Overview — how Austin’s money is organized

Where the city’s large vendor payments go — and who’s accountable. Snapshot 2026-10-09.
Large vendor payments Austin made — that we can trace
$3,205,903,499
over the last 12 months · 3,669 checks · 560 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
$1,144,466,455
traced vendor payments · 12 mo
1,759
checks
284
vendors
96% references a contract or delivery order · 4% is direct ($41.9M, 75 checks with no document to open) — the closer-look pile.

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

362 checks · 56 recipients
556 checks · 91 recipients
704 checks · 128 recipients
74 checks · 22 recipients
37 checks · 13 recipients
5 checks · 3 recipients
10 checks · 8 recipients
4 checks · 4 recipients
2 checks · 1 recipient
1 check · 1 recipient
4 checks

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

48 checks · 4 recipients
263 checks
35 checks · 2 recipients
366 checks
55 checks · 3 recipients
52 checks · 3 recipients
101 checks
129 checks · 37 recipients
88 checks
21 checks · 1 recipient
77 checks · 8 recipients
104 checks · 23 recipients
19 checks · 2 recipients
16 checks · 4 recipients
37 checks
62 checks
54 checks
20 checks
40 checks
8 checks
32 checks
39 checks
30 checks
10 checks
28 checks
23 checks
2 checks
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 2026-10-09; data goes back to 2025-04-09. 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.