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.