Green Chimneys Children's Services, Inc.

City-funded organization

Green Chimneys Children's Services, Inc. is a Brewster, NY nonprofit at 400 Doansburg Road, founded in 1947, that provides residential, educational, clinical, and recreational services, including farm and animal-based therapeutic programming, to children ages 3 to 21 with emotional, behavioral, or academic difficulties, per its own site. Its city contracts included a $12 million "Residential Care" contract with the Administration for Children's Services (RFP-awarded, ended 2014), a $3.2 million "Congregate Care Program" contract (a negotiated, non-competitive award, ended 2011), Department of Education "Student Support Services" contracts (RFP-awarded, with later small purchases), and two Department of Youth and Community Development discretionary contracts to provide shelter beds for at-risk LGBT youth ($504,000 each). It also received $1.5 million in City Council discretionary funding across 6 awards, mostly for those same shelter-bed programs, between FY2009 and FY2012. Of the $19 million in city contract value registered under its name since 2007 (the city paid $13 million to date), 24%, or $4.7 million across four contracts, was awarded without a fresh competitive bid, mainly

Industry (per city contracts)
Human Services
City contracts
none active as of 2026-08-22 · $19,495,964 awarded since 2007
Paid to date
$12,613,980
Won without a fresh bid
24% of contract value · $4,745,218 · 4 contracts
Discretionary funding (FY2009-FY2027)
$1,522,500 · 6 awards
Funding history
Funded 4 years (FY2009–FY2012); not in FY2027
Top officer pay (FY2023)
$281,831 · Kristin Dionne, Chief Executive Officer

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 -70% 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.

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