About SpendLedger

Governments publish their checkbooks: every payment to every vendor. But the portals they publish them on are built for auditors, not for answering simple questions. SpendLedger turns those records into plain reference pages: one page per vendor, one per agency, with totals, fiscal-year breakdowns, and recent payments.

The audience is anyone who works with public money: journalists checking who a state actually pays, businesses sizing up government customers and competitors, researchers, and citizens.

Everything on the site traces to an official source record. See data sources for what we ingest and methodology for how we handle it. We show figures as governments reported them; we don't estimate, model, or editorialize.

SpendLedger is a national project built state by state: each state comes online as its transparency portal's data is ingested, verified, and published, with the goal of covering all fifty. Ohio is first. Start with the Ohio vendor directory or Ohio agencies.