The Midori Foundation, Inc.

Lobbying client

The Midori Foundation, known publicly as Midori & Friends, is a New York City nonprofit founded in 1992 by violinist Midori Goto that provides tuition-free music education to children with little access to the arts, now partnering with 68 schools and community organizations across the city. It has filed 15 lobbying disclosures since 2024, lobbying 24 council members through CMW Strategies on city budget funding for its programs, and has held $5,638,115 in city contracts since 2016, with $570,000 active as of August 2026.

Council members lobbied
24
Filings (since 2024)
15
Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
$108,000
Industry (per city contracts)
Standardized Services
City contracts (active)
$570,000 · 1 contract
Awarded all-time
$5,638,115 · 19 since 2016, incl. expired
Paid to date
$5,269,270
Won without a fresh bid
81% of contract value · $4,588,115 · 14 contracts
Discretionary funding (FY2009-FY2027)
$9,877,500 · 543 awards
Funding history
Funded every year since FY2012 (16 years running)
Top officer pay (FY2023)
$215,500 · Larisa Gelman, Executive Director

Lobbied these council members

Represented by lobbyist firms

Holds contracts at

Funded by these agencies

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).

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 +326% 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

Sources