New York Hall of Science

Lobbying client

New York Hall of Science (NYSCI) is a nonprofit science museum in Corona, Queens, built partly from a 1964 World's Fair pavilion and focused on hands-on science exhibits and youth education programs. It registered as a citywide lobbying client with the New York City Council, filing 30 disclosures since 2024 and reporting $219,000 in compensation to lobbyist Bolton-St. Johns, LLC. Filings list 51 council members contacted, covering city budget funding for arts and culture and education, plus a cloudburst-related resiliency and real-property project at its Queens facility.

Council members lobbied
51 (citywide)
Filings (since 2024)
30
Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
$219,000
Industry (per city contracts)
Human Services
City contracts (active)
$575,000 · 1 contract
Awarded all-time
$4,570,680 · 24 since 2008, incl. expired
Paid to date
$4,079,472
Won without a fresh bid
58% of contract value · $2,653,780 · 5 contracts
Discretionary funding (FY2009-FY2027)
$2,232,408 · 82 awards
Funding history
Funded every year since FY2009 (19 years running)
Top officer pay (FY2023)
$533,180 · Margaret Honey, President & CEO, Thru 12/31/23
Based in
Corona, NY

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 +12% 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.

Community project funding requested by (FY2026)

Members who asked the House Appropriations Committee to fund a FY2026 community project for this organization. These are requests, not awards: the FY2026 bills were enacted, but the committee has not published final FY2026 project tables, so whether any of these was funded is not shown here. Each

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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