New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project, Inc.

Lobbying client

AVP, whose IRS filings also list it under its original name, the New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project, has run a hotline and provided counseling, legal help and advocacy for LGBTQ and HIV-affected survivors of violence since 1980. In city lobbying records the nonprofit has filed 15 disclosures since 2024, registered citywide and reporting contact with 51 council members, paying $45,000 to lobbyists Hollis Public Affairs, Inc. and The Wright Group NY, Inc. Its filings describe the subject as securing city budget funding for its programs, without naming specific bills.

Council members lobbied
51 (citywide)
Filings (since 2024)
15
Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
$45,000
Industry (per city contracts)
Human Services
City contracts
none active as of 2026-08-22 · $8,363,102 awarded since 2015
Paid to date
$7,393,719
Won without a fresh bid
83% of contract value · $6,977,348 · 24 contracts
Discretionary funding (FY2009-FY2027)
$7,558,992 · 176 awards
Funding history
Funded every year since FY2009 (19 years running)
Top officer pay (FY2023)
$217,509 · Beverly Tillery, Executive Di
Based in
New York, NY

Represented by lobbyist firms

Holds contracts at

Funded by these agencies

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 +38% 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.

Federal awards

Federal awards made directly to this organization in fiscal years 2023 through 2026. Each amount is what the federal government has OBLIGATED on that award as recorded on USAspending.gov as of 2026-08-31 — money committed, not money paid out. These are prime awards only: federal money this

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