St. Francis Friends of the Poor, Inc.

Lobbying client

St. Francis Friends of the Poor is a New York City nonprofit founded around 1980 by Franciscan friars who opened the city's first permanent supportive housing residence for homeless men and women with serious mental illness. It now runs residences in Manhattan with on-site psychiatric and medical care. The group filed 15 lobbying disclosures since 2024 covering all 51 City Council districts, retaining Pitta Bishop & Del Giorno to lobby on FY2026 and FY2027 city operating budget funding and human services funding, and it holds $61.2 million in active city contracts as of August 2026.

Council members lobbied
51 (citywide)
Filings (since 2024)
15
Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
$154,000
Industry (per city contracts)
Human Services
City contracts (active)
$61,193,132 · 2 contracts
Awarded all-time
$95,810,024 · 10 since 2009, incl. expired
Paid to date
$59,921,088
Won without a fresh bid
100% of contract value · $95,810,024 · 10 contracts
Discretionary funding (FY2009-FY2027)
$437,777 · 13 awards
Funding history
Funded 5 years (FY2022–FY2027), including each of the last 4
Top officer pay (FY2024)
$246,435 · Christina Byrne, Executive Director
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.

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