The Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement

Lobbying client

The Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement is a settlement house founded in 1889 that provides social, educational, and health programs to roughly 4,000 people a year across five sites in western Queens. It has filed 15 disclosures since 2024, registered citywide across all 51 council districts through lobbyist Fontas Advisors, seeking city budget funding for its programs. Our data ties it to $52 million in active city contracts as of August 2026.

Council members lobbied
51 (citywide)
Filings (since 2024)
15
Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
$90,000
Industry (per city contracts)
Human Services
City contracts (active)
$51,913,318 · 17 contracts
Awarded all-time
$101,004,470 · 120 since 2012, incl. expired
Paid to date
$44,861,586
Won without a fresh bid
49% of contract value · $49,863,217 · 93 contracts
Discretionary funding (FY2009-FY2027)
$9,761,766 · 134 awards
Funding history
Funded every year since FY2013 (15 years running)
Top officer pay (FY2024)
$165,975 · Christopher Hanway, Executive Director
Based in
Long Island City, 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 (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 +14% 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.

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