Chicago’s New-Arrivals Payment Ledger, as Filed: $639.6 Million Net Across 86 Vendors — and One Vendor Holds 62.6 Percent of It

Six funds paid, and the file shows the money being moved

Net sums by the file’s own fund grouping. Fund attribution reflects the file as it stands, including the transfers described below.

Fund, as the file groups it	Lines	Net amount
City Corporate Fund	2,590	$269,067,973.14
State Asylum Seeker Grants	589	$149,862,603.52
ARPA	380	$94,961,239.29
FEMA Asylum Seeker Grants	582	$87,522,896.73
Cook County Asylum Seeker Grant	64	$36,620,606.74
Federal Health Grant	1	$1,568,730

The city’s Corporate Fund carries $269,067,973.14 — 42 percent of the net — with the other 58 percent, $370,536,076.28, on grant lines: state and FEMA asylum-seeker grants, Cook County’s grant, a federal health grant, and $94,961,239.29 under ARPA (a fund whose citywide ledger we read separately). The bookkeeping is visible in the rows: 362 lines carry no check date and net to just $537,146.36, because many are paired reallocation entries — one reads, exactly as filed, “TO TRANSFER EXPENSES TO CHARGE ELIGIBLE GRANT SOURCE FROM FUND 0100 TO G688.” Money moving between funds is part of what this ledger records, and this page counts it as the file does.

Eighty-six vendors, one far ahead

The vendor column holds 86 business and organization names. Favorite Healthcare Staffing, Inc. leads with $400,374,307.80 net across 2,353 lines; Equitable Social Solutions, LLC follows at $128,986,340.22 across 68 — including the three largest single checks in the file, each above $8.1 million, one dated November 25, 2024. Then the scale drops: OPEN KITCHENS, INC. at $24,991,350.28, Seventy-Seven Communities Meal Services LLC at $21,247,149, and 14 Parish LLC at $15,373,457.74. Every name is printed as the file prints it; what any vendor did for its payments is carried only in the file’s own invoice descriptions, and this page adds nothing to them.

The calendar of the checks

By check year, as filed: $2,647,223.12 in late 2022, $152,410,511.12 in 2023, $469,208,371.79 in 2024 — the ledger’s peak — and $14,800,797.03 across 111 checks in 2025, the last dated April 25. Whether the 2025 taper reflects spending, reconciliation timing, or the file’s own update schedule is exactly what the description’s caveat leaves open, and this page leaves it open too: the dataset was last updated July 10, 2025, fourteen months before our retrieval.

• Source: the city’s Vendor Payments — New Arrivals file (gxzc-43gg): 4,206 rows retrieved September 9, 2026; last updated July 10, 2025. The whole file was downloaded and every figure recomputed; quoted lines are the file’s own description and invoice text.
• Signs and sums: the net total is the file’s own sum; 191 negative lines (−$91.1 million) sit against $730.7 million of positive lines, and check-date-less lines — largely paired transfers — net to $537,146.36. Vendor and fund figures are net of those entries, as the file keeps them.
• Terms: ‘Migrant-related response’ and ‘New Arrivals’ are the file’s own terms; vendor names are business and organization entities, verified before ranking; no person appears in the file or on this page.
• Not here: no assessment of the response, no per-person arithmetic, no cause assigned to any curve in the spending — the caveat quoted in the lede belongs to the file, and later uploads may change these figures.

Computed by KCM Desk from the city’s new-arrivals payment ledger, retrieved September 9, 2026. If you spot an error, corrections come first.

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