Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church of Long Island City
Lobbying client
Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church is a small Lutheran congregation located at 3120 21st Avenue in Astoria, Queens, that files its city lobbying registration under the name Long Island City. Its 15 lobbying disclosures since 2024, filed through Hirschen Singer & Epstein and lobbying two council members, use broad, boilerplate subject lines covering real-property and government-relations matters, without a specific project named in the public filings.
- Council members lobbied
- 2
- Filings (since 2024)
- 15
- Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
- $100,705
- Industry (per city contracts)
- Human Services
- City contracts
- none active as of 2026-08-22 · $5,467,280 awarded since 2017
- Paid to date
- $5,007,075
- Won without a fresh bid
- 25% of contract value · $1,353,815 · 1 contract
Lobbied these council members
- Christopher Marte Council Member, District 1 (Manhattan)
- Tiffany L. Cabán Council Member, District 22 (Queens)
Represented by lobbyist firms
- Hirschen Singer & Epstein LLP Lobbyist firm
Holds contracts at
- Department of Education City agency
Funded by these agencies
- Department of Education City agency
What they lobbied on
subjects from their filings
- Determination of Board or Commission - ALL ACTIVITIES RELATING TO NYC AND NYS LEGISLATIVE AND EXECUTIVE BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT AND ALL MUNICIPALITIES THEREOF
- Determination of Board or Commission - ALL ACTIVITIES RELATING TO NYC AND NYS LEGISLATIVE AND EXECUTIVE BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT AND ALL MUNIPALITIES THEREOF
- Determination regarding real property - ALL ACTIVITIES RELATING TO NYC AND NYS LEGISLATIVE AND EXECUTIVE BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT AND ALL MUNICIPALITIES THEREOF
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).
- UPK-BTF Department of Education · CT104020229250760 · ended 2026 $4,113,465
- UPK - Universal Prekindergarten Services Department of Education · CT104020189853096 · ended 2021 $1,353,815
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.
- UPK-BTF Department of Education · FY2023 · 8 payments $596,413
- Birth to Five Services Department of Education · FY2022 · 4 payments $468,090
- UPK-BTF Department of Education · FY2026 · 4 payments $318,059
- UPK - Universal Prekindergarten Services Department of Education · FY2021 · 7 payments $271,661
- UPK-BTF Department of Education · FY2025 · 4 payments $222,001
- UPK - Universal Prekindergarten Services Department of Education · FY2020 · 5 payments $194,328
- UPK-BTF Department of Education · FY2024 $86,938
- UPK-BTF Department of Education · FY2022 $30,251