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

$13.40B

paid to vendors and others, FY25

$12.16B

to organizations we can name (91%)

$1.24B

to individuals and others, unnamed (9%)²

$12.41B

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, FY25

Education$4.93B37%
Revenue$2.19B16%
Transportation$1.98B15%
Treasurer of State$924.8M7%
Health and Human Services$720.4M5%
Human Services Assistance Payments$499.9M4%
Homeland Security and Emergency Management$286.5M2%
Administrative Services$199.1M1%
Iowa Economic Development Authority$196.1M1%
Chief Information Officer$179.0M1%
Board of Regents$115.5M1%
Workforce Development$114.6M1%

Every agency

Agency	Paid	Individuals and others	Transfers
Education	$4.93B	$165.3M	$196.6M
Revenue	$2.19B	$123.6M	$23.9M
Transportation	$1.98B	$202.6M	$432K
Treasurer of State	$924.8M	$42.2M	$83K
Health and Human Services	$720.4M	$128.5M	$5.4M
Human Services Assistance Payments	$499.9M	$129.5M	$10.25B
Homeland Security and Emergency Management	$286.5M	$33.6M	$128K
Administrative Services	$199.1M	$30.2M	$387.8M
Iowa Economic Development Authority	$196.1M	$27.8M	$419K
Chief Information Officer	$179.0M	$75.3M	$189K
Board of Regents	$115.5M	$760K	$503.8M
Workforce Development	$114.6M	$13.1M	$402.7M
Natural Resources	$103.8M	$16.3M	$4.7M
Agriculture and Land Stewardship	$92.4M	$41.1M	$425K
Finance Authority	$74.5M	$75K	$111K
Iowa Lottery Authority	$66.3M	$5.0M	$23.7M
Public Safety	$64.4M	$18.0M	$44.7M
General Services Capitals	$62.9M	$16.8M	$0
Management	$54.3M	$14.2M	$6,810
Public Defense	$49.3M	$5.9M	$1.6M
Public Health	$48.7M	$9.4M	$13.7M
State Public Defender	$46.3M	$23.1M	$37K
IPERS	$39.0M	$27.5M	$184.4M
Soybean Promotion Board	$35.5M	$0	$0
Attorney General	$33.5M	$12.1M	$2.6M
Vocational Rehabilitation	$32.4M	$10.8M	$1.7M
Corn Promotion Board	$27.7M	$0	$0
Iowa Communications Network	$25.6M	$4.9M	$31K
Corrections Industries	$19.7M	$7.5M	$617K
Transportation, Capitals	$14.6M	$1.8M	$0
Corrections Iowa Medical and Classification Center	$13.1M	$991K	$1.6M
Iowa Veterans Home	$13.1M	$2.2M	$3.2M
Corrections Central Office	$12.4M	$1.2M	$112K
Inspections and Appeals	$11.6M	$2.4M	$187K
Regents, Capital Expenditures	$10.1M	$0	$0
Iowa PBS	$8.1M	$5.3M	$282K
Public Defense, Capitals	$7.1M	$928K	$0
State Accounting Trust Accounts	$6.0M	$5.3M	$342.2M
Corrections Newton	$5.8M	$2.4M	$808K
State Fair	$5.1M	$5.1M	$0
Corrections Fort Madison	$5.0M	$1.5M	$1.7M
Corrections Anamosa	$4.6M	$1.9M	$2.1M
Corrections Mt Pleasant	$4.4M	$1.9M	$983K
CBC District V	$4.3M	$2.2M	$29K
State Fair Capitals	$4.1M	$4.1M	$0
Secretary of State	$4.0M	$561K	$131K
Corrections Clarinda	$3.8M	$1.2M	$1.0M
Insurance	$3.8M	$1.3M	$156K
Department for the Blind	$3.6M	$1.1M	$615K
Corrections Mitchellville	$3.2M	$703K	$539K
Executive Council	$3.0M	$292K	$0
CBC District I	$2.9M	$530K	$52K
Utilities	$2.7M	$294K	$162K
Corrections Fort Dodge	$2.4M	$800K	$2.6M
Veterans Affairs	$2.4M	$693K	$16K
CBC Dictrict VI	$2.0M	$429K	$50K
CBC District VII	$1.9M	$586K	$118K
Corrections Rockwell City	$1.9M	$613K	$737K
Ag- Cattle Promotion Board	$1.7M	$0	$0
Legislative Capital	$1.6M	$0	$0
Racing Commission - Inspect and Appeals	$1.2M	$400K	$14K
CBC Dictrict II	$1.1M	$429K	$575K
CBC District IV	$1.1M	$379K	$53K
Auditor of State	$1.0M	$466K	$28K
CBC District VIII	$1.0M	$230K	$207K
Law Enforcement Academy	$998K	$475K	$119K
Corrections Farm Account	$953K	$316K	$1,142
Ag- Egg Council	$940K	$0	$0
CBC District III	$712K	$155K	$53K
Banking	$676K	$338K	$97K
Judicial Capitals	$638K	$1,184	$0
Ag- Turkey Marketing Council	$346K	$0	$0
Credit Union	$266K	$135K	$6,270
Blind - Capitals	$181K	$0	$0
Consumer Advocate	$150K	$69K	$18K
Governor	$149K	$118K	$31K
Ag- Loess Hills Soil	$140K	$140K	$0
Ethics and Campaign Disclosure	$104K	$9,014	$1,780
Corrections Capitals	$94K	$0	$0
Parole Board	$75K	$3,227	$26K
Trea of St Tobacco Settlement	$69K	$0	$0
Public Safety, Capitals	$17K	$17K	$17K
Public Information Board	$15K	$12K	$0

By kind of spending, FY25

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

State Aid$5.96B45%
Capitals$1.62B12%
Refunds-Other$1.36B10%
Refunds-Local Option$1.25B9%
Outside Services$742.4M6%
Prof & Scientific Services$439.9M3%
Aid to Individuals$388.6M3%
Inventory$291.3M2%
IT Outside Services$155.0M1%
Intra-State Transfers$143.5M1%
Other Expenses & Obligations$120.6M1%
IT Equipment & Software$119.7M1%

Organizations paid the most, FY25

Des Moines Independent Community Schools$369.2M 3%
Sioux City Comm Sch Dist$178.9M 1%
Cedar Rapids CSD$175.1M 1%
Davenport Comm Sch Dist$151.5M 1%
C J Moyna & Sons LLC$139.5M 1%
Waterloo Comm Sch Dist$130.1M 1%
Cedar Rapids City of$122.1M 1%
Polk County$120.3M 1%
Waukee Comm Sch Dist$116.6M 1%
Des Moines City of$115.6M 1%
Iowa City Comm Sch Dist$114.6M 1%
Manatts Inc$109.5M 1%
Ankeny Comm Sch Dist$107.0M 1%
Peterson Contractors Inc$102.4M 1%
Dubuque Comm Sch Dist$101.3M 1%
Council Bluffs Comm Schl$99.4M 1%
Heartland Area Education Agency$96.0M 1%
University of Iowa$81.1M 1%
Iowa State University$76.3M 1%
Southeast Polk Comm SD$73.4M 1%

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

Payments to individuals and others

In FY25, $1.24B (9% 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 $479.9M 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.