State budget

State checkbook

What state agencies paid out, added up by agency, by kind of spending and by the organizations paid. From the state’s own checkbook, FY14 to FY26.¹ The state budget · The source data

$17.02B

paid to vendors and others, FY26

$15.78B

to organizations we can name (93%)

$1.24B

to individuals and others, unnamed (7%)²

$9.20B

more in transfers between state accounts³

Year by year

Payments to vendors and others by fiscal year, not counting transfers.

$17.02B

Show the numbers

Year	Paid	Individuals and others	Transfers
FY26	$17.02B	$1.24B	$9.20B
FY25	$13.40B	$1.24B	$12.41B
FY24	$13.10B	$1.17B	$11.38B
FY23	$13.05B	$1.19B	$9.89B
FY22	$13.68B	$1.57B	$8.57B
FY21	$12.46B	$1.36B	$8.64B
FY20	$11.09B	$1.18B	$8.87B
FY19	$11.25B	$1.27B	$6.91B
FY18	$10.34B	$1.34B	$7.32B
FY17	$10.20B	$1.26B	$7.34B
FY16	$10.24B	$1.43B	$7.59B
FY15	$9.87B	$1.53B	$7.50B
FY14	$9.42B	$1.61B	$6.83B

By agency, FY26

Education$5.02B30%
Health and Human Services$4.65B27%
Revenue$2.24B13%
Transportation$2.03B12%
Treasurer of State$945.9M6%
Homeland Security and Emergency Management$323.1M2%
Administrative Services$203.5M1%
Chief Information Officer$188.0M1%
Iowa Economic Development Authority$173.6M1%
Workforce Development$148.6M1%
Board of Regents$118.7M1%
Natural Resources$93.5M1%

Every agency

Agency	Paid	Individuals and others	Transfers
Education	$5.02B	$164.6M	$320.9M
Health and Human Services	$4.65B	$259.4M	$6.93B
Revenue	$2.24B	$117.1M	$32.9M
Transportation	$2.03B	$214.0M	$508K
Treasurer of State	$945.9M	$51.9M	$25K
Homeland Security and Emergency Management	$323.1M	$21.0M	$226K
Administrative Services	$203.5M	$31.9M	$413.9M
Chief Information Officer	$188.0M	$55.5M	$188K
Iowa Economic Development Authority	$173.6M	$26.4M	$481K
Workforce Development	$148.6M	$56.3M	$391.7M
Board of Regents	$118.7M	$769K	$503.8M
Natural Resources	$93.5M	$15.4M	$4.5M
Agriculture and Land Stewardship	$92.9M	$40.4M	$321K
Iowa Lottery Authority	$84.9M	$723K	$24.1M
General Services Capitals	$63.6M	$6.9M	$96
Finance Authority	$62.6M	$89K	$149K
Public Safety	$50.4M	$14.1M	$47.7M
State Public Defender	$46.1M	$21.9M	$38K
State Accounting Trust Accounts	$45.0M	$43.8M	$312.6M
Public Defense	$43.0M	$5.7M	$1.7M
Attorney General	$34.7M	$11.4M	$1.5M
Soybean Promotion Board	$33.9M	$0	$0
Transportation, Capitals	$33.8M	$2.6M	$0
Management	$30.3M	$6.1M	$2,376
Corn Promotion Board	$25.0M	$0	$0
Iowa Communications Network	$22.2M	$3.9M	$26K
Corrections Industries	$21.2M	$7.1M	$550K
Regents, Capital Expenditures	$20.3M	$0	$0
Corrections Iowa Medical and Classification Center	$15.0M	$1.4M	$1.9M
Iowa Veterans Home	$14.1M	$2.7M	$3.0M
State Fair	$12.5M	$12.5M	$0
IPERS	$11.7M	$4.0M	$190.1M
Corrections Central Office	$11.4M	$1.7M	$72K
Inspections and Appeals	$10.6M	$4.8M	$142K
Iowa PBS	$7.0M	$4.1M	$189K
Corrections Newton	$5.9M	$1.9M	$827K
Human Services Assistance Payments	$5.8M	$1.5M	$274
Corrections Anamosa	$5.4M	$2.6M	$2.0M
Corrections Fort Madison	$4.7M	$1.7M	$1.2M
Public Defense, Capitals	$4.6M	$707K	$0
Corrections Mitchellville	$4.5M	$1.3M	$635K
Corrections Clarinda	$4.5M	$1.1M	$1.0M
Insurance	$4.3M	$1.1M	$167K
Secretary of State	$4.2M	$545K	$136K
Corrections Mt Pleasant	$4.1M	$1.6M	$754K
CBC District V	$3.4M	$2.0M	$43K
Corrections Fort Dodge	$3.1M	$1.3M	$2.4M
Department for the Blind	$2.8M	$863K	$1.7M
Executive Council	$2.7M	$464K	$0
CBC District I	$2.5M	$423K	$57K
State Fair Capitals	$2.3M	$2.3M	$0
Utilities	$2.2M	$283K	$172K
Veterans Affairs	$2.2M	$531K	$14K
CBC District IV	$2.1M	$120K	$38K
Corrections Rockwell City	$2.0M	$646K	$706K
Ag- Cattle Promotion Board	$1.6M	$0	$0
CBC District VII	$1.5M	$385K	$88K
Racing Commission - Inspect and Appeals	$1.5M	$197K	$19K
CBC Dictrict VI	$1.4M	$228K	$34K
Law Enforcement Academy	$1.4M	$322K	$174K
CBC Dictrict II	$1.3M	$730K	$451K
Ag- Egg Council	$1.0M	$0	$0
CBC District VIII	$1.0M	$324K	$219K
Auditor of State	$1.0M	$497K	$29K
Corrections Capitals	$1.0M	$423K	$0
Banking	$726K	$377K	$145K
CBC District III	$690K	$159K	$50K
Corrections Farm Account	$376K	$71K	$927
Ag- Turkey Marketing Council	$345K	$0	$0
Credit Union	$296K	$150K	$18K
Legislative Capital	$177K	$91K	$0
Judicial Capitals	$170K	$0	$0
Ethics and Campaign Disclosure	$152K	$37K	$4,198
Ag- Loess Hills Soil	$140K	$140K	$0
Governor	$136K	$106K	$98K
Trea of St Tobacco Settlement	$119K	$0	$0
Consumer Advocate	$94K	$38K	$12K
Parole Board	$93K	$4,425	$25K
Blind - Capitals	$54K	$0	$0
Public Information Board	$12K	$8,514	$13

By kind of spending, FY26

The state’s expense categories. “Aid to individuals” and “State aid” are money passed on to people, schools and local governments.

State Aid$6.03B35%
Aid to Individuals$3.89B23%
Capitals$1.67B10%
Refunds-Local Option$1.31B8%
Refunds-Other$1.22B7%
Outside Services$709.7M4%
Prof & Scientific Services$438.8M3%
Inventory$279.1M2%
Intra-State Transfers$182.4M1%
IT Outside Services$173.8M1%
IT Equipment & Software$137.9M1%
Other Expenses & Obligations$116.8M1%

Organizations paid the most, FY26

Dept Human Services-Directed Payments$2.09B 12%
Dept Human Services-Non-Mco Expenditures$648.0M 4%
Des Moines Independent Community Schools$389.1M 2%
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services-Medicare Related Payments$362.7M 2%
Sioux City Comm Sch Dist$185.4M 1%
Cedar Rapids CSD$183.7M 1%
Dept Human Services-Hawki Program Expenditures (mco)$177.3M 1%
Davenport Comm Sch Dist$158.7M 1%
Waterloo Comm Sch Dist$142.2M 1%
Peterson Contractors Inc$129.6M 1%
Waukee Comm Sch Dist$128.1M 1%
Iowa City Comm Sch Dist$126.3M 1%
Des Moines City of$125.2M 1%
Ankeny Comm Sch Dist$116.1M 1%
Cedar Rapids City of$113.0M 1%
Dept Human Services-Withhold Payments$110.3M 1%
C J Moyna & Sons LLC$109.7M 1%
Dubuque Comm Sch Dist$108.8M 1%
Council Bluffs Comm Schl$103.7M 1%
University of Iowa$99.6M 1%

Share of all payments that year. Every agency’s payments added together.

Payments to individuals and others

In FY26, $1.24B (7% of payments) went to payees that aren’t named here: people, and payees whose names don’t show they’re an organization. The state also lists $459.5M of its transfers and other entries under RESTRICTED payees.⁴

Notes

The executive branch’s central accounting system only. It leaves out the Legislature and the courts, and spending recorded in other systems. A fiscal year runs July 1 to June 30, plus payments made in July and August for goods and services received by June 30. Refunds and voided payments count as negative amounts. ↩
Iowa Funnel names a payee only when its name shows it is an organization: a company (Inc, LLC, Corp and the like), a government, a school district, a college, a hospital, a bank, a church or another institution. Payments to everyone else are added into one total for each agency and year. Their names aren’t kept or searchable. When we can’t tell, a payee counts with individuals, so that total also holds some businesses. ↩
The state marks some entries as not a payment to an outside vendor: transfers between state accounts, payroll deductions and similar entries. They count in an agency’s total but not under any payee. ↩
The state removes names it must keep confidential under state or federal law and lists them as RESTRICTED. Among payments to vendors, they count with individuals here; most are recorded as transfers and other entries. Some payments are only recorded as totals in the state’s accounting system, such as Medicaid, IPERS pensions, unemployment benefits and tax refunds, so the people paid aren’t listed at all. ↩

Sources: State of Iowa Executive Branch Checkbook on the Iowa Data Hub (Iowa Department of Administrative Services): the full ledger (dataset 1021), its yearly files, and the last 90 days (1076) for the year still open.