Auditor of State

What this part of state government paid out, by kind of spending and by the organizations paid.¹

$829K

paid out, FY18

$457K

of it to individuals and others, unnamed (55%)²

$35K

more in transfers between state accounts³

Year by year

Payments by fiscal year, not counting transfers.

$1.1M

$1.0M

Show the numbers

Year	Paid	Individuals and others	Transfers
FY27 so far	$105K	$41K	$8,331
FY26	$1.0M	$497K	$29K
FY25	$1.0M	$466K	$28K
FY24	$1.1M	$361K	$37K
FY23	$730K	$201K	$28K
FY22	$523K	$261K	$37K
FY21	$446K	$165K	$40K
FY20	$817K	$352K	$25K
FY19	$825K	$475K	$37K
FY18	$829K	$457K	$35K
FY17	$851K	$541K	$50K
FY16	$875K	$486K	$41K
FY15	$763K	$467K	$30K
FY14	$579K	$362K	$22K

The biggest kinds of spending by fiscal year.

Kind	FY23	FY24	FY25	FY26	FY27 so far
Prof & Scientific Services	$341K	$208K	$288K	$449K	$3,365
IT Equipment & Software	$228K	$646K	$432K	$387K	$46K
In State Travel	$86K	$105K	$120K	$111K	$42K
Communications	$53K	$50K	$44K	$31K	$11K
Office Supplies	$19K	$33K	$24K	$27K	$252
Refunds-Other	$239	$0	$87K	$2,626	$0
Outside Services	$722	$15K	$806	$4,062	$263
Prof. & Scientific Supplies	$600	$1,457	$39K	$23K	$2,442
Out of State Travel	$0	$1,441	$3,897	$0	$0
Reimbursements to Other Agency	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0
Personal Services	$1,619	$0	$0	$0	$0
Rentals	$218	$825	$80	$80	$0
Outside Repairs/service	$0	$400	$1,489	$0	$0
Office Equipment	$0	$983	$0	$0	$0
Postage	$58	$0	$0	$11	$0

The 15 biggest of 17 kinds.

One total each year for payees not named here. The last column also counts transfers and other entries the state lists under RESTRICTED payees.⁴

Year	Individuals and others	Share	Listed as RESTRICTED
FY27 so far	$41K	39%	–
FY26	$497K	48%	$818
FY25	$466K	45%	$429
FY24	$361K	34%	$702
FY23	$201K	28%	$715
FY22	$261K	50%	$545
FY21	$165K	37%	–
FY20	$352K	43%	–
FY19	$475K	58%	–
FY18	$457K	55%	–
FY17	$541K	64%	–
FY16	$486K	56%	–
FY15	$467K	61%	–
FY14	$362K	63%	–

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: the full ledger (dataset 1021) and its yearly files; the last 90 days (1076).