Bowery Residents Committee, Inc.

City-funded organization

Bowery Residents' Committee (BRC), founded in 1971, is a New York City nonprofit (EIN 13-2736659) providing shelter, healthcare, substance abuse treatment, and workforce development to homeless and vulnerable New Yorkers; it holds $3.09 billion in active contracts as of August 2026 across 31 agreements with the Department of Homeless Services and Department of Social Services, and has received $1.6 million in City Council discretionary funding.

Industry (per city contracts)
Human Services
City contracts (active)
$3,092,720,676 · 27 contracts
Awarded all-time
$4,436,550,673 · 107 since 2003, incl. expired
Paid to date
$1,424,485,531
Won without a fresh bid
30% of contract value · $1,311,702,638 · 79 contracts
Discretionary funding (FY2009-FY2027)
$1,639,246 · 24 awards
Funding history
Funded 15 years (FY2012–FY2027), including each of the last 12
Top officer pay (FY2023)
$475,892 · Lawrence Rosenblatt, CEO And President
HPD housing capital financed
$5,683,545 · via 990 Schedule R
Based in
New York, NY

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).

Discretionary funding received

City Council discretionary (member-item) awards, largest first. Covers FY2009-FY2027.

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 +10% 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.

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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