The Children's Defense Fund

Lobbying client

The Children's Defense Fund is a national child-advocacy nonprofit founded in 1973 by civil rights attorney Marian Wright Edelman, working on child poverty, health care access, education and youth justice, and it has run a New York office, Children's Defense Fund-NY, since 1992. It is one of the most active clients in our lobbying records, with 29 filings since 2024 registered citywide and all 51 council members listed as lobbied, through Hollis Public Affairs and The Wright Group NY, on child welfare funding and other budget issues. It has received $716,700 in city contracts since 2020, none currently active.

Council members lobbied
51 (citywide)
Filings (since 2024)
29
Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
$197,833
City contracts
none active as of 2026-08-22 · $716,700 awarded since 2020
Paid to date
$348,181
Won without a fresh bid
100% of contract value · $716,700 · 2 contracts

Represented by lobbyist firms

Holds contracts at

Funded by these agencies

What they lobbied on

subjects from their filings

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).

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.

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