The Trust for Public Land
Lobbying client
A national land conservation nonprofit, founded in 1972 in San Francisco, that has run New York City's Community Schoolyards program since 1996, converting asphalt schoolyards into public playgrounds open outside school hours. It has filed 21 lobbying disclosures since 2024, registering citywide through Pitta Bishop & Del Giorno and The Wright Group NY on capital funding for school playground facilities, and it holds $10.7 million in NYC contracts since 2012, none currently active.
- Council members lobbied
- 51 (citywide)
- Filings (since 2024)
- 21
- Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
- $153,000
- Industry (per city contracts)
- Standardized Services
- City contracts
- none active as of 2026-08-22 · $10,660,000 awarded since 2012
- Paid to date
- $10,660,000
- Won without a fresh bid
- 90% of contract value · $9,620,000 · 1 contract
Represented by lobbyist firms
- Pitta Bishop & Del Giorno LLC Lobbyist firm
- The Wright Group NY, Inc Lobbyist firm
Holds contracts at
- Borough President - Queens City agency
- Department of Parks and Recreation City agency
Funded by these agencies
- Department of Parks and Recreation City agency
What they lobbied on
subjects from their filings
- Budget - Capital funding for educational facilities.
- Budget - Funding for Educational Facilities.
- Budget - New York City Fiscal Year 2027 Capital Budget - Funding for school playground facilities
- Budget - securing funding
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).
- Pouch Camp Conservation Easement Department of Parks and Recreation · CT184620258807210 · ended 2026 $9,620,000
- TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND - EASEMENT Department of Parks and Recreation · CT184620131417437 · ended 2015 $1,000,000
- GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT Borough President - Queens · CT101320201429768 · ended 2020 $20,000
- GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT Borough President - Queens · CT101320191428362 · ended 2019 $20,000
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.
- Pouch Camp Conservation Easement Department of Parks and Recreation · FY2026 $8,800,000
Community project funding secured by (FY2024)
Members of New York's congressional delegation named as requestors of an enacted FY2024 community project for this organization, in the House Appropriations Committee's own final project tables. Each figure is the amount APPROPRIATED for that project, not money paid out to this organization to date.
- Kirsten E. Gillibrand For the Planning and Design of the Long Island Greenway · NY · Transportation, Housing and Urban Development $3,950,000
- Charles E. Schumer For the Planning and Design of the Long Island Greenway · NY · Transportation, Housing and Urban Development $3,950,000
Congressional testimony
Congressional committee meetings where congress.gov lists a witness whose stated affiliation is exactly this organization's name, for the 118th and 119th Congresses, as of 2026-09-01. Name variations are not matched, so an appearance filed under a different spelling of this organization is missing