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Council Member Vickie Paladino Says NYC Nonprofits Are Fueling Democratic Dominance 90%
4/16/2026, 4:14:28 AM
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Some New York City officials say there may be an imbalance in local politics,
suggesting that nonprofits funded by the city government is one cause.
These groups play a major role in New York City employment and community assistance programs.
NTD's Shawn Marshall has more.
>> There have been talks of imbalance in New York City politics being assisted by government funding of nonprofits.
But how does one connect to the other?
New York City Council member Vicky Paladino recently made some comments about New York City nonprofit funding on social media.
So, I asked Vicky Paladino personally how funding for nonprofits translates to Democratic Party funding.
>> Well, most of this is formed by the Democratic Party.
Uh, and that's where the that's where the uh political comes in.
Uh, most of the funding for the Democratic Party, everybody wonders like how do they get all this money? Where does all this money come from?
A lot of this money comes from the funneling through nonforprofits goes to the Democratic party.
And that's a very very big deal. Very big deal.
deal. And uh as Republicans, uh we're always about where did the money come from?
Like how is how does this work exactly? They were just throwing money at it.
It it was almost like a uh a scam. It's a scam. Nonprofits are a big
part of New York City's economy, community assistance, and workforce. But
just how much actually surprised some on social media.
In 2024, New York City paid out over 16 billion to nonprofits for human services through contracts.
Nonprofit employment equals nearly 18% of total private employment in New York City, over 600,000 nonprofit workers.
And the nonprofit workforce in New York City is 34% foreign born. the nonforprofits that we have in New York, we have right now we're living in uh 20 for 25 26.
So our budget right now is $18 billion.
Our budget that we're shooting for that we have to come to a close on by June 30th.
The deadline, our fiscal year is July 1 to June 30th.
So, uh, we're looking, this mayor wants to increase it, uh, to $127 billion.
Now, Flidians will know that that's more than the entire state of Florida.
So, what he's done is Mandani Zoran is he's increasing it by tens of billions.
And where's that money coming from? A lot of it, 28% of our city budget goes to nonforprofits.
A lot of people don't know that. And uh it's important that people get educated uh on exactly what a nonforprofit is.
What do they actually do? Most of them, as we found out in Minnesota, it's just a shell game.
Same thing's going on here. In March, a Times Union investigation found hundreds of New York 501c3 nonprofits.
Dozens from the Brooklyn, New York area made illegal campaign contributions to candidates and packs over the past decade, even though the IRS and state bans such actions.
Over 1,000 contributions found since 1999.
Many falsely claimed no political activity on their 990 tax forms.
According to the article, Brooklyn elected Democrats were frequent recipients, which raised alarms.
Congresswoman Claudia Tenny started calling for IRS investigations and refunds.
Senator Steve Chan shared a balanced view when I asked him if nonprofit funding causes an imbalance in New York City politics.
>> I I know that, you know, certainly uh you know, nonprofits tend to uh like some candidates better than the others, you know, for their own benefit sometimes. uh you know, they can tell their constituents who to vote for, but does that necessarily mean that their people are actually going to vote for that guy? I'll give you a perfect example. Uh unions often endorse a political candidate, but the union members does not necessarily always vote for that person.
uh my own police union when I was a cop would endorse uh a Democrat candidate where I know all my friends we voted the Republican.
So So
yeah, that's a very tough question to answer.
>> Adrianne Areola of the New York City Council sent NTD this quote about possible future legislation.
She said nonprofits in this city have become financial black holes and many seem to be taking in money not to actually support their communities but to buy a vote.
I'm looking into legislation that would require 501c3s taking in over $250,000 in city funds annually to produce detailed quarterly reports so we can ensure that the taxpayer dollars being given out are actually used to benefit the people of the city.
We reached out to several Democratic political leaders for comment, but none
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