Goodwill Industries of Greater New York and Northern New Jersey, Inc.

Lobbying client

Goodwill Industries of Greater New York and Northern New Jersey is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, tax-exempt since 1942, that funds job training and placement for people with disabilities and others facing barriers to employment through its retail stores and its GoodTemps staffing arm, which places workers in state and city government facilities and private businesses. In our records it filed 5 lobbying disclosures in 2025-2026 on city budget funding requests, using Kasirer LLC to lobby 11 council members, and it holds $103.2 million in active city contracts as of August 2026.

Council members lobbied
11
Filings (since 2024)
5
Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
$79,500
Industry (per city contracts)
Human Services
City contracts (active)
$103,174,331 · 9 contracts
Awarded all-time
$376,198,607 · 128 since 2007, incl. expired
Paid to date
$261,729,754
Won without a fresh bid
67% of contract value · $251,725,566 · 97 contracts
Discretionary funding (FY2009-FY2027)
$5,053,249 · 26 awards
Funding history
Funded 13 years (FY2009–FY2027), including each of the last 8
Top officer pay (FY2023)
$738,772 · Catharine L Gaul-Stigge, President & CEO
Based in
Astoria, NY

Lobbied these council members

Represented by lobbyist firms

Holds contracts at

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).

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 +61% 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.

Where their influence converges

Outside interests connected to this official through more than one independent channel — drawn straight from the records the rest of the site already shows. “Lobbied them” = a lobbying filing that named the member. “Outside spending” = an independent-expenditure committee the interest funds spent in

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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