Congregation Machna Shalva

City-funded organization

Congregation Machna Shalva is a Jewish religious congregation in Brooklyn that the IRS classifies as a church (per ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer, tax exempt since 2003), a status that exempts it from filing Form 990. It operates a boys' elementary school at 5815 20th Avenue in Brooklyn (grades K through 2, per federal NCES private school data), affiliated with Agudath Israel of America, as well as a separately named Bobov-45 school. The city has awarded it $18.3 million since 2015, almost all of it Department of Education Universal Pre-Kindergarten (UPK) contracts plus Department of Citywide Administrative Services school security guard reimbursements, with 23% of that contract value (about $4.1 million) awarded without a fresh competitive bid.

Industry (per city contracts)
Human Services
City contracts
none active as of 2026-08-22 · $18,322,421 awarded since 2015
Paid to date
$15,938,605
Won without a fresh bid
23% of contract value · $4,132,105 · 2 contracts

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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