Outstanding Renewal Enterprises, Inc.

Lobbying client

Outstanding Renewal Enterprises is the legal name of the Lower East Side Ecology Center, a Manhattan environmental nonprofit founded in 1987 that has run a composting yard inside East River Park since 1998, processing food scraps from more than 3,500 households a week. The city's East Side Coastal Resiliency flood-protection project, which closed most of the park for construction starting in 2020, forced the group to relocate its compost operations to a temporary Brooklyn site while it waits to return. It has filed 15 disclosures since 2024, lobbying all 51 council members through Constantinople & Vallone Consulting on environmental budget issues and finding a replacement site, and holds about $7.4 million in active city contracts as of August 2026.

Council members lobbied
51 (citywide)
Filings (since 2024)
15
Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
$105,000
Industry (per city contracts)
Goods
City contracts (active)
$7,411,250 · 2 contracts
Awarded all-time
$18,853,223 · 14 since 2015, incl. expired
Paid to date
$9,450,128
Won without a fresh bid
90% of contract value · $16,883,223 · 13 contracts
Discretionary funding (FY2009-FY2027)
$6,653,392 · 259 awards
Funding history
Funded every year since FY2009 (19 years running)
Top officer pay (FY2024)
$135,000 · Christine Datz- Romero, Executive Director

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 +42% 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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