Rethink Food NYC, Inc.

Lobbying client

A chef-led nonprofit founded in 2017 by Matt Jozwiak that rescues surplus food from New York City restaurants and turns it into meals distributed to food-insecure residents through community-based organizations. In our records it has filed 15 lobbying reports since 2024, registered citywide, reaching 51 city officials through lobbyist Kasirer LLC on subjects tied to city budget funding.

Council members lobbied
51 (citywide)
Filings (since 2024)
15
Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
$377,000
Industry (per city contracts)
Goods
City contracts
none active as of 2026-08-22 · $1,720,750 awarded since 2020
Paid to date
$1,646,038
Won without a fresh bid
100% of contract value · $1,720,750 · 5 contracts
Discretionary funding (FY2009-FY2027)
$258,750 · 19 awards
Funding history
Funded 4 years (FY2021–FY2025); not in FY2027
Top officer pay (FY2024)
$237,812 · Matthew Jozwiak, Founder, CEO

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 +228% 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.

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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