South Carolina Public Money, Sorted by Year and by Stage.
6,763 line items from state budgets, county budgets, payment reports and incentive records. Each line links to the government document it comes from.
RequestedA legislator asked for it. Not law.
AppropriatedWritten into an adopted budget.
AwardedGranted or contracted to a named recipient.
PaidThe money left the account.
These are different stages of the same money. Adding amounts across stages counts some dollars twice, so this page keeps a separate total for each stage.
By Year
Fiscal years run July 1 to June 30. Company incentives are grouped by the year they were approved, because the payments stretch over many years. Pick any box to open those records below.
Site Problems Found
Government web pages that are broken, unreliable or hard to use, as of October 1, 2026.
Broken, Intermittently
SC Comptroller General Vendor Payment Search
The state's Spending Transparency site often fails to return results. Of 20 attempts on October 1, 2026, 9 failed: eight ended on an "Error Page" that reads "No Error Found," and one went back to the home page with no results. The same request (Palmetto Corp, FY2024-25) failed and then worked minutes later, which points to a fault on the server. Monthly requests failed 6 of 10 times; yearly requests failed 3 of 10.
Worked (11)Failed (9)
Newest year is FY2024-25. FY2025-26 ended June 30, 2026 and has not been posted yet.
A dead link on the site itself: its "Higher Education Spending Transparency" link points to www.cg.sc.gov, a web address that no longer exists.
Another route: the Comptroller's monthly spending files list every state payment (vendor, agency, amount, date) as downloadable spreadsheets, FY2014 through June 2025. When the site does return results, they agree with these files: Palmetto Corp shows $250,201,855 for FY2024-25.
Link Expires
Aiken County Budget Archive
The Aiken FY2024-25 budget link only works inside a short archive session, then shows "Your session Time-Out limit has been reached." Use Aiken's Financial Reporting page instead; it is linked on every Aiken record.
Dead or Unreliable
Missing Documents
Laurens County Council agenda packet, Oct 28, 2024: 404 not found.
Lee County "/cc" page: 404 not found.
Saluda County FY2024-25 budget summary: returned "Page not found" once, then loaded on retry, even though the county's own council page links to it.
Scanned Images
29 County Documents Posted as Scanned Images
York, Sumter, Clarendon, Chester, Chesterfield, Union, Fairfield, McCormick, Newberry, Orangeburg, Williamsburg, Colleton and Beaufort post key budget or award documents as photographs of paper pages instead of text. Amounts from those 29 documents were typed from the page images, and each one matches the printed page.
Search Every Line Item
Select a row for details and source links.
Were the Earmarks Paid?
Payments come from the Comptroller General's monthly spending files, which list every state payment from July 2023 through June 2025. An earmark counts as paid when its own agency paid the recipient from that year's one-time (nonrecurring) budget fund. Payment status for the FY2026-27 earmarks is not available yet, because those files end in June 2025.
Treasurer RecordsThe State Treasurer publishes payment status for 32 FY2024-25 earmarks. 30 of the 32 agree with the payments listed here. The other two (Nicholtown Community Center and River Road/Brownswood Road) show "No Payment Found" here although the Treasurer reports them paid, because the payee or amount in the Comptroller's files differs; one appears to be part of a combined $1,050,000 payment to the City of Greenville.
Blind SpotThe 4 FY2023-24 earmarks paid by the State Treasurer's own office (including $4,774,000 to the City of York) don't appear anywhere in the Comptroller's files, though the Treasurer reports all 4 paid. So "No Payment Found" means only that the payment is not in these files; the money may still have been paid.
Accuracy
How each amount compares with the document it cites. A green mark means the exact figure and the recipient's name appear together in the source.
County Coverage, FY2024-25
Line items listed for each of South Carolina's 46 counties. Dashed boxes are counties with none yet. Select a county to filter the list.
Source Register
Every document and page cited, with each link's status as of October 1, 2026. The full address is shown under each title and can be selected and copied.