Vera Institute of Justice, Inc.

Lobbying client

Vera Institute of Justice is a national criminal justice research and policy organization founded in New York City in 1961, now headquartered in Brooklyn, that works on issues like bail reform, incarceration and immigration detention. In New York City, Vera has filed 27 lobbying disclosures since 2024 and lobbied four City Council members, Adrienne Adams, Sandy Nurse, Shahana Hanif and Tiffany Caban, through Moonshot Strategies LLC, on city budget funding for its own programs and for justice initiatives and public safety, as well as on the Access to Representation Act and other criminal-justice-related local legislation.

Council members lobbied
4
Filings (since 2024)
27
Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
$123,968
Industry (per city contracts)
Professional Services
City contracts
none active as of 2026-08-22 · $16,397,978 awarded since 2009
Paid to date
$10,538,957
Won without a fresh bid
56% of contract value · $9,244,652 · 36 contracts
Discretionary funding (FY2009-FY2027)
$4,042,500 · 69 awards
Funding history
Funded 13 years (FY2010–FY2022); not in FY2027
Top officer pay (FY2023)
$673,326 · Nicholas R Turner, President And Director
Based in
New York, NY

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Lobbied former members

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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 (FY2023). 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 +26% from FY2020 to FY2023. 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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