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What's on this site
The site started as an interactive read of the Mayor's proposed budget and has grown to cover several adjacent datasets that give fuller context to each agency:
- Proposed budget chapters. Operating and capital budgets for 90+ agencies, extracted from the CFO's budget chapters. Searchable, sortable, and drillable to the line-item level. Grouped by appropriation cluster and by DC Council committee.
- Performance Accountability Reports (PARs). Roughly 2,000 performance measures from the Office of the City Administrator's annual PARs, including objectives, KPIs, and measure-level targets and actuals, shown alongside each agency's budget.
- Capital projects. Project-level detail behind each agency's capital number: what the money is funding, across which fiscal years, and from which source.
- Procurement (PASS data). Contracts and payments pulled from the DC PASS system. Every agency page shows its top vendors; every vendor page aggregates spend across agencies so you can see who is really getting paid.
- Federal funding (USAspending). Federal grants and awards flowing to each DC agency, for context on revenue risk and programs that depend on federal dollars.
- Vacancy rates. Per-agency vacancy rates computed from the DC employee salary API, using operating plus capital FTEs as the denominator.
- Flagged items. A personal bookmark list. Flag any agency or line item to build your own punch list for hearing prep or follow-up.
Data sources
Budget figures come from the DC Office of the CFO budget chapters and the DC Council Budget Office. Performance data is from OCA PARs. Contracts and payments come from DC PASS, federal awards from USAspending.gov, and salary/vacancy data from Open Data DC.
Who built it
This site is built and maintained by Josh Jacobson. Josh serves as Chair of ANC 1E and Treasurer for both Ward 1 Dems and Free DC Slate.
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Glossary
Acronyms used throughout the DC budget documents and this site.