Make the Road New York

Lobbying client

Make the Road New York is an immigrant-led grassroots organization formed in 2007 from the merger of Make the Road by Walking and the Latin American Integration Center. It runs community centers in Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, Long Island and Westchester, organizing around immigrant rights, workers' rights, tenant protections and education. In city lobbying records it filed 15 disclosures since 2024, registered citywide with all 51 council members, on subjects ranging from the city budget and local legislation to mayoral executive orders and state and federal issues, and it holds active city contracts worth more than $11.6 million.

Council members lobbied
51 (citywide)
Filings (since 2024)
15
Lobbyist firm(s)
In-house
Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
$39,131
Industry (per city contracts)
Human Services
City contracts (active)
$11,585,477 · 8 contracts
Awarded all-time
$42,806,699 · 174 since 2007, incl. expired
Paid to date
$29,185,490
Won without a fresh bid
77% of contract value · $33,069,327 · 136 contracts
Discretionary funding (FY2009-FY2027)
$19,071,235 · 392 awards
Funding history
Funded every year since FY2009 (19 years running)
Top officer pay (FY2024)
$211,516 · Jose L Lopez, Co - executive Director
Based in
Brooklyn, NY

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 +100% 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.

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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