The New York Immigration Coalition
Lobbying client
The New York Immigration Coalition is a statewide umbrella coalition, founded in 1987, made up of more than 200 immigrant and refugee rights groups across New York including grassroots nonprofits, religious institutions, labor unions and legal organizations. Through the lobby firm Bolton-St. Johns, the group has filed 30 disclosures with the NYC Council since 2024, lobbying 14 council members on topics including language access funding, adult literacy funding, behavioral health, legal services funding, 2030 Census outreach, and the "Our City Our Vote" noncitizen voting measure.
- Council members lobbied
- 14
- Filings (since 2024)
- 30
- Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
- $12,009
- Industry (per city contracts)
- Human Services
- City contracts
- none active as of 2026-08-22 · $19,589,577 awarded since 2011
- Paid to date
- $12,782,070
- Won without a fresh bid
- 99% of contract value · $19,314,577 · 29 contracts
- Discretionary funding (FY2009-FY2027)
- $23,531,127 · 105 awards
- Funding history
- Funded 15 years (FY2012–FY2027), including each of the last 14
- Top officer pay (FY2023)
- $309,575 · Murad Awawdeh, Chief Executive Director
- Based in
- New York, NY
Lobbied these council members
- Carmen N. De La Rosa Council Member, District 10 (Manhattan)
- Tiffany L. Cabán Council Member, District 22 (Queens)
- Shekar Krishnan Council Member, District 25 (Queens)
- Julie Won Council Member, District 26 (Queens)
- Lynn C. Schulman Council Member, District 29 (Queens)
- Lincoln Restler Council Member, District 33 (Brooklyn)
- Jennifer Gutiérrez Council Member, District 34 (Brooklyn)
- Alexa Avilés Council Member, District 38 (Brooklyn)
- Shahana K. Hanif Council Member, District 39 (Brooklyn)
- Rita C. Joseph Council Member, District 40 (Brooklyn)
- Gale A. Brewer Council Member, District 6 (Manhattan)
Represented by lobbyist firms
- Bolton-St. Johns, LLC Lobbyist firm
Holds contracts at
- Department of Health and Mental Hygiene City agency
- Department of Youth and Community Development City agency
Funded by these agencies
- Department of Health and Mental Hygiene City agency
- Department of Youth and Community Development City agency
- Mayoralty City agency
Lobbied former members
Members who have since left their seat
- Adrienne Adams
- Erik Bottcher
- Kristy Marmorato
What they lobbied on
subjects from their filings
- Budget - Defund Police Access Health NYC Funding Adult Literacy Funding Behavioral Health Language Access Legal Services Funding Our City Our Vote
- Budget - Expanding Language Access: Requesting increases in NYC FY26 budget funding to provide access to interpretation and language services.; Budget - FY26 NYC Budget: 2030 Census Outreach and…
- Budget - Expanding Language Access: Requesting increases in NYC FY27 budget funding to interpretation and language services.; Budget - FY27 NYC Budget: 2030 Census Outreach and engagement.; Budget…
- Budget - Funding for special programs and assistance
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).
- To provide programming for Asian American and Pacific Isla Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020268801861 · ended 2026 $8,926,875
- To support the development of language services worker Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020258805495 · ended 2023 $1,400,000
- Access Health Initiative Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · CT181620248809440 · ended 2026 $1,141,845
- Support Immigrant Programs Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020248803914 · ended 2023 $930,500
- To support consulate identification services to immigrants Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020201410540 · ended 2020 $858,500
- Provides information about immigration-related issues. Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020191421391 · ended 2019 $708,500
- To provide community education and legal assistance Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020181421916 · ended 2018 $708,500
- To provide information about immigration-related issues. Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020171409997 · ended 2017 $705,000
- To support new immigrants refugees and indigenous speaking c Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020238801507 · ended 2022 $700,000
- To support strategies/deliver trainings for the 2020 Census Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020201420371 · ended 2020 $500,000
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.
- To provide programming for Asian American and Pacific Isla Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2026 · 5 payments $3,149,294
- Support Immigrant Programs Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2024 · 13 payments $900,945
- To support the development of language services worker Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2025 · 9 payments $765,532
- To support new immigrants refugees and indigenous speaking c Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2023 · 9 payments $639,667
- Access Health Initiative Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · FY2026 · 3 payments $548,287
- Provides information about immigration-related issues. Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2020 · 8 payments $525,811
- To support consulate identification services to immigrants Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2020 · 2 payments $398,764
- To support strategies/deliver trainings for the 2020 Census Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2020 · 8 payments $395,593
- Access Health Initiative Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · FY2025 $304,492
- To support consulate identification services to immigrants Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2021 · 2 payments $194,771
- Culturally and linguistically competent community-based org. Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · FY2022 $194,438
- Outreach and education efforts regarding healthcare access Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · FY2020 · 3 payments $135,704
- Access Health Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · FY2020 · 2 payments $108,702
- To support CUNY Citizenship NOW! program Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2023 · 2 payments $103,794
- Outreach and education efforts regarding healthcare access Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · FY2021 $53,799
- Hate Crime Prevention Initiative - Citywide Mayoralty · FY2023 $50,000
- Hate Crime Prevention Initiative - Citywide Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2024 $40,987
- To support immigrant communities. Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2021 $39,625
- To support immigrant communities. Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2022 $29,263
Discretionary funding received
City Council discretionary (member-item) awards, largest first. Covers FY2009-FY2027.
- Immigrant Legal Providers Support Network Immigrant Legal Providers Support Network · Dss/hra · FY2027 $2,250,000
- Immigrant Legal Providers Support Network Immigrant Legal Providers Support Network · Dss/hra · FY2026 $2,000,000
- Community Interpreter Bank Community Interpreter Bank · DYCD · FY2027 $1,125,000
- Community Interpreter Bank Community Interpreter Bank · DYCD · FY2023 $1,000,000
- Community Interpreter Bank Community Interpreter Bank · DYCD · FY2025 $850,000
- Community Interpreter Bank Community Interpreter Bank · DYCD · FY2026 $850,000
- Welcome NYC Welcome NYC · DYCD · FY2027 $825,000
- New York Immigrant Population New York Immigrant Population · DYCD · FY2017 $700,000
- Key to the City Key to the City · DYCD · FY2018 $700,000
- Key to the City Key to the City · DYCD · FY2019 $700,000
- Key to the City Key to the City · DYCD · FY2020 $700,000
- Key to the City Key to the City · DYCD · FY2022 $700,000
- Key to the City Key to the City · DYCD · FY2023 $700,000
- Key to the City Key to the City · DYCD · FY2024 $700,000
- Key to the City Key to the City · DYCD · FY2025 $700,000
- Welcome NYC (Formerly Key to the City and Welcome NYC) Welcome NYC (Formerly Key to the City and Welcome NYC) · DYCD · FY2026 $700,000
- Census 2020 Outreach Census 2020 Outreach · DYCD · FY2020 $500,000
- Language Services Worker Co-operatives Language Services Worker Co-operatives · DYCD · FY2023 $400,000
- The New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC) proposes to serve as the convener of the Immigrant Health Initiative and to partner with the New York City Council to maximize its impact on health disparities affecting immigrants in NYC. Working with the administering City agency to ensure proper implementation, the NYIC will: � maximize the capacity of participants to provide coordinated citywide services to immigrants; � convene participating organizations on a regular basis and support information sharing across the initiative; � provide or facilitate access to technical assistance; � facilitate involvement and coordination with Access Health NYC�s awardees; � monitor deliverables of participants and outcomes; � promote initiative engagement with NYC Council members; and � assess the overall impact of the initiative. Student Voter Registration Day · DYCD · FY2017 $376,000
- CUNY Citizenship NOW! Program CUNY Citizenship NOW! Program · DYCD · FY2027 $350,000
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.
- Shekar Krishnan FY2022-2027 · 6 awards $40,000
- Gale A. Brewer FY2025-2027 · 3 awards $15,000
- Dromm FY2020-2021 · 2 awards $10,000
- Darlene Mealy FY2024 · 1 award $10,000
- Lander FY2020-2021 · 2 awards $7,000
- Shahana K. Hanif FY2022-2023 · 2 awards $7,000
- Farah N. Louis FY2022 · 1 award $2,000
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.
- Murad Awawdeh Chief Executive Director $309,575
- Emily Patka Chief Operating Officer $148,792
- Heather Varian VP Of Development $142,034
- Suvasini Patel VP Of Comm. And Strategy $136,083
- Lovelie Tejada Chief Of Staff $118,697
- Theodore Moore VP Of Pol. & Prog. (Until 10/23) $111,119
Officer pay over time
Total officer pay changed +69% 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.
- FY2020 Steven Choi · 5.22% of revenue $185,260
- FY2021 Murad Awawdeh · 7.99% of revenue $238,851
- FY2022 Murad Awawdeh · 6.63% of revenue $282,229
- FY2023 Murad Awawdeh · 4.22% of revenue $309,575
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
- Carmen N. De La Rosa It lobbied them; it holds contracts at 1 agency in their committees' jurisdiction
- Lynn C. Schulman It lobbied them; it holds contracts at 1 agency in their committees' jurisdiction
- Rita C. Joseph It lobbied them; it holds contracts at 2 agencies in their committees' jurisdiction
- Shahana K. Hanif It lobbied them; it holds contracts at 1 agency in their committees' jurisdiction
- Tiffany L. Cabán It lobbied them; it holds contracts at 1 agency in their committees' jurisdiction
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
- Corporation for National and Community Service 94.013 AmeriCorps Volunteers In Service to America 94.013 · Corporation for National and Community Service · Grant $552,932
Congressional testimony
Congressional committee meetings where congress.gov lists a witness whose stated affiliation is exactly this organization's name, for the 118th and 119th Congresses, as of 2026-09-01. Name variations are not matched, so an appearance filed under a different spelling of this organization is missing
- "Protecting Our Preparedness: Assessing the Impact of the Border Crisis on Emergency Management" Homeland Security Subcommittee on Emergency Management and Technology 2023-12-05