New York City Center Inc.

Lobbying client

The nonprofit behind New York City Center, the landmark theater on West 55th Street that Mayor Fiorello La Guardia established as a municipal performing-arts venue in 1943 inside a 1920s Shriners meeting hall. It is now home to the Encores! musical theater series, Manhattan Theatre Club and the Fall for Dance Festival. It has filed 9 disclosures since 2025, lobbying seven council members through Kasirer LLC on city budget funding, and holds about $37.7 million in city contracts since 2007, none currently active.

Council members lobbied
7
Filings (since 2024)
9
Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
$126,000
Industry (per city contracts)
Construction Services
City contracts
none active as of 2026-08-22 · $37,713,128 awarded since 2007
Paid to date
$37,459,758
Won without a fresh bid
98% of contract value · $36,773,128 · 13 contracts
Discretionary funding (FY2009-FY2027)
$136,863 · 23 awards
Funding history
Funded 14 years (FY2009–FY2022); not in FY2027
Top officer pay (FY2024)
$485,062 · Michael Rosenberg, President And CEO
Based in
NY

Lobbied these council members

Represented by lobbyist firms

Holds contracts at

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 (FY2024). 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 +32% from FY2020 to FY2024. 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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