Governors Island Corporation
City-funded organization
The Trust for Governors Island (registered on Checkbook as Governors Island Corporation) is a NYC-created nonprofit that manages the planning, preservation, development, and year-round public operations of the 172-acre Governors Island in New York Harbor under a 99-year ground lease from the city; it holds $541 million in active contracts as of August 2026 with the Department of Small Business Services and the Department of Education, and has received over $1.55 billion in city contract funding since 2010.
- Industry (per city contracts)
- Standardized Services
- City contracts (active)
- $540,650,528 · 2 contracts
- Awarded all-time
- $1,547,495,734 · 8 since 2010, incl. expired
- Paid to date
- $768,290,568
- Won without a fresh bid
- 100% of contract value · $1,547,495,734 · 8 contracts
Holds contracts at
- Department of Education City agency
- Department of Small Business Services City agency
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).
- Con & bldg restoration serv for the BMB Lighting Department of Small Business Services · CT180120268801010 $491,787,395
- LEASE Department of Education · CT104020119152136 $48,863,133
- CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT CHANGE ORDER DECREASE Department of Small Business Services · CT180120120001456 · ended 2014 $371,852,000
- Stabilization of Building 324 Department of Small Business Services · CT180120228804516 · ended 2025 $337,326,638
- TGI EXPENSE DECREASE Department of Small Business Services · CT180120171407655 · ended 2021 $169,790,133
- Economic development services on Governors Island Department of Small Business Services · CT180120111417221 · ended 2011 $58,963,428
- PARK & PUBLIC SPACE - PHASE II Department of Small Business Services · CT180120161403542 · ended 2016 $46,136,362
- BUILDING 109 DEMOLITION & STABILIZATION DECREASE Department of Small Business Services · CT180120151403518 · ended 2015 $22,776,645
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
- Department of Homeland Security 97.056 Port Security Grant Program · Federal Emergency Management Agency · Grant $3,411
- Department of Homeland Security 97.056 Port Security Grant Program · Federal Emergency Management Agency · Grant $0