Paid by the city

WILLIAMS MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY

The city's published checkbook records $11,722,025 paid to WILLIAMS MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY across 198 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$3,074

FY2019$188,653

FY2020$200,129

FY2021$5,951,476

FY2022$282,992

FY2023$895,020

FY2024$773,404

FY2025$2,189,641

FY2026$1,237,636

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

Houston Health Department$11,616,777

Houston Airport System (HAS)$95,861

Houston Fire Department (HFD)$7,500

Houston Emergency Center (HEC)$1,337

Housing and Community Devp.$400

Legal Department$150

How these purchases were made

PO Emergency — $6,342,676

Service Rel. Order — $4,765,725

PO One-time — $565,624

Vendor Invoice — $47,999

These are the purchasing routes the city recorded: 54% was bought under emergency procurement rules. The city publishes the route, not the reason for it.

Contracts billed under

4600017502 — $2,029,297

4600014921 — $1,872,512

4600018248 — $766,344

4600015205 — $97,572

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.