The current German government aims to make the 2020s "a decade of investment into the future”. In their coalition agreement, the coalition parties promise a significant increase in investment in climate protection, digitization, education, research and infrastructure. Against this backdrop, the aim of this project is to use the concept of a "future quota" and to develop it further towards a compass for the future orientation of the federal budget. This compass will then be used to assess the 2021, 2022 and 2023 federal budgets. By establishing this monitoring, a contribution is to be made to the transparency of budget policy with regard to a central fiscal policy promise of the federal government.