Hot Bread Kitchen, Ltd.

Lobbying client

Hot Bread Kitchen is a New York nonprofit founded in 2008 that trains people, mostly women and immigrants, for careers in the food industry through free culinary job programs and a food-business incubator, historically based at La Marqueta, the city-owned East Harlem market it helped revive through a City Council and NYC Economic Development Corporation partnership around 2009. It has filed 15 lobbying disclosures since 2024, worth $210,000 in compensation through Kasirer LLC, registered citywide and reaching 32 council members on city budget funding. The nonprofit has held $550,500 in city contracts since 2010, though none are currently active.

Council members lobbied
32 (citywide)
Filings (since 2024)
15
Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
$210,000
Industry (per city contracts)
Human Services
City contracts
none active as of 2026-08-22 · $550,500 awarded since 2010
Paid to date
$548,000
Won without a fresh bid
100% of contract value · $550,500 · 7 contracts
Discretionary funding (FY2009-FY2027)
$633,000 · 16 awards
Funding history
Funded 10 years (FY2011–FY2027), including each of the last 5
Top officer pay (FY2024)
$252,637 · Leslie Abbey, Chief Executive Officer

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 +5% 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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