DoorDash, Inc.
Lobbying client
A San Francisco-based food delivery company whose app connects restaurants with customers through a network of independent delivery workers, and one of the dominant platforms subject to New York City's delivery worker pay rules. With 85 disclosures since 2024 through Kline Public Strategies LLC, it is one of the more active clients in our records, lobbying 29 council members on legislation governing third-party delivery platform operations, delivery worker pay standards (including Int. 20-2024 and Int. 1332-2025), and e-bike regulations.
- Council members lobbied
- 29
- Filings (since 2024)
- 85
- Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
- $1,356,017
- Industry (per city contracts)
- Human Services
- City contracts
- none active as of 2026-08-22 · $1,152,000 awarded since 2020
- Paid to date
- $288,000
- Won without a fresh bid
- 100% of contract value · $1,152,000 · 1 contract
- Based in
- San Francisco, CA (out of state)
Lobbied these council members
- Kevin C. Riley Council Member, District 12 (Bronx)
- Oswald J. Feliz Council Member, District 15 (Bronx)
- Amanda C. Farías Council Member, District 18 (Bronx)
- Shanel Thomas-Henry Council Member, District 21 (Queens)
- Tiffany L. Cabán Council Member, District 22 (Queens)
- Linda Lee Council Member, District 23 (Queens)
- Shekar Krishnan Council Member, District 25 (Queens)
- Julie Won Council Member, District 26 (Queens)
- Nantasha M. Williams Council Member, District 27 (Queens)
- Ty Hankerson Council Member, District 28 (Queens)
- Harvey D. Epstein Council Member, District 2 (Manhattan)
- Selvena N. Brooks-Powers Council Member, District 31 (Queens)
- Lincoln Restler Council Member, District 33 (Brooklyn)
- Jennifer Gutiérrez Council Member, District 34 (Brooklyn)
- Sandy Nurse Council Member, District 37 (Brooklyn)
- Alexa Avilés Council Member, District 38 (Brooklyn)
- Chris Banks Council Member, District 42 (Brooklyn)
- Mercedes Narcisse Council Member, District 46 (Brooklyn)
- Kamillah Hanks Council Member, District 49 (Staten Island)
- Julie Menin Council Member, District 5 (Manhattan)
- Gale A. Brewer Council Member, District 6 (Manhattan)
- Shaun Abreu Council Member, District 7 (Manhattan)
- Elsie Encarnación Council Member, District 8 (Manhattan/Bronx)
Represented by lobbyist firms
- Actum CA Opco, LLC Lobbyist firm
- Actum II, LLC Lobbyist firm
- Cojo Strategies LLC Lobbyist firm
- DCI Group AZ, LLC Lobbyist firm
- DalyGonzalez LLC Lobbyist firm
- Empire Consulting Group, Inc. Lobbyist firm
- JMG Strategies Inc. Lobbyist firm
- Kline Public Strategies LLC Lobbyist firm
Holds contracts at
- Department for the Aging City agency
Related outside spender
- Local Economies Forward NY Independent spender
Funded by these agencies
- Department for the Aging City agency
Lobbied former members
Members who have since left their seat
- Adrienne Adams
- Diana Ayala
- Erik Bottcher
- Justin Brannan
- Keith Powers
- Rafael Salamanca Jr.
What they lobbied on
subjects from their filings
- Local Legislation (including introduction) - App Based Delivery Services
- Local Legislation (including introduction) - Commission Caps in Rulemaking; Local Legislation (including introduction) - Earning Standard with Rulemaking
- Local Legislation (including introduction) - Commission Caps with Rulemaking
- Local Legislation (including introduction) - Food Delivery Services
- Local Legislation (including introduction) - Int. 813-2022
- Local Legislation (including introduction) - Issues pertaining to food delivery service
- Local Legislation (including introduction) - Issues related to app based delivery services
- Local Legislation (including introduction) - Legislation related to online delivery services.
- Local Legislation (including introduction) - Matters affecting app based delivery services
- Local Legislation (including introduction) - Matters affecting app based delivery services in New York City
- Local Legislation (including introduction) - Matters/Issues affecting App-Based Delivery Services
- Local Legislation (including introduction) - Third party restaurant delivery and e-bike regulations including Introductions 672
- Local Legislation (including introduction) - advocating on pay parity for delivery workers
- Local Legislation (including introduction) - food delivery services
- Local Legislation (including introduction) - matters/issues affecting App Based Delivery Services
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).
- PLATFORM TO RECEIVE & ACCEPT REQUESTS TO DELIVER FOOD Department for the Aging · CT112520201421771 · ended 2020 $1,152,000
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.
- PLATFORM TO RECEIVE & ACCEPT REQUESTS TO DELIVER FOOD Department for the Aging · FY2020 $288,000
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
- Chris Banks It lobbied them; it holds contracts at 1 agency in their committees' jurisdiction
- Elsie Encarnación It lobbied them; its outside-spending arm spent in their race
- Gale A. Brewer It lobbied them; it holds contracts at 1 agency in their committees' jurisdiction
- Julie Menin It lobbied them; its outside-spending arm spent in their race
- Kevin C. Riley It lobbied them; its outside-spending arm spent in their race
- Linda Lee It lobbied them; it holds contracts at 1 agency in their committees' jurisdiction
- Ty Hankerson It lobbied them; its outside-spending arm spent in their race
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
- Small Business Administration 59.072 Economic Injury Disaster Loan Emergency Advance · Small Business Administration · Direct payment $5,000
- Small Business Administration 59.072 Economic Injury Disaster Loan Emergency Advance · Small Business Administration · Direct payment $0
Congressional testimony
Congressional committee meetings where congress.gov lists a witness whose stated affiliation is exactly this organization's name, for the 118th and 119th Congresses, as of 2026-09-01. Name variations are not matched, so an appearance filed under a different spelling of this organization is missing
- Field Hearing: The One, Big, Beautiful Bill Delivering for American Workers – Las Vegas, Nevada House Ways and Means 2025-07-25