Town Hall Foundation, Inc.

Lobbying client

Town Hall Foundation, Inc. is the nonprofit that has operated The Town Hall, the 1,495-seat performance venue at 123 West 43rd Street in Manhattan, since acquiring the building in 1979 and restoring it for public use. The organization has filed 15 lobbying disclosures with New York City since 2024, lobbying six city council members (Adrienne Adams, Carlina Rivera, Gale Brewer, Julie Menin, Keith Powers, and Yusef Salaam) through the lobbyist CMW Strategies LLC. The disclosed subject of that lobbying is city budget funding for the organization.

Council members lobbied
7
Filings (since 2024)
15
Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
$150,000
Industry (per city contracts)
Human Services
City contracts
none active as of 2026-08-22 · $8,749,500 awarded since 2002
Paid to date
$8,330,651
Won without a fresh bid
88% of contract value · $7,724,500 · 2 contracts
Discretionary funding (FY2009-FY2027)
$704,500 · 47 awards
Funding history
Funded every year since FY2011 (17 years running)
Top officer pay (FY2023)
$181,980 · Ted Lambert, Executive Director

Lobbied these council members

Represented by lobbyist firms

Holds contracts at

Lobbied former members

Members who have since left their seat

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).

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 +125% 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.

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

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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