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The city's published checkbook records $13,211,569 paid out under this department across 2,235 payment lines and 96 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$1,144,122
FY2019$2,291,625
FY2020$2,382,620
FY2021$1,737,752
FY2022$1,061,246
FY2023$946,373
FY2024$1,881,354
FY2025$1,198,316
FY2026$568,161
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 96)
$4,244,709
$1,827,674
$1,543,505
$548,000
$498,489
$464,488
$411,381
$375,784
$375,191
$267,573
$225,650
$211,725
$146,984
$103,932
$96,346
$92,689
$82,402
$73,707
$73,483
$71,621
$60,528
$60,501
$53,111
$52,358
$50,289
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 .