Overview — how Austin’s money is organized

Where the city’s large vendor payments go — and who’s accountable. Snapshot 2026-07-28.
Large vendor payments Austin made — that we can trace
$3,087,199,906
over the last 12 months · 3,628 checks · 564 vendors · sorted into the city’s own fund types
Time range
Where it went — click a fund

Enterprise (fee-supported)

Self-supporting services paid by user fees — water, energy, airport, trash.

Approx scale (FY2026)~$3.9B · FY26 · 8 enterprise depts (Energy, Water, Aviation…)
Accountable toRatepayers/users + utility & airport oversight
$1,099,107,497
traced vendor payments · 12 mo
1,721
checks
277
vendors
93% references a contract or delivery order · 7% is direct ($75.2M, 83 checks with no document to open) — the closer-look pile.

Where it went — by department & recipient (click to expand)

367 checks · 57 recipients
521 checks · 83 recipients
697 checks · 129 recipients
70 checks · 25 recipients
39 checks · 13 recipients
11 checks · 8 recipients
4 checks · 2 recipients
2 checks · 1 recipient
5 checks · 4 recipients
3 checks · 2 recipients
2 checks

What the money bought — type of spend, City object code (click to expand)

45 checks · 4 recipients
241 checks
345 checks
122 checks
53 checks · 3 recipients
31 checks · 2 recipients
45 checks · 4 recipients
15 checks · 5 recipients
128 checks · 40 recipients
20 checks · 2 recipients
27 checks · 1 recipient
88 checks
76 checks · 8 recipients
94 checks · 18 recipients
73 checks
55 checks
31 checks
43 checks
34 checks
7 checks
44 checks
9 checks
33 checks
12 checks
27 checks
22 checks
1 check
Explore every check in the bottom-up view →See contracts drawn on this fund →

This overview aggregates the fund’s recipients and spend types. The bottom-up view lists every individual check (newest first) with its source document — the same money, itemized for line-by-line inspection.

What you’re looking at. Every large check (≥ $100,000) the city cut in the selected window, read straight from the City of Austin checkbook and sorted into Austin’s own fund types. Snapshot 2026-07-28; data goes back to 2025-01-28. This is money out to vendors — not the whole budget: salaries, sub-$100k payments, and internal transfers aren’t here (that’s why the General Fund looks small). The “approx scale” figures are rounded FY2026 references for context, not precise appropriations. Note: our data begins mid-FY2025, so fiscal-year totals before that date are incomplete.