South Jamaica Center For Children & Parents Inc

City-funded organization

South Jamaica Center For Children & Parents Inc is a nonprofit (EIN 51-0179375) founded in 1965 as a Queens College-sponsored community action agency and incorporated in 1970, based in Jamaica, Queens; per its own website, it has run Head Start and Universal Pre-Kindergarten programs continuously since then, along with special-education integrated classes, home-based parent education, and ESL classes for parents. It has held $33 million in Administration for Children's Services and Department of Education contracts since 2010, all now inactive, and has been paid $29 million to date. 58% of that contract value ($19 million across 8 contracts) was awarded without a fresh competitive bid, per Checkbook NYC's award-method labels, including an EarlyLearn Head Start closeout contract, an "Assignment," and a Head Start/UPK contract marked "Renewal (not re-bid)"; other contracts, including two UPK-HST awards worth $4 million and $3 million, were competitively bid through RFP. A 2011 Head Start Services contract worth $2 million is marked "Government/legal mandate."

Industry (per city contracts)
Human Services
City contracts
none active as of 2026-08-22 · $33,463,603 awarded since 2010
Paid to date
$28,588,070
Won without a fresh bid
58% of contract value · $19,459,984 · 8 contracts
Based in
Jamaica, NY

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).

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