The Studio Museum in Harlem

Lobbying client

A Harlem museum dedicated to art by artists of African descent, known for its Artist-in-Residence program supporting emerging Black and Latino artists. It closed in 2018 for a full rebuild and reopened in November 2025 in a new $300 million building designed by Adjaye Associates and Cooper Robertson, with more than $62 million in city capital funding behind it. It is registered to lobby citywide and filed 15 disclosures since 2024 through Cozen O'Connor Public Strategies, entirely on NYC budget funding, and has held $63.1 million in city contracts since 2010, $3.6 million of it active as of August 2026.

Council members lobbied
51 (citywide)
Filings (since 2024)
15
Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
$63,646
Industry (per city contracts)
Construction Services
City contracts (active)
$3,600,000 · 1 contract
Awarded all-time
$63,130,850 · 9 since 2010, incl. expired
Paid to date
$58,817,692
Won without a fresh bid
99% of contract value · $62,443,350 · 5 contracts
Discretionary funding (FY2009-FY2027)
$431,055 · 30 awards
Funding history
Funded 18 years (FY2009–FY2026); not in FY2027
Top officer pay (FY2024)
$353,639 · Thelma Golden, Director And Chief Curator

Represented by lobbyist firms

Holds contracts at

Funded by these agencies

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 (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 +166% 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.

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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