South Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation

Lobbying client

SoBRO (South Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation) is a nonprofit community development corporation founded in 1972 that works to improve the South Bronx through small-business and workforce assistance, education and youth programs, and affordable housing and commercial real estate development. It has filed 3 lobbying disclosures in 2024 worth $15,000 through Bolton-St. Johns, LLC, lobbying 47 council members to build relationships with the City Council and city agencies, and holds about $90.2 million in NYC contracts since 2007, none currently active.

Council members lobbied
47 (citywide)
Filings (since 2024)
3
Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
$15,000
Industry (per city contracts)
Human Services
City contracts
none active as of 2026-08-22 · $90,157,814 awarded since 2007
Paid to date
$73,946,241
Won without a fresh bid
67% of contract value · $60,278,271 · 139 contracts
Discretionary funding (FY2009-FY2027)
$6,821,969 · 83 awards
Funding history
Funded 16 years (FY2009–FY2024); not in FY2027
Top officer pay (FY2022)
$283,801 · Lourdes Zapata, President & CEO
HPD housing capital financed
$1,528,394 · via 990 Schedule R
Based in
Bronx, NY

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 (FY2022). 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 +16% from FY2020 to FY2022. Top-officer reportable compensation by year (org-paid only), with each year's share of total revenue. Source: ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer 990 filings.

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

Sources