The New School

Lobbying client

The New School is a private university in Greenwich Village founded in 1919, made up of divisions including Parsons School of Design and Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts. It filed 15 disclosures since 2024, lobbying council members Adrienne Adams, Carlina Rivera, Erik Bottcher and Tiffany Caban directly, without an outside lobbying firm, on discretionary and capital funding. It has $2 million in active city contracts as of August 2026, out of $13.8 million since 2014.

Council members lobbied
4
Filings (since 2024)
15
Lobbyist firm(s)
In-house
Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
$2,030
Industry (per city contracts)
Professional Services
City contracts (active)
$2,000,000 · 1 contract
Awarded all-time
$13,819,352 · 23 since 2014, incl. expired
Paid to date
$6,217,492
Won without a fresh bid
79% of contract value · $10,944,495 · 13 contracts
Discretionary funding (FY2009-FY2027)
$1,223,500 · 20 awards
Funding history
Funded 10 years (FY2014–FY2027), including each of the last 9
Top officer pay (FY2023)
$1,138,693 · Dwight A McBride, President (through Aug 2023)
Based in
New York, NY

Lobbied these council members

Holds contracts at

Funded by these agencies

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).

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.

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

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

Congressional testimony

Congressional committee meetings where congress.gov lists a witness whose stated affiliation is exactly this organization's name, for the 118th and 119th Congresses, as of 2026-09-01. Name variations are not matched, so an appearance filed under a different spelling of this organization is missing

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