Paid by the city

HOUSTON BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

The city's published checkbook records $41,703,069 paid to HOUSTON BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT across 116 payment lines, from FY2018 to FY2026.

Name as the city files it — often the legal name, not the trading name. The city's budget year runs July 1 to June 30, so FY2026 means July 2025 through June 2026.

By fiscal year

FY2018$7,500

FY2019$2,500

FY2020$1,500

FY2021$35,000,000

FY2022$1,032,481

FY2023$1,752,541

FY2024$2,676,753

FY2025$310,033

FY2026$919,761

A dash means no payment to this vendor appears in that year's file. The city publishes this a few times a year, so it runs behind — the newest payments can take a few months to appear, and a fiscal year that has just ended usually isn't published at all yet. Treat the most recent year as incomplete.

Which department paid

Business Opportunity$35,007,000

Housing and Community Devp.$5,517,762

Citywide General Government$1,130,807

Houston Airport System (HAS)$28,500

Houston Public Works - HPW$17,500

Finance$1,500

How these purchases were made

Service Rel. Order — $45,700,538

PO One-time — $43,500

Vendor Invoice — -$4,040,968

These are the purchasing routes the city recorded. None of this vendor's payments were flagged sole-source or emergency.

Contracts billed under

4600016232 — $35,000,000

4600016414 — $10,535,625

4600017904 — $164,914

A contract number is the city's master agreement; individual purchases are released against it and don't each go back to council for a vote.

Where this comes from

Every figure on this page is summed from the City of Houston's published checkbook ↗, FY2018–FY2026. PlainDocket stores the totals; the individual payments stay on the city's portal, where you can filter them yourself.

These are payments, not a budget. The same ledger carries debt payments, bank and pension transfers and accounting reversals alongside what the city bought, so adding it all up doesn't describe city spending — which is why you won't find a citywide total here. What a named vendor or department was paid is solid.
This covers what the city paid — not what a council vote approved. A contract approved years ago can still be generating payments, and money approved recently may not have been paid yet.