Samuel Field YM & YWHA, Inc.

Lobbying client

Samuel Field YM & YWHA, founded in 1954 in Little Neck, Queens as a Jewish community center, merged with the Central Queens Y in 2018 to form Commonpoint Queens. It now runs early childhood, afterschool, senior, and mental-health programs at sites across Queens and western Nassau County. The organization filed 6 lobbying disclosures in 2024, registering citywide and paying Lemma Strategies $60,000 to lobby on budget funding for its programs, and the city currently has about $11.41 million in active contracts as of August 2026 with it.

Council members lobbied
48 (citywide)
Filings (since 2024)
6
Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
$60,000
Industry (per city contracts)
Human Services
City contracts (active)
$11,414,036 · 6 contracts
Awarded all-time
$198,394,191 · 232 since 2007, incl. expired
Paid to date
$170,068,792
Won without a fresh bid
76% of contract value · $150,492,349 · 197 contracts
Discretionary funding (FY2009-FY2027)
$9,374,917 · 268 awards
Funding history
Funded 16 years (FY2009–FY2024); not in FY2027
Top officer pay (FY2023)
$563,146 · Danielle Ellman, President & Chief Executive. Officer
Based in
Flushing, NY

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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 (FY2023). 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 +46% 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.

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