HeartShare St. Vincent's Services
Lobbying client
A Brooklyn-based nonprofit formed in 2014 through the affiliation of HeartShare Human Services of New York and St. Vincent's Services, combining more than a century of child-welfare work into one of New York City's largest children's services providers, offering foster care, adoption, youth programs, and mental health and HIV/AIDS residential services. It registered citywide with 30 lobbying filings since 2024, engaging all 51 council members through Patrick B. Jenkins & Associates and Pitta Bishop & Del Giorno on funding for its human service, mental health, and social service programs in the city's operating budget.
- Council members lobbied
- 51 (citywide)
- Filings (since 2024)
- 30
- Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
- $259,500
- Discretionary funding (FY2009-FY2027)
- $5,000 · 1 awards
- Top officer pay (FY2023)
- $500,016 · Dawn W Valentine-Saffayeh, Executive Director/President & CEO
Represented by lobbyist firms
- Patrick B. Jenkins & Associates Lobbyist firm
- Pitta Bishop & Del Giorno LLC Lobbyist firm
What they lobbied on
subjects from their filings
- Budget - Human Service Program Funding.
- Budget - NYC Fiscal Year 2026 Operating Budget -- program funding.
- Budget - New York City Fiscal Year 2027 Operating Budget -- Program Funding
- Budget - Seeking funding for health and mental hygiene programs.
- Budget - Seeking funding for services
- Budget - Seeking funding for social services
Discretionary funding received
City Council discretionary (member-item) awards, largest first. Covers FY2009-FY2027.
- Youth Youth · DYCD · FY2016 $5,000
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.
- Dawn W Valentine-Saffayeh Executive Director/President & CEO $500,016
- Justin Nardilla CFO $417,436
- Denise C Woodall-Ruff Medical Director $314,206
- Brooke Rosenthal Chief Program Officer $269,750
- Shanna Gonzalez Senior Vice President $197,937
- Sophia Shaw SVP, Residential Srvcs&Housing $195,137
Officer pay over time
Total officer pay changed +31% 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 Dawn W Valentine-Saffayeh · 1.94% of revenue $268,785
- FY2021 Dawn W Valentine-Saffayeh · 2.09% of revenue $331,137
- FY2022 Dawn W Valentine-Saffayeh · 2.15% of revenue $363,253
- FY2023 Denise C Woodall-Ruff · 2.08% of revenue $314,206