United Cerebral Palsy of Queens, Inc.
Lobbying client
Operating publicly as Queens Centers for Progress since 2001 though still registered under its founding name, this Jamaica, Queens nonprofit provides residential, day habilitation, and clinical services for people with developmental disabilities, tracing back to a 1950 founding by parents of children with cerebral palsy. It has filed a single lobbying disclosure in 2026, registered citywide through Bolton-St. Johns, seeking city funding for its programs.
- Council members lobbied
- 51 (citywide)
- Filings (since 2024)
- 2
- Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
- $26,000
- Industry (per city contracts)
- Human Services
- City contracts
- none active as of 2026-08-22 · $26,932,345 awarded since 2007
- Paid to date
- $21,745,978
- Won without a fresh bid
- 87% of contract value · $23,360,895 · 6 contracts
Represented by lobbyist firms
- Bolton-St. Johns, LLC Lobbyist firm
Holds contracts at
- Borough President - Queens City agency
- Department of Education City agency
Funded by these agencies
- Department of Education City agency
What they lobbied on
subjects from their filings
- Budget - Funding for special programs and projects to assist individuals in need
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).
- PRESCHOOL STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES Department of Education · MA104020089870634 · ended 2012 $20,000,000
- UPK-BTF Department of Education · CT104020229258442 · ended 2026 $2,718,665
- 4410-Enhancement Department of Education · CT104020259558670 · ended 2026 $1,198,457
- 4410-Enhancement Department of Education · CT104020239357501 · ended 2024 $1,198,457
- UPK - Universal Pre Kindergarten Services Department of Education · CT104020199956428 · ended 2021 $466,101
- UPK-Universal Pre-Kindergarten Services Department of Education · CT104020159550136 · ended 2017 $460,865
- UPK Department of Education · CT104020119153771 · ended 2013 $376,919
- UPK-Universal Pre-Kindergarten Service Department of Education · CT104020149452391 · ended 2015 $345,780
- UPK- Universal Prekindergarten Services Department of Education · CT104020189853546 · ended 2018 $152,100
- Operational Support Borough President - Queens · CT101320141429299 · ended 2014 $15,000
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.
- 4410-Enhancement Department of Education · FY2026 · 9 payments $534,704
- Birth to Five Department of Education · FY2022 · 3 payments $264,036
- Birth to Five Department of Education · FY2023 · 4 payments $235,560
- 4410-Enhancement Department of Education · FY2023 $209,730
- 4410-Enhancement Department of Education · FY2025 · 3 payments $193,111
- UPK-BTF Department of Education · FY2024 · 2 payments $125,868
- 4410-Enhancement Department of Education · FY2024 · 2 payments $123,605
- UPK-BTF Department of Education · FY2026 · 2 payments $118,264
- UPK-BTF Department of Education · FY2025 · 2 payments $117,325
- UPK - Universal Pre Kindergarten Services Department of Education · FY2021 $31,400