Company
ECOLAB INC. $ECL
Federal figures from USAspending, gathered Oct 25, 2026.
SEC revenue and federal obligations
- FY2026Oct 2025 to Sep 2026$4.8M$16.1B year to Dec 31, 2025
- FY2025Oct 2024 to Sep 2025$7.7M$15.7B year to Dec 31, 2024
- FY2024Oct 2023 to Sep 2024$7.8M$15.3B year to Dec 31, 2023
- FY2023Oct 2022 to Sep 2023$8.3MRevenue for this year not on file
- FY2022Oct 2021 to Sep 2022$7.0MRevenue for this year not on file
What these numbers are
Obligated means an agency committed the money to this company in that period (a signed contract action), as reported to USAspending. It is not a payment and not revenue: a contract can be funded for several years at once, and revenue is booked as the work is done. Some years can exceed revenue for that reason.
Prime contracts only, and only what is published. Work the company does as a subcontractor is not in these figures, and classified contracts are not published on USAspending at all. A low share can mean either. Contract values, ceilings and options are never added in.
Which units count: the USAspending recipient that is the company's SEC registrant; units of the company that USAspending's own records place under it (as parent, or in its family tree); and subsidiaries from the company's SEC Exhibit 21 that carry its name. Joint ventures, units now owned by someone else, and records that only share a name are held back. Both lists are below.
Earlier years count the units the company owns today. A unit we checked by hand (its USAspending parent is out of date) counts from the date the company bought it, or, where no filing gives that date, from the first date a filing shows the company owning it. Other units count for every year shown until their purchase dates are loaded.
Revenue bars are the company's own fiscal year from its 10-K, placed in the federal year it ends in; its fiscal year can end in a different month than the government's.
Fiscal year 2022 onward. Federal fiscal years run October to September; the company's own fiscal year may differ.
Units counted (16), held back (18)
- ECOLAB INCPCUAKJCDD8G3 · parent · the company's SEC name
- ECOLAB INC.CQMJBSCWDAJ4 · parent · the company's SEC name
- ECOLAB INCFTHHCHVEPDD6 · parent · the company's SEC name
- NALCO COMPANY LLCM4BHFR4QMUL5 · parent · Exhibit 21 subsidiary; USAspending files it under ECOLAB INC
- ECOLAB INC.SJHAZ28LP5X3 · parent · the company's SEC name
- BARCLAY WATER MANAGEMENT, INC.NNVLDYCNQML3 · parent · Exhibit 21 subsidiary; USAspending files it under ECOLAB INC
- ECOLAB DEUTSCHLAND GMBHGDCVL4696157 · parent · Exhibit 21 subsidiary carrying the company's name
- ECOLAB INC.P4MRW9HCRBD6 · the company's SEC name
- ECOLAB DEUTSCHLAND GMBHY6KPMEFMGMT5 · Exhibit 21 subsidiary carrying the company's name
- NALCO PRODUCTION LLCY83KMQH2JAK4 · Exhibit 21 subsidiary; USAspending lists ECOLAB INC as its parent
- NALCO PHILIPPINES INC.DKEBZTJKBWH7 · Exhibit 21 subsidiary; USAspending lists ECOLAB INC as its parent
- ECOLAB KOREA LTD.C15EXZC9SRN6 · Exhibit 21 subsidiary; USAspending lists ECOLAB INC as its parent
- NALCO LTDGKXWCHCULE67 · Exhibit 21 subsidiary; USAspending lists NALCO UNIVERSAL HOLDINGS B.V. as its parent
- ECOLAB S.A.C8EXR57L1QG6 · Exhibit 21 subsidiary; USAspending lists ECOLAB INC as its parent
- ECOLAB MANUFACTURING INC.EKHZHNP973D8 · Exhibit 21 subsidiary; USAspending lists ECOLAB INC as its parent
- ECOLABG88CSNKKPKW5 · Exhibit 21 subsidiary; USAspending files it under ECOLAB INC
Held back: a matching name we could not tie to this company firmly enough. A miss is better than a wrong link.
- NALCO UNIVERSAL HOLDINGS B.V. (Exhibit 21 subsidiary, and USAspending lists no parent of ours)
- PEST MANAGEMENT INC. (Exhibit 21 subsidiary, and USAspending lists no parent of ours)
- PUROLITE CORPORATION (Exhibit 21 subsidiary, and USAspending lists no parent of ours)
- BARCLAY WATER TREATMENT COMPANY INC (Exhibit 21 subsidiary, and USAspending lists no parent of ours)
- NALCO HOLDING COMPANY (Exhibit 21 subsidiary, and USAspending lists no parent of ours)
- PUROLITE CORP (an old record with no UEI whose name is not exactly the company's SEC name)
- NALCO COMPANY (an old record with no UEI whose name is not exactly the company's SEC name)
- QUANTUM TECHNICAL SERVICES, INC. (an old record with no UEI whose name is not exactly the company's SEC name)
- AQUA ENVIRONMENTAL INC. (an old record with no UEI whose name is not exactly the company's SEC name)
- PEST MANAGEMENT, INC. (an old record with no UEI whose name is not exactly the company's SEC name)
- PEST MANAGEMENT (an old record with no UEI whose name is not exactly the company's SEC name)
- PEST MANAGEMENT, INC (an old record with no UEI whose name is not exactly the company's SEC name)
- QUANTUM TECHNICAL SERVICES INC. (an old record with no UEI whose name is not exactly the company's SEC name)
- NALCO, INC (an old record with no UEI whose name is not exactly the company's SEC name)
- PEST MANAGEMENT INC (an old record with no UEI whose name is not exactly the company's SEC name)
- BARCLAY WATER MANAGEMENT INC (an old record with no UEI whose name is not exactly the company's SEC name)
- FLOTTEC LLC (an old record with no UEI whose name is not exactly the company's SEC name)
- PEST MANAGEMENT INC. (an old record with no UEI whose name is not exactly the company's SEC name)
Top agencies, contracts obligated in FY2026
- Department of Veterans Affairs$2.1M
- Department of Justice$899K
- General Services Administration$761K
- Department of Defense$534K
- Department of Health and Human Services$233K
- Department of Homeland Security$163K
- Department of Transportation$49K
- Social Security Administration$48K
Largest contracts active in the last 12 months
- Federal Bureau of Investigation · NALCO COMPANY LLC · ends Jan 31, 2027
- Social Security Administration · NALCO COMPANY LLC · ends Aug 29, 2026
- Department of the Air Force · NALCO COMPANY LLC · ends Jan 20, 2027
- Department of Veterans Affairs · BARCLAY WATER MANAGEMENT, INC. · ends Jun 30, 2027
- Department of Veterans Affairs · NALCO COMPANY LLC · ends Sep 30, 2028
- Department of Veterans Affairs · NALCO COMPANY LLC · ends May 28, 2026
- Water monitoring$424KDepartment of Veterans Affairs · NALCO COMPANY LLC · ends Sep 30, 2027
- Department of Veterans Affairs · NALCO COMPANY LLC · ends Jul 31, 2028
Amount: obligated to date on the contract, all years. Ranked by that amount among contracts with any action in the last 12 months. Counts only consolidated subsidiaries.
Lobbying
52 filings, 2017 to 2026. Paid lobbying firms $1.8M. In-house lobbying spend $6.9M.
Firms: Alpine Group Partners, LLC., Ecolab Inc., Ernst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young), Holland & Knight LLP, Invariant LLC
Issues: Chemicals/Chemical Industry, Clean Air and Water (quality), Disaster Planning/Emergencies, Energy/Nuclear, Environment/Superfund, Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.), Foreign Relations, Government Issues
Contacted: Senate, House Of Representatives, Energy, Dept Of, Environmental Protection Agency (Epa), State, Dept Of (Dos), Commerce, Dept Of (Doc), Executive Office Of The President (Eop), Food & Drug Administration (Fda)
Revolving door: 9 lobbyists held government posts
- Douglas Dziak Invariant LLC · last filed 2025Commissioner, CPSC (24-25); Chf Couns, CPSC Commr Peter Feldman (21-24); Staff Dir/Gen Couns, Sen Budget Cmte (20-21); Leg Dir, Sen Mike Enzi 18-20; Leg Dir and Chf Couns, Sen George Voinovich (09-11); Gen Couns, Sen Homeland Security Cmte (06-09)
- Lea Mccabe Ecolab Inc. · last filed 2024Constituent Advocate, Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick
- Annie D'Amato Invariant LLC · last filed 2023Democratic Counsel, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (2023); Professional Staff, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (2019-2022)
- Evan Giesemann Ernst & Young LLP (Washington Council Ernst & Young) · last filed 2023Acting leg. director, Sen. Thomas Carper, 2023; staff director, Senate Finance Int'l Trade Subcomm., 2021-23; Carper tax policy advisor, 2021-23; Rep. Terri Sewell tax & econ. policy advisor, 2019-21; Rep. Mark Pocan, legislative ass't, 2013-19
- Rhod Shaw Alpine Group Partners, LLC. · last filed 2017Chief of Staff, Rep. Sherrod Brown
- Jared Weaver Alpine Group Partners, LLC. · last filed 2017Deputy Chief of Staff, Rep. Anna Eshoo
- Jason Schendle Alpine Group Partners, LLC. · last filed 2017Legal Counsel, Sen. Mary Landrieu
- Barry Brown Alpine Group Partners, LLC. · last filed 2017Chief of Staff, Rep. Michael Burgess & Rep. Kay Granger; Legislative Director, Rep. Kevin Brady
- Courtney Johnson Alpine Group Partners, LLC. · last filed 2017Research Assistant, House Energy & Commerce Committee
Former posts as each lobbyist listed them ("covered position") on the company's Senate LDA filings.
From the company's Senate LDA filings. Firm fees and in-house spend are reported on different filings, so they are shown apart. Lobbying is legal and common; it shows what the company paid to be heard on, not what it got.
PAC giving
- Sean Casten House, IL$14K
- Darin McKay LaHood House, IL$12K
- Peter Allen Stauber House, MN$9K
- Bradley S. Schneider House, IL$9K
- John Boozman Senate, AR$8K
- John Curtis House, UT$7K
- John Hoeven Senate, ND$5K
- Lizzie Fletcher House, TX$4K
The company's own PAC (linked by the connected organization on its FEC Form 1). Top candidates it gave to, all cycles we hold, from the candidates' own FEC reports; tracked candidates only, so not a complete total.
Contracts ending in the next 18 months
None in the contracts we hold for this company.
Amount: obligated to date. From the contracts in HillSignal's records tied to this ticker; the full list of contracts ending across government is on Recompetes.
Insider trades
- Green Eric Mark DirectorBought $1.0M · Sep 11, 2026
- Beck Christophe CHAIRMAN, PRESIDENT & CEOSold $5.0M · Aug 18, 2026
- Cook Gregory B Co-COO - Global BusinessesSold $1.3M · Aug 11, 2026
- Kirkland Scott D CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICERSold $1.4M · Jul 30, 2026
- Clark Benjamin M. EVP - Global Supply ChainBought $264K · Jun 11, 2026
- Doukeris Michel D DirectorBought $2.0M · Jun 10, 2026
Open-market buys and sells from SEC Form 4 filings; grants and option exercises left out, and trades whose filed price failed our market check. A 10b5-1 plan is a trading schedule set in advance, so those sells say little about the insider's view. The plan box is on filings from April 2023 on.