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San Francisco, California · San Francisco Adopted Budget FY2026-27

San Francisco — the money trail

$16,851,826,113
San Francisco is a consolidated city-and-county — one government, one budget, no separate county line. This is the adopted all-funds budget for FY2026-27 (the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2026), $16.85 billion, shown by department. The General Fund is about $6.18 billion of it; the rest is largely self-supporting enterprises — the Airport, the Public Utilities Commission, Muni, and the Port — that fund themselves from their own revenue. Every figure traces to the Controller’s machine-readable Annual Appropriation Ordinance dataset on DataSF. Click any number to see exactly where it comes from. Where the trail goes dark, it becomes a numbered issue in the docket. New here? Read our story or take the plain-words tour.
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Where it goes — $16,851,826,113 appropriated

▶Public Health (DPH)$3,575,749,42621%✓ Sourced
San Francisco’s public hospitals, clinics, and health programs — the single largest department.
▶Public Utilities Commission$1,933,223,88811%✓ Sourced
Water, sewer, and Hetch Hetchy power — a self-supporting enterprise.
▶Airport (SFO)$1,713,798,95310%✓ Sourced
San Francisco International Airport — self-funded from airport revenue.
▶Municipal Transportation Agency (Muni)$1,600,388,3559%✓ Sourced
Muni transit, streets, and parking.
▶Human Services Agency$1,320,479,9848%✓ Sourced
Benefits, aging, and family & children’s services.
▶Police$876,158,1195%✓ Sourced
The San Francisco Police Department.
▶Homelessness & Supportive Housing$803,584,6135%✓ Sourced
Shelter, supportive housing, and homelessness response.
▶General City / Unallocated$756,246,3294%✓ Sourced
Citywide costs and reserves not assigned to one department.
▶Fire Department$560,578,8193%✓ Sourced
The San Francisco Fire Department and EMS.
▶Children, Youth & Families$368,490,2942%✓ Sourced
Programs for children and youth.
▶Sheriff$345,134,5962%✓ Sourced
The Sheriff’s Department — jails and court security.
▶Recreation & Park$344,396,2872%✓ Sourced
Parks, rec centers, and open space.
▶Public Works$308,917,4992%✓ Sourced
Streets, buildings, and public right-of-way.
▶City Administrator (GSA)$259,423,2282%✓ Sourced
Shared services across city government.
▶Early Childhood$256,314,7632%✓ Sourced
Early education and childcare.
▶Port$230,821,2401%✓ Sourced
The Port of San Francisco — waterfront and piers.
▶Mayor$220,966,6701%✓ Sourced
The Mayor’s office and citywide initiatives it carries.
▶Public Library$197,958,5781%✓ Sourced
The San Francisco Public Library system.
▶Emergency Management$111,495,3451%✓ Sourced
911 dispatch and disaster response.
▶District Attorney$98,590,0211%✓ Sourced
Criminal prosecution.
▶Building Inspection$96,499,9451%✓ Sourced
Building permits and inspections.
▶Economic & Workforce Development$81,408,563✓ Sourced
Jobs, small business, and economic development.
▶Adult Probation$65,341,836✓ Sourced
Adult probation supervision.
▶Public Defender$60,944,553✓ Sourced
Legal defense for those who can’t afford it.
▶Retirement System$60,393,342✓ Sourced
Administration of the city employees’ pension system.
▶All other departments (~30 smaller offices)$604,520,8674%◐ Partial
The roughly 30 remaining smaller departments and offices combined — the all-funds total minus the departments listed above.