Federal Funding and New York

The budget resolutions currently under consideration by the 119th Congress could lead to a dramatic restructuring of the federal⁠⁠-⁠⁠state⁠ ⁠relationship. This online resource focuses on federal funding and how it supports services in the State of New York.

Child Care Assistance

Federal Funding and New York
The budget resolutions currently under consideration by the 119th Congress could lead to a dramatic restructuring of the federal⁠⁠-⁠⁠state⁠ ⁠relationship. This online resource focuses on federal funding and how it supports services in the State of New York.

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The New York State Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP) provides subsidies for childcare throughout New York. The program is overseen by the New York State Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS) and administered through local social services districts. Spending on CCAP relies significantly on federal funding, which comprised three quarters of about $12.9 billion in spending from April 2015 through March 2025. 

In SFY 2025, federal funding totaled more than $1.1 billion, comprised of $290 million in transfers from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant and $838 million from the Child Care Development Fund (CCDF). CCDF is generally composed of the Child Care Development Block Grant and the Child Care Entitlement to States. In recent years, pandemic relief funding has also supported child care services; as a result, the federal share peaked in SFY 2022 at 94.1 percent of total CCAP funding. 

Of the 150,749 children receiving CCAP services in January 2025, 63 percent were in New York City (95,124). Outside of New York City, Monroe (7,113), Nassau (6,986), Erie (5,401), Suffolk (4,712), Westchester (4,323), and Onondaga (4,130) Counties had the largest number of children receiving CCAP services.

CCAP Federal Funding, SFY 2015 – SFY 2025

 

Note: Negative amounts for federal TANF spending in SFY 2017 and 2018 represent the shifting of expenses originally applied to the TANF grant in order to meet federal regulations requiring matching or maintenance of effort.

Source: Office of the State Comptroller

New York State Children Receiving CCDF Subsidized Services, FFY 2019-2024

 

Source: NYS OCFS, ACF-800 Child Care Development Fund Annual Reports, https://ocfs.ny.gov/programs/childcare/data/#ccap-data

Children Receiving NYCCAP Subsidized Child Care, FFY January 2025

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Note: All of the CCAP slots are supported by Federal, State, and a total of $68,293,085 in local funding.

Source: OTDA CCAP Monthly Cases and Child Counts by District