The Door - A Center of Alternatives, Inc.

Lobbying client

The Door is a Manhattan-based youth development nonprofit founded in 1972 that provides free health care, mental health counseling, legal assistance, housing support, education and career services to roughly 11,000 New Yorkers ages 12 to 24 each year, operating from four city sites including a charter high school and two supportive housing facilities. It holds active New York City contracts worth about $54.7 million, and since 2024 has filed 14 citywide lobbying disclosures worth $87,000 through Bolton-St. Johns LLC, on subjects tied to city budget funding for its programs and special projects.

Council members lobbied
51 (citywide)
Filings (since 2024)
15
Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
$93,000
Industry (per city contracts)
Human Services
City contracts (active)
$54,657,137 · 12 contracts
Awarded all-time
$154,395,444 · 137 since 1994, incl. expired
Registered to start later
$624,998 · 1 contract
Paid to date
$109,031,031
Won without a fresh bid
72% of contract value · $111,284,813 · 109 contracts
Discretionary funding (FY2009-FY2027)
$17,473,976 · 101 awards
Funding history
Funded every year since FY2009 (19 years running)
Top officer pay (FY2024)
$522,510 · Kelsey Louie, Chief Executive Officer
Based in
New York, 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 (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 +22% 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.

Sources