The Literacy Assistance Center

Lobbying client

The Literacy Assistance Center is a nonprofit founded in 1983 that supports adult education programs across New York City through teacher training, instructional coaching, curriculum development and data services for schools, libraries and community-based organizations. From 2024 through 2026 it filed 14 lobbying disclosures, without a paid outside lobbyist, to lobby nine City Council members for increased city funding for adult literacy education, reporting $19,823.55 in compensation. It holds $9.3 million in city contracts since 2014, none currently active.

Council members lobbied
9
Filings (since 2024)
14
Lobbyist firm(s)
In-house
Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
$20,465
Industry (per city contracts)
Human Services
City contracts
none active as of 2026-08-22 · $9,294,203 awarded since 2014
Paid to date
$9,083,275
Won without a fresh bid
68% of contract value · $6,348,853 · 11 contracts
Discretionary funding (FY2009-FY2027)
$1,897,000 · 9 awards
Funding history
Funded 8 years (FY2010–FY2027), including each of the last 6
Top officer pay (FY2024)
$155,114 · Ira Yankwitt, Executive Di

Lobbied these council members

Holds contracts at

Funded by these agencies

Lobbied former members

Members who have since left their seat

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 (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 +166% 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.

Where their influence converges

Outside interests connected to this official through more than one independent channel — drawn straight from the records the rest of the site already shows. “Lobbied them” = a lobbying filing that named the member. “Outside spending” = an independent-expenditure committee the interest funds spent in

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