Children's Museum of Manhattan, Inc.
Lobbying client
The Children's Museum of Manhattan is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that has operated for more than 50 years at 212 West 83rd Street on the Upper West Side, offering hands-on exhibits, early childhood classes, school residencies and community outreach programs for children and families. The museum is registered as a citywide lobbying client and has filed 15 lobbying disclosures since 2024, retaining Cozen O'Connor Public Strategies, LLC to lobby on NYC budget and expense funding matters.
- Council members lobbied
- 51 (citywide)
- Filings (since 2024)
- 15
- Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
- $187,500
- Industry (per city contracts)
- Construction Services
- City contracts (active)
- $45,606,000 · 1 contract
- Awarded all-time
- $49,387,182 · 14 since 2008, incl. expired
- Paid to date
- $3,760,772
- Won without a fresh bid
- 100% of contract value · $49,312,182 · 11 contracts
- Discretionary funding (FY2009-FY2027)
- $1,684,612 · 48 awards
- Funding history
- Funded every year since FY2009 (19 years running)
- Top officer pay (FY2024)
- $418,466 · Dava Schub, CEO And Director
- Based in
- New York, NY
Represented by lobbyist firms
- Cozen O'Connor Public Strategies, LLC Lobbyist firm
Holds contracts at
- Department of Cultural Affairs City agency
- Department of Design and Construction City agency
Funded by these agencies
- Department of Cultural Affairs City agency
- Department of Education City agency
What they lobbied on
subjects from their filings
- Budget - NYC Budget
- Budget - NYC budget
- Budget - expense funding
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).
- Construction of the New Children's Museum of Manhattan Department of Design and Construction · CT185020261417402 $45,606,000
- equipment for children's museum of manhattan Department of Design and Construction · CT185020080022858 · ended 2013 $1,132,248
- Purchase of Greece Exhibition Department of Design and Construction · CT185020100019111 · ended 2014 $819,444
- SUPPORT GRANTEES MISSION AND CULTURAL EVENTS Department of Cultural Affairs · CT112620211424861 · ended 2021 $289,500
- SUPPORT GRANTEES MISSION AND CULTURAL EVENTS Department of Cultural Affairs · CT112620171417298 · ended 2017 $254,490
- SUPPORT GRANTEES MISSION AND CULTURAL EVENTS Department of Cultural Affairs · CT112620121421274 · ended 2012 $216,000
- SUPPORT GRANTEES MISSION AND CULTURAL EVENTS Department of Cultural Affairs · CT112620131413031 · ended 2013 $212,600
- SUPPORT GRANTEES MISSION AND CULTURAL EVENTS Department of Cultural Affairs · CT112620161412676 · ended 2016 $200,000
- SUPPORT GRANTEES MISSION AND CULTURAL EVENTS Department of Cultural Affairs · CT112620111418063 · ended 2011 $199,800
- SUPPORT GRANTEES MISSION AND CULTURAL EVENTS Department of Cultural Affairs · CT112620151414570 · ended 2015 $195,300
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.
- SUPPORT GRANTEES MISSION AND CULTURAL EVENTS Department of Cultural Affairs · FY2021 $148,100
- SUPPORT GRANTEES MISSION AND CULTURAL EVENTS Department of Cultural Affairs · FY2022 $57,900
- NEGOTIATED SERVICES-SERVICES Department of Education · FY2024 $25,000
Discretionary funding received
City Council discretionary (member-item) awards, largest first. Covers FY2009-FY2027.
- Local CM Speaker · DCLA · FY2026 $250,000
- Speaker's Initiative CM Speaker · Speaker's Initiative · DCLA · FY2027 $250,000
- Speaker's Initiative Speaker's Initiative · DCLA · FY2019 $100,000
- Speaker's Initiative Speaker's Initiative · DCLA · FY2020 $100,000
- Speaker's Initiative Speaker's Initiative · DCLA · FY2022 $100,000
- Family Connections CM Speaker · Speaker's Initiative · DCLA · FY2023 $100,000
- Family Connections CM Speaker · Speaker's Initiative · DCLA · FY2024 $100,000
- Family Connections CM Speaker · Speaker's Initiative · DCLA · FY2025 $100,000
- Speaker's Initiative Speaker's Initiative · DCLA · FY2021 $75,000
- Speaker's Initiative Speaker's Initiative · DCLA · FY2016 $25,000
- Speaker's Initiative Speaker's Initiative · DCLA · FY2017 $25,000
- Public School 811M Mickey Mantle School Cultural After-School Adventure (CASA) · DCA · FY2010 $20,000
- Public School 811M - Mickey Mantle School Cultural After-School Adventure (CASA) · DCA · FY2011 $20,000
- PS811M Mickey Mantle School Cultural After-School Adventure (CASA) · DCA · FY2012 $20,000
- PS811M Mickey Mantle School Cultural After-School Adventure (CASA) · DCLA · FY2013 $20,000
- PS811M Mickey Mantle School Cultural After-School Adventure (CASA) · DCLA · FY2014 $20,000
- Mickey Mantle School Cultural After-School Adventure (CASA) · DCLA · FY2015 $20,000
- Mickey Mantle School Cultural After-School Adventure (CASA) · DCLA · FY2016 $20,000
- Mickey Mantle School Cultural After-School Adventure (CASA) · DCLA · FY2017 $20,000
- Public School 811M - Mickey Mantle School Cultural After-School Adventure (CASA) · DCLA · FY2018 $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.
- Gale A. Brewer FY2022-2027 · 6 awards $120,000
- Rosenthal FY2020-2021 · 2 awards $40,000
- Ayala FY2020-2021 · 2 awards $10,000
- Levine FY2020-2021 · 2 awards $8,500
- Shaun Abreu FY2022 · 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.
- Dava Schub CEO And Director $418,466
- Peggy Hwan Hebard COO And CFO $296,107
- Karen Kincaid Chief Advancement Officer $278,952
- Leslie Mcmahon Bushara Chief Program Officer $278,773
- Thomas G Quaranta Capital Project Manager $175,340
- Karann Pashkin Director Of Finance $154,171
Officer pay over time
Total officer pay changed +57% 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 Jane Mcintosh Chief · 20.2% of revenue $273,301
- FY2021 Aileen Hefferren · 16.12% of revenue $456,642
- FY2022 Karen Kincaid Chief · 11.3% of revenue $264,679
- FY2023 Dava Schub · 3.35% of revenue $404,646
- FY2024 Dava Schub · 4.96% of revenue $418,466