The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
Lobbying client
The ASPCA, founded in New York City in 1866, was the first animal welfare organization in North America, though it no longer runs the city's animal shelters, a role it ceded to what is now Animal Care Centers of NYC in the mid-1990s. Today it provides direct services here, including an adoption center and a mobile spay/neuter clinic, funded in part under a roughly $3 million Department of Health and Mental Hygiene contract, alongside citywide advocacy. It has filed 30 disclosures since 2024, lobbying all 51 council members through Pitta Bishop & Del Giorno on FY2027 city budget funding and animal-welfare legislation.
- Council members lobbied
- 51 (citywide)
- Filings (since 2024)
- 30
- Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
- $305,735
- Industry (per city contracts)
- Human Services
- City contracts (active)
- $3,000,000 · 1 contract
- Awarded all-time
- $6,018,880 · 6 since 2012, incl. expired
- Paid to date
- $3,085,979
- Won without a fresh bid
- 96% of contract value · $5,798,880 · 3 contracts
- Based in
- New York, NY
Represented by lobbyist firms
- Pitta Bishop & Del Giorno LLC Lobbyist firm
Holds contracts at
- Department of Health and Mental Hygiene City agency
Funded by these agencies
- Department of Health and Mental Hygiene City agency
What they lobbied on
subjects from their filings
- Budget - New York City Fiscal Year 2027 Program Funding
- Local Legislation (including introduction) - Issues impacting adults 50 years and older.
- Local Legislation (including introduction) - Issues impacting animal rights.
- Local Legislation (including introduction) - Legislation dealing with animal welfare issues such as: animal care and control programs and animal sheltering
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).
- Spay and Neuter Services Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · CT181620238804394 $3,000,000
- Spay and Neuter Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · CT181620181426537 · ended 2022 $1,599,360
- Animal Spay and Neuter Services Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · CT181620161414117 · ended 2018 $1,199,520
- TO REDUCE THE POPULATION OF UNWANTED AND STRAY DOGS & CATS Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · CT181620131413639 · ended 2014 $100,000
- Animal Spay and Neuter Services Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · CT181620131403755 · ended 2014 $100,000
- Spay and Neuter Services for Environmental Health Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · CT181620221422217 · ended 2022 $20,000
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.
- Spay and Neuter Services Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · FY2026 · 13 payments $677,123
- Spay and Neuter Services Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · FY2025 · 5 payments $189,500
- Spay and Neuter Services Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · FY2027 $40,375
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
- Department of Justice SUPPORT- PROFESSIONAL: EXPERT WITNESS · Offices, Boards and Divisions · Contract $31,473