Cayuga Home For Children Inc

City-funded organization

Cayuga Home for Children, doing business as Cayuga Centers, is a nonprofit founded in Auburn, New York in 1852 that provides foster care placement, home and community based treatment, respite care, and services for unaccompanied children (per its own site, cayugacenters.org). It has held $102 million in New York City contracts with the Administration for Children's Services since 2008, largely for Treatment Family Foster Care and related foster care programs, and has been paid $73 million to date; none of its city contracts are active as of August 2026. Of that contract value, 94% ($95 million across 13 contracts) was awarded without a fresh competitive bid, per Checkbook NYC's award-method tags on those specific contracts (tagged Renewal, Negotiated contract, or Government/legal mandate). Its IRS Form 990 (EIN 15-0532087, per ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer) lists reportable compensation of $756,557 in FY2023 for its then President and CEO, Edward Myers Hayes.

Industry (per city contracts)
Human Services
City contracts
none active as of 2026-08-22 · $101,822,400 awarded since 2008
Paid to date
$72,957,942
Won without a fresh bid
94% of contract value · $95,289,209 · 13 contracts
Discretionary funding (FY2009-FY2027)
$38,336 · 1 awards
Top officer pay (FY2023)
$756,557 · Edward Myers Hayes, Previous President & CEO
Based in
Auburn, NY (NY State)

Holds contracts at

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).

Discretionary funding received

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

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 +306% 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.

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