Your Minnesota,
Your Money
Drill into Minnesota Open Checkbook budget rows exported from the state's Oracle/SWIFT transparency system. The main explorer uses one consistent source basis: category, agency, program, and activity rollups from Oracle, with Budget Amount and Spend Amount available as separate measures. These are gross accounting-system figures and may not reconcile to consolidated budget statements. Reference sources: the Minnesota Open Checkbook Oracle dashboard and MMB's Open Checkbook data notes. You can also:
Find the money, then drill down
Start with the whole state budget. Click from category to agency to program to activity, and switch between budgeted and spent.
Ask a plain-English budget question
Type what you want to know about Minnesota's budget. The assistant searches the same budget data behind these charts and answers your question.
Powered by Claude. Ask about Minnesota budgeted and spent dollars by category, agency, fund, program, or activity from FY2012 through FY2026.
See how the budget changed over time
Track which parts of state government grew, shrank, or took up a bigger share of the budget from FY12 to FY26.
See what changed between budgets
Pick any two budgeted or spent fiscal years. Bigger bubbles mean more money; color and position show what grew, shrank, appeared, or disappeared.
Bigger bubbles mean more money.
Green grew. Red shrank.
See where spending landed
Compare what Minnesota budgeted with what it spent. Start statewide, scan the biggest gaps, then search for an agency, program, or activity to see the same budget-versus-spending trend.
Statewide
Category Variances at a Glance
Browse the raw budget rows
Search and filter every Open Budget row by fiscal year, category, agency, fund, program, and activity, with budgeted and spent dollars side by side, or build a custom report with charts and a CSV export to take with you.