Broadway Housing Communities, Inc.
Lobbying client
Broadway Housing Communities is a Manhattan nonprofit, based in Sugar Hill, that provides supportive and affordable housing along with early childhood education and cultural arts programming, including the Sugar Hill Children's Museum of Art & Storytelling, according to its own website. Since 2024 the group has filed 15 lobbying registrations with the City Council through Mirram Group LLC, reporting $87,000 in compensation and reaching 51 Council members on budget funding requests and support for community programming. It has held $26.6 million in city contracts since 2006, with $4.9 million in contracts active as of August 2026.
- Council members lobbied
- 51 (citywide)
- Filings (since 2024)
- 15
- Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
- $87,000
- Industry (per city contracts)
- Human Services
- City contracts (active)
- $4,898,205 · 1 contract
- Awarded all-time
- $26,637,954 · 33 since 2006, incl. expired
- Paid to date
- $21,238,708
- Won without a fresh bid
- 78% of contract value · $20,702,454 · 30 contracts
- Discretionary funding (FY2009-FY2027)
- $2,143,156 · 71 awards
- Funding history
- Funded every year since FY2009 (19 years running)
- Top officer pay (FY2024)
- $289,078 · Charlene Melville, Executive Director
- HPD housing capital financed
- $3,500,000 · via 990 Schedule R
- Based in
- New York, NY
Represented by lobbyist firms
- Mirram Group LLC Lobbyist firm
Holds contracts at
- Department of Education City agency
- Department of Homeless Services City agency
- Department of Social Services City agency
- Department of Youth and Community Development City agency
Funded by these agencies
- Department of Education City agency
- Department of Homeless Services City agency
- Department of Social Services City agency
- Department of Youth and Community Development City agency
What they lobbied on
subjects from their filings
- Budget - Budget Funding Requests
- Budget - Budget funding Support
- Budget - Funding for community programming
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).
- Single Room Occupancy @Rio, Delta, Edgecombe, Dorothy Day Department of Social Services · CT106920258800806 $4,898,205
- Broadway Housing Communities, 6 sites Department of Social Services · CT106920191404563 · ended 2024 $5,417,616
- UPK-BTF Department of Education · CT104020229259825 · ended 2026 $3,614,985
- SUPPORTIVE HOUSING FOR ADULTS-SRO Department of Homeless Services · CT107120131402665 · ended 2018 $3,527,889
- PROVIDE SRO SUPPORT SUBSIDIES FOR HOMELESS INDIVIDUALS Department of Homeless Services · CT107120070008426 · ended 2012 $3,255,876
- UPK - Universal Prekindergarten Services Department of Education · CT104020189852152 · ended 2021 $2,143,756
- UPK-Univrsal Pre-Kindergarten Service Department of Education · CT104020159553534 · ended 2017 $1,647,600
- NDA Healthy Families Manhattan 9 Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020238800673 · ended 2025 $672,915
- Funding will support the expansion of BHC's early childhood Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020258802248 · ended 2023 $174,333
- *Funding will support the expansion of BHC's early childhood Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020228806851 · ended 2022 $164,333
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.
- Broadway Housing Communities, 6 sites Department of Social Services · FY2023 · 12 payments $627,698
- Single Room Occupancy @Rio, Delta, Edgecombe, Dorothy Day Department of Social Services · FY2025 · 11 payments $557,192
- Broadway Housing Communities, 6 sites Department of Social Services · FY2020 · 6 payments $555,999
- Broadway Housing Communities, 6 sites Department of Social Services · FY2022 · 9 payments $523,687
- Single Room Occupancy @Rio, Delta, Edgecombe, Dorothy Day Department of Social Services · FY2026 · 2 payments $510,896
- Broadway Housing Communities, 6 sites Department of Social Services · FY2021 · 9 payments $508,932
- Broadway Housing Communities, 6 sites Department of Social Services · FY2024 · 9 payments $459,206
- UPK-BTF Department of Education · FY2026 · 5 payments $329,731
- Single Room Occupancy @Rio, Delta, Edgecombe, Dorothy Day Department of Social Services · FY2027 $326,547
- Broadway Housing Communities, 6 sites Department of Social Services · FY2026 · 2 payments $281,721
- NDA Healthy Families Manhattan 9 Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2026 · 3 payments $257,695
- UPK - Universal Prekindergarten Services Department of Education · FY2020 · 5 payments $243,171
- UPK-BTF Department of Education · FY2025 · 4 payments $194,814
- SUPPORTIVE HOUSING FOR ADULTS-SRO Department of Homeless Services · FY2020 $192,131
- Birth To Five Services Department of Education · FY2022 $159,014
- Funding will support the expansion of BHC's ea Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2023 · 2 payments $154,683
- UPK - Universal Prekindergarten Services Department of Education · FY2021 · 2 payments $144,711
- Funding will support the expansion of BHC's early childhood Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2025 $136,258
- Birth To Five Services Department of Education · FY2023 · 3 payments $126,575
- UPK - Universal Prekindergarten Services Department of Education · FY2022 · 3 payments $121,645
Discretionary funding received
City Council discretionary (member-item) awards, largest first. Covers FY2009-FY2027.
- Speaker's Initiative Speaker's Initiative · DYCD · FY2018 $100,000
- Local DYCD · FY2019 $100,000
- BHC’s Early Childhood Programs CM Speaker · DYCD · FY2020 $100,000
- BHC’s Early Childhood Programs CM Speaker · DYCD · FY2021 $100,000
- BHC’s Early Childhood Programs CM Speaker · DYCD · FY2022 $100,000
- BHC’s Early Childhood Programs CM Speaker · DYCD · FY2023 $100,000
- Local DYCD · FY2017 $75,000
- BHC’s Early Childhood Programs CM Speaker · Speaker's Initiative · DYCD · FY2024 $75,000
- BHC’s Early Childhood Programs CM Speaker · Speaker's Initiative · DYCD · FY2025 $75,000
- BHC’s Early Childhood Programs CM Speaker · Speaker's Initiative · DYCD · FY2026 $75,000
- BHC’s Early Childhood Programs CM Speaker · DYCD · FY2027 $75,000
- City's First Readers City's First Readers · DYCD · FY2018 $64,333
- City's First Readers City's First Readers · DYCD · FY2019 $64,333
- City's First Readers City's First Readers · DYCD · FY2020 $64,333
- Educational Programs for Students Educational Programs for Students · DYCD · FY2022 $64,333
- Educational Programs for Students Educational Programs for Students · DYCD · FY2023 $64,333
- Educational Programs for Students Educational Programs for Students · DYCD · FY2024 $64,333
- Educational Programs for Students Educational Programs for Students · DYCD · FY2025 $64,333
- Educational Programs for Students (Formerly College and Career Readiness and Educational Programs for Students) Educational Programs for Students (Formerly College and Career Readiness and Educational Programs for Students) · DYCD · FY2026 $64,333
- Educational Programs for Students Educational Programs for Students · DYCD · FY2027 $64,333
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.
- Shaun Abreu FY2022-2025 · 4 awards $40,000
- Carmen N. De La Rosa FY2022-2027 · 6 awards $30,000
- Levine FY2020-2021 · 2 awards $20,000
- Perkins FY2020-2021 · 2 awards $20,000
- Jordan FY2022 · 1 award $15,000
- Rodriguez FY2020-2021 · 2 awards $7,000
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.
- Charlene Melville Executive Director $289,078
- David Nathanson Chief Financial Officer $244,625
- Janet Mccreath Director Of Finance $207,681
- Jan Petrigan Director Of Operations $176,738
- Nasreen Ferdous Director Of Human Resource $161,149
Officer pay over time
Total officer pay changed -7% 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.
- FY2020 Ellen Baxter · 16.46% of revenue $200,715
- FY2021 Charlene Melville · 10.53% of revenue $210,713
- FY2022 Ellen Baxter · 18.73% of revenue $237,500
- FY2023 Charlene Melville - Associate · 11.95% of revenue $281,810
- FY2024 Charlene Melville · 11.02% of revenue $289,078
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.
- Adriano Espaillat 222–226 W145th Street & 673 St. Nicholas Ave. Acquisition · NY · Transportation, Housing and Urban Development $850,000
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
- Department of Health and Human Services 93.600 Head Start · Administration for Children and Families · Grant $5,312,768
- Department of Health and Human Services 93.600 Head Start · Administration for Children and Families · Grant $3,299,655
- Department of Health and Human Services 93.600 Head Start · Administration for Children and Families · Grant $1,950,275
- Department of Health and Human Services 93.600 Head Start · Administration for Children and Families · Grant $850,567
- Department of Health and Human Services 93.600 Head Start · Administration for Children and Families · Grant $124,219