Mobility Capital Finance, Inc.
Lobbying client
The fintech company known as MoCaFi, founded in New York in 2015 by former JPMorgan Chase managing director Wole Coaxum to offer digital banking, prepaid-card, and benefit-disbursement services to unbanked and underbanked communities of color. It holds a NYC Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications contract for a community disbursement and financial-services platform, part of $59.9 million in city contracts since 2022, $5.6 million of it active as of August 2026. It is registered to lobby citywide and filed 4 disclosures in 2025 through Bolton-St. Johns on city and state procurement matters.
- Council members lobbied
- 51 (citywide)
- Filings (since 2024)
- 4
- Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
- $23,167
- Industry (per city contracts)
- Human Services
- City contracts (active)
- $5,602,017 · 1 contract
- Awarded all-time
- $59,869,517 · 4 since 2022, incl. expired
- Paid to date
- $5,644,971
- Won without a fresh bid
- 98% of contract value · $58,602,017 · 2 contracts
Represented by lobbyist firms
- Bolton-St. Johns, LLC Lobbyist firm
Holds contracts at
- Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications City agency
- Housing Preservation and Development City agency
Funded by these agencies
- Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications City agency
- Housing Preservation and Development City agency
What they lobbied on
subjects from their filings
- Procurement - Miscellaneous Business topics in NYS and NYC
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).
- Community-Based Technology Platform, Disbursement Services a Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications · MA185820248803818 $5,602,017
- Immediate Response Cards and Related Services - AS Housing Preservation and Development · CT180620248804455 · ended 2025 $53,000,000
- FISCAL SPONSOR FOR CEC Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications · CT185820238804063 · ended 2023 $1,000,000
- Staffing and Consultant Support for CEC Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications · CT185820248801912 · ended 2024 $267,500
Largest payments, by purpose
The organization's largest individual city payments (roughly $25,000 and up), grouped by purpose, to show what recent money was for. This is NOT a total — smaller payments aren't listed; see “Paid to date” above for the complete amount paid against its contracts. Fiscal years 2020 and later.
- Immediate Response Cards and Related Services - AS Housing Preservation and Development · FY2025 · 13 payments $2,162,830
- Immediate Response Cards and Related Services - AS Housing Preservation and Development · FY2024 · 2 payments $1,505,000
- FISCAL SPONSOR FOR CEC Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications · FY2023 · 2 payments $930,000
- Staffing and Consultant Support for CEC Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications · FY2024 $267,500
- MoCaFi - Annual Project Management Fee Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications · FY2025 $150,000
- Mocafi Demonstration Project - One Time Setup Fee Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications · FY2024 $125,000
- Demonstration Project with MoCaFi Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications · FY2025 $112,500
- Immediate Response Cards and Related Services - AS Housing Preservation and Development · FY2026 $62,500
- FISCAL SPONSOR FOR CEC Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications · FY2024 $35,000