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What has the City spent on Matching Grant Program?

$4.6M across 824 payments, July 10, 2017 to September 9, 2026 — 360 purchase orders and 215 vendors, run by Cultural Affairs.

Checkbook LA · Through Sep 9, 2026

As published: MATCHING GRANT PROGRAM

Spans more than one contract

This budget line has run for 10 fiscal years across 360 separate purchase orders. A single payment in the register shows none of that — the commitment outlives any one order, and the orders are how it gets renewed.

$4.6MTotal spent
360Purchase orders
215Vendors
10%Largest vendor's share

Spending by fiscal year

FY2017-18
$417K
FY2018-19
$521K
FY2019-20
$359K
FY2020-21
$403K
FY2021-22
$272K
FY2022-23
$526K
FY2023-24
$781K
FY2024-25
$548K
FY2025-26
$662K
FY2026-27 *
$118K

* FY2026-27 is still in progress — not a full year. Same point of FY2025-26 (payments dated through Sep 9, 2025): $149K.

Who was paid

The 25 largest of 215 vendors on this line.

10 payments

8 payments

9 payments

20 payments

6 payments

15 payments

16 payments

12 payments

6 payments

6 payments

14 payments

6 payments

5 payments

4 payments

10 payments

5 payments

10 payments

10 payments

Under which orders

The 39 largest of 360 purchase orders booked to this line.

2 payments · February 9, 2023 to September 20, 2023

3 payments · November 21, 2024 to July 22, 2025

2 payments · December 13, 2018 to June 20, 2019

2 payments · July 28, 2020 to February 25, 2021

1 payment · October 4, 2023 to October 4, 2023

3 payments · November 21, 2025 to July 16, 2026

2 payments · November 14, 2025 to March 4, 2026

3 payments · August 30, 2018 to October 16, 2019

2 payments · February 22, 2023 to January 16, 2024

3 payments · December 17, 2024 to May 27, 2025

3 payments · December 19, 2023 to June 12, 2024

4 payments · November 26, 2019 to July 7, 2020

2 payments · October 30, 2017 to October 2, 2018

3 payments · January 20, 2023 to July 5, 2023

1 payment · August 3, 2017 to August 3, 2017

3 payments · January 16, 2019 to August 13, 2019

3 payments · December 2, 2020 to June 15, 2021

3 payments · January 6, 2022 to July 22, 2022

3 payments · August 22, 2019 to September 17, 2020

3 payments · February 2, 2018 to April 23, 2018

1 payment · September 28, 2020 to September 28, 2020

1 payment · September 13, 2023 to September 13, 2023

2 payments · December 16, 2022 to December 16, 2022

2 payments · December 12, 2017 to August 24, 2018

2 payments · August 30, 2023 to May 15, 2024

2 payments · November 25, 2024 to June 4, 2025

2 payments · September 7, 2017 to September 7, 2017

2 payments · July 12, 2022 to January 16, 2024

1 payment · September 25, 2024 to September 25, 2024

1 payment · September 17, 2025 to September 17, 2025

1 payment · September 19, 2022 to September 19, 2022

1 payment · April 27, 2022 to April 27, 2022

1 payment · April 27, 2023 to April 27, 2023

1 payment · July 12, 2023 to July 12, 2023

2 payments · January 20, 2023 to September 27, 2023

1 payment · September 28, 2023 to September 28, 2023

2 payments · April 6, 2023 to June 7, 2024

1 payment · October 25, 2023 to October 25, 2023

1 payment · April 24, 2024 to April 24, 2024

Sources

LA Controller, Checkbook LA (pggv-e4fn), totalled nightly. Grouped by account_name, the budget line a payment is booked against — populated on every row, and the most useful field for understanding what a payment actually bought. Back to the checkbook.