Pratt Area Community Council, Inc.
Lobbying client
Pratt Area Community Council, now also known as Impacct Brooklyn, is a Brooklyn nonprofit, tax-exempt since 1983, that provides housing services in Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, and Bedford-Stuyvesant, including affordable housing development, tenant organizing, and help for tenants facing eviction or bad conditions. It has filed 15 lobbying disclosures since 2024, registering citywide through lobbyists Bolton-St. Johns and Urban Strategies on real-property, construction and housing matters, and on resolutions backing its own affordable housing projects. The city currently has about $12.4 million in active contracts as of August 2026 with the organization.
- Council members lobbied
- 51 (citywide)
- Filings (since 2024)
- 15
- Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
- $150,000
- Industry (per city contracts)
- Human Services
- City contracts (active)
- $12,437,500 · 2 contracts
- Awarded all-time
- $15,294,726 · 59 since 2009, incl. expired
- Paid to date
- $3,566,159
- Won without a fresh bid
- 15% of contract value · $2,247,137 · 52 contracts
- Discretionary funding (FY2009-FY2027)
- $3,139,810 · 101 awards
- Funding history
- Funded every year since FY2009 (19 years running)
- Top officer pay (FY2023)
- $185,773 · Bernell Grier, Executive Director (Outgoing)
- Based in
- Brooklyn, NY
Represented by lobbyist firms
- Bolton-St. Johns, LLC Lobbyist firm
- Urban Strategies, LLC Lobbyist firm
Holds contracts at
- Department of Health and Mental Hygiene City agency
- Department of Social Services City agency
- Department of Youth and Community Development City agency
- Housing Preservation and Development City agency
Funded by these agencies
- Department of Health and Mental Hygiene City agency
- Department of Small Business Services City agency
- Department of Social Services City agency
- Housing Preservation and Development City agency
What they lobbied on
subjects from their filings
- Determination regarding real property - CONSTRUCTION/HOUSING
- Determination regarding real property - construction/housing
- Resolution - Assistance with their current affordable housing
- Resolution - Miscellaneous Business related to Pratt Area Community Council
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).
- 36 Single Adults Units at 778 Myrtle Ave, Brooklyn, NY Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · CT181620258800343 $11,812,500
- Prov. of Senior Affordable Housing Tenant Services Group12 Department of Social Services · CT106920248802884 $625,000
- Provision of Housing Related Services Housing Preservation and Development · CT180620228808328 · ended 2022 $246,750
- Support Services for Housing Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020160003031 · ended 2018 $229,097
- Provide housing related services Housing Preservation and Development · CT180620211407954 · ended 2020 $197,500
- Funding to support programming to protect Housing Preservation and Development · CT180620228806439 · ended 2021 $167,350
- Provide Housing Related Services Housing Preservation and Development · CT180620191425923 · ended 2019 $151,000
- for provision of preservation & organizational services Housing Preservation and Development · CT180620191418489 · ended 2020 $128,992
- TO PREVENT ANTI- ABANDONMENT Housing Preservation and Development · CT180620090036673 · ended 2011 $120,000
- TOPREVENT ANTI-ABANDONMENT Housing Preservation and Development · CT180620090036132 · ended 2011 $120,000
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.
- 36 Single Adults Units at 778 Myrtle Ave, Brooklyn, NY Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · FY2026 · 4 payments $521,844
- 36 Single Adults Units at 778 Myrtle Ave, Brooklyn, NY Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · FY2027 $315,000
- Provide housing related services Housing Preservation and Development · FY2022 · 2 payments $130,000
- Funding to support programming to protect Housing Preservation and Development · FY2026 $110,000
- Prov. of Senior Affordable Housing Tenant Services Group12 Department of Social Services · FY2027 $55,079
- Prov. of Senior Affordable Housing Tenant Services Group12 Department of Social Services · FY2026 $53,893
- Provide Housing Related Services Housing Preservation and Development · FY2020 $53,650
- PROVISION OF TENANT COUNSELING OUTREACH AND REFERRAL SERVICE Housing Preservation and Development · FY2020 $47,550
- Prov. of Senior Affordable Housing Tenant Services Group12 Department of Social Services · FY2025 $30,000
- NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT & BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT SERVICES Department of Small Business Services · FY2021 $25,763
Discretionary funding received
City Council discretionary (member-item) awards, largest first. Covers FY2009-FY2027.
- Stabilizing NYC Stabilizing NYC · HPD · FY2022 $177,750
- Stabilizing NYC Stabilizing NYC · HPD · FY2023 $175,950
- Stabilizing NYC Stabilizing NYC · HPD · FY2024 $160,000
- Stabilizing NYC Stabilizing NYC · HPD · FY2025 $160,000
- Stabilizing NYC Stabilizing NYC · HPD · FY2026 $160,000
- Stabilizing NYC Stabilizing NYC · HPD · FY2027 $160,000
- Stabilizing NYC Stabilizing NYC · HPD · FY2020 $130,000
- Stabilizing NYC Stabilizing NYC · HPD · FY2021 $110,500
- Stabilizing NYC Stabilizing NYC · HPD · FY2017 $101,000
- Stabilizing NYC Stabilizing NYC · HPD · FY2018 $101,000
- Stabilizing NYC Stabilizing NYC · HPD · FY2019 $90,000
- Community Housing Preservation Strategies Community Housing Preservation Strategies · HPD · FY2017 $61,000
- Community Housing Preservation Strategies Community Housing Preservation Strategies · HPD · FY2018 $61,000
- Community Housing Preservation Strategies Community Housing Preservation Strategies · HPD · FY2019 $61,000
- Community Housing Preservation Strategies Community Housing Preservation Strategies · HPD · FY2020 $61,000
- HPI Community Housing Preservation Strategies · HPD · FY2023 $61,000
- HPI Community Housing Preservation Strategies · HPD · FY2024 $61,000
- HPI Community Housing Preservation Strategies · HPD · FY2025 $61,000
- HPI Community Housing Preservation Strategies · HPD · FY2026 $61,000
- HPI Community Housing Preservation Strategies · HPD · FY2027 $61,000
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.
- Chi A. Ossé FY2022-2027 · 7 awards $64,000
- Farah N. Louis FY2020-2027 · 8 awards $62,000
- Crystal Hudson FY2022-2027 · 6 awards $47,000
- Rita C. Joseph FY2022-2026 · 5 awards $42,500
- Cornegy FY2020-2021 · 4 awards $30,000
- Lincoln Restler FY2023-2027 · 5 awards $25,000
- Cumbo FY2020-2021 · 2 awards $14,000
- Eugene FY2020-2021 · 2 awards $11,500
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.
- Bernell Grier Executive Director (Outgoing) $185,773
- Sammy Ahmed CFO $123,750
- Jamal Robinson Executive Director $63,901
Officer pay over time
Total officer pay changed +18% 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.
- FY2020 Bernell Grier · 5.76% of revenue $155,173
- FY2021 Bernell Grier · 10.77% of revenue $168,524
- FY2022 Bernell Grier · 9.91% of revenue $188,222
- FY2023 Bernell Grier · 8.13% of revenue $185,773