BHRAGS Home Care, Corp.

Lobbying client

A Brooklyn-based nonprofit providing home health care and homeless shelter services since 1969 that expanded in recent years into operating emergency asylum-seeker shelters, receiving nearly $200 million in contracts from the Department of Homeless Services since 2022. In March 2026, federal prosecutors charged its executive director and former board chair with embezzling more than $1.3 million from the organization and steering business to companies that paid kickbacks. It filed 2 disclosures in 2026 through The Parkside Group, lobbying 7 council members on a budget funding request.

Council members lobbied
7
Filings (since 2024)
2
Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
$20,000
Industry (per city contracts)
Human Services
City contracts
none active as of 2026-08-22 · $185,393,358 awarded since 2020
Paid to date
$140,017,548
Won without a fresh bid
100% of contract value · $185,393,358 · 14 contracts
Discretionary funding (FY2009-FY2027)
$544,900 · 22 awards
Funding history
Funded 5 years (FY2021–FY2025); not in FY2027
Top officer pay (FY2024)
$376,614 · Roberto Samedy, Executive Director

Lobbied these council members

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 (FY2024). 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 +518% from FY2020 to FY2024. Top-officer reportable compensation by year (org-paid only), with each year's share of total revenue. Source: ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer 990 filings.

Where their influence converges

Outside interests connected to this official through more than one independent channel — drawn straight from the records the rest of the site already shows. “Lobbied them” = a lobbying filing that named the member. “Outside spending” = an independent-expenditure committee the interest funds spent in

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