Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc.

Lobbying client

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is the nonprofit that presents programming and manages the 16.3-acre performing arts campus on Manhattan's Upper West Side, working alongside resident organizations like the Metropolitan Opera and New York Philharmonic. The organization has filed 30 lobbying reports since 2024, holds $3.1 million in active city contracts as of August 2026, and used Kasirer LLC to lobby all 51 City Council members citywide on arts and culture budget funding and a participatory design process for the west part of its campus.

Council members lobbied
51 (citywide)
Filings (since 2024)
30
Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
$332,202
Industry (per city contracts)
Professional Services
City contracts (active)
$3,102,000 · 2 contracts
Awarded all-time
$14,507,136 · 55 since 2007, incl. expired
Paid to date
$9,323,704
Won without a fresh bid
64% of contract value · $9,276,636 · 26 contracts
Discretionary funding (FY2009-FY2027)
$3,730,426 · 157 awards
Funding history
Funded every year since FY2009 (19 years running)
Top officer pay (FY2023)
$1,903,839 · Henry Timms, President And CEO
Based in
New York, NY

Represented by lobbyist firms

Holds contracts at

Funded by these agencies

What they lobbied on

subjects from their filings

City contracts

Registered city contracts, largest first by current contract value (not amount spent): running now, then registered to start later, then ended. Totals count every registered contract. Each line shows its Checkbook contract ID. The tag on each row is how it was awarded (“no-bid” = non-competitive).

Largest payments, by purpose

The organization's largest individual city payments (roughly $25,000 and up), grouped by purpose, to show what recent money was for. This is NOT a total — smaller payments aren't listed; see “Paid to date” above for the complete amount paid against its contracts. Fiscal years 2020 and later.

Discretionary funding received

City Council discretionary (member-item) awards, largest first. Covers FY2009-FY2027.

Funded by these council members

City Council members who steered discretionary (member-item) money to this organization, largest first (FY2020 and later, where the sponsoring member is disclosed). Sitting members link to their page.

Officer & key-staff pay

Reportable compensation from this organization's IRS Form 990 (Part VII), latest available filing (FY2023). Includes pay from related organizations where reported; an annual figure, not a running total. Source: ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.

Officer pay over time

Total officer pay changed -4% from FY2020 to FY2023. Top-officer reportable compensation by year (org-paid only), with each year's share of total revenue. Source: ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer 990 filings.

Community project funding secured by (FY2024)

Members of New York's congressional delegation named as requestors of an enacted FY2024 community project for this organization, in the House Appropriations Committee's own final project tables. Each figure is the amount APPROPRIATED for that project, not money paid out to this organization to date.

Federal awards

Federal awards made directly to this organization in fiscal years 2023 through 2026. Each amount is what the federal government has OBLIGATED on that award as recorded on USAspending.gov as of 2026-08-31 — money committed, not money paid out. These are prime awards only: federal money this

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