Drama Club, Inc.
Lobbying client
Drama Club, Inc., 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)
- 3
- Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
- $12,000
- Industry (per city contracts)
- Human Services
- City contracts
- none active as of 2026-08-22 · $1,019,118 awarded since 2015
- Paid to date
- $914,283
- Won without a fresh bid
- 98% of contract value · $994,118 · 10 contracts
- Discretionary funding (FY2009-FY2027)
- $1,021,025 · 16 awards
- Funding history
- Funded every year since FY2016 (12 years running)
- Top officer pay (FY2024)
- $110,715 · Josie Whittlesey, Executive Di
Represented by lobbyist firms
- Lemma Strategies Inc. Lobbyist firm
Holds contracts at
- Department of Education City agency
- Department of Youth and Community Development City agency
Funded by these agencies
- Department of Youth and Community Development City agency
What they lobbied on
subjects from their filings
- Budget - Funding for Programs and Organization
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).
- To support Young Womenâ¿(TM)s Leadership Initiative program Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020248805985 · ended 2026 $403,601
- To Support leadership development training programs Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020238807373 · ended 2023 $107,627
- To support leadership development training programs. Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020228805976 · ended 2022 $103,890
- To fund leadership development training programs for youth. Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020201408806 · ended 2020 $100,000
- This initiative supports leadership development training. Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020218801362 · ended 2021 $90,000
- To fund out-of-school leadership programs for youth. Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020191407743 · ended 2019 $69,000
- To fund leadership development programs for youth. Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020181418235 · ended 2018 $55,000
- To support Young Women's leadership Development programming. Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020171423046 · ended 2017 $50,000
- FMS INTEGRATION Department of Education · CT104020173070318 · ended 2018 $25,000
- Will support Performance Units for youth. Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020181420027 · ended 2017 $10,000
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.
- To support Young Womenâ¿(TM)s Leadership Initiative program Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2026 · 3 payments $137,224
- To support Young Womenâ¿(TM)s Leadership Initiative program Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2025 · 2 payments $92,624
- To support leadership development training programs. Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2023 $77,918
- To Support leadership development training programs Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2024 $75,339
- To fund leadership development training programs for youth. Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2020 · 2 payments $69,701
- This initiative supports leadership development training. Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2022 $39,939
- To support leadership development training programs. Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2022 $25,972
Discretionary funding received
City Council discretionary (member-item) awards, largest first. Covers FY2009-FY2027.
- Young Women's Leadership Development Young Women's Leadership Development · DYCD · FY2023 $107,627
- Young Women's Leadership Development Young Women's Leadership Development · DYCD · FY2024 $107,627
- Young Women's Leadership Development Young Women's Leadership Development · DYCD · FY2025 $107,627
- Young Women's Leadership Development Young Women's Leadership Development · DYCD · FY2026 $107,627
- Young Women's Leadership Development Young Women's Leadership Development · DYCD · FY2027 $107,627
- Young Women's Leadership Development Young Women's Leadership Development · DYCD · FY2020 $100,000
- Young Women's Leadership Development Young Women's Leadership Development · DYCD · FY2022 $100,000
- Young Women's Leadership Development Young Women's Leadership Development · DYCD · FY2021 $90,000
- Young Women's Leadership Development Young Women's Leadership Development · DYCD · FY2017 $50,000
- Young Women's Leadership Development Young Women's Leadership Development · DYCD · FY2018 $50,000
- Young Women's Leadership Development Young Women's Leadership Development · DYCD · FY2019 $50,000
- Young Women's Leadership Development Young Women's Leadership Development · DYCD · FY2019 $19,000
- Youth Youth · DYCD · FY2017 $10,000
- Anti-Poverty Anti-Poverty · DYCD · FY2016 $5,000
- Anti-Poverty Anti-Poverty · DYCD · FY2018 $5,000
- Young Women's Leadership Development Young Women's Leadership Development · DYCD · FY2022 $3,890
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.
- Josie Whittlesey Executive Di $110,715
Officer pay over time
Total officer pay changed +10% 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 Josie Whittlesey · 12.55% of revenue $100,708
- FY2021 Josie Whittlesey · 8.2% of revenue $90,524
- FY2022 Josie Whittlesey · 7.68% of revenue $91,377
- FY2023 Josie Whittlesey · 11.09% of revenue $97,157
- FY2024 Josie Whittlesey · 13.27% of revenue $110,715