Congregation Darchei Torah

City-funded organization

Congregation Darchei Torah is the corporate entity behind Yeshiva Darchei Torah, an Orthodox Jewish school founded in 1972 on a 10-acre campus at 257 Beach 17th Street in Far Rockaway, Queens. The school serves more than 2,000 students, from pre-kindergarten through its Harriet Keilson Early Childhood Center to post-high school Kollel study. It holds no active New York City contracts as of August 2026 but has been awarded $16,425,872 in city contracts since 2013, all now ended, and the city has paid it $15,732,662 to date. Its largest contract, an $8,830,900 Universal Pre-Kindergarten award from the Department of Education, was won through RFP. Three Department of Citywide Administrative Services contracts reimbursing school security costs, together worth $2,737,339, are tagged non-procurement in the city's contract record. One Universal Pre-Kindergarten Services contract, worth $3,720,385, was a renewal awarded without a fresh competitive bid, the only contract counted toward the 23% of this organization's contract value reported as won without a fresh bid.

Industry (per city contracts)
Human Services
City contracts
none active as of 2026-08-22 · $16,425,872 awarded since 2013
Paid to date
$15,732,662
Won without a fresh bid
23% of contract value · $3,720,385 · 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).

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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