Brooklyn Museum

Lobbying client

One of the largest art museums in the country, housed in a Beaux-Arts building on Eastern Parkway that opened in 1897. Its collection runs to roughly 500,000 objects, including one of the largest U.S. collections of Egyptian antiquities and the Sackler Center for Feminist Art. It filed 15 lobbying disclosures since 2024, working with lobbyist Bender Cantone Consulting and reaching six council members on city budget funding for museum operations and its afterschool programs.

Council members lobbied
10
Filings (since 2024)
15
Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
$292,500
Industry (per city contracts)
Construction Services
City contracts (active)
$5,955,980 · 1 contract
Awarded all-time
$78,462,106 · 49 since 2007, incl. expired
Paid to date
$76,773,153
Won without a fresh bid
97% of contract value · $76,103,772 · 11 contracts
Discretionary funding (FY2009-FY2027)
$5,700,000 · 22 awards
Funding history
Funded 6 years (FY2015–FY2027), including each of the last 5
Top officer pay (FY2023)
$735,358 · Anne Pasternak, Shelby White & Leon Levy Director

Lobbied these council members

Represented by lobbyist firms

Holds contracts at

Lobbied former members

Members who have since left their seat

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).

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 +50% 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.

Where their influence converges

Outside interests connected to this official through more than one independent channel — drawn straight from the records the rest of the site already shows. “Lobbied them” = a lobbying filing that named the member. “Outside spending” = an independent-expenditure committee the interest funds spent in

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