Sugar Hill Children's Museum of Art & Storytelling
Lobbying client
Sugar Hill Children's Museum of Art & Storytelling, Lobbying client. Connections, filings, and records traced to the public record.
- Council members lobbied
- 51 (citywide)
- Filings (since 2024)
- 15
- Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
- $30,000
- Industry (per city contracts)
- Goods
- City contracts
- none active as of 2026-08-22 · $930,123 awarded since 2017
- Paid to date
- $648,738
- Won without a fresh bid
- 100% of contract value · $930,123 · 2 contracts
- Discretionary funding (FY2009-FY2027)
- $458,610 · 31 awards
- Funding history
- Funded every year since FY2016 (12 years running)
- Top officer pay (FY2024)
- $289,078 · Charlene Melville, Executive Director
Represented by lobbyist firms
- Mirram Group LLC Lobbyist firm
Holds contracts at
- Department of Cultural Affairs City agency
- Department of Health and Mental Hygiene City agency
What they lobbied on
subjects from their filings
- Budget - Budget Funding Support
- Budget - Funding for programming
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).
- Initial outfitting of Sugar Hill Children's Museum Department of Cultural Affairs · CT112620181411612 · ended 2022 $926,623
- FY19 Manhattan Borough President Initiative. Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · CT181620191415243 · ended 2019 $3,500
Discretionary funding received
City Council discretionary (member-item) awards, largest first. Covers FY2009-FY2027.
- Speaker's Initiative Speaker's Initiative · DCLA · FY2016 $50,000
- Speaker's Initiative Speaker's Initiative · DCLA · FY2017 $50,000
- Speaker's Initiative Speaker's Initiative · DCLA · FY2018 $50,000
- Public School 28M Cultural After-School Adventure (CASA) · DCLA · FY2019 $20,000
- Public School 28M Wright Brothers (06M028) CM Perkins · Cultural After-School Adventure (CASA) · DCLA · FY2020 $20,000
- Public School 28M Wright Brothers (06M028) CM Perkins · Cultural After-School Adventure (CASA) · DCLA · FY2021 $20,000
- Public School 028M Wright Brothers (06M028) CM Jordan · Cultural After-School Adventure (CASA) · DCLA · FY2022 $20,000
- Public School 028M Wright Brothers (06M028) CM Jordan · Cultural After-School Adventure (CASA) · DCLA · FY2023 $20,000
- Public School 028M Wright Brothers (06M028) CM Salaam · Cultural After-School Adventure (CASA) · DYCD · FY2024 $20,000
- Council District 7 CM Abreu · Cultural Immigrant Initiative · DYCD · FY2025 $20,000
- Storytelling and Art Making Workshops - Council District 7 CM Abreu · Cultural Immigrant Initiative · DYCD · FY2026 $20,000
- Bilingual Storytelling Programs CM Abreu · Cultural Immigrant Initiative · DCLA · FY2027 $20,000
- Boro Boro · DCLA · FY2016 $10,555
- Boro Boro · DCLA · FY2017 $10,555
- Cultural Immigrant Initiative CM Abreu · Cultural Immigrant Initiative · DCLA · FY2023 $10,000
- Cultural Immigrant Initiative CM Abreu · Cultural Immigrant Initiative · DYCD · FY2024 $10,000
- Cultural Immigrant Initiative CM Salaam · Cultural Immigrant Initiative · DYCD · FY2025 $10,000
- Youth Program - Harlem & Council District 9 CM Salaam · Cultural Immigrant Initiative · DCLA · FY2027 $10,000
- Participatory Arts Programming for Children and Families DCLA · FY2018 $7,500
- Local DCLA · FY2016 $5,000
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.
- Shaun Abreu FY2022-2027 · 9 awards $100,000
- Perkins FY2020-2021 · 2 awards $40,000
- Jordan FY2022-2023 · 2 awards $40,000
- Yusef Salaam FY2024-2027 · 3 awards $40,000
- Levine FY2020-2021 · 2 awards $10,000
- Rodriguez FY2020 · 1 award $5,000
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.
- Charlene Melville Executive Director $289,078
- David Nathanson Chief Financial Officer $244,625
- Jan Petrigan Director Of Operations $176,738
Officer pay over time
Total officer pay changed +66% 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.
- FY2020 David Nathanson · 5.12% of revenue $27,055
- FY2021 David Nathanson · 10.96% of revenue $30,902
- FY2022 David Nathanson · 10.31% of revenue $36,613
- FY2023 David Nathanson · 15.3% of revenue $37,192
- FY2024 David Nathanson · 16.35% of revenue $39,418