Volunteers of America-Greater New York, Inc.

Lobbying client

Volunteers of America-Greater New York is a human services nonprofit with a 125-year history affiliated with the national Volunteers of America organization, delivering shelter, transitional and permanent supportive housing, veterans services, and other programs to more than 12,000 adults and children annually through over 70 sites in New York City, northern New Jersey, and Westchester County. It holds about $595 million in active city contracts as of August 2026, and has filed 15 lobbying disclosures since 2024 through Kasirer LLC, lobbying 28 council members on budget funding requests and domestic violence legislation.

Council members lobbied
28 (citywide)
Filings (since 2024)
15
Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
$225,000
Industry (per city contracts)
Human Services
City contracts (active)
$594,761,932 · 31 contracts
Awarded all-time
$1,450,212,878 · 183 since 2006, incl. expired
Paid to date
$856,767,653
Won without a fresh bid
54% of contract value · $789,809,859 · 144 contracts
Discretionary funding (FY2009-FY2027)
$2,610,328 · 74 awards
Funding history
Funded 17 years (FY2009–FY2027), including each of the last 11
Based in
New York, 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.

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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