The Frick Collection

Lobbying client

The Upper East Side art museum that completed a $330 million, Selldorf Architects-designed expansion and renovation at 1 East 70th Street, approved by the Landmarks Preservation Commission and reopened to the public in April 2025. It filed 18 lobbying disclosures in 2024 and 2025, registered with city agencies rather than council members, through Greenberg Traurig and James F. Capalino & Associates, on community board and real-property approvals for that expansion, and held $6.3 million in active city contracts as of August 2026, all dating to 2025.

Council members lobbied
None named (agencies/administration)
Filings (since 2024)
18
Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
$679
Industry (per city contracts)
Construction Services
City contracts (active)
$6,313,000 · 1 contract
Awarded all-time
$6,313,000 · 1 since 2025, incl. expired
Paid to date
$6,310,500
Won without a fresh bid
100% of contract value · $6,313,000 · 1 contract
Discretionary funding (FY2009-FY2027)
$40,000 · 8 awards
Funding history
Funded 8 years (FY2019–FY2027), including each of the last 6
Top officer pay (FY2023)
$1,030,109 · Ian Wardropper, Kellen Director& CEO

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 (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 +7% 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.

Sources