The money is the City's own investment budget: 5% of it, announced as 426 to 500 million euros over the 2014-2020 term, about 45 euros per inhabitant per year, nine times the French median according to the audit. The first edition offered 20 million euros on 15 projects drafted by the City, of which 17.7 million were voted. From 2015 there were two levels: a Tout Paris pot of 30 to 35 million a year and one pot per arrondissement, funded by each borough hall from its local investment allocation (a quarter of it on average in 2015, a fifth in 2019) and matched by the City, one euro for one in 2015, two for one from 2016, plus a flat 10 million a year for the quartiers populaires shared out by their population; the City's top-up came to 193 million over the term. From 2016 the yearly total was about 100 million, 30 million of it reserved for the quartiers populaires and 10 million for a separate schools PB. The amounts actually voted were 67.7, 94.1, 92.1, 87.6 and 87.2 million from 2015 to 2019, 446.4 million in all, each matched by an authorisation of programme voted by the Conseil de Paris. Under the 2021 rules there was no fixed envelope: two to five winners per arrondissement capped at 2 million euros each, which produced 74.6 million in 2021 and 82 million in 2022 with far fewer, larger projects. The 2023 charter returned to published envelopes per arrondissement computed from population and the share living in quartiers populaires, with at least 25% of the whole for those quartiers (the 13e had 7.2 million in 2024, 4.06 million of it for its quartiers populaires); the 2025 guide gives 80 million. Only investment spending is eligible: no running costs (a criterion the audit found had softened to not too many running costs, with induced maintenance never evaluated), within the City's competences, no heavy public-space works since 2018, which go to Embellir votre quartier. Investment grants to associations and landlords are allowed and voted separately. Computed from the open data, the 1,446 winning projects of 2014 to 2025 carry 850.0 million euros, 303.0 million of them (36%) labelled quartiers populaires. Only investment spending qualifies: both charters require a dépense d'investissement, and the guides add that a project must not generate significant running costs for the City. Winners that sound like services, such as aid to people in precarity or support for solidarity associations, are investment subsidies to associations for premises and equipment, as the 2026 DDCT 33 deliberation shows.