NIA Community Services Network, Inc.
Lobbying client
NIA Community Services Network is a Brooklyn nonprofit founded in 1981 that runs free afterschool, summer and senior programs across more than 40 sites in New York City. Since 2024, the organization has filed 15 lobbying disclosures and paid Bender Cantone Consulting, Inc. about $205,000 to lobby 13 City Council members on budget funding for afterschool and senior programs. NIA currently holds active city contracts worth about $44.6 million.
- Council members lobbied
- 14
- Filings (since 2024)
- 15
- Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
- $220,000
- Industry (per city contracts)
- Human Services
- City contracts (active)
- $44,628,614 · 7 contracts
- Awarded all-time
- $195,121,548 · 132 since 2009, incl. expired
- Paid to date
- $159,183,156
- Won without a fresh bid
- 85% of contract value · $164,995,831 · 110 contracts
- Discretionary funding (FY2009-FY2027)
- $10,137,242 · 314 awards
- Funding history
- Funded every year since FY2013 (15 years running)
- Top officer pay (FY2023)
- $220,737 · Mary Anne Cino, CEO
Lobbied these council members
- Selvena N. Brooks-Powers Council Member, District 31 (Queens)
- Crystal Hudson Council Member, District 35 (Brooklyn)
- Alexa Avilés Council Member, District 38 (Brooklyn)
- Shahana K. Hanif Council Member, District 39 (Brooklyn)
- Rita C. Joseph Council Member, District 40 (Brooklyn)
- Darlene Mealy Council Member, District 41 (Brooklyn)
- Susan Zhuang Council Member, District 43 (Brooklyn)
- Simcha Felder Council Member, District 44 (Brooklyn)
- Mercedes Narcisse Council Member, District 46 (Brooklyn)
- Kayla Santosuosso Council Member, District 47 (Brooklyn)
- David M. Carr Council Member, District 50 (Staten Island/Brooklyn)
- Julie Menin Council Member, District 5 (Manhattan)
Represented by lobbyist firms
- Bender Cantone Consulting, Inc. Lobbyist firm
Holds contracts at
- Department of Education City agency
- Department of Youth and Community Development City agency
Funded by these agencies
- Department of Education City agency
- Department of Youth and Community Development City agency
Lobbied former members
Members who have since left their seat
- Justin Brannan
- Kalman Yeger
What they lobbied on
subjects from their filings
- Budget - Budget funding for afterschool and senior programs
- Budget - capital budget funding for afterschool and senior programs
- Budget - city council funding for afterschool and senior 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).
- COMPASS Program NAE Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020268800853 $19,916,245
- COMPASS Program NAE Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020268800342 $9,054,664
- COMPASS Program NAE FY26 Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020268800382 $6,230,299
- FY27 Beacon Program NAE Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020278800689 $5,344,346
- Cornerstone Program NAQ Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020258802027 $2,850,560
- Support services in community schools. Department of Education · CT104020259550540 $782,500
- Student Support Services Department of Education · MA104020259575990 $450,000
- COMPASS Program Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020248800618 · ended 2025 $17,151,501
- Beacon community activities at PS 179 Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020211405524 · ended 2024 $7,773,812
- COMPASS FY24 CONTINUATION Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020248800573 · ended 2025 $6,022,206
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.
- COMPASS Program NAE Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2026 · 8 payments $8,915,827
- COMPASS Program Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2025 · 18 payments $7,408,343
- COMPASS Program Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2024 · 17 payments $4,042,850
- COMPASS Negotiated Acquisition Extension Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2023 · 48 payments $3,507,505
- Beacon Program NAE Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2026 · 5 payments $3,169,172
- COMPASS Program NAE FY26 Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2026 · 4 payments $2,433,497
- CBOs to develop after school programs as part of ESAP Department of Education · FY2025 · 5 payments $2,248,365
- COMPASS Negotiated Acquisition Extension Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2022 · 27 payments $2,120,162
- COMPASS Program Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2026 · 3 payments $1,686,398
- COMPASS FY24 CONTINUATION Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2024 · 11 payments $1,604,180
- CBOs to develop after school programs as part of ESAP Department of Education · FY2023 $1,481,473
- COMPASS Middle School Program Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2023 · 17 payments $1,473,547
- COMPASS Program NAE Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2027 · 2 payments $1,407,741
- Beacon community activities at PS 179 Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2023 · 12 payments $1,339,336
- COMPASS FY24 CONTINUATION Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2025 · 3 payments $1,263,092
- COMPASS Middle School Program Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2022 · 15 payments $1,188,404
- Empire Grant - To develop or expand quality after-school pro Department of Education · FY2022 · 2 payments $1,095,122
- Beacon community activities at PS 179 Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2024 · 10 payments $1,060,802
- COMPASS FY24 CONTINUATION Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2026 · 2 payments $977,491
- Beacon Program NAE Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2025 · 3 payments $929,311
Discretionary funding received
City Council discretionary (member-item) awards, largest first. Covers FY2009-FY2027.
- Speaker's Initiative CM Speaker · Speaker's Initiative · DYCD · FY2026 $465,000
- Speaker's Initiative CM Speaker · Speaker's Initiative · DYCD · FY2025 $415,000
- P.S. 186 DR. IRVING A. GLADSTONE SCHOOL Out of School Time Restoration · DYCD · FY2014 $350,000
- P.S. 229 DYKER SCHOOL Out of School Time Restoration · DYCD · FY2014 $350,000
- Speaker's Initiative CM Speaker · Speaker's Initiative · DYCD · FY2027 $330,000
- Speaker's Initiative CM Speaker · Speaker's Initiative · DYCD · FY2024 $325,000
- Local CM Speaker · DYCD · FY2020 $225,000
- Local CM Speaker · DYCD · FY2022 $225,000
- Local CM Speaker · DYCD · FY2023 $225,000
- P.S. 52 - John C. Thompson Out of School Time Restoration · DYCD · FY2014 $150,000
- Local CM Speaker · DYCD · FY2021 $150,000
- Local DYCD · FY2014 $125,000
- Local DYCD · FY2015 $125,000
- Local DYCD · FY2016 $125,000
- Local DYCD · FY2017 $125,000
- Local DYCD · FY2018 $125,000
- COMPASS Slot Restoration COMPASS Slot Restoration · DYCD · FY2016 $100,800
- Local DYCD · FY2019 $100,000
- Aging Aging · DFTA · FY2015 $83,000
- Aging Aging · DFTA · FY2017 $83,000
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.
- Brannan FY2020-2026 · 56 awards $1,299,000
- Kalman Yeger FY2020-2025 · 29 awards $507,000
- Susan Zhuang FY2024-2027 · 23 awards $454,500
- Kagan FY2022-2023 · 14 awards $260,000
- Treyger FY2020-2021 · 12 awards $220,000
- Alexa Avilés FY2021-2027 · 12 awards $205,000
- Simcha Felder FY2026-2027 · 8 awards $160,000
- Kayla Santosuosso FY2027 · 7 awards $153,500
- Darlene Mealy FY2026-2027 · 5 awards $100,000
- David M. Carr FY2022-2027 · 5 awards $90,000
- Shahana K. Hanif FY2022-2027 · 9 awards $72,000
- D. Diaz FY2020-2021 · 2 awards $40,000
- Eugene FY2020-2021 · 2 awards $40,000
- Steven Matteo FY2020-2021 · 2 awards $40,000
- Sandy Nurse FY2022 · 1 award $20,000
- Rita C. Joseph FY2022 · 1 award $20,000
- Lander FY2020-2021 · 2 awards $17,000
- Menchaca FY2020 · 1 award $10,000
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.
- Mary Anne Cino CEO $220,737
- Annette Velez Executive Director $161,107
Officer pay over time
Total officer pay changed +14% 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 Mary Anne Cino · 2.93% of revenue $187,165
- FY2021 Mary Anne Cino · 1.85% of revenue $201,313
- FY2022 Mary Anne Cino · 1.75% of revenue $213,231
- FY2023 Mary Anne Cino · 1.72% of revenue $220,737
Where their influence converges
Outside interests connected to this official through more than one independent channel — drawn straight from the records the rest of the site already shows. “Lobbied them” = a lobbying filing that named the member. “Outside spending” = an independent-expenditure committee the interest funds spent in
- Julie Menin It lobbied them; it holds contracts at 1 agency in their committees' jurisdiction
- Mercedes Narcisse It lobbied them; it holds contracts at 1 agency in their committees' jurisdiction
- Rita C. Joseph It lobbied them; it holds contracts at 2 agencies in their committees' jurisdiction
- Shahana K. Hanif It lobbied them; it holds contracts at 1 agency in their committees' jurisdiction
- Simcha Felder It lobbied them; it holds contracts at 1 agency in their committees' jurisdiction
- Susan Zhuang It lobbied them; it holds contracts at 1 agency in their committees' jurisdiction