Moving Up Children Center Inc.
City-funded organization
Moving Up Children Center Inc. is a community-based early childhood education provider in the Elmhurst/Jackson Heights section of Queens that runs New York City's 3-K and Pre-K for All programs for local children. It has been awarded $18.8 million in city contracts since 2013, all through the Department of Education for Universal Pre-Kindergarten (UPK) services, with $16.1 million paid to date; as of August 2026 it holds no active city contracts. 29% of the contract value awarded to it was won without a fresh competitive bid ($5,506,534 across 4 contracts), per the page's tracked metric.
- Industry (per city contracts)
- Human Services
- City contracts
- none active as of 2026-08-22 · $18,826,722 awarded since 2013
- Paid to date
- $16,052,200
- Won without a fresh bid
- 29% of contract value · $5,506,534 · 4 contracts
Holds contracts at
- Department of Education City agency
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-BTF Department of Education · CT104020229258245 · ended 2026 $5,927,564
- UPK-HST Department of Education · CT104020229251497 · ended 2025 $4,409,660
- UPK - Universal Pre Kindergarten Services Department of Education · CT104020199956355 · ended 2021 $2,870,802
- UPK - UNIVERSAL PRE- KINDERGARTEN SERVICES Department of Education · CT104020159554103 · ended 2017 $2,410,804
- UPK - Universal Prekindergarten Services Department of Education · CT104020189853561 · ended 2018 $940,500
- UPK-CTL Department of Education · CT104020269659352 · ended 2026 $847,616
- UPK-HST Department of Education · CT104020269657985 · ended 2026 $847,616
- UPK-Universal Pre-Kindergarten Service Department of Education · CT104020149452121 · ended 2016 $572,160