The Child Center of NY, Inc.

Lobbying client

Founded in Queens in 1953, the Child Center of NY is a nonprofit that operates more than 70 locations across the five boroughs and Long Island, delivering behavioral health, early childhood education, youth development, and family support services to roughly 60,000 New Yorkers each year. With 17 filings in 2024, the organization engaged three council members through Greenberg Traurig, LLP on FY25 city budget funding and holds more than $189 million in active city contracts as of August 2026.

Council members lobbied
3
Filings (since 2024)
17
Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
$134,000
Industry (per city contracts)
Human Services
City contracts (active)
$188,699,329 · 34 contracts
Awarded all-time
$743,974,600 · 389 since 2007, incl. expired
Paid to date
$527,163,062
Won without a fresh bid
73% of contract value · $540,049,566 · 291 contracts
Discretionary funding (FY2009-FY2027)
$10,064,359 · 235 awards
Funding history
Funded 13 years (FY2012–FY2027), including each of the last 10
Top officer pay (FY2023)
$603,640 · Traci A Donnelly, Chief Executive Officer
Based in
Woodside, NY

Lobbied these council members

Represented by lobbyist firms

Holds contracts at

Funded by these agencies

Lobbied former members

Members who have since left their seat

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.

Discretionary funding received

City Council discretionary (member-item) awards, largest first. Covers FY2009-FY2027.

Funded by these council members

City Council members who steered discretionary (member-item) money to this organization, largest first (FY2020 and later, where the sponsoring member is disclosed). Sitting members link to their page.

Officer & key-staff pay

Reportable compensation from this organization's IRS Form 990 (Part VII), latest available filing (FY2023). Includes pay from related organizations where reported; an annual figure, not a running total. Source: ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.

Officer pay over time

Total officer pay changed +37% from FY2020 to FY2023. Top-officer reportable compensation by year (org-paid only), with each year's share of total revenue. Source: ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer 990 filings.

Where their influence converges

Outside interests connected to this official through more than one independent channel — drawn straight from the records the rest of the site already shows. “Lobbied them” = a lobbying filing that named the member. “Outside spending” = an independent-expenditure committee the interest funds spent in

Federal awards

Federal awards made directly to this organization in fiscal years 2023 through 2026. Each amount is what the federal government has OBLIGATED on that award as recorded on USAspending.gov as of 2026-08-31 — money committed, not money paid out. These are prime awards only: federal money this

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