Expanded Schools, Inc.

Lobbying client

ExpandED Schools is a New York City nonprofit that supports afterschool and expanded-learning-time programs in public schools, founded in 1998 as The After-School Corporation (TASC) before rebranding as its focus shifted toward integrating community partners into an extended school day. Since 2024 it has filed 30 lobbying disclosures, using Bolton-St. Johns to lobby 11 council members on public funding for its afterschool programs, including a citywide discretionary funding request, and it has held $87.6 million in city contracts since 2012, with $954,971 active as of August 2026.

Council members lobbied
11
Filings (since 2024)
30
Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
$74,763
Industry (per city contracts)
Human Services
City contracts (active)
$954,971 · 3 contracts
Awarded all-time
$87,581,138 · 72 since 2012, incl. expired
Paid to date
$80,855,493
Won without a fresh bid
92% of contract value · $80,773,711 · 47 contracts
Discretionary funding (FY2009-FY2027)
$61,645,525 · 27 awards
Funding history
Funded every year since FY2016 (12 years running)
Top officer pay (FY2024)
$325,011 · Saskia Traill, President & CEO

Lobbied these council members

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.

Officer & key-staff pay

Reportable compensation from this organization's IRS Form 990 (Part VII), latest available filing (FY2024). 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 +40% from FY2020 to FY2024. Top-officer reportable compensation by year (org-paid only), with each year's share of total revenue. Source: ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer 990 filings.

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

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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