Legal Services NYC

Lobbying client

Legal Services NYC, founded in 1967 and described by Wikipedia as the nation's largest organization devoted exclusively to providing free civil legal services to the poor, operates 12 offices across all five boroughs with more than 700 staff and serves over 108,000 low-income New Yorkers annually in housing, immigration, family law, and other civil matters. It holds approximately $187 million in active city contracts as of August 2026 and filed 30 lobbying disclosures since 2024, through Hollis Public Affairs, Inc. and The Wright Group NY, Inc., seeking city budget funding for civil legal services.

Council members lobbied
51 (citywide)
Filings (since 2024)
30
Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
$428,851
Industry (per city contracts)
Human Services
City contracts (active)
$187,020,024 · 7 contracts
Awarded all-time
$601,621,914 · 126 since 2010, incl. expired
Paid to date
$471,213,549
Won without a fresh bid
57% of contract value · $343,999,290 · 109 contracts
Discretionary funding (FY2009-FY2027)
$46,596,982 · 145 awards
Funding history
Funded every year since FY2009 (19 years running)
Top officer pay (FY2024)
$341,900 · Klemm Gregory, Chief Financial Officer
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.

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 +153% 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.

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

Sources