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
- 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 Education City agency
- Department of Youth and Community Development City agency
What they lobbied on
subjects from their filings
- Budget - NYC Capital and Expense Budget Resolutions
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).
- COMPASS Center Based CD - Queens 06 Elementary Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020278800838 $3,625,200
- COMPASS Center Based CD - Queens 06 Middle School Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020278800849 $3,168,000
- COMPASS Program NAE Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020268800433 $612,915
- UPK-BTF Department of Education · CT104020229250491 · ended 2026 $20,573,160
- UPK-BTF Department of Education · CT104020229250492 · ended 2026 $10,894,185
- UPK - Universal Prekindergarten Services Department of Education · CT104020189852752 · ended 2021 $5,438,145
- UPK-Universal Pre-Kindergarten Services Department of Education · CT104020159552331 · ended 2017 $3,004,645
- Funding will support the Emergency Food Program Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020268806674 · ended 2026 $1,141,875
- Educational & Recreational / Compet.7/Target Zip Codes/QN Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020080024600 · ended 2011 $1,026,215
- OST Middle School Target Zip: Queens Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020160002432 · ended 2019 $864,000
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.
- Birth to Five Department of Education · FY2022 · 6 payments $2,948,304
- Birth to Five Department of Education · FY2023 · 12 payments $2,341,828
- UPK-BTF Department of Education · FY2025 · 9 payments $1,691,306
- UPK-BTF Department of Education · FY2026 · 9 payments $1,297,679
- UPK-BTF Department of Education · FY2024 · 6 payments $1,129,857
- UPK-BTF Department of Education · FY2023 · 4 payments $790,161
- UPK - Universal Prekindergarten Services Department of Education · FY2020 · 12 payments $517,298
- UPK - Universal Prekindergarten Services Department of Education · FY2021 · 10 payments $469,274
- COMPASS Program NAE Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2026 $181,046
- UPK-BTF Department of Education · FY2022 $159,633
- To support the Emergency Food program. Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2020 · 2 payments $135,056
- Birth to Five Department of Education · FY2024 $132,299
- COMPASS Middle School program at Jewish Institute of Queens Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2020 · 2 payments $100,256
- COMPASS Program Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2024 · 2 payments $87,899
- Funding will support the Emergency Food Program Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2026 $71,550
- COMPASS Program Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2025 $67,892
- COMPASS-Elem/Middle (2011 RFP) Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2021 $54,000
- To support funding for after school program. Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2020 $47,124
- Funds supporting afterschool for children in grades k-5. Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2020 $38,550
- Funding to support programming for children in grades K-5. Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2023 $38,332
Discretionary funding received
City Council discretionary (member-item) awards, largest first. Covers FY2009-FY2027.
- COMPASS COMPASS · DYCD · FY2020 $216,720
- COMPASS COMPASS · DYCD · FY2021 $216,720
- COMPASS COMPASS · DYCD · FY2022 $216,720
- COMPASS COMPASS · DYCD · FY2023 $216,720
- COMPASS COMPASS · DYCD · FY2024 $216,720
- COMPASS COMPASS · DYCD · FY2025 $216,720
- COMPASS COMPASS · DYCD · FY2026 $216,720
- (Elementary) COMPASS Slot Restoration · DYCD · FY2016 $210,000
- COMPASS COMPASS · DYCD · FY2017 $210,000
- COMPASS COMPASS · DYCD · FY2018 $210,000
- COMPASS COMPASS · DYCD · FY2019 $210,000
- Emergency Food Program CM Speaker · Speaker's Initiative · DYCD · FY2023 $200,000
- Emergency Food Program CM Speaker · Speaker's Initiative · DYCD · FY2024 $200,000
- Emergency Food Program CM Speaker · Speaker's Initiative · DYCD · FY2025 $200,000
- Emergency Food Program CM Speaker · Speaker's Initiative · DYCD · FY2026 $200,000
- Emergency Food Program CM Speaker · Speaker's Initiative · DYCD · FY2027 $200,000
- Emergency Food Program CM Speaker · DYCD · FY2020 $180,000
- Emergency Food Program CM Speaker · DYCD · FY2021 $180,000
- Emergency Food Program CM Speaker · DYCD · FY2022 $180,000
- OST OST · DYCD · FY2013 $150,000
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.
- Lynn C. Schulman FY2022-2027 · 6 awards $177,000
- Koslowitz FY2020-2021 · 2 awards $59,000
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
- Federal Communications Commission 32.004 UNIVERSAL SERVICE FUND - SCHOOLS and LIBRARIES · Federal Communications Commission · Direct payment $2,489
- Federal Communications Commission 32.004 UNIVERSAL SERVICE FUND - SCHOOLS and LIBRARIES · Federal Communications Commission · Direct payment $0
- Federal Communications Commission 32.004 UNIVERSAL SERVICE FUND - SCHOOLS and LIBRARIES · Federal Communications Commission · Direct payment $0