Whitney Museum of American Art

Lobbying client

The Whitney Museum of American Art, housed since 2015 in the Renzo Piano-designed building at 99 Gansevoort Street in the Meatpacking District. Its lobbying on real property matters appears tied to the city's Gansevoort Square redevelopment plan for the adjacent former meat-market site, which as proposed includes room for a Whitney expansion alongside new housing. It filed 30 disclosures since 2024, lobbying all 51 council members through Cozen O'Connor Public Strategies and Fried Frank on budget advocacy, and our data show $895,760 in its New York City contracts since 2007, none currently active.

Council members lobbied
51 (citywide)
Filings (since 2024)
30
Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
$337,238
Industry (per city contracts)
Standardized Services
City contracts
none active as of 2026-08-22 · $895,760 awarded since 2007
Paid to date
$505,160
Won without a fresh bid
51% of contract value · $453,260 · 4 contracts
Discretionary funding (FY2009-FY2027)
$111,000 · 22 awards
Funding history
Funded 13 years (FY2011–FY2027), including each of the last 3
Top officer pay (FY2023)
$2,911,797 · Adam D Weinberg, Alice Pratt Brown Director.(Thru 10/2023)

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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 +47% 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.

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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