Powerhouse Arts, Inc.
Lobbying client
Powerhouse Arts is a nonprofit fabrication and arts center in a converted 1904 power station on the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, offering ceramics, printmaking, textile, and public art fabrication services along with studios and education programs. The organization filed 16 lobbying disclosures since 2024, lobbying City Council members Alexa Aviles and Shahana K. Hanif, both of whom represent districts that cover the Gowanus area, through the firms Brown & Weinraub Advisors, LLC and James F. Capalino & Associates, Inc. The filings, registered under a specific scope, list funding for its facility and programs and government relations assistance related to the facility and programs as the lobbying subjects.
- Council members lobbied
- 2
- Filings (since 2024)
- 16
- Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
- $224,897
- Discretionary funding (FY2009-FY2027)
- $10,000 · 2 awards
- Funding history
- Funded every year since FY2026 (2 years running)
Lobbied these council members
- Alexa Avilés Council Member, District 38 (Brooklyn)
- Shahana K. Hanif Council Member, District 39 (Brooklyn)
Represented by lobbyist firms
- Brown & Weinraub Advisors, LLC Lobbyist firm
- James F. Capalino & Associates, Inc. Lobbyist firm
What they lobbied on
subjects from their filings
- Budget - FUNDING FOR FACILITY AND PROGRAMS
- Budget - funding for facility and programs
- Budget - with providing government relations assistance related to the organization's facility and programs.
- Determination of Board or Commission - with providing government relations assistance related to the organization's facility and programs.
Discretionary funding received
City Council discretionary (member-item) awards, largest first. Covers FY2009-FY2027.
- Artist Subsidy Program CM Brooklyn Delegation · Boroughwide Needs Initiative · DYCD · FY2026 $5,000
- Fabrication Services CM Brooklyn Delegation · Boroughwide Needs Initiative · DCLA · FY2027 $5,000
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
- Department of State PHOTO/MAP/PRINT/PUBLICATION- ARTS/GRAPHICS · Department of State · Contract $20,770