Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, Inc.
Lobbying client
Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, Inc., Lobbying client. Connections, filings, and records on The Civic Stoop, every link traced to the public record.
- Council members lobbied
- 51 (citywide)
- Filings (since 2024)
- 4
- Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
- $48,000
- Industry (per city contracts)
- Human Services
- City contracts
- none active as of 2026-08-22 · $1,356,873 awarded since 2010
- Paid to date
- $658,780
- Won without a fresh bid
- 59% of contract value · $794,712 · 9 contracts
- Discretionary funding (FY2009-FY2027)
- $4,410,937 · 235 awards
- Funding history
- Funded every year since FY2009 (19 years running)
- Top officer pay (FY2024)
- $133,717 · Leonard Jacobs, Executive Director
Represented by lobbyist firms
- Hollis Public Affairs, Inc. Lobbyist firm
Holds contracts at
- Department of Education City agency
- Department of Emergency Management City agency
- Department of Probation City agency
What they lobbied on
subjects from their filings
- Budget - Program Funding
- Budget - securing funding for programs
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).
- Arts Education Service Department of Education · MA104020129270061 · ended 2015 $395,161
- PEAK Drop In Centers Queens Department of Probation · CT178120238804756 · ended 2024 $315,000
- Drop-in centers for juvenile probation clients Department of Probation · CT178120201424483 · ended 2020 $157,500
- PEAK Drop In Centers for juvenile clients (Queens) Department of Probation · CT178120228804843 · ended 2022 $126,000
- STSJP PEAK Drop In Centers Department of Probation · CT178120218801988 · ended 2021 $94,500
- Drop-in centers for juvenile probation clients Department of Probation · CT178120191427467 · ended 2019 $73,500
- Strengthening Communities Through Recovery COVID-19 Queens 1 Department of Emergency Management · CT101720211413345 · ended 2021 $40,000
- NEGOTIATED SERVICES-SERVICES Department of Education · CT104020223095714 · ended 2022 $25,000
- 3 BIDS-SERVICES Department of Education · CT104020173068030 · ended 2017 $25,000
- NEGOTIATED SERVICES-SERVICES Department of Education · CT104020173002816 · ended 2017 $25,000
Discretionary funding received
City Council discretionary (member-item) awards, largest first. Covers FY2009-FY2027.
- Speaker's Initiative CM Speaker · Speaker's Initiative · DCLA · FY2023 $100,000
- Speaker's Initiative CM Speaker · Speaker's Initiative · DCLA · FY2024 $100,000
- Speaker's Initiative CM Speaker · Speaker's Initiative · DCLA · FY2025 $100,000
- Speaker's Initiative CM Speaker · Speaker's Initiative · DCLA · FY2026 $100,000
- Local CM Speaker · DCLA · FY2027 $75,000
- Speaker's Initiative Speaker's Initiative · DCLA · FY2019 $50,000
- Speaker's Initiative Speaker's Initiative · DCLA · FY2020 $50,000
- Speaker's Initiative Speaker's Initiative · DCLA · FY2021 $50,000
- Speaker's Initiative Speaker's Initiative · DCLA · FY2022 $50,000
- Council District 27 Murals CM Speaker · DCLA · FY2027 $50,000
- Queens International Children's Festival & Downtown Jazz Festival CM Queens Delegation · Boroughwide Needs Initiative · DCLA · FY2021 $45,000
- Council District 27 CM Williams · Cultural Immigrant Initiative · DCLA · FY2024 $35,000
- Council District 27 CM Williams · Cultural Immigrant Initiative · DCLA · FY2025 $35,000
- Council District 27 CM Williams · Cultural Immigrant Initiative · DCLA · FY2026 $35,000
- Council District 27 CM Williams · Cultural Immigrant Initiative · DCLA · FY2027 $35,000
- Cultural Immigrant Initiative Cultural Immigrant Initiative · DCLA · FY2019 $30,000
- Co-work space DCLA · FY2019 $25,000
- Workshops and Arts Programs Boro · DCLA · FY2019 $25,000
- Queens International Children's Festival CM Queens Delegation · Boroughwide Needs Initiative · DCLA · FY2020 $25,000
- Local CM Miller · DCLA · FY2020 $25,000
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.
- Nantasha M. Williams FY2022-2027 · 38 awards $707,500
- James F. Gennaro FY2021-2027 · 19 awards $366,250
- Adams FY2020-2026 · 25 awards $304,000
- Linda Lee FY2022-2027 · 16 awards $272,500
- Selvena N. Brooks-Powers FY2021-2027 · 15 awards $236,250
- Miller FY2020 · 9 awards $166,000
- Julie Won FY2022-2026 · 5 awards $76,250
- Sandra Ung FY2022-2026 · 5 awards $76,250
- Lancman FY2020 · 4 awards $75,000
- Grodenchik FY2020-2021 · 3 awards $55,000
- Donovan Richards FY2020 · 3 awards $45,000
- Ulrich FY2020 · 2 awards $30,000
- Koo FY2020 · 1 award $15,000
- Lynn C. Schulman FY2026 · 1 award $15,000
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.
- Leonard Jacobs Executive Director $133,717
- Courtney Ffrench Artistic Director $106,368
Officer pay over time
Total officer pay changed +200% 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.
- FY2020 Leonard Jacobs · 4.46% of revenue $80,000
- FY2021 Leonard Jacobs · 3.13% of revenue $80,083
- FY2022 Leonard Jacobs · 2.73% of revenue $96,972
- FY2023 Leonard Jacobs · 5.13% of revenue $130,247
- FY2024 Leonard Jacobs · 7.73% of revenue $133,717
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
- National Endowment for the Arts 45.024 Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals · National Endowment for the Arts · Grant $25,000
- National Endowment for the Arts 45.024 Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals · National Endowment for the Arts · Grant $20,000