Commonpoint NY, Inc.

Lobbying client

Commonpoint is a Queens-based nonprofit social-services organization formed in 2018 when the Samuel Field Y and Central Queens Y completed a merger, providing early-childhood, camp, senior, mental-health and workforce programs across dozens of sites in New York City and beyond. In our data it filed 8 lobbying registrations in 2025 and 2026 through Lemma Strategies Inc., reporting citywide outreach to all 51 council members and $90,000 in compensation, with subjects centered on capital and discretionary budget funding and city budget resolutions, alongside about $131.3 million in active city contracts as of August 2026.

Council members lobbied
51 (citywide)
Filings (since 2024)
9
Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
$90,000
Industry (per city contracts)
Human Services
City contracts (active)
$131,278,187 · 32 contracts
Awarded all-time
$222,589,246 · 61 since 2020, incl. expired
Paid to date
$117,828,116
Won without a fresh bid
60% of contract value · $132,655,846 · 46 contracts
Discretionary funding (FY2009-FY2027)
$4,550,440 · 102 awards
Funding history
Funded every year since FY2025 (3 years running)
Top officer pay (FY2023)
$563,146 · Danielle Ellman, President & Chief Executive. Officer

Represented by lobbyist firms

Holds contracts at

Funded by these agencies

What they lobbied on

subjects from their filings

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).

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.

Discretionary funding received

City Council discretionary (member-item) awards, largest first. Covers FY2009-FY2027.

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.

Officer & key-staff pay

Reportable compensation from this organization's IRS Form 990 (Part VII), latest available filing (FY2023). Includes pay from related organizations where reported; an annual figure, not a running total. Source: ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.

Officer pay over time

Total officer pay changed +46% from FY2020 to FY2023. Top-officer reportable compensation by year (org-paid only), with each year's share of total revenue. Source: ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer 990 filings.

Federal awards

Federal awards made directly to this organization in fiscal years 2023 through 2026. Each amount is what the federal government has OBLIGATED on that award as recorded on USAspending.gov as of 2026-08-31 — money committed, not money paid out. These are prime awards only: federal money this

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