Summer, PBC
Lobbying client
Summer, PBC is a New York City-based public benefit corporation that helps individuals and employers manage student loan repayment, including helping city employees enroll in the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness program through a partnership with the city. Our data shows Summer filed 12 lobbying registrations since 2024, registered citywide to lobby all 51 City Council members through Bolton-St. Johns, LLC and Fontas Advisors NY LLC, on subjects including the company's growth and statewide expansion of student loan repayment assistance, financial legislation, and city procurement for consulting and online management services. Our data also shows the company holds active city contracts totaling $39,000,000.00.
- Council members lobbied
- 51 (citywide)
- Filings (since 2024)
- 14
- Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
- $230,000
- City contracts (active)
- $39,000,000 · 1 contract
- Awarded all-time
- $43,398,000 · 2 since 2025, incl. expired
- Paid to date
- $11,398,000
- Won without a fresh bid
- 100% of contract value · $43,398,000 · 2 contracts
Represented by lobbyist firms
- Bolton-St. Johns, LLC Lobbyist firm
- Fontas Advisors NY LLC Lobbyist firm
Holds contracts at
- Department of Citywide Administrative Services City agency
- Department of Consumer & Worker Protection City agency
Funded by these agencies
- Department of Citywide Administrative Services City agency
- Department of Consumer & Worker Protection City agency
What they lobbied on
subjects from their filings
- Budget - Summer's continued growth and statewide expansion across New York to assist borrowers in navigating student loan repayment
- Local Legislation (including introduction) - financial issues
- Procurement - Consulting Services-online management systems
- Procurement - Consulting/Online Management
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).
- OGS Public Service Loan Forgiveness (Reassignment from DCAS) Department of Consumer & Worker Protection · CT186620261409107 $39,000,000
- OGS Public Service Loan Forgiveness Department of Citywide Administrative Services · CT185620258806222 · ended 2025 $4,398,000
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.
- OGS Public Service Loan Forgiveness (Reassignment from DCAS) Department of Consumer & Worker Protection · FY2026 · 2 payments $6,000,000
- OGS Public Service Loan Forgiveness Department of Citywide Administrative Services · FY2026 · 4 payments $3,997,500
- OGS Public Service Loan Forgiveness (Reassignment from DCAS) Department of Consumer & Worker Protection · FY2027 $1,000,000
- OGS Public Service Loan Forgiveness Department of Citywide Administrative Services · FY2025 $699,000