The State of New York’s annual budget, enacted in May, totals $268 billion. The Governor proposes, the Legislature amends and approves, and the Governor signs or vetoes. In between all those steps sits a multi-million dollar industry, lobbying.
The state Commission on Ethics and Lobbying in Government (COELIG) in June issued their annual report on state and local lobbying activities for the year 2025. The report states that “total lobbying spending in 2025 continued to rise, breaking all previous records, with more than $384.8 million spent by those attempting to influence state and municipal government decision-making, representing an increase of 0.69% over the former record of $382.1 million reported in 2024.”
In the past year there were 6,319 registered lobbyists in the state. The lobbyists represented 5,168 clients. There were 49 public corporations that registered as lobbyists or filed reports as clients of lobbyists.
Dozens of Western New York businesses, organizations, and governments have employed lobbyists or conducted their own lobbying activities. Politics and Other Stuff has reported on their lobbying activities for the past eleven years.
Total Western New York lobbying expenditures in 2025 were $5.3 million. That is a 15 percent increase over 2024.
Once again, the top two lobbying firms with expenditures from identifiable Western New York businesses, organizations, and governments are Masiello Martucci Hughes Kulpa and O’Donnell & Associates.
The lobbying activities reported here are only for identifiable Western New York clients. All the firms listed below also have additional clients beyond Western New York. Some do government relations work for clients that is not reportable under state lobbying legislation and regulations.
The following is a summary of 2025 lobbying activities of identifiable Western New York businesses, organizations, and governments, and the amounts spent on 2025 lobbying, sorted by the lobbying firms that have done the work for them:
Masiello Martucci Hughes Kulpa
LLC Acadia Management Company, LLC $72,000
AMERICAN MEDICAL RESPONSE AMERICAN MEDICAL RESPONSE $54,000
Artpark & Company Artpark & Company $42,000
BAJ Rolling Acres LLC BAJ Rolling Acres LLC $8,000
Catholic Charities of Buffalo $60,000
Cedar Valley Apartments LLC $15,000
CENTER FOR ELDER LAW & JUSTICE, INC. $24,000
City of Buffalo City of Buffalo $45,000
Claremount Apartments L.P. $16,000
Collaborative Housing & Development $28,000
COUNTY OF NIAGARA $55,000
CPL ARCHITECTS, ENGINEERS AND LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT, $44,000
CREATIVE STRUCTURES SERVICES, INC. $18,000
DELTA-SONIC CARWASH SYSTEMS, INC. $9,000
D’YOUVILLE UNIVERSITY $90,000
Erie County $42,000
Erie County Medical Center $44,000
ERIE COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY $60,000
FIELD & FORK NETWORK, INC. $36,000
GAR ASSOCIATES LLC GAR ASSOCIATES LLC $30,000
Iroquois Construction Services $12,000
Jack Hunt Coin Broker, Inc. $3,000
Jericho Road Ministries, Inc. $48,000
Jewish Family Services of Western New York $25,000
JOHN W. DANFORTH COMPANY $45,000
KALEIDA HEALTH KALEIDA HEALTH $106,000
Koester Associates $24,000
LECHASE CONSTRUCTION SERVICES, LLC $15,000
LIBRARY ASSOCIATION (NY) $36,000
MAID OF THE MIST CORPORATION $60,000
Mental Health Advocates of Western New York $49,000
MHG TELCO, L.L.C. $42,000
MODERN CORPORATION $56,500
New York State Association of City Court Judges $15,000
NFADA, Inc. $18,000
NIAGARA FRONTIER TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY $86,400
OLV Human Services $36,000
PARKVIEW HEALTH SERVICES $35,000
PVS CHEMICAL SOLUTIONS, INC. $60,000
READ TO SUCCEED BUFFALO INC. $42,000
ROSINA FOOD PRODUCTS, INC. $36,000
Say Yes Buffalo $24,000
SHEA’S PERFORMING ARTS CENTER $30,000
SINATRA & COMPANY $18,000
STEUBEN FOODS, INC. $60,000
The Arc Erie County $4,000
The Green Organization $6,000
The Salvation Army $18,000
Town of Amherst $60,000
Town of Tonawanda $30,000
West Falls Center for the Arts $9,000
WESTERN REGIONAL OFF-TRACK BETTING CORPORATION $75,000
WILLIAM SCHUTT & ASSOCIATES, P.C. $3,500
O’Donnell & Associates LLC
Albright-Knox Art Gallery $30,000
Aquarium of Niagara $10,000
Buffalo Niagara Partnership $7,500
Buffalo Olmstead Park Conservancy $24,000
Buffalo Zoo $54,000
Cimiinelli Real Estate Corp. $35,000
Delaware North Companies Inc. $161,000
Electric and Gas Corporation $60,000
Endeavor Health Services $60,000
Fica Midwifery $40,000
Horizon Health Services Inc. $60,000
Lactalis USA $45,000
M&T Bank Corporation $22,500
Materion Advanced Materials Technology $47,500
Medical Answering Service $60,000
National Fire Adjustment Co. $55,000
New Era Cap LLC $60,000
New Flyer of America $90,000
Niagara Falls Bridge Commission $90,000
Niagara Falls Redevelopment $90,000
Niagara University $30,000
Phillips Lytle $50,000
PPR Energy Solutions $30,000
Ralph C. Wilson Foundation $60,000
Rochester Genesee Transportation Authority $97,776
Rupp Pfalzgraf LLC $60,000
Rural Outreach Center 50,000
Siemens Industry $60,000
Town of Tonawanda $15,000
University at Buffalo $92,400
Westminster Community Charter School $60,000
Upstate Strategic Advisors LLC
American Iron and Metal $3,000
BestSelf Behavioral Health Inc. $30,000
Broadview Federal Credit Union $73,806
Buffalo Pro Soccer $28,000
Chautauqua County Humane Society $9,000
Evergreen Health $24,000
Neighborhood Health Centers $9,000
Richardson Center Corporation $30,000
Rupal Hospitality $15,000
Western Regional Off-Track Betting Corporation $60,000
E3 Communications
Kleinhans Music Hall Management Inc. $12,500
Montante Companies Inc. $72,000
National Fuel Gas Company $72,000
NOCO LLC $36,000
Trocaire College $36,000
Hinman Straub
Highmark of Western & Northeastern New York $96,000
Seneca Nation $150,000
Lippes Mathias
Bassett Healthcare Network $3,500
Greenberg Traurig
Roswell Park Cancer Institute $84,000
Statewide Public Affairs
National Fuel Gas $48,000
Park Strategies
WNY Energy LLC $36,000
Harter Secrest Emory
Buffalo & Pittsburgh RR $16,822
South Buffalo RR $16,822
Brown & Weintraub
Buffalo Computer Graphics — $6,000
Independent lobbying activities
Highmark of Western & Northeastern New York $22,484
Independent Health $60,000
National Fuel Gas $120,318
National Grid $17,298
University at Buffalo $60,000
Totaling the local lobbying expenditures
Here is a summary of lobbying firms and the aggregated total for independent lobbying activities:
Masiello Martucci Hughes Kulpa $2,287,400
O’Donnell & Associates $1,766,676
Upstate Strategic Advisors $281,806
Hinman Straub $246,000
E3 Communications $228,500
Greenberg Traurig $84,000
Statewide Public Affairs $48,000
Park Strategies $36,000
Harter Secrest Emory $33,644
Brown & Weintraub $6,000
Lippes Mathias $3,500
Independent activities $280,100
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