Stanley M. Isaacs Neighborhood Center, Inc.
City-funded organization
The Stanley M. Isaacs Neighborhood Center, Inc. (the Isaacs Center) is a nonprofit multi-service community organization in Yorkville on Manhattan's Upper East Side, founded in 1964, providing home-delivered meals, senior centers, youth after-school programs and workforce development (it merged operationally with Goddard Riverside in 2025). It holds $5.5 million in active NYC contracts as of August 2026 with the Department for the Aging (home-delivered meals, older adult center) and the Department of Youth and Community Development (Train and Earn/Advance and Earn), part of $133 million awarded since 2007, and has separately received $2.8 million in City Council discretionary funding since FY2009, mostly from Council Members Julie Menin and Ben Kallos.
- Industry (per city contracts)
- Human Services
- City contracts (active)
- $5,476,275 · 1 contract
- Awarded all-time
- $131,995,563 · 82 since 2007, incl. expired
- Paid to date
- $96,840,840
- Won without a fresh bid
- 48% of contract value · $63,522,444 · 64 contracts
- Discretionary funding (FY2009-FY2027)
- $2,800,224 · 155 awards
- Funding history
- Funded 18 years (FY2009–FY2026); not in FY2027
- Top officer pay (FY2023)
- $453,184 · Roderick L Jones, Executive Director.
- Based in
- New York, NY
Holds contracts at
- Department for the Aging City agency
- Department of Youth and Community Development 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).
- Train and Earn RFP Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020258806147 $5,476,275
- DELIVER MEALS TO THE HOMEBOUND ELDERLY Department for the Aging · CT112520211413084 · ended 2023 $20,475,818
- HOME DELIVERED MEALS Department for the Aging · CT112520258801504 · ended 2026 $14,396,527
- HOME DELIVERED MEALS TO HOMEBOUND SENIORS Department for the Aging · CT112520121425179 · ended 2015 $7,680,030
- Beacon Community activities M.S.224 Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020211402361 · ended 2024 $7,000,109
- Advance & Earn Renewal and Allowance Amendment Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020238803008 · ended 2026 $6,906,117
- To support Advance & Earn programming citywide Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020201416577 · ended 2023 $6,892,844
- HOME DELIVERED MEAL FOR HOMEBOUND ELDERLY Department for the Aging · CT112520090019136 · ended 2011 $5,229,410
- HOME DELIVERED MEALS Department for the Aging · CT112520248804021 · ended 2024 $3,951,515
- Beacon Program Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020258801853 · ended 2026 $3,646,751
Discretionary funding received
City Council discretionary (member-item) awards, largest first. Covers FY2009-FY2027.
- Hotshot Vans for Home Delivered Meals Senior Centers, Programs, and Enhancements · DFTA · FY2023 $140,000
- Senior Centers, Programs, and Enhancements Senior Centers, Programs, and Enhancements · DFTA · FY2022 $86,488
- Food Pantry CM Speaker · Speaker's Initiative · DYCD · FY2024 $75,000
- Food Pantry CM Speaker · Speaker's Initiative · DYCD · FY2025 $75,000
- Food Pantry CM Speaker · Speaker's Initiative · DYCD · FY2026 $75,000
- Senior Centers, Programs, and Enhancements Senior Centers, Programs, and Enhancements · DFTA · FY2018 $70,000
- Taft Houses Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities (NORCs) · DFTA · FY2023 $50,000
- Taft Houses Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities (NORCs) · DFTA · FY2024 $50,000
- Taft Houses Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities (NORCs) · DFTA · FY2025 $50,000
- Taft Houses Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities (NORCs) · DFTA · FY2026 $50,000
- Digital Inclusion and Literacy Initiative CM Menin · Digital Inclusion and Literacy Initiative · DYCD · FY2022 $40,000
- Support Our Seniors CM Menin · Support Our Seniors · DFTA · FY2022 $35,000
- Aging Aging · DFTA · FY2009 $30,000
- Healthy Aging Healthy Aging · DFTA · FY2009 $30,000
- Aging Aging · DFTA · FY2010 $30,000
- Aging Aging · DFTA · FY2011 $30,000
- Aging Aging · DFTA · FY2013 $30,000
- Afterschool Enrichment Initiative Afterschool Enrichment Initiative · DYCD · FY2023 $30,000
- Support Our Seniors CM Menin · Support Our Seniors · DFTA · FY2023 $30,000
- Afterschool Enrichment Initiative Afterschool Enrichment Initiative · DYCD · FY2024 $30,000
Funded by these council members
City Council members who steered discretionary (member-item) money to this organization, largest first (FY2020 and later, where the sponsoring member is disclosed). Sitting members link to their page.
- Julie Menin FY2022-2026 · 26 awards $415,500
- Kallos FY2020-2021 · 8 awards $160,000
- Keith Powers FY2020-2026 · 12 awards $140,000
- Ayala FY2025 · 3 awards $48,000
- Elsie Encarnación FY2026 · 3 awards $45,000
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.
- Roderick L Jones Executive Director. $453,184
- May Wong CFO Frmr $272,478
- Andrea Cain COO $260,394
- Karenne Elyse Berry CPO $154,086
- Damion E Samuels Associate. Deputy ED $145,340
- Khristel Simmons Associate. VP $138,083
Officer pay over time
Total officer pay changed +36% 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.
- FY2020 Gregory Morris · 4.36% of revenue $159,440
- FY2021 Gregory Morris · 3.96% of revenue $184,949
- FY2022 Gregory Morris · 6.62% of revenue $283,628
- FY2023 Karenne Elyse Berry · 4.84% of revenue $154,086