Simon Wiesenthal Center, Inc.

Lobbying client

An international Jewish human rights organization, headquartered in Los Angeles, whose New York office has operated for more than three decades on confronting antisemitism, defending Israel and preserving the history of the Holocaust through education and advocacy. It has filed 17 lobbying disclosures since 2024, registered citywide and lobbying all 51 council members through Pitta Bishop & Del Giorno LLC for city education-program funding, and has held $4.8 million in city contracts since 2020, though none are currently active as of August 2026.

Council members lobbied
51 (citywide)
Filings (since 2024)
17
Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
$173,362
Industry (per city contracts)
Human Services
City contracts
none active as of 2026-08-22 · $4,752,250 awarded since 2020
Paid to date
$2,224,598
Won without a fresh bid
100% of contract value · $4,752,250 · 8 contracts
Discretionary funding (FY2009-FY2027)
$5,124,000 · 125 awards
Funding history
Funded 11 years (FY2009–FY2027), including each of the last 7
Top officer pay (FY2023)
$1,259,875 · Mr Sheldon Rabinowitz, Interim CFO

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 (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 +34% 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.

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