The New York City Center for Charter School Excellence
Lobbying client
Filed with the city as the New York City Center for Charter School Excellence, this is the same nonprofit (EIN 20-0759687) that now goes by the NYC Charter School Center, a citywide support and advocacy group for NYC charter schools that helps new schools launch and lobbies for charter-friendly funding and policy. Since 2024 it has filed 28 lobbying reports and reported $183,139 in compensation, using Cozen O'Connor Public Strategies, Davidoff Hutcher & Citron, and Tusk Strategies to lobby seven council members, including Justin Brannan, Rafael Salamanca Jr. and Rita Joseph, on charter school funding in the city budget and on local legislation affecting charter schools. It has held $50,000 in city contracts since 2020, none currently active.
- Council members lobbied
- 7
- Filings (since 2024)
- 28
- Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
- $183,139
- City contracts
- none active as of 2026-08-22 · $50,000 awarded since 2020
- Paid to date
- $23,900
Lobbied these council members
- Eric Dinowitz Council Member, District 11 (Bronx)
- Oswald J. Feliz Council Member, District 15 (Bronx)
- Amanda C. Farías Council Member, District 18 (Bronx)
- Rita C. Joseph Council Member, District 40 (Brooklyn)
- Yusef Salaam Council Member, District 9 (Manhattan)
Represented by lobbyist firms
- Cozen O'Connor Public Strategies, LLC Lobbyist firm
- Davidoff Hutcher & Citron LLP Lobbyist firm
- Tusk Strategies LLC Lobbyist firm
Holds contracts at
- Department of Education City agency
Lobbied former members
Members who have since left their seat
- Justin Brannan
- Rafael Salamanca Jr.
What they lobbied on
subjects from their filings
- Budget - FY25 Funding related to charter schools
- Budget - Funding related to Charter Schools
- Budget - budget
- City Council Oversight Hearing - Support NYC Charter schools and issues that affect them.; Budget - Support NYC Charter schools and issues that affect them.
- Local Legislation (including introduction) - monitor and lobby bills
- State Issue - Support NYC Charter schools
- State Issue - Support NYC Charter schools and issues that affect them.
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).
- NEGOTIATED SERVICES-SERVICES Department of Education · CT104020223068890 · ended 2022 $25,000
- 3 BIDS-SERVICES Department of Education · CT104020203053807 · ended 2020 $25,000
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
- Amanda C. Farías It lobbied them; it holds contracts at 1 agency in their committees' jurisdiction
- Eric Dinowitz It lobbied them; it holds contracts at 1 agency in their committees' jurisdiction
- Rita C. Joseph It lobbied them; it holds contracts at 1 agency in their committees' jurisdiction