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 jurisdiction by jurisdiction: each state or city comes online as its transparency portal's data is ingested, verified, and published, with the goal of covering all fifty. Start with the covered states and cities.

Traffic measurement: we count pageviews with analytics configured to store nothing on your device: no cookies, no session recording, no cross-site tracking. Visit counts undercount as a result, and we prefer that trade. Emails you give us are used for the alerts you ask for and nothing else.