the date the Senate posted it for a lobbying filing. A contract total is the sum of those awards’ current totals, so an award first obligated in an earlier year carries its later modifications with it.

The store’s record does not reach equally far back on both sides. It holds no lobbying filing for any entity before 2024, so lobbying for earlier years is marked not in the record rather than counted as zero. A contract award obligated before November 2024 is on record because the historical sweep, which looked back to 1 November 2024 by action date, found a later action on it, so an earlier year counts the awards still active since then, not everything obligated that year.

YearLobbying filingsLobbying totalContract awardsContract total
202612$1,170,0002$211,361,634
202512$1,020,0002$158,091,965
20248$670,0004$525,995,786
2023not in the record1$18,708,948
2019not in the record2$1,077,304,585

Agencies, 2026

This year’s lobbying filings by the agency they name, beside this year’s new contract awards by the agency that made them. The entity level version of the by agency table on the confluence page, for the calendar year rather than the 90 day window, and with agencies named only in lobbying listed too. 12 lobbying filings this year; one that names several agencies counts on each of their rows, so the lobbying column does not sum to that figure. Lobbying is matched to agencies through the hand kept agency crosswalk.

AgencyLobbying filings naming itNew contract awardsContract total
Department of Education42$211,361,634
Department of the Treasury40none
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau20none
offices with no contracting counterpart, such as Congress12not applicablenot applicable

Every filing

SourceSubject as filedOccurredPublishedAmountMade ofRetrievedOriginFilingArchived copy
LobbyingNELNET, INC.not on fileOctober 27, 2026$40,000not applicableOctober 28, 2026live ingestthis filing
source 328f2dd66289
archive.org captured October 28, 2026
LobbyingNELNETnot on fileOctober 16, 2026$30,000not applicableOctober 20, 2026live ingestthis filing
source 5e4b937f3927
archive.org captured October 20, 2026
LobbyingNELNET INCnot on fileOctober 15, 2026$200,000not applicableOctober 16, 2026live ingestthis filing
source 1315daa0da5d
archive.org captured October 16, 2026
ContractNELNET SERVICING LLCSeptember 22, 2026September 29, 2026$3,234,1012 actions
1 obligating, latest September 29, 2026, no money (mod P00001)
October 1, 2026live ingestthis filing
source b2215f797678
archive.org found September 24, 2026
LobbyingNELNET, INC.not on fileAugust 5, 2026$40,000not applicableSeptember 24, 2026live ingestthis filing
source d22699cd4ceb
archive.org captured September 24, 2026
LobbyingNELNET, INC.not on fileApril 30, 2026$40,000not applicableSeptember 24, 2026live ingestthis filing
source b584dbd57ac5
archive.org captured September 24, 2026
ContractNELNET SERVICING LLCDecember 19, 2024August 7, 2026$2,061,6767 actions
4 obligating, latest August 7, 2026, -$854,563 (mod P00006)
September 5, 2026historicalthis filing
source e59b27debbc0
not on file
ContractNELNET SERVICING LLCApril 21, 2025August 7, 2026$3,218,8574 actions
4 obligating, latest August 7, 2026, -$1,065,993 (mod P00003)
September 5, 2026historicalthis filing
source c1cbf782d2c3
archive.org captured September 14, 2026
ContractNELNET SERVICING LLCApril 24, 2023March 24, 2026$18,708,94820 actions
13 obligating, latest March 24, 2026, -$30,160 (mod P00019)
September 5, 2026historicalthis filing
source 99f35fab6e20
archive.org captured September 14, 2026
ContractNELNET SERVICING LLCJanuary 3, 2024August 11, 2026$52,223,00721 actions
20 obligating, latest August 11, 2026, $2,311,000 (mod P00020)
September 5, 2026historicalthis filing
source c33710fdab7a
not on file
ContractNELNET SERVICING LLCMarch 27, 2024February 25, 2026$79,272,52818 actions
14 obligating, latest September 30, 2026, $47,460 (mod P00017)
September 5, 2026historicalthis filing
source 16056fd67504
not on file
ContractNELNET SERVICING LLCDecember 16, 2019April 24, 2025$93,619,90967 actions
63 obligating, latest April 24, 2025, -$991,403 (mod P00068)
September 5, 2026historicalthis filing
source 8f25639c8deb
not on file
ContractNELNET SERVICING LLCSeptember 24, 2025August 19, 2026$154,873,10818 actions
15 obligating, latest October 20, 2026, no money (mod P00018)
September 5, 2026historicalthis filing
source 08348e8b2dba
not on file
ContractNELNET SERVICING LLCMarch 31, 2026August 14, 2026$208,127,53317 actions
17 obligating, latest September 29, 2026, $540,168 (mod P00016)
September 5, 2026historicalthis filing
source a8eb318762e5
not on file
ContractNELNET SERVICING LLCJune 28, 2024May 26, 2026$392,438,57552 actions
42 obligating, latest September 30, 2026, $263,487 (mod P00051)
September 5, 2026historicalthis filing
source 6b5dc6f0c207
not on file
ContractNELNET SERVICING LLCNovember 26, 2019September 30, 2025$983,684,676167 actions
151 obligating, latest September 29, 2026, $5,000,000 (mod P00170)
September 5, 2026historicalthis filing
source 351330c1902b
not on file
LobbyingNELNET, INC.not on fileFebruary 2, 2026$40,000not applicableSeptember 5, 2026historicalthis filing
source 058d1149e302
archive.org captured September 6, 2026
LobbyingNELNETnot on fileJanuary 20, 2026$30,000not applicableSeptember 5, 2026historicalthis filing
source ef9c7e250f62
archive.org captured September 6, 2026
LobbyingNELNET INCnot on fileJanuary 16, 2026$240,000not applicableSeptember 5, 2026historicalthis filing
source 3cf765710bb8
archive.org captured September 12, 2026
LobbyingNELNET, INC.not on fileOctober 29, 2025$40,000not applicableSeptember 5, 2026historicalthis filing
source d2dc9506aa7e
archive.org captured September 11, 2026
LobbyingNELNETnot on fileOctober 20, 2025$30,000not applicableSeptember 5, 2026historicalthis filing
source badde8f1b4cb
archive.org captured September 6, 2026
LobbyingNELNET INCnot on fileOctober 13, 2025$160,000not applicableSeptember 5, 2026historicalthis filing
source 9d5b16b7e53b
archive.org captured September 6, 2026
LobbyingNELNETnot on fileJuly 18, 2025$30,000not applicableSeptember 5, 2026historicalthis filing
source 7c17abf713a0
archive.org captured September 12, 2026
LobbyingNELNET, INC.not on fileJuly 16, 2025$40,000not applicableSeptember 5, 2026historicalthis filing
source d8f538f4219f
archive.org captured September 6, 2026
LobbyingNELNET INCnot on fileJuly 8, 2025$190,000not applicableSeptember 5, 2026historicalthis filing
source 8aa49f74961a
archive.org captured September 6, 2026
LobbyingNELNET, INC.not on fileApril 28, 2025$40,000not applicableSeptember 5, 2026historicalthis filing
source dbdb8588e6aa
archive.org captured September 11, 2026
LobbyingNELNETnot on fileApril 21, 2025$30,000not applicableSeptember 5, 2026historicalthis filing
source f835ff12c5a5
archive.org captured September 11, 2026
LobbyingNELNET INCnot on fileApril 16, 2025$190,000not applicableSeptember 5, 2026historicalthis filing
source f0ef1c2f6428
archive.org captured September 6, 2026
LobbyingNELNETnot on fileFebruary 18, 2025not on filenot applicableSeptember 5, 2026historicalthis filing
source f1a1078610f7
archive.org captured September 11, 2026
LobbyingNELNET, INC.not on fileJanuary 21, 2025$30,000not applicableSeptember 5, 2026historicalthis filing
source 6ffc053274a0
archive.org captured September 22, 2026
LobbyingNELNET INCnot on fileJanuary 17, 2025$240,000not applicableSeptember 5, 2026historicalthis filing
source 9008d1f132d2
archive.org captured September 12, 2026
LobbyingNELNET, INCnot on fileOctober 17, 2024$30,000not applicableSeptember 5, 2026historicalthis filing
source 09d94d3f2e91
archive.org captured September 6, 2026
LobbyingNELNET, INC.not on fileOctober 16, 2024$10,000not applicableSeptember 5, 2026historicalthis filing
source be1000eae4f2
archive.org captured September 6, 2026
LobbyingNELNET INCnot on fileOctober 14, 2024$150,000not applicableSeptember 5, 2026historicalthis filing
source 66151cacbbe9
archive.org captured September 22, 2026
LobbyingNELNET, INC.not on fileOctober 7, 2024not on filenot applicableSeptember 5, 2026historicalthis filing
source 3a863891f85d
archive.org captured September 11, 2026
LobbyingNELNET, INCnot on fileJuly 16, 2024$100,000not applicableSeptember 5, 2026historicalthis filing
source a84793424d02
archive.org captured September 11, 2026
LobbyingNELNET INCnot on fileJuly 11, 2024$170,000not applicableSeptember 5, 2026historicalthis filing
source 7cc8ac90488b
archive.org captured September 12, 2026
LobbyingNELNET, INCnot on fileApril 18, 2024$50,000not applicableSeptember 5, 2026historicalthis filing
source f2703de0e5b3
archive.org captured September 12, 2026
LobbyingNELNET INCnot on fileApril 17, 2024$160,000not applicableSeptember 5, 2026historicalthis filing
source baf0b7e55aa7
archive.org captured September 12, 2026
LobbyingNELNET INCnot on fileJuly 14, 2026$200,000not applicableSeptember 4, 2026backfilledthis filing
source ac234c7814b9
not on file
LobbyingNELNET INCnot on fileApril 13, 2026$250,000not applicableSeptember 4, 2026backfilledthis filing
source 3cc50c47f342
not on file
LobbyingNELNETnot on fileJuly 17, 2026$30,000not applicableSeptember 4, 2026backfilledthis filing
source e5e7b0ffe986
not on file
LobbyingNELNETnot on fileApril 17, 2026$30,000not applicableSeptember 4, 2026backfilledthis filing
source 735f0bf3b843
not on file