City spending

Investment Management

The city's published checkbook records $1,015,407 paid out under this department across 12 payment lines and 3 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—

FY2019$666,133

FY2020$312,320

FY2021$18,704

FY2022—

FY2023—

FY2024—

FY2025—

FY2026—

FY2027$18,250

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 (3 of 3)

STATE OF TEXAS$942,160

FITCH INC.$18,250

EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT DIVSION$14,736

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 published checkbook ↗.