When it comes to donations to presidential libraries from lobbyists, some unlikely Commanders in Chiefs lead the list of recipients. Trouble is — for lobbyists, anyway — the former presidents no longer have the ability to affect legislation or regulation.

The John F. Kennedy presidential library in Boston, for example, raked in approximately $246,000 in contributions during the first half of this year. That single donation accounts for half of what lobbyists gave to the nation’s presidential libraries from Jan. 1 through June 30, according to new lobbying disclosure reports on file with the House clerk and secretary of the Senate.

The Ronald Reagan library in Simi Valley, Calif., meanwhile, received $150,000, followed by the Abraham Lincoln library in Springfield, Ill. with $65,000.

Only three other presidential libraries have received contributions from registered lobbyists so far this year: The Bill Clinton library in Little Rock, Ark., got $20,000; The Richard Nixon library in Yorba Linda, Calif., got $15,000, and former President George H. W. Bush’s library at College Station, Texas received a small donation of $300.