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What has the City paid Museum Associates Inc?

$3.1M in City payments across 39 checks, from August 7, 2017 to September 24, 2025. Outside-vendor scope only — payroll, transfers, debt and pension custody are excluded.

Checkbook LA · Through Sep 9, 2026

As published: MUSEUM ASSOCIATES INC

Recorded under 2 spellings

The Controller records vendor names as free text, so this firm appears under 2 different spellings. They are added together here, and listed in full so the arithmetic is checkable:

  • MUSEUM ASSOCIATES INC
  • MUSEUM ASSOCIATES
$3.1MTotal paid
39Payments
$80,164Average payment
FY2017-18Peak full year · $919K

By fiscal year

FY2017-18
$919K
FY2018-19
$685K
FY2019-20
$415K
FY2020-21
$483K
FY2021-22
$266K
FY2022-23
$55K
FY2023-24
$247K
FY2024-25
$30K
FY2025-26
$28K

Who pays them

Non-departmental$2.0M
Cultural Affairs$1.1M

What for

Watts Towers Conservations$2.0M

12 payments

Lacma/Watts Towers Conservation$750K

8 payments

Cultural Grants for Family and Youth$280K

15 payments

Watts Towers Conservation Prog$79K

1 payment

International Collaborative Concert Program (Iccp)$10K

1 payment

Leimert Park Village Cultural Hub Activation$5K

1 payment

Madrid Theatre Cultural Hub/Canoga Park Stage Arts Lab Activ$2K

1 payment

Most recent payments

The 25 latest to post. Purpose strings are the Controller's own reference codes — the budget line in the second column is usually the more informative field.

DateBudget linePurposeAmount
September 24, 2025Cultural Grants for Family and YouthCultural Affairs1 FREE OUTDOOR SERIES WITH 7 FREE OUTDOOR MUSIC PERFORMANCES IN CD 5$27,780
October 17, 2024Cultural Grants for Family and YouthCultural Affairs1 FREE OUTDOOR SERIES OF 7 MUSIC PERFORMANCES IN CD5$30,080
December 14, 2023Lacma/Watts Towers ConservationCultural AffairsPRESERVATION AND CONSERVATION SERVICES FOR THE WATTS TOWERS, US NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK$114,505
December 13, 2023Watts Towers Conservation ProgCultural AffairsPRESERVATION AND CONSERVATION SERVICES FOR THE WATTS TOWERS, US NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK$79,009
December 13, 2023Lacma/Watts Towers ConservationCultural AffairsPRESERVATION AND CONSERVATION SERVICES FOR THE WATTS TOWERS, US NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK$35,496
September 27, 2023Cultural Grants for Family and YouthCultural AffairsTWO PUBLIC CONCERT SERIES RESULTING IN 20 OR MORE FREE MUSIC PERFORMANCES CD 5$17,625
March 15, 2023Cultural Grants for Family and YouthCultural AffairsTWO PUBLIC CONCERT SERIES RESULTING IN 20 OR MORE FREE MUSIC PERFORMANCES CD 5$17,625
August 26, 2022Cultural Grants for Family and YouthCultural AffairsREFER TO APPENDIX II OF THE GRANTS CONTRACT FOR SERVICES TO BE PROVIDED BY THE CONTRACTOR$21,480
July 11, 2022Cultural Grants for Family and YouthCultural AffairsREFER TO APPENDIX II OF THE GRANTS CONTRACT FOR SERVICES TO BE PROVIDED BY THE CONTRACTOR$15,730
March 29, 2022Watts Towers ConservationsNon-departmentalENCUMBER 100/54/00K041- WATTS TOWER CONSERVATION$250,000
October 5, 2021Cultural Grants for Family and YouthCultural AffairsREFER TO APPENDIX B (II) OF THE GRANTS CONTRACT FOR SERVICES TO BE PROVIDED BY THE CONTRACTOR$15,690
June 23, 2021Cultural Grants for Family and YouthCultural AffairsREFER TO APPENDIX B (II) OF THE GRANTS CONTRACT FOR SERVICES TO BE PROVIDED BY THE CONTRACTOR$15,690
January 28, 2021Lacma/Watts Towers ConservationCultural AffairsREFER TO ART II (C) OF THE PROF SERVICES AGREEMENT FOR SERVICES TO BE PROVIDED BY THE CONTRACTOR$75,000
September 1, 2020Leimert Park Village Cultural Hub ActivationCultural AffairsFOR THE PRODUCTION OF AN ONLINE PERFORMANCE FOR THE JAZZ CARAVAN AT LEIMERT PARK, 07/30/2020$5,000
August 31, 2020Cultural Grants for Family and YouthCultural AffairsREFER TO APPENDIX B (II) OF THE GRANTS CONTRACT FOR SERVICES TO BE PROVIDED BY THE CONTRACTOR$10,000
August 11, 2020Lacma/Watts Towers ConservationCultural AffairsREFER TO ART II (C) OF THE PROF SERVICES AGREEMENT FOR SERVICES TO BE PROVIDED BY THE CONTRACTOR$75,000
July 8, 2020Lacma/Watts Towers ConservationCultural AffairsREFER TO ART II (C) OF THE PROF SERVICES AGREEMENT FOR SERVICES TO BE PROVIDED BY THE CONTRACTOR$300,000
July 7, 2020Madrid Theatre Cultural Hub/Canoga Park Stage Arts Lab ActivCultural AffairsFOR THE LIVESTREAM OF PODCAST "DIVINE FACES OF LEIMERT PARK" AS PART OF MATCH, 06/15/20$2,000
March 13, 2020Watts Towers ConservationsNon-departmentalENCUMBER 100/54/00K041- WATTS TOWER CONSERVATION$125,000
March 10, 2020Cultural Grants for Family and YouthCultural AffairsREFER TO APPENDIX B (II) OF THE GRANTS CONTRACT FOR SERVICES TO BE PROVIDED BY THE CONTRACTOR$20,000
December 5, 2019Watts Towers ConservationsNon-departmentalENCUMBER 100/54/00K041- WATTS TOWER CONSERVATION$125,000
August 30, 2019International Collaborative Concert Program (Iccp)Cultural AffairsTO PRODUCE & PRESENT 2 PROGRAMS OF A MIN OF 10 MUSIC PERF CD4 &PRESENT 1 INTERNATIONAL MUSIC PERF$10,000
August 30, 2019Cultural Grants for Family and YouthCultural AffairsTO PRODUCE & PRESENT 2 PROGRAMS OF A MIN OF 10 MUSIC PERF CD4 &PRESENT 1 INTERNATIONAL MUSIC PERF$10,000
July 25, 2019Watts Towers ConservationsNon-departmentalENCUMBER 100/54/00K041- WATTS TOWER CONSERVATION$125,000
May 17, 2019Watts Towers ConservationsNon-departmentalENCUMBER 100/54/00K041- WATTS TOWER CONSERVATION$125,000

Sources

LA Controller, Checkbook LA (dataset pggv-e4fn), totalled nightly. Figures are every payment on record within the outside-vendor scope, not a single fiscal year. Back to the checkbook.