Vendor · #8149 by total payments to the State of Delaware

First Book

First Book has been paid $127,908 by the State of Delaware since FY2018, primarily through Dept of Education's Capital School District division.

ARP federal funds
$128K
total payments · FY18–FY26
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Sep 12, 2017First payment
Apr 24, 2026Last payment
98Payments
0Documents
6Programs
2Agencies

Relationships

Programs

ProgramAgencyAmountYears
Capital School District Dept of Education $32,032 FY18–FY26
Other Items Dept of Education $30,217 FY18–FY26
Brandywine School District Dept of Education $17,177 FY18–FY26
Milford School District Dept of Education $16,316 FY18–FY26
Colonial School District Dept of Education $10,906 FY18–FY26
Indian River School District Dept of Education $8,190 FY18–FY26
Laurel Esser III #4-21 Federal — American Rescue Plan $1,333 FY22

Money

Where it goes
By category
Books and Publications
$62K
Instructional Supplies
$42K
Instr Support Services
$15K
Student Support Supplies
$7K
Freight
$3K
Which pot of money
Federal Funds
$31K
Local Funds
$22K
General Fund
$3K
1ststate Montessori Acad Gener
$531
By fiscal year
FY18$4K
FY19$2K
FY20$25K
FY21$41K
FY22$12K
FY23$20K
FY24$10K
FY25$10K
FY26$4K
State credit-card purchases $23K · 8 years
Fiscal yearAmountTransactions
FY18$1,7709
FY19$1,8137
FY20$1,54114
FY21$2,7198
FY22$1,26712
FY23$4952
FY24$5,2709
FY26$8,3069
Who swipes, and for what
DepartmentCategoryAmountTransactions
Dept of Health and Social SvOrganizations Charitable and... $5,6653
Lake Forest School DistrictBook Stores $4,49320
Lake Forest School DistrictOrganizations Charitable and... $3,3603
Dept of Natrl Res and Env ContBook Stores $2,3658
Academia Antonia AlonsoOrganizations Charitable and... $1,8415
Charter School of New CastleOrganizations Charitable and... $1,4221
Caesar Rodney School DistrictOrganizations Charitable and... $8001
Delmar School DistrictBook Stores $7288
Dept of EducationBook Stores $5171
Milford School DistrictBook Stores $4441

Source: state employee credit-card dataset, matched by merchant name. FY2025 is missing from the state portal.

How the spending is booked 3 account lines
AccountAmountLine items
Instructional Supplies$27,32325
Books and Publications$22,16214
Student Support Supplies$6,5426

Fund and account lines come from the expenditure-detail dataset (source ↗), which itemizes payments at a finer grain than the checkbook.

Yearly totals — full table 9 fiscal years
Fiscal yearTotalChecks
FY18$4,40413
FY19$1,8016
FY20$25,00617
FY21$40,67017
FY22$12,0179
FY23$19,59813
FY24$10,27314
FY25$9,9396
FY26$4,2003
Browse every payment 98 checks →
Recent payments latest 15 checks
DateDepartmentCategoryAmount
Apr 24, 2026 Dept of EducationBooks and Publications $246
Feb 17, 2026 Dept of EducationBooks and Publications $3,360
Feb 6, 2026 Dept of EducationBooks and Publications $595
Apr 22, 2025 Dept of EducationInstructional Supplies $1,278
Mar 26, 2025 Dept of EducationStudent Support Supplies $1,016
Mar 25, 2025 Dept of EducationStudent Support Supplies $359
Dec 20, 2024 Dept of EducationBooks and Publications $6,349
Dec 10, 2024 Dept of EducationBooks and Publications $790
Aug 21, 2024 Dept of EducationInstructional Supplies $148
Jun 20, 2024 Dept of EducationInstructional Supplies $286
Jun 20, 2024 Dept of EducationInstructional Supplies $22
Jun 20, 2024 Dept of EducationInstructional Supplies $450
Jun 20, 2024 Dept of EducationInstructional Supplies $6
Jun 20, 2024 Dept of EducationInstructional Supplies $2,600
Jun 20, 2024 Dept of EducationInstructional Supplies $363

Source: State of Delaware checkbook · synced 2026-07-25. Open source dataset ↗

Source datasets

State checkbook (payments) · synced 2026-07-25 data.delaware.gov/d/5s6n-7hpx ↗
ARP transparency (federal funds) data.delaware.gov/d/e2rw-zi3s ↗