Cong Chasdei Lev
Lobbying client
Cong Chasdei Lev, Lobbying client. Connections, filings, and records on The Civic Stoop, every link traced to the public record.
- Council members lobbied
- 10
- Filings (since 2024)
- 12
- Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
- $160,000
- Industry (per city contracts)
- Human Services
- City contracts
- none active as of 2026-08-22 · $4,576,565 awarded since 2019
- Paid to date
- $4,576,565
- Won without a fresh bid
- 100% of contract value · $4,576,565 · 7 contracts
- Discretionary funding (FY2009-FY2027)
- $6,603,065 · 50 awards
- Funding history
- Funded every year since FY2019 (9 years running)
Lobbied these council members
- Eric Dinowitz Council Member, District 11 (Bronx)
- James F. Gennaro Council Member, District 24 (Queens)
- Rita C. Joseph Council Member, District 40 (Brooklyn)
- Simcha Felder Council Member, District 44 (Brooklyn)
- Farah N. Louis Council Member, District 45 (Brooklyn)
- Mercedes Narcisse Council Member, District 46 (Brooklyn)
- Inna Vernikov Council Member, District 48 (Brooklyn)
- Julie Menin Council Member, District 5 (Manhattan)
Represented by lobbyist firms
- ASY Services, LLC Lobbyist firm
Holds contracts at
- Department of Youth and Community Development City agency
Funded by these agencies
- Department of Youth and Community Development City agency
Lobbied former members
Members who have since left their seat
- Justin Brannan
- Kalman Yeger
What they lobbied on
subjects from their filings
- Budget - Non profit funding
- Budget - Support for charity
- Budget - non profit funding
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).
- to support various youth and community development services Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020258802890 · ended 2026 $4,206,750
- Support the cost associated with obtaining food & supplies Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020248802579 · ended 2023 $92,250
- Funds to support food distribution and pantry supplies Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020228801003 · ended 2021 $87,312
- Support the cost associated with obtaining food & supplies Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020211401610 · ended 2020 $66,937
- To purchase food supplies for food pantries and soup kitchen Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020191420393 · ended 2019 $55,750
- To fund food pantry, hygiene products with operation cost. Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020238801312 · ended 2022 $36,316
- Funds will be used to provide food supplies to needy familie Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020238801207 · ended 2022 $31,250
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.
- to support various youth and community development services Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2026 · 4 payments $3,860,813
- to support various youth and community development services Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2025 · 2 payments $155,756
- Support the cost associated with obtaining food & supplies Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2024 $92,250
- Funds to support food distribution and pantry supplies Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2023 $87,312
- Support the cost associated with obtaining food & supplies Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2021 $66,937
- To fund food pantry, hygiene products with operation cost. Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2024 $36,316
- Funds will be used to provide food supplies to needy familie Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2024 $31,250
Discretionary funding received
City Council discretionary (member-item) awards, largest first. Covers FY2009-FY2027.
- Speaker's Initiative CM Speaker · Speaker's Initiative · DYCD · FY2025 $2,000,000
- Speaker's Initiative CM Speaker · Speaker's Initiative · DYCD · FY2026 $2,000,000
- Local CM Speaker · DYCD · FY2027 $2,000,000
- Food Pantries CM Brooklyn Delegation · Food Pantries · DYCD · FY2023 $40,000
- Food Pantries CM Brooklyn Delegation · Food Pantries · DYCD · FY2024 $38,750
- Food Distribution CD# 48 CM Brooklyn Delegation · Food Pantries · DYCD · FY2025 $38,750
- Food Distribution CD# 48 CM Brooklyn Delegation · Food Pantries · DYCD · FY2026 $38,750
- Food Pantries CM Brooklyn Delegation · Food Pantries · DYCD · FY2022 $36,316
- Food Pantries CM Brooklyn Delegation · Food Pantries · DYCD · FY2020 $31,937
- Food Pantries CM Brooklyn Delegation · Food Pantries · DYCD · FY2021 $27,562
- Speaker's Initiative Speaker's Initiative · DYCD · FY2019 $25,000
- Speaker's Initiative Speaker's Initiative · DYCD · FY2020 $25,000
- Food Pantry Food Pantries · DYCD · FY2019 $20,750
- Speaker's Initiative Speaker's Initiative · DYCD · FY2021 $20,000
- Speaker's Initiative CM Speaker · Speaker's Initiative · DYCD · FY2023 $20,000
- Boroughwide Needs Initiative CM Brooklyn Delegation · Boroughwide Needs Initiative · DYCD · FY2021 $18,750
- Boroughwide Needs Initiative CM Brooklyn Delegation · Boroughwide Needs Initiative · DYCD · FY2022 $18,750
- Local CM Deutsch · DYCD · FY2021 $11,000
- Anti-Poverty CM Vernikov · Anti-Poverty · DYCD · FY2023 $10,000
- Anti-Poverty CM Vernikov · Anti-Poverty · DYCD · FY2024 $10,000
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.
- Inna Vernikov FY2023-2027 · 5 awards $50,000
- Farah N. Louis FY2021-2027 · 7 awards $35,000
- Kalman Yeger FY2020-2025 · 7 awards $33,000
- Deutsch FY2020-2021 · 2 awards $16,000
- Simcha Felder FY2026-2027 · 2 awards $10,000
- Mercedes Narcisse FY2022 · 1 award $2,500
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
- Julie Menin 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
- Simcha Felder It lobbied them; it holds contracts at 1 agency in their committees' jurisdiction