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The city's published checkbook records $15,296,326 paid out under this department across 1,732 payment lines and 86 named vendors, FY2018–FY2026.
Department name as the city's finance system records it. The city's budget year runs July 1 to June 30, so FY2026 means July 2025 through June 2026.
By fiscal year
FY2018$852,197
FY2019$476,364
FY2020$7,835,537
FY2021$988,116
FY2022$779,950
FY2023$373,008
FY2024$516,764
FY2025$1,193,476
FY2026$2,280,914
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 86)
$7,027,781
$2,515,322
$621,462
$332,306
$310,033
$269,244
$241,017
$205,804
$189,446
$169,500
$139,646
$130,457
$129,562
$128,000
$112,952
$106,014
$104,950
$104,666
$100,215
$98,000
$88,890
$87,979
$86,916
$80,812
$78,637
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 — $617,266,200 across FY2018–FY2026, 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 .