Brooklyn Bureau of Community Service

Lobbying client

Brooklyn Bureau of Community Service, doing business as Brooklyn Community Services (BCS), is one of Brooklyn's oldest social service nonprofits, founded in 1866, operating more than 50 programs at over 28 locations in early childhood education, youth development, supportive housing, and workforce training, and serving more than 20,000 residents annually. It filed 25 disclosures since 2024 through Constantinople & Vallone, Cozen O'Connor, and The Wright Group on affordable housing development and budget funding, and holds about $102.4 million in active city contracts as of August 2026.

Council members lobbied
51 (citywide)
Filings (since 2024)
25
Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
$255,000
Industry (per city contracts)
Human Services
City contracts (active)
$102,427,660 · 17 contracts
Awarded all-time
$350,797,484 · 180 since 2008, incl. expired
Paid to date
$231,842,992
Won without a fresh bid
67% of contract value · $233,329,672 · 145 contracts
Discretionary funding (FY2009-FY2027)
$393,000 · 7 awards
Funding history
Funded 4 years (FY2009–FY2014); not in FY2027
Top officer pay (FY2023)
$302,596 · Janelle Farris, President/Executive Director
Based in
Brooklyn, NY

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Affiliated organizations (shared leadership)

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.

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 +5% 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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