Cool Culture, Inc.
Lobbying client
Cool Culture, Inc., Lobbying client. Connections, filings, and records on The Civic Stoop, every link traced to the public record.
- Council members lobbied
- 51 (citywide)
- Filings (since 2024)
- 15
- Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
- $90,000
- Industry (per city contracts)
- Standardized Services
- City contracts
- none active as of 2026-08-22 · $2,136,850 awarded since 2009
- Paid to date
- $2,127,812
- Won without a fresh bid
- 84% of contract value · $1,796,850 · 13 contracts
- Discretionary funding (FY2009-FY2027)
- $1,398,000 · 89 awards
- Funding history
- Funded 18 years (FY2009–FY2027), including each of the last 9
- Top officer pay (FY2023)
- $206,283 · Candice Anderson, Executive Director
Represented by lobbyist firms
- Hollis Public Affairs, Inc. Lobbyist firm
- The Wright Group NY, Inc Lobbyist firm
Holds contracts at
- Department of Cultural Affairs City agency
- Department of Education City agency
- Department of Youth and Community Development City agency
Funded by these agencies
- Department of Cultural Affairs City agency
- Department of Youth and Community Development City agency
What they lobbied on
subjects from their filings
- Budget - securing funding for programs
- Budget - securing funding for projects
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).
- COVID-19 emergency purchase for vaccine education. Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020221414251 · ended 2022 $675,000
- Professional Development for Early Childhood Educators Department of Education · MA104020119172127 · ended 2014 $240,000
- SUPPORT GRANTEES MISSION AND CULTURAL EVENTS Department of Cultural Affairs · CT112620201418861 · ended 2020 $181,500
- SUPPORT GRANTEES MISSION AND CULTURAL EVENTS Department of Cultural Affairs · CT112620211423566 · ended 2021 $168,000
- SUPPORT GRANTEES MISSION AND CULTURAL EVENTS Department of Cultural Affairs · CT112620151418230 · ended 2015 $160,300
- SUPPORT GRANTEES MISSION AND CULTURAL EVENTS Department of Cultural Affairs · CT112620191427784 · ended 2019 $149,390
- SUPPORT GRANTEES MISSION AND CULTURAL EVENTS Department of Cultural Affairs · CT112620161412753 · ended 2016 $142,500
- SUPPORT GRANTEES MISSION AND CULTURAL EVENTS Department of Cultural Affairs · CT112620171413909 · ended 2017 $139,260
- SUPPORT GRANTEES MISSION AND CULTURAL EVENTS Department of Cultural Affairs · CT112620131414321 · ended 2013 $100,400
- Early Childhood Professional Development Department of Education · MA104020109077081 · ended 2010 $54,000
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.
- COVID-19 emergency purchase for vaccine education. Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2022 · 3 payments $630,105
- SUPPORT GRANTEES MISSION AND CULTURAL EVENTS Department of Cultural Affairs · FY2020 · 3 payments $233,378
- SUPPORT GRANTEES MISSION AND CULTURAL EVENTS Department of Cultural Affairs · FY2022 $87,900
- COVID-19 emergency purchase for vaccine education. Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2023 $44,895
- SUPPORT GRANTEES MISSION AND CULTURAL EVENTS Department of Cultural Affairs · FY2021 $36,300
Discretionary funding received
City Council discretionary (member-item) awards, largest first. Covers FY2009-FY2027.
- Speaker's Initiative CM Speaker · Speaker's Initiative · DCLA · FY2026 $125,000
- Speaker's Initiative CM Speaker · Speaker's Initiative · DCLA · FY2027 $125,000
- Citywide Cultural Access Program Speaker's Initiative · DCLA · FY2020 $100,000
- Citywide Cultural Access Program Speaker's Initiative · DCLA · FY2021 $100,000
- Speaker's Initiative CM Speaker · Speaker's Initiative · DCLA · FY2023 $100,000
- Speaker's Initiative CM Speaker · Speaker's Initiative · DCLA · FY2024 $100,000
- Speaker's Initiative CM Speaker · Speaker's Initiative · DCLA · FY2025 $100,000
- Local DCLA · FY2015 $75,000
- Speaker's Initiative Speaker's Initiative · DCLA · FY2016 $75,000
- Speaker's Initiative Speaker's Initiative · DCLA · FY2017 $75,000
- Citywide Cultural Access Program Speaker's Initiative · DCLA · FY2019 $75,000
- Cultural Access Program CM Adams · Cultural Immigrant Initiative · DCLA · FY2026 $12,000
- Youth Youth · DYCD · FY2015 $7,500
- Local DCLA · FY2019 $7,500
- We Are All Curators: Brooklyn Intensive Program CM Cumbo · DCLA · FY2020 $7,500
- We Are All Curators: Brooklyn Intensive Program CM Cumbo · DCLA · FY2021 $7,500
- We Are All Curators For Educators Program CM Hudson · DCLA · FY2022 $7,500
- Youth Youth · DYCD · FY2009 $6,500
- Local DCLA · FY2015 $5,500
- Local DCA · FY2010 $5,000
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.
- Chi A. Ossé FY2022-2027 · 6 awards $30,000
- Crystal Hudson FY2022-2027 · 3 awards $17,500
- Cumbo FY2020-2021 · 2 awards $15,000
- Adams FY2026 · 1 award $12,000
- Ayala FY2020 · 1 award $5,000
- Cornegy FY2021 · 1 award $5,000
- Levine FY2020 · 1 award $3,500
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.
- Candice Anderson Executive Director $206,283
- Andrea D Lockett Senior Director Of Operations And Strategy $153,819
- Tracey Greenidge Director Of Development $130,032
Officer pay over time
Total officer pay changed +104% 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.
- FY2020 Candice Anderson · 14.74% of revenue $130,810
- FY2021 Candice Anderson · 14.86% of revenue $160,615
- FY2022 Candice Anderson · 27.62% of revenue $201,865
- FY2023 Candice Anderson · 30.5% of revenue $206,283
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
- National Endowment for the Arts 45.024 Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals · National Endowment for the Arts · Grant $50,000
- National Endowment for the Arts 45.024 Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals · National Endowment for the Arts · Grant $40,000