Jewish Institute of Queens

Lobbying client

Jewish Institute of Queens is a private Orthodox Jewish day school system headquartered in Elmhurst that serves students from pre-K through 12th grade across several divisions, including a special education program, and is a registered 3-K and Pre-K for All provider with the city's Department of Education. It has filed 4 disclosures since 2025, lobbying all 51 council members through Lemma Strategies on the city's capital and expense budget resolutions, and holds about $7.4 million in active city contracts as of August 2026.

Council members lobbied
51 (citywide)
Filings (since 2024)
4
Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
$21,000
Industry (per city contracts)
Human Services
City contracts (active)
$7,406,115 · 3 contracts
Awarded all-time
$59,641,172 · 55 since 2008, incl. expired
Paid to date
$33,734,250
Won without a fresh bid
26% of contract value · $15,723,391 · 44 contracts
Discretionary funding (FY2009-FY2027)
$6,149,112 · 62 awards
Funding history
Funded every year since FY2013 (15 years running)

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.

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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