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The Money Trail
Vendor Spending, Traced

A budget tells you what was appropriated. The Money Trail tells you what was actually paid—and to whom. Browse every state payment to vendors, rank the biggest recipients, and see which agencies are writing the checks.

Follow the Dollars

Every Payment, Every Vendor

Search the full record of what the State of Florida pays its vendors. Filter by agency, spending category, and fiscal year to isolate exactly the payments that matter to your clients—then open any vendor to see the full picture of who they do business with.

Top Paid Rankings

See the vendors receiving the most from the state, ranked and sortable—instant competitive context

Criteria Search

Narrow spending by agency, category, and fiscal year to surface the payments relevant to any portfolio

Vendor Profiles

Every vendor has a profile with agency-by-agency spending breakdowns and their full payment history

Per-Payment Drill-Down

Open any individual payment to inspect the underlying transaction detail

Line Item to Payment

The connective tissue between what was budgeted and what was spent

Relationship Intelligence

The Money Trail turns raw payment data into relationships you can act on. Follow a vendor back to the lobbyists and firms connected to them, and see their full footprint across agencies and fiscal years. It is the layer that turns a spreadsheet of numbers into a story you can brief a client on.

Vendor → Lobbyist Connections

See the lobbyists and firms associated with a vendor for full competitive and relationship context

Agency Breakdowns

Understand which departments a vendor is paid by, and how much, at a glance

Built Into the Platform

Spending Intelligence, End to End

The Money Trail is live on the web and in the API—so the same data that powers your research also powers your integrations and reports.

Top Paid Rankings

Rank vendors by total state payments and drill into any recipient to understand the scale of their business with the state.

Criteria Search

Filter spending by agency, spending category, and fiscal year to isolate exactly the payments relevant to a client or issue.

Vendor Profiles

Every vendor gets a profile with agency-level spending breakdowns, payment history, and links to connected lobbyists and firms.

Agency Profiles

Every paying agency gets its own profile—spending by category, top vendors, and fiscal-year trends at a glance.

Why This Matters

Appropriations are only half the story. Money moves after the budget passes, and the vendors who receive it—and the relationships behind them—shape the market your clients operate in. The Money Trail lets you answer the questions that budgets alone can't: who actually got paid, by which agency, for how much, and who is connected to them. That is the difference between reporting a number and delivering intelligence.

See It in Action

Follow the Money—All the Way to the Vendor

Schedule a demo to see how The Money Trail surfaces every state payment, ranks the state's biggest vendors, and gives you spending intelligence your clients can't get anywhere else.