Giving Alternative Learners Uplifting Opportunities, Inc.
Lobbying client
Giving Alternative Learners Uplifting Opportunities, Inc., Lobbying client. Connections, filings, and records traced to the public record.
- Council members lobbied
- 15
- Filings (since 2024)
- 15
- Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
- $90,000
- Industry (per city contracts)
- Human Services
- City contracts (active)
- $77,244 · 1 contract
- Awarded all-time
- $2,668,862 · 41 since 2013, incl. expired
- Paid to date
- $1,917,478
- Won without a fresh bid
- 93% of contract value · $2,492,362 · 33 contracts
- Discretionary funding (FY2009-FY2027)
- $2,376,436 · 79 awards
- Funding history
- Funded every year since FY2014 (14 years running)
- Based in
- Brooklyn, NY
Lobbied these council members
- Amanda C. Farías Council Member, District 18 (Bronx)
- Linda Lee Council Member, District 23 (Queens)
- Shekar Krishnan Council Member, District 25 (Queens)
- Nantasha M. Williams Council Member, District 27 (Queens)
- Ty Hankerson Council Member, District 28 (Queens)
- Lynn C. Schulman Council Member, District 29 (Queens)
- Joann Ariola Council Member, District 32 (Queens)
- Crystal Hudson Council Member, District 35 (Brooklyn)
- Shahana K. Hanif Council Member, District 39 (Brooklyn)
- David M. Carr Council Member, District 50 (Staten Island/Brooklyn)
- Julie Menin Council Member, District 5 (Manhattan)
Represented by lobbyist firms
- CMW Strategies LLC Lobbyist firm
Holds contracts at
- Department of Health and Mental Hygiene City agency
- Department of Youth and Community Development City agency
Funded by these agencies
- Department for the Aging City agency
- Department of Education City agency
- Department of Health and Mental Hygiene City agency
- Department of Youth and Community Development City agency
Lobbied former members
Members who have since left their seat
- Adrienne Adams
- Erik Bottcher
- Kristy Marmorato
- Robert Holden
What they lobbied on
subjects from their filings
- Budget - 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).
- FY27 NAE for Recreation OPWDD Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · CT181620278800278 $77,244
- Autism Awareness services Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · CT181620248805949 · ended 2026 $468,435
- To support therapeutic riding lessons in Council District 39 Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020248809731 · ended 2026 $367,500
- FY23 RENEWAL Recreation and Socialization Services Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · CT181620238800378 · ended 2026 $191,235
- Funds for GallopNYC Therapeutic Riding Program for residents Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020228806777 · ended 2022 $130,000
- Funds for GallopNYC Therapeutic Riding Program for resid Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020228800953 · ended 2021 $130,000
- Services for Children wtih Autism Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · CT181620228801285 · ended 2021 $124,916
- Recreational and Socialization Services for Individuals with Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · CT181620200001474 · ended 2022 $120,780
- City Council / Autism Awareness Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · CT181620201420781 · ended 2020 $104,916
- To provide therapeutic riding for children with disabilities Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020238806865 · ended 2023 $98,000
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.
- Services for Children wtih Autism Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · FY2022 $124,916
- Autism Awareness services Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · FY2024 $93,687
- Autism Awareness services Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · FY2025 · 2 payments $93,687
- City Council / Autism Awareness Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · FY2021 $70,294
- Funds for GallopNYC Therapeutic Riding Program for residents Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2023 · 2 payments $66,500
- Autism Awareness services Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · FY2026 · 2 payments $62,458
- Funds for GallopNYC Therapeutic Riding Program for resid Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2022 · 2 payments $62,225
- To support events, feed and house veterans Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2021 · 2 payments $55,280
- Therapeutic horseback riding lesson for children with autism Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · FY2020 $49,966
- To support therapeutic riding lessons in Council District 39 Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2026 $37,094
- Variety of supportive programs for veterans & their families Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2020 $35,810
- FY19 5574 Recreation for children with Autism Disorders Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · FY2020 $30,975
- To support therapeutic riding lessons in Council District 39 Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2025 $29,768
- To provide therapeutic riding for children with disabilities Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2023 $27,540
- Recreational/Socialization Services -Autism Spectrum Disorde Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · FY2020 $26,647
- Funding will be used to pay and/or defray the costs of thera Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2022 $25,014
- NEGOTIATED SERVICES-SERVICES Department of Education · FY2025 $25,000
- 2GL - support therapies and services for older adults Department for the Aging · FY2026 $25,000
- NEGOTIATED SERVICES-SERVICES Department of Education · FY2026 $25,000
Discretionary funding received
City Council discretionary (member-item) awards, largest first. Covers FY2009-FY2027.
- Autism Awareness Autism Awareness · Dhmh · FY2021 $124,916
- Autism Awareness Autism Awareness · Dhmh · FY2022 $124,916
- Autism Awareness Autism Awareness · Dhmh · FY2023 $124,916
- Autism Awareness Autism Awareness · Dhmh · FY2024 $124,916
- Autism Awareness Autism Awareness · Dhmh · FY2025 $124,916
- Autism Awareness Autism Awareness · Dhmh · FY2026 $124,916
- Autism Awareness Autism Awareness · Dhmh · FY2027 $124,916
- Autism Awareness Autism Awareness · Dhmh · FY2020 $104,916
- Veterans Community Development Veterans Community Development · DYCD · FY2021 $85,000
- Veterans Community Development Veterans Community Development · DYCD · FY2022 $85,000
- Veterans Community Development Veterans Community Development · DYCD · FY2020 $70,000
- Veterans Community Development Veterans Community Development · DYCD · FY2023 $68,000
- Veterans Community Development Veterans Community Development · DYCD · FY2024 $68,000
- Veterans Community Development Veterans Community Development · DYCD · FY2025 $68,000
- Veterans Community Development Veterans Community Development · DYCD · FY2026 $68,000
- Veterans Community Development Veterans Community Development · DYCD · FY2027 $68,000
- Autism Awareness Autism Awareness · Dhmh · FY2019 $54,916
- Autism Awareness Autism Awareness · Dhmh · FY2019 $50,000
- Veterans Community Development Veterans Community Development · DYCD · FY2019 $50,000
- Local DYCD · FY2017 $25,000
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.
- Joann Ariola FY2022-2027 · 12 awards $140,000
- Gjonaj FY2020-2021 · 3 awards $30,000
- Shahana K. Hanif FY2022-2027 · 6 awards $30,000
- Ulrich FY2020-2021 · 3 awards $25,000
- Shirley Aldebol FY2026 · 1 award $20,000
- Brannan FY2020-2022 · 3 awards $15,000
- Lander FY2020-2021 · 2 awards $10,000
- Velazquez FY2022 · 1 award $10,000
- David M. Carr FY2026-2027 · 2 awards $10,000
- Keith Powers FY2020 · 1 award $5,000
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
- Joann Ariola It lobbied them; it holds contracts at 1 agency in their committees' jurisdiction
- Julie Menin It lobbied them; it holds contracts at 2 agencies in their committees' jurisdiction
- Linda Lee It lobbied them; it holds contracts at 2 agencies in their committees' jurisdiction
- Lynn C. Schulman It lobbied them; it holds contracts at 1 agency in their committees' jurisdiction
- Nantasha M. Williams It lobbied them; it holds contracts at 1 agency in their committees' jurisdiction
- Shahana K. Hanif It lobbied them; it holds contracts at 1 agency in their committees' jurisdiction
- Ty Hankerson It lobbied them; it holds contracts at 1 agency in their committees' jurisdiction