Working Today, Inc.
Lobbying client
Working Today, 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)
- 15
- Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
- $150,000
- Industry (per city contracts)
- Human Services
- City contracts
- none active as of 2026-08-22 · $128,500 awarded since 2012
- Paid to date
- $103,150
- Won without a fresh bid
- 100% of contract value · $128,500 · 4 contracts
- Discretionary funding (FY2009-FY2027)
- $1,286,000 · 28 awards
- Funding history
- Funded 9 years (FY2009–FY2027), including each of the last 6
- Top officer pay (FY2024)
- $218,162 · Rafael Espinal, Executive. Director
- Council connection
- Rafael Espinal, Executive Director (FY2024 filing); former Council member
Represented by lobbyist firms
- Hollis Public Affairs, Inc. Lobbyist firm
Holds contracts at
- Department of Health and Mental Hygiene City agency
- Department of Youth and Community Development City agency
What they lobbied on
subjects from their filings
- Budget - securing 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).
- Innovative Health Programs Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · CT181620141423417 · ended 2013 $100,000
- Funding for Freelancers HUB's Legal and financial assistance Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020268804012 · ended 2023 $20,000
- Funds will be used for independent workers through program. Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020268804095 · ended 2023 $5,000
- Funding to support know your rights training. Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020191405851 · ended 2018 $3,500
Discretionary funding received
City Council discretionary (member-item) awards, largest first. Covers FY2009-FY2027.
- Speaker's Initiative CM Speaker · Speaker's Initiative · DYCD · FY2026 $300,000
- Local CM Speaker · DYCD · FY2024 $250,000
- Local CM Speaker · DYCD · FY2025 $250,000
- Speaker's Initiative CM Speaker · Speaker's Initiative · DYCD · FY2027 $250,000
- Local DOHMH · FY2013 $100,000
- Local Dsbs · FY2009 $30,000
- Local CM Powers · DYCD · FY2022 $5,000
- Boroughwide Needs Initiative CM Brooklyn Delegation · Boroughwide Needs Initiative · DYCD · FY2023 $5,000
- Local CM Menin · DYCD · FY2023 $5,000
- Freelancers HUB's Legal & Financial Assistance CM Bottcher · DYCD · FY2023 $5,000
- Freelancers HUB's Legal & Financial Assistance CM Hudson · DYCD · FY2023 $5,000
- Legal & Financial Assistance for Independent Workers CM Powers · DYCD · FY2023 $5,000
- Local CM Menin · DYCD · FY2024 $5,000
- Freelancers Hub CM Bottcher · DYCD · FY2024 $5,000
- Freelancers HUB's Legal & Financial Assistance CM Hudson · DYCD · FY2024 $5,000
- Legal & Financial Assistance for Independent Workers CM Powers · DYCD · FY2024 $5,000
- Freelancers Hub CM Bottcher · DYCD · FY2025 $5,000
- Freelancers HUB's Legal & Financial Assistance CM Hudson · DYCD · FY2025 $5,000
- Legal & Financial Assistance for Independent Workers CM Powers · DYCD · FY2025 $5,000
- Local CM Menin · DYCD · FY2025 $5,000
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.
- Keith Powers FY2022-2026 · 5 awards $25,000
- Julie Menin FY2023-2026 · 4 awards $20,000
- Erik Bottcher FY2023-2026 · 4 awards $20,000
- Crystal Hudson FY2023-2026 · 4 awards $20,000
- Virginia Maloney FY2027 · 1 award $5,000
- Carl Wilson FY2027 · 1 award $5,000
- Chi A. Ossé FY2024 · 1 award $2,500
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.
- Rafael Espinal Executive. Director $218,162
Officer pay over time
Total officer pay changed +2% 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 Rafael Espinal · 6.52% of revenue $18,864
- FY2021 Rafael Espinal · 10.52% of revenue $21,806
- FY2022 Rafael Espinal · 28.75% of revenue $20,240
- FY2023 Rafael Espinal · 25.12% of revenue $15,988
- FY2024 Rafael Espinal · 5.24% of revenue $24,152
Council connections
Resigned the Council in January 2020 to lead the Freelancers Union and its parent entity Working Today. Working Today, which had received almost no council discretionary money before his arrival, began receiving Speaker allocations of $800,000 starting in FY2024. He left in February 2026 to become
- Rafael Espinal Former Council Member, District 37 (Brooklyn) · Executive Director, March 2020 to February 2026 $24,152 (FY2024)