The Liberty Fund, Inc.

Lobbying client

The Liberty Fund is New York City's first citywide charitable bail fund, launched by the City Council under Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito with George McDonald of The Doe Fund, paying bail for low-income defendants facing low-level charges who would otherwise sit in pretrial detention. It has filed 11 lobbying disclosures since 2024, registered citywide across all 51 council districts through The Elk Street Group, LLC, on city budget funding for post-incarceration programs and local legislation on bail laws. It has $5,748,588 in city contracts since 2015, none currently active as of August 2026.

Council members lobbied
51 (citywide)
Filings (since 2024)
11
Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
$36,000
Industry (per city contracts)
Human Services
City contracts
none active as of 2026-08-22 · $5,748,589 awarded since 2015
Paid to date
$5,407,052
Won without a fresh bid
100% of contract value · $5,748,589 · 8 contracts
Discretionary funding (FY2009-FY2027)
$6,216,188 · 11 awards
Funding history
Funded 11 years (FY2016–FY2027), including each of the last 6
Top officer pay (FY2023)
$363,638 · Anthony J Mangione, Cfao

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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.

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 +37% 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.

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