East River Development Alliance, Inc.

Lobbying client

East River Development Alliance is the founding legal name of Urban Upbound, a nonprofit founded in 2004 in Long Island City that provides employment, financial counseling, and economic-mobility services to residents of the Queensbridge, Ravenswood, Astoria, and Woodside public housing developments. It filed 6 disclosures in 2024, lobbying council member Adrienne Adams, then the Council Speaker, through Kasirer LLC on city budget funding. Our data ties it to $15.6 million in active city contracts as of August 2026.

Council members lobbied
1
Filings (since 2024)
6
Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
$52,000
Industry (per city contracts)
Human Services
City contracts (active)
$15,628,675 · 3 contracts
Awarded all-time
$88,757,418 · 110 since 2010, incl. expired
Paid to date
$58,603,826
Won without a fresh bid
70% of contract value · $62,551,207 · 90 contracts
Discretionary funding (FY2009-FY2027)
$10,799,284 · 263 awards
Funding history
Funded every year since FY2009 (19 years running)
Top officer pay (FY2023)
$211,728 · Mitchell Taylor, CEO
Based in
Long Island City, NY

Represented by lobbyist firms

Holds contracts at

Funded by these agencies

Lobbied former members

Members who have since left their seat

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 +67% 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.

Community project funding secured by (FY2024)

Members of New York's congressional delegation named as requestors of an enacted FY2024 community project for this organization, in the House Appropriations Committee's own final project tables. Each figure is the amount APPROPRIATED for that project, not money paid out to this organization to date.

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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