Vendor · #2840 by total payments to the State of Delaware

J W Pepper & Son INC

J W Pepper & Son INC has been paid $953,452 by the State of Delaware since FY2018, primarily through Dept of Education's Brandywine School District division.

High activityARP federal fundsRecent payments
$953K
total payments · FY18–FY26
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Jul 11, 2017First payment
Jun 23, 2026Last payment
5,878Payments
0Documents
6Programs
2Agencies

Relationships

Programs

ProgramAgencyAmountYears
Brandywine School District Dept of Education $159,807 FY18–FY26
Red Clay Consolidated Sch Dist Dept of Education $126,611 FY18–FY26
Cape Henlopen School District Dept of Education $98,485 FY18–FY26
Newark Charter School Dept of Education $82,890 FY18–FY26
Indian River School District Dept of Education $79,328 FY18–FY26
Colonial School District Dept of Education $62,485 FY18–FY26
Seaford Esser III #7-21 Federal — American Rescue Plan $2,254 FY23–FY24
Cape Henlopen Esser III #5-21 Federal — American Rescue Plan $1,206 FY24
Caesar Rodney Esser III #1-21 Federal — American Rescue Plan $380 FY22

Money

Where it goes
By category
Instructional Supplies
$889K
Schools Operating Supplies
$21K
Recreational Equipment
$9K
Student Body Activity
$7K
Office Supplies
$6K
Which pot of money
Local Funds
$346K
General Fund
$136K
Newark General
$45K
Federal Funds
$23K
Mot General
$10K
By fiscal year
FY18$97K
FY19$113K
FY20$96K
FY21$59K
FY22$102K
FY23$109K
FY24$110K
FY25$135K
FY26$133K
State credit-card purchases $15K · 2 years
Fiscal yearAmountTransactions
FY18$10,35145
FY19$4,81021
Who swipes, and for what
DepartmentCategoryAmountTransactions
Cape Henlopen School DistrictMusic Stores-Instruments... $6,64824
Lake Forest School DistrictMusic Stores-Instruments... $3,7869
Appoquinimink School DistrictMusic Stores-Instruments... $2,39614
Mot Charter SchoolMusic Stores-Instruments... $1,0449
Polytech School DistrictMusic Stores-Instruments... $4391
Thomas A Edison Charter SchoolMusic Stores-Instruments... $3213
Red Clay Consolidated Sch DistMusic Stores-Instruments... $2312
Odyssey CharterMusic Stores-Instruments... $1521
Milford School DistrictMusic Stores-Instruments... $912
Seaford School DistrictMusic Stores-Instruments... $521

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

How the spending is booked 10 account lines
AccountAmountLine items
Instructional Supplies$544,1733,418
Schools Operating Supplies$20,6179
Office Supplies$5,26717
Student Body Activity$5,14548
Freight$4,146211
Recreational Equipment$3,57724
Books and Publications$1,83814
Institutional Equipment$1,6682
Student Support Supplies$1,01116
Institutional Supplies$1,0071

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$97,217528
FY19$112,955665
FY20$95,661612
FY21$58,792307
FY22$101,781659
FY23$109,199772
FY24$110,251769
FY25$134,999779
FY26$132,596787
Browse every payment 5,878 checks →
Recent payments latest 15 checks
DateDepartmentCategoryAmount
Jun 23, 2026 Dept of EducationInstructional Supplies $390
Jun 23, 2026 Dept of EducationInstructional Supplies $539
Jun 22, 2026 Dept of EducationInstructional Supplies $30
Jun 22, 2026 Dept of EducationInstructional Supplies $444
Jun 22, 2026 Dept of EducationInstructional Supplies $10
Jun 19, 2026 Dept of EducationInstructional Supplies $74
Jun 19, 2026 Dept of EducationInstructional Supplies $57
Jun 18, 2026 Dept of EducationInstructional Supplies $457
Jun 16, 2026 Dept of EducationInstructional Supplies $23
Jun 16, 2026 Dept of EducationInstructional Supplies $129
Jun 16, 2026 Dept of EducationInstructional Supplies $54
Jun 16, 2026 Dept of EducationInstructional Supplies $61
Jun 16, 2026 Dept of EducationInstructional Supplies $30
Jun 16, 2026 Dept of EducationInstructional Supplies $20
Jun 16, 2026 Dept of EducationInstructional Supplies $35

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 ↗