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The city's published checkbook records $39,607,671 paid out under this department across 651 payment lines and 57 named vendors, FY2018–FY2027.
Department name as the city's finance system records it. The city's budget year runs July 1 to June 30, so FY2027 means July 2026 through June 2027.
By fiscal year
FY2018$195,589
FY2019$139,749
FY2020$82,925
FY2021$35,268,685
FY2022$174,134
FY2023$904,934
FY2024$1,059,158
FY2025$1,048,145
FY2026$412,638
FY2027$321,714
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.
Largest vendors (25 of 57)
$35,007,000
$1,505,882
$1,358,422
$1,015,200
$108,600
$51,182
$38,000
$36,750
$34,525
$32,000
$30,600
$30,000
$29,897
$29,839
$21,463
$20,217
$18,500
$17,500
$17,000
$16,000
$14,300
$13,898
$11,790
$8,012
$8,000
What this does and doesn't show
- 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.
- Some payments name no company: the city files them under "GENERAL ONE-TIME VENDOR" or a bare asterisk — $683,428,414 across FY2018–FY2027, about 1.2% of all payments. Much of that is properly private, like legal settlements and housing assistance paid to individuals. Those payments aren't listed as vendors here because there's no vendor to list.
- A department total here is what moved through that department's books, not its budget. Funds it administers on someone else's behalf are included.
From the City of Houston's .