The Campaign Against Hunger, Inc.

Lobbying client

The Campaign Against Hunger is a Brooklyn-based anti-hunger nonprofit that runs food pantries, urban farms, and benefits-access programs across New York City, distributing tens of millions of meals a year. It has filed 15 city lobbying disclosures and lobbied 51 city officials through Hollis Public Affairs, Inc., with the filings listing budget and program-funding advocacy as the subject. Its reported compensation for that lobbying is listed as zero, and the group has held active city contracts totaling $441,661 as of August 2026, part of $11.7 million in city contracts since 2015.

Council members lobbied
51 (citywide)
Filings (since 2024)
15
Industry (per city contracts)
Human Services
City contracts (active)
$441,661 · 1 contract
Awarded all-time
$11,727,606 · 46 since 2015, incl. expired
Paid to date
$11,299,592
Won without a fresh bid
98% of contract value · $11,466,218 · 41 contracts
Discretionary funding (FY2009-FY2027)
$8,203,987 · 152 awards
Funding history
Funded every year since FY2019 (9 years running)
Top officer pay (FY2023)
$328,576 · DR Melony Samuels, CEO/Founder

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 (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 +64% 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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