Selfhelp Community Services, Inc.

Lobbying client

Selfhelp Community Services, Inc. is a NYC nonprofit founded in 1936 by German Jewish refugees, now the oldest and largest Holocaust survivor services program in North America and a broader provider of home care, affordable senior housing, and community services to more than 25,000 older adults across the city and Nassau County. At 45-29 Kissena Boulevard in Flushing, it is developing Selfhelp Kissena House, a 100 percent affordable, all-electric senior housing building requiring a Board of Standards and Appeals special permit, the seventh building on its Flushing campus. It has filed 36 disclosures with the City Council since 2024 through Kasirer LLC and Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel, reaching all 51 council members, on budget funding for its programs and on the Kissena Boulevard project, and the city currently lists $71.8 million in active contracts as of August 2026 under its name.

Council members lobbied
51 (citywide)
Filings (since 2024)
36
Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
$216,970
Industry (per city contracts)
Human Services
City contracts (active)
$71,825,617 · 14 contracts
Awarded all-time
$406,800,236 · 168 since 2008, incl. expired
Paid to date
$304,433,379
Won without a fresh bid
65% of contract value · $263,909,701 · 138 contracts
Discretionary funding (FY2009-FY2027)
$19,528,982 · 567 awards
Funding history
Funded every year since FY2009 (19 years running)
Top officer pay (FY2023)
$1,128,602 · Stuart C Kaplan, Chief Executive Officer
Based in
New York, NY

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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 +3% 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.

Community project funding secured by (FY2024)

Members of New York's congressional delegation named as requestors of an enacted FY2024 community project for this organization, in the House Appropriations Committee's own final project tables. Each figure is the amount APPROPRIATED for that project, not money paid out to this organization to date.

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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