Mamdani's transition committees are stacked with nonprofit-sector leaders. Getty Images

Nonprofit groups were crucial in the Democratic Socialist-led coalition that fueled the rise of Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani — and this week his City Council allies will start to repay the favor.

The council is poised to vote on the Community Opportunity to Purchase Act , a bill that would favor city-approved (read: politically connected) nonprofits over private buyers when certain residential buildings go up for sale.

Nonprofit service providers, or NGOs, employ an estimated 662,000 workers in New York City, including some 80,000 in social-services jobs.

The city spent $15.6 billion on human-services contracts, most paid to NGOs, in the last fiscal year. Many of these groups depend almost entirely

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