Vendor · #2573 by total payments to the State of Delaware

Guitar Center INC

Guitar Center INC has been paid $1.1 million by the State of Delaware since FY2018, primarily through Dept of Education's Brandywine School District division.

No payments since FY22
$1.1M
total payments · FY18–FY22
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Jul 21, 2017First payment
Nov 23, 2021Last payment
1,946Payments
0Documents
6Programs
3Agencies

Relationships

Programs

ProgramAgencyAmountYears
Brandywine School District Dept of Education $364,800 FY18–FY22
Del State Univ-Operations Higher Education $239,651 FY18–FY22
Red Clay Consolidated Sch Dist Dept of Education $137,414 FY18–FY22
Christina School District Dept of Education $86,108 FY18–FY22
Colonial School District Dept of Education $57,182 FY18–FY22
Appoquinimink School District Dept of Education $52,567 FY18–FY22

Money

Where it goes
By category
Instructional Supplies
$602K
Recreational Equipment
$245K
Instructional Services
$96K
Equipment Repair
$71K
Operating Supplies
$47K
Which pot of money
Local Funds
$83K
General Fund
$16K
Providence Creek General
$5K
Federal Funds
$4K
Newark General
$2K
By fiscal year
FY18$120K
FY19$204K
FY20$395K
FY21$287K
FY22$112K
State credit-card purchases $18K · 7 years
Fiscal yearAmountTransactions
FY18$2992
FY19$1,8605
FY21$2,6052
FY22$2,1656
FY23$5,04413
FY24$6,0487
FY26$2261
Who swipes, and for what
DepartmentCategoryAmountTransactions
Odyssey CharterMusic Stores-Instruments... $5,89611
Charter School of New CastleMusic Stores-Instruments... $5,15012
Colonial School DistrictMusic Stores-Instruments... $4,4931
Dept of CorrectionsMusic Stores-Instruments... $1,4105
Freire Charter SchoolMusic Stores-Instruments... $5562
Brandywine School DistrictMusic Stores-Instruments... $3001
Dept of Natrl Res and Env ContMusic Stores-Instruments... $2361
Services for Children Youth...Music Stores-Instruments... $1191
Dept of StateMusic Stores-Instruments... $541
Gateway Lab SchoolMusic Stores-Instruments... $331

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

How the spending is booked 8 account lines
AccountAmountLine items
Instructional Supplies$78,128121
Instructional Services$16,62245
Instructional Equipment$6,0001
Office Supplies$4,3753
Equipment Repair$3,1712
Recreational Equipment$1,8001
Schools Operating Supplies$80912
Multimedia Supplies$7192

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 5 fiscal years
Fiscal yearTotalChecks
FY18$120,206330
FY19$203,998491
FY20$395,396538
FY21$286,599400
FY22$111,625187
Browse every payment 1,946 checks →
Recent payments latest 15 checks
DateDepartmentCategoryAmount
Nov 23, 2021 Dept of EducationInstructional Services $348
Nov 23, 2021 Dept of EducationInstructional Services $210
Nov 23, 2021 Dept of EducationInstructional Services $338
Nov 23, 2021 Dept of EducationInstructional Services $322
Nov 23, 2021 Dept of EducationInstructional Services $95
Nov 23, 2021 Dept of EducationInstructional Services $20
Nov 23, 2021 Dept of EducationInstructional Services $160
Nov 23, 2021 Dept of EducationInstructional Services $40
Nov 23, 2021 Dept of EducationInstructional Services $115
Nov 22, 2021 Dept of EducationInstructional Supplies $230
Nov 19, 2021 Dept of Education ContinuedInstructional Supplies $697
Nov 19, 2021 Dept of EducationInstructional Supplies $190
Nov 19, 2021 Dept of Education ContinuedInstructional Supplies $211
Nov 15, 2021 Dept of EducationInstructional Supplies $800
Nov 15, 2021 Dept of EducationMultimedia Supplies $450

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 ↗