Department for the Blind

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

$3.9M

paid out, FY24

$1.5M

of it to individuals and others, unnamed (38%)²

$532K

more in transfers between state accounts³

Year by year

Payments by fiscal year, not counting transfers.

$3.9M

$2.8M

Show the numbers

Year	Paid	Individuals and others	Transfers
FY27 so far	$238K	$92K	$477K
FY26	$2.8M	$863K	$1.7M
FY25	$3.6M	$1.1M	$615K
FY24	$3.9M	$1.5M	$532K
FY23	$3.0M	$1.6M	$1.6M
FY22	$1.9M	$577K	$1.4M
FY21	$2.5M	$674K	$609K
FY20	$2.3M	$766K	$183K
FY19	$1.6M	$627K	$160K
FY18	$1.6M	$640K	$121K
FY17	$1.6M	$668K	$125K
FY16	$2.4M	$967K	$274K
FY15	$2.2M	$852K	$211K
FY14	$1.9M	$841K	$183K

The biggest kinds of spending by fiscal year.

Kind	FY23	FY24	FY25	FY26	FY27 so far
Aid to Individuals	$711K	$1.6M	$1.6M	$1.3M	$73K
IT Equipment & Software	$1.2M	$767K	$523K	$391K	$57K
Equipment	$365K	$407K	$211K	$309K	$0
Outside Services	$43K	$36K	$158K	$126K	$12K
Utilities	$136K	$118K	$118K	$123K	$42K
Outside Repairs/service	$146K	$313K	$314K	$199K	$11K
In State Travel	$99K	$84K	$59K	$35K	$1,996
Equipment-Non Inventory	$41K	$249K	$242K	$74K	$0
Rentals	$113K	$121K	$127K	$61K	$7,980
Communications	$60K	$70K	$68K	$59K	$7,500
Office Supplies	$31K	$35K	$35K	$19K	$14K
Facility Maintenance Supplies	$18K	$19K	$40K	$29K	$4,456
Prof & Scientific Services	$52K	$766	$543	$2,465	$1,416
Out of State Travel	$6,432	$13K	$14K	$3,840	$1,750
Reimbursements to Other Agency	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0

The 15 biggest of 30 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	$92K	38%	$439K
FY26	$863K	31%	$1.5M
FY25	$1.1M	32%	$513K
FY24	$1.5M	38%	$447K
FY23	$1.6M	53%	$1.5M
FY22	$577K	30%	$1.4M
FY21	$674K	27%	$570K
FY20	$766K	33%	$113K
FY19	$627K	38%	$113K
FY18	$640K	41%	$90K
FY17	$668K	41%	$104K
FY16	$967K	40%	$232K
FY15	$852K	39%	$182K
FY14	$841K	44%	$164K

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).