Queens Economic Development Corporation

Lobbying client

A Kew Gardens-based nonprofit founded in 1976 that supports small businesses and entrepreneurs across Queens, with programs aimed at low- and moderate-income, women, minority, and immigrant business owners. It filed 16 lobbying disclosures since 2024, lobbying all 51 council members through Driscoll Group, Inc. and Lemma Strategies Inc. on capital and discretionary budget funding for its programs, and has drawn $6.1 million in city contracts since 2013, though none are currently active.

Council members lobbied
51 (citywide)
Filings (since 2024)
16
Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
$138,000
Industry (per city contracts)
Human Services
City contracts
none active as of 2026-08-22 · $6,103,731 awarded since 2013
Paid to date
$5,761,521
Won without a fresh bid
96% of contract value · $5,859,192 · 48 contracts
Discretionary funding (FY2009-FY2027)
$6,015,198 · 241 awards
Funding history
Funded every year since FY2009 (19 years running)
Top officer pay (FY2024)
$200,000 · Seth Bornstein, Executive Director.
Based in
Kew Gardens, NY

Represented by lobbyist firms

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 +57% 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.

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.

Sources