Governor

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

$216K

paid out, FY18

$33K

of it to individuals and others, unnamed (15%)²

$36K

more in transfers between state accounts³

Year by year

Payments by fiscal year, not counting transfers.

$242K

$136K

Show the numbers

Year	Paid	Individuals and others	Transfers
FY27 so far	$9,671	$8,324	$6,201
FY26	$136K	$106K	$98K
FY25	$149K	$118K	$31K
FY24	$152K	$129K	$31K
FY23	$131K	$93K	$28K
FY22	$187K	$59K	$17K
FY21	$209K	$53K	$7,748
FY20	$232K	$37K	$29K
FY19	$198K	$17K	$34K
FY18	$216K	$33K	$36K
FY17	$200K	$19K	$56K
FY16	$218K	$30K	$46K
FY15	$227K	$26K	$25K
FY14	$242K	$30K	$38K

The biggest kinds of spending by fiscal year.

Kind	FY23	FY24	FY25	FY26	FY27 so far
Rentals	$73K	$70K	$79K	$76K	$6,361
Office Supplies	$1,653	$1,946	$11K	$6,022	$542
IT Outside Services	$26K	$26K	$25K	$34K	$0
Communications	$16K	$14K	$14K	$12K	$112
Prof & Scientific Services	$0	$15K	$1,988	$0	$0
Outside Services	$6,630	$7,874	$5,949	$5,546	$887
In State Travel	$2,907	$1,051	$581	$881	$0
Out of State Travel	$854	$4,029	$5,199	$2,472	$0
Other Supplies	$972	$8,925	$313	$0	$0
IT Equipment & Software	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0
Printing & Binding	$567	$649	$0	$25	$320
Other Expenses & Obligations	$1,485	$1,793	$3,212	$0	$1,397
Food	$761	$334	$152	$0	$53
Personal Services	$0	$0	$1,915	$0	$0
Postage	$451	$301	$0	$0	$0

The 15 biggest of 19 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	$8,324	86%	–
FY26	$106K	78%	–
FY25	$118K	79%	–
FY24	$129K	84%	–
FY23	$93K	71%	–
FY22	$59K	32%	–
FY21	$53K	25%	–
FY20	$37K	16%	–
FY19	$17K	8%	–
FY18	$33K	15%	–
FY17	$19K	9%	–
FY16	$30K	14%	–
FY15	$26K	12%	–
FY14	$30K	12%	–

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).