Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Lobbying client
The Upper East Side cancer hospital that traces to 1884, when it opened as New York Cancer Hospital, the first U.S. institution devoted solely to cancer treatment, and later merged with the Sloan Kettering Institute to form Memorial Sloan Kettering. It has filed 45 lobbying disclosures with the city since 2024, working through Cozen O'Connor Public Strategies and Friedman & Gotbaum to lobby 15 council members on city budget funding for its Food to Overcome Outcome Disparities and Immigrant Health and Cancer Disparities programs, and on land use approvals tied to its York Avenue campus expansion.
- Council members lobbied
- 15
- Filings (since 2024)
- 45
- Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
- $362,036
- Industry (per city contracts)
- Standardized Services
- City contracts
- none active as of 2026-08-22 · $10,063,800 awarded since 2012
- Paid to date
- $10,056,668
Lobbied these council members
- Kevin C. Riley Council Member, District 12 (Bronx)
- Oswald J. Feliz Council Member, District 15 (Bronx)
- James F. Gennaro Council Member, District 24 (Queens)
- Shekar Krishnan Council Member, District 25 (Queens)
- Lynn C. Schulman Council Member, District 29 (Queens)
- Lincoln Restler Council Member, District 33 (Brooklyn)
- Shahana K. Hanif Council Member, District 39 (Brooklyn)
- Rita C. Joseph Council Member, District 40 (Brooklyn)
- Mercedes Narcisse Council Member, District 46 (Brooklyn)
- Virginia Maloney Council Member, District 4 (Manhattan)
- Julie Menin Council Member, District 5 (Manhattan)
- Yusef Salaam Council Member, District 9 (Manhattan)
Represented by lobbyist firms
- Cozen O'Connor Public Strategies, LLC Lobbyist firm
- Friedman & Gotbaum LLP Lobbyist firm
Holds contracts at
- City University Construction Fund City agency
- Department of Health and Mental Hygiene City agency
Lobbied former members
Members who have since left their seat
- Adrienne Adams
- Keith Powers
- Rafael Salamanca Jr.
What they lobbied on
subjects from their filings
- Budget - Council funding for MSK's Food to Overcome Outcome Disparities and Immigrant Health programming
- Budget - Immigrant Health and Cancer Disparities (IHCD) funding and food pantry funding
- Budget - Immigrant Health and Cancer Disparities Program; Determination of Board or Commission - Land use on York Ave between 66th and 67th Streets
- Budget - NYC Budget
- Budget - budget advocacy
- Determination of Board or Commission - Representation in connection with land use approvals for properties located at 1233 York Avenue and 1275 York Avenue
- Determination of Board or Commission - Representation in connection with land use approvals for the property located at 1233 York Avenue
- Determination of Board or Commission - Representation in connection with the application to the New York City Planning Commission in connection with the property located at 1233 York Avenue
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).
- HUNTER COLL. - SCI & HEALTH PROF. PROJECT - MSK City University Construction Fund · CT104320131419742 · ended 2016 $10,000,000
- Tobacco Treatment Training/Workshop Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · CT181620241405971 · ended 2024 $19,800
- Tobacco Treatment Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · CT181620251404066 · ended 2025 $18,700
- 4-Day Tobacco Treatment Specialist Training Workshop Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · CT181620261402990 · ended 2026 $16,500
- 4-Day Tobacco Treatment Specialist Training Workshop Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · CT181620231408931 · ended 2023 $8,800
Where their influence converges
Outside interests connected to this official through more than one independent channel — drawn straight from the records the rest of the site already shows. “Lobbied them” = a lobbying filing that named the member. “Outside spending” = an independent-expenditure committee the interest funds spent in
- James F. Gennaro It lobbied them; it holds contracts at 1 agency in their committees' jurisdiction
- Julie Menin It lobbied them; it holds contracts at 1 agency in their committees' jurisdiction
- Lynn C. Schulman It lobbied them; it holds contracts at 1 agency in their committees' jurisdiction
- Mercedes Narcisse It lobbied them; it holds contracts at 1 agency in their committees' jurisdiction
- Oswald J. Feliz It lobbied them; it holds contracts at 1 agency in their committees' jurisdiction
- Rita C. Joseph It lobbied them; it holds contracts at 1 agency in their committees' jurisdiction
- Shahana K. Hanif It lobbied them; it holds contracts at 1 agency in their committees' jurisdiction
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.
- Kirsten E. Gillibrand Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NY, for equipment · NY · Labor, Health and Human Services, Education $1,200,000
- Charles E. Schumer Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NY, for equipment · NY · Labor, Health and Human Services, Education $1,200,000
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
- Department of Health and Human Services 93.493 Congressional Directives · Health Resources and Services Administration · Grant $1,200,000
- Department of Health and Human Services REFERENCE LABORATORY TESTING · National Institutes of Health · Contract $0
- Department of Health and Human Services LABORATORY EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES · Food and Drug Administration · Contract $0