Acacia Network, Inc.
Lobbying client
Acacia Network, founded in 1969 and headquartered in the Bronx, is one of New York City's largest human-services nonprofits and the largest Hispanic-led nonprofit in the state, serving more than 150,000 people a year through 100-plus affiliates in health, housing and social services, including dozens of NYC homeless shelters. It filed 15 disclosures since 2024, a citywide registration reaching all 51 council members through Mirram Group LLC seeking budget and program funding, with reported compensation of $364,000.
- Council members lobbied
- 51 (citywide)
- Filings (since 2024)
- 15
- Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
- $390,000
- Council connection
- Maria del Carmen Arroyo, Chief Administrative Officer (FY2021, per affiliate filing filing); former Council member
Represented by lobbyist firms
- Mirram Group LLC Lobbyist firm
What they lobbied on
subjects from their filings
- Budget - Budget Funding
- Budget - Budget Funding Support
- Budget - Funding for Programming
Council connections
Resigned the Council at the end of 2015 and joined Acacia Network, one of the city's largest shelter and health contractors, as Vice President for Administration in January 2016. She is now its Chief Administrative Officer and appears as an officer on affiliate 990s. Role and pay are from the
- Maria del Carmen Arroyo Former Council Member, District 17 (Bronx) · Chief Administrative Officer, since January 2016 $38,707 (FY2021, per affiliate filing)