Abyssinian Cultural Building Corporation

City-funded organization

Abyssinian Cultural Building Corporation is a nonprofit real estate entity (EIN 13-4149284) tied to Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church community development network. ProPublica's Nonprofit Explorer shows Form 990 data on file for this EIN through fiscal year 2011, with about $30 million in total assets and $1.6 million in revenue that year, a financial profile consistent with an entity that owns an income producing building. Its single registered city contract, a "Lease Premises" agreement with the Department of Education on the books since 2004, is valued at $38 million, all of it (100% of contract value) awarded through a negotiated real-property agreement rather than a competitive bid; $19 million has been paid to date.

City contracts (active)
$37,997,706 · 1 contract
Awarded all-time
$37,997,706 · 1 since 2004, incl. expired
Paid to date
$19,248,885
Won without a fresh bid
100% of contract value · $37,997,706 · 1 contract

Holds contracts at

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).

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