Bright Horizons Children's Centers LLC
Lobbying client
Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc. is a Newton, Massachusetts based, NYSE listed (BFAM) for-profit company that runs employer-sponsored child care, back-up care and early education centers worldwide. Bright Horizons Children's Centers LLC, its Delaware-registered subsidiary, operates its New York City child care centers. Since 2024 the subsidiary has filed 11 NYC lobbying disclosures, using Fontas Advisors NY LLC and James F. Capalino & Associates to lobby nine City Council members on city budget program funding and, per its filings, on stopping what it called "unjustified closures" of its centers, reporting $92,741.94 in lobbying compensation while holding $63.3 million in city contracts since 2019, none currently active.
- Council members lobbied
- 9
- Filings (since 2024)
- 11
- Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
- $92,742
- Industry (per city contracts)
- Human Services
- City contracts
- none active as of 2026-08-22 · $63,307,672 awarded since 2019
- Paid to date
- $59,769,283
Lobbied these council members
- Althea V. Stevens Council Member, District 16 (Bronx)
- Julie Won Council Member, District 26 (Queens)
- Lynn C. Schulman Council Member, District 29 (Queens)
- Rita C. Joseph Council Member, District 40 (Brooklyn)
- Julie Menin Council Member, District 5 (Manhattan)
- Shaun Abreu Council Member, District 7 (Manhattan)
Represented by lobbyist firms
- Fontas Advisors NY LLC Lobbyist firm
- James F. Capalino & Associates, Inc. Lobbyist firm
Holds contracts at
- Department of Education City agency
Funded by these agencies
- Department of Education City agency
Lobbied former members
Members who have since left their seat
- Carlina Rivera
- Erik Bottcher
- Keith Powers
What they lobbied on
subjects from their filings
- Budget - Program Funding
- Budget - Secure Program Funding
- Determination of Board or Commission - in connection with building relationships with New York City officials who may be able to help stop unjustified closures of the Client's centers
- Determination of Board or Commission - in connection with building relationships with New York City officials who may be able to help stop unjustified closures of the Client?s centers
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).
- UPK-CIN Department of Education · CT104020229260767 · ended 2026 $4,697,945
- UPK-BTF Department of Education · CT104020238804177 · ended 2026 $3,493,216
- UPK-BTF Department of Education · CT104020238804183 · ended 2026 $3,428,322
- UPK-BTF Department of Education · CT104020238804182 · ended 2026 $3,399,640
- UPK-CIN Department of Education · CT104020229260722 · ended 2026 $3,315,630
- UPK-BTF Department of Education · CT104020238804216 · ended 2026 $3,312,040
- UPK-BTF Department of Education · CT104020238803979 · ended 2026 $3,291,741
- UPK-BTF Department of Education · CT104020229250296 · ended 2026 $3,282,092
- UPK-BTF Department of Education · CT104020238804178 · ended 2026 $3,238,996
- UPK-BTF Department of Education · CT104020238804219 · ended 2026 $3,150,040
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.
- UPK-BTF Department of Education · FY2025 · 39 payments $2,446,374
- UPK-BTF Department of Education · FY2026 · 33 payments $2,027,720
- UPK-CIN Department of Education · FY2025 · 17 payments $1,074,376
- UPK-CIN Department of Education · FY2023 · 17 payments $1,065,900
- UPK-BTF Department of Education · FY2024 · 22 payments $981,957
- UPK-CIN Department of Education · FY2024 · 12 payments $755,316
- Covid Impacted Neighborhoods Pre-k/3k services Department of Education · FY2023 · 11 payments $732,502
- UPK-BTF Department of Education · FY2023 · 10 payments $634,622
- Covid Impacted Neighborhood Services Department of Education · FY2023 · 9 payments $572,306
- UPK-CIN Department of Education · FY2026 · 7 payments $461,722
- UPK-BTF-49597 Department of Education · FY2023 · 8 payments $428,206
- UPK-BTF-49598 Department of Education · FY2023 · 4 payments $422,689
- R1395-UPK For All MCDM Department of Education · FY2023 · 4 payments $413,531
- UPK-BTF-49600 Department of Education · FY2023 · 5 payments $322,087
- UPK-BTF-49605 Department of Education · FY2023 · 5 payments $314,334
- Birth to Five Department of Education · FY2022 · 3 payments $311,444
- UPK-BTF-49607 Department of Education · FY2023 · 7 payments $308,851
- UPK-BTF-49603 Department of Education · FY2023 · 6 payments $300,074
- UPK-BTF-49608 Department of Education · FY2023 · 5 payments $296,109
- UPK-BTF-49610 Department of Education · FY2023 · 5 payments $269,134
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
- Althea V. Stevens It lobbied them; it holds contracts at 1 agency in their committees' jurisdiction
- Lynn C. Schulman It lobbied them; it holds contracts at 1 agency in their committees' jurisdiction
- Rita C. Joseph It lobbied them; it holds contracts at 1 agency in their committees' jurisdiction