Community League of The Heights Inc.
Lobbying client
Community League of The Heights (CLOTH) is a Washington Heights nonprofit founded in 1952 that provides affordable housing, a food pantry, workforce development and other community services in Washington Heights, Hamilton Heights and Inwood. It filed 4 disclosures since 2024, registered citywide, lobbying all 51 council members through Hollis Public Affairs and The Wright Group NY on fiscal year 2025 city funding. It has $13.3 million in city contracts since 2007, with $1.34 million active as of August 2026.
- Council members lobbied
- 51 (citywide)
- Filings (since 2024)
- 4
- Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
- $33,000
- Industry (per city contracts)
- Human Services
- City contracts (active)
- $1,343,621 · 2 contracts
- Awarded all-time
- $13,300,296 · 66 since 2007, incl. expired
- Paid to date
- $8,151,945
- Won without a fresh bid
- 68% of contract value · $9,058,734 · 56 contracts
- Discretionary funding (FY2009-FY2027)
- $3,953,247 · 122 awards
- Funding history
- Funded every year since FY2009 (19 years running)
- Top officer pay (FY2024)
- $166,164 · Yvonne Stennett, Executive. Direct
- HPD housing capital financed
- $12,081,294 · 2 projects · via HPD Local Law 44
- Based in
- New York, NY
Represented by lobbyist firms
- Hollis Public Affairs, Inc. Lobbyist firm
- The Wright Group NY, Inc Lobbyist firm
Holds contracts at
- Department of Education City agency
- Department of Youth and Community Development City agency
Funded by these agencies
- Department of Small Business Services City agency
- Department of Youth and Community Development City agency
- Housing Preservation and Development City agency
What they lobbied on
subjects from their filings
- Budget - FY2025 Funding
- Budget - securing funding for programs
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).
- COMPASS Program NAE Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020268800265 $946,691
- Summer Youth Employment Program NAQ Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020268806570 $396,930
- STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICES Department of Education · MA104020099975692 · ended 2012 $2,130,000
- OST Middle School Expansion Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020151403514 · ended 2018 $1,182,600
- Funds for after-school and community programming. Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020268804729 · ended 2026 $1,014,375
- COMPASS middle school svcs at Comm. Hlth Academy of the Hts. Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020190000662 · ended 2021 $891,300
- COMPASS programming at Community Health Academy of the Hts. Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020228801491 · ended 2023 $879,015
- COMPASS Program Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020248800590 · ended 2025 $834,573
- SYEP School - Based Renewal Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020228805827 · ended 2026 $597,281
- To fund School Based SYEP for Younger and Older Youth Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020200002719 · ended 2022 $407,540
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.
- COMPASS Program Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2025 · 2 payments $301,154
- Funds for after-school and community programming. Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2026 · 3 payments $292,784
- Funding to support youth & community programs in CDs 7 & 10 Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2025 · 2 payments $268,545
- COMPASS Program NAE Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2026 $238,840
- To support after-school & community clean-up programs Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2021 · 2 payments $233,240
- COMPASS Program Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2024 · 4 payments $202,028
- This funding supports an after-school program at PS4M Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2023 · 2 payments $157,470
- Funding for programming and operational expenses Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2025 $144,868
- COMPASS programming at Community Health Academy of the Hts. Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2024 · 5 payments $142,353
- COMPASS programming at Community Health Academy of the Hts. Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2023 · 3 payments $126,397
- COMPASS middle school svcs at Comm. Hlth Academy of the Hts. Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2020 · 3 payments $105,784
- Funding for programming and operational expenses Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2024 $82,302
- To fund School Based SYEP for Younger and Older Youth Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2020 $72,000
- COMPASS middle school svcs at Comm. Hlth Academy of the Hts. Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2021 · 2 payments $70,926
- COMPASS programming at Community Health Academy of the Hts. Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2022 $68,250
- COMPASS middle school svcs at Comm. Hlth Academy of the Hts. Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2022 · 2 payments $64,173
- Summer Youth Employment Program NAQ Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2027 $59,641
- COMPASS Program Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2026 $51,898
- SYEP School - Based Renewal Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2026 $44,932
- CDBG - AVENUIE NYC GRANT FOR FY19 Department of Small Business Services · FY2021 $40,006
Discretionary funding received
City Council discretionary (member-item) awards, largest first. Covers FY2009-FY2027.
- NYC Cleanup NYC Cleanup · DYCD · FY2019 $150,000
- NYC Cleanup NYC Cleanup · DYCD · FY2017 $122,941
- Local DYCD · FY2015 $100,000
- Local DYCD · FY2016 $100,000
- Local DYCD · FY2017 $100,000
- CLOTH District 10 Clean Up NYC Cleanup · DYCD · FY2018 $100,000
- Local DYCD · FY2019 $100,000
- Local CM Speaker · DYCD · FY2020 $100,000
- Technology and Workforce Center Speaker's Initiative · DYCD · FY2022 $100,000
- Local CM Speaker · DYCD · FY2023 $100,000
- Technology and Workforce Center CM Speaker · Speaker's Initiative · DYCD · FY2023 $100,000
- Local CM Speaker · DYCD · FY2024 $100,000
- Technology and Workforce Center CM Speaker · DYCD · FY2024 $100,000
- Local CM Speaker · DYCD · FY2025 $100,000
- Technology and Workforce Center CM Speaker · Speaker's Initiative · DYCD · FY2025 $100,000
- P.S. 4M After-School Program CM Speaker · Speaker's Initiative · DYCD · FY2026 $100,000
- Technology and Workforce Center CM Speaker · Speaker's Initiative · DYCD · FY2026 $100,000
- P.S. 4M After-School Program CM Speaker · DYCD · FY2027 $100,000
- Technology and Workforce Center CM Speaker · DYCD · FY2027 $100,000
- NYC Cleanup CM Rodriguez · NYC Cleanup · DYCD · FY2020 $75,000
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.
- Carmen N. De La Rosa FY2022-2027 · 13 awards $310,000
- Rodriguez FY2020-2021 · 6 awards $150,000
- Shaun Abreu FY2022-2027 · 6 awards $55,000
- Levine FY2020-2021 · 2 awards $15,000
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.
- Yvonne Stennett Executive. Direct $166,164
Officer pay over time
Total officer pay changed +24% 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.
- FY2020 Yvonne Stennett · 4.24% of revenue $133,766
- FY2021 Yvonne Stennett · 3.93% of revenue $140,826
- FY2022 Yvonne Stennett · 3.96% of revenue $137,104
- FY2023 Yvonne Stennett · 4.29% of revenue $133,132
- FY2024 Yvonne Stennett · 3.15% of revenue $166,164
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
- Department of Housing and Urban Development 14.251 Economic Development Initiative, Community Project Funding, and Miscellaneous grants · Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development · Grant $740,000