Human Services Independence

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

$2.9M

paid out, FY20

$887K

of it to individuals and others, unnamed (30%)²

$212K

more in transfers between state accounts³

Year by year

Payments by fiscal year, not counting transfers.

$5.5M

Show the numbers

Year	Paid	Individuals and others	Transfers
FY24	$5.5M	$753K	$348K
FY23	$4.8M	$799K	$350K
FY22	$3.1M	$760K	$258K
FY21	$3.2M	$780K	$228K
FY20	$2.9M	$887K	$212K
FY19	$2.8M	$713K	$232K
FY18	$2.7M	$650K	$181K
FY17	$2.6M	$750K	$118K
FY16	$2.5M	$728K	$121K
FY15	$2.9M	$977K	$156K
FY14	$2.6M	$1.0M	$84K

The biggest kinds of spending by fiscal year.

Kind	FY20	FY21	FY22	FY23	FY24
Prof & Scientific Services	$1.2M	$1.2M	$1.4M	$2.8M	$3.8M
Utilities	$460K	$499K	$483K	$454K	$476K
Drugs & Biologicals	$291K	$311K	$405K	$426K	$246K
Outside Services	$194K	$356K	$130K	$84K	$86K
Facility Maintenance Supplies	$201K	$119K	$104K	$159K	$102K
Outside Repairs/service	$167K	$175K	$163K	$55K	$115K
IT Equipment & Software	$82K	$150K	$111K	$237K	$99K
Equipment-Non Inventory	$24K	$14K	$57K	$159K	$269K
Prof. & Scientific Supplies	$63K	$60K	$64K	$31K	$12K
Equipment	$68K	$124K	$36K	$35K	$12K
Food	$28K	$20K	$28K	$35K	$37K
Other Supplies	$16K	$27K	$19K	$23K	$37K
Equipment Maintenance Supplies	$32K	$23K	$36K	$32K	$35K
Communications	$20K	$21K	$20K	$16K	$14K
IT Outside Services	$0	$1,650	$52	$71K	$96K

The 15 biggest of 31 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
FY24	$753K	14%	$657
FY23	$799K	17%	–
FY22	$760K	25%	–
FY21	$780K	24%	–
FY20	$887K	30%	–
FY19	$713K	26%	–
FY18	$650K	24%	–
FY17	$750K	28%	–
FY16	$728K	29%	–
FY15	$977K	34%	–
FY14	$1.0M	39%	–

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).