Medicare Rights Center
Lobbying client
Medicare Rights Center, Lobbying client. Connections, filings, and records on The Civic Stoop, every link traced to the public record.
- Council members lobbied
- 51 (citywide)
- Filings (since 2024)
- 15
- Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
- $39,750
- Industry (per city contracts)
- Human Services
- City contracts
- none active as of 2026-08-22 · $3,174,165 awarded since 2007
- Paid to date
- $2,955,556
- Won without a fresh bid
- 100% of contract value · $3,165,665 · 19 contracts
- Discretionary funding (FY2009-FY2027)
- $2,882,877 · 271 awards
- Funding history
- Funded every year since FY2009 (19 years running)
- Top officer pay (FY2024)
- $268,362 · Frederic Riccardi, President
- Based in
- New York, NY
Represented by lobbyist firms
- State & Broadway, Inc. Lobbyist firm
Holds contracts at
- Department for the Aging City agency
- Department of Design and Construction City agency
What they lobbied on
subjects from their filings
- Budget - Funding for Medicare Rights Center
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).
- 3XA-to support Medicare enrollment assistance and counsellin Department for the Aging · CT112520248805634 · ended 2026 $608,438
- Furniture and Equipment for Medicare Right Center Department of Design and Construction · CT185020080003743 · ended 2012 $536,000
- DISC K EDUCATE COMMUNITY RESIDENTS ON PUBLIC BENEFITS Department for the Aging · CT112520121438360 · ended 2012 $173,750
- PROVIDE COUNSELING, INTENSIVE CASE AND LEGAL ASSISTANCE Department for the Aging · CT112520191425415 · ended 2019 $168,500
- ENROLLMENT TOWN HALL / EDUCATING ON MEDICARE & MEDICAID Department for the Aging · CT112520201424739 · ended 2020 $167,500
- SUPPORT MEDICARE OUTREACH AND ENROLLMENT ASSISTANCE Department for the Aging · CT112520181418317 · ended 2018 $166,105
- SENIOR SERVICES SUPPORT, OPERATING COSTS Department for the Aging · CT112520161414063 · ended 2016 $165,611
- DISC K FUNDS TO SUPPORT A MEDICARE UPDATE & ENROLLMENT DAY Department for the Aging · CT112520131424318 · ended 2013 $158,000
- DISC K MEDICARE UPDATE & ENROLLMENT DAY Department for the Aging · CT112520141417852 · ended 2014 $154,500
- SENIOR SERVICES SUPPORT, OPERATING COSTS Department for the Aging · CT112520151424198 · ended 2015 $149,556
Discretionary funding received
City Council discretionary (member-item) awards, largest first. Covers FY2009-FY2027.
- Speaker's Initiative CM Speaker · Speaker's Initiative · DFTA · FY2027 $135,000
- Speaker's Initiative CM Speaker · Speaker's Initiative · DFTA · FY2025 $125,000
- Local CM Speaker · DFTA · FY2026 $125,000
- Local DFTA · FY2010 $100,000
- Speaker's Initiative CM Speaker · Speaker's Initiative · DFTA · FY2024 $100,000
- Local DFTA · FY2011 $90,000
- Local DFTA · FY2012 $85,000
- Local CM Speaker · DFTA · FY2023 $75,000
- Local DFTA · FY2013 $70,000
- Local DFTA · FY2014 $70,000
- Local DFTA · FY2015 $70,000
- Local DFTA · FY2016 $70,000
- Local DFTA · FY2017 $70,000
- Local DFTA · FY2018 $70,000
- Local DFTA · FY2019 $70,000
- Local CM Speaker · DFTA · FY2020 $70,000
- Local CM Speaker · DFTA · FY2021 $50,000
- Local CM Speaker · DFTA · FY2022 $50,000
- Support Our Seniors Support Our Seniors · DFTA · FY2019 $20,000
- Support Our Seniors CM Yeger · Support Our Seniors · DFTA · FY2020 $20,000
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.
- Adams FY2020-2026 · 11 awards $75,000
- Kalman Yeger FY2020-2025 · 7 awards $69,500
- Keith Powers FY2020-2026 · 7 awards $35,000
- Mercedes Narcisse FY2023-2027 · 5 awards $35,000
- Linda Lee FY2022-2027 · 6 awards $31,000
- Brannan FY2020-2026 · 6 awards $30,000
- Gale A. Brewer FY2022-2027 · 6 awards $30,000
- Erik Bottcher FY2022-2026 · 5 awards $25,000
- D. Diaz FY2020-2021 · 2 awards $24,000
- Simcha Felder FY2026-2027 · 3 awards $23,000
- Crystal Hudson FY2023-2026 · 4 awards $20,000
- Oswald J. Feliz FY2024-2025 · 2 awards $20,000
- Yusef Salaam FY2025-2026 · 3 awards $20,000
- Julie Menin FY2022-2023 · 2 awards $15,500
- Kallos FY2020-2021 · 2 awards $15,000
- Sandra Ung FY2024-2026 · 3 awards $15,000
- Vickie Paladino FY2026-2027 · 2 awards $15,000
- Virginia Maloney FY2027 · 2 awards $15,000
- Sandy Nurse FY2022 · 1 award $12,000
- Grodenchik FY2020-2021 · 2 awards $11,000
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.
- Frederic Riccardi President $268,362
- Lindsey Copeland Fed Policy Director $230,837
- Rachel Bennett VP Of Program Dev $210,057
- Marcin Bednarz Director Of IT $204,104
- Mitchell Clark Director of Comm $159,076
- Sarah A Murdoch Client Serv Director $138,486
Officer pay over time
Total officer pay changed +28% 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 Frederic Riccardi · 23.58% of revenue $223,636
- FY2021 Frederic Riccardi · 21.62% of revenue $245,847
- FY2022 Frederic Riccardi · 21.35% of revenue $251,185
- FY2023 Frederic Riccardi · 22.75% of revenue $265,730
- FY2024 Frederic Riccardi · 22.94% of revenue $268,362
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
- Legislative Proposals to Support Patient Access to Telehealth Services House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health 2024-04-10