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, Federal Fiscal Year 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
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
- Data Table
District
NYCCAP Recipients
Albany 1,152
Allegany 160
Broome 1,122
Cattaraugus 505
Cayuga 284
Chautauqua 846
Chemung 676
Chenango 169
Clinton 325
Columbia 112
Cortland 247
Delaware 253
Dutchess 1,009
Erie 5,401
Essex 126
Franklin 270
Fulton 91
Genesee 216
Greene 61
Hamilton 14
Herkimer 261
Jefferson 587
Lewis 78
Livingston 315
Madison 290
Monroe 7,113
Montgomery 338
Nassau 6,986
Niagara 962
Oneida 1,711
Onondaga 4,130
Ontario 525
Orange 1,216
Orleans 158
Oswego 496
Otsego 171
Putnam 86
Rensselaer 674
Rockland 1,093
St Lawrence 451
Saratoga 571
Schenectady 1,558
Schoharie 77
Schuyler 87
Seneca 178
Steuben 984
Suffolk 4,712
Sullivan 264
Tioga 259
Tompkins 437
Ulster 491
Warren 227
Washington 189
Wayne 333
Westchester 4,323
Wyoming 156
Yates 99
New York City 95,124