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Department DPH · Community Health · $2.4B adopted (FY2020)

In fiscal year 2020, San Francisco budgeted $2.4B for Public Health, 19.3% of city spending, against $1.6B of revenue it brings in. Source: San Francisco adopted budget (Controller open data), data as of 13 July 2026.

Adopted budget (FY2020)
$2.4B
Share of city spending
19.3%
Budgeted revenue
$1.6B
Service area
Community Health
Spending by category — FY2020
Offsets & adjustments
Transfer Adjustment - Uses · Spending−$181.0M
Transfer Adjustment-Source · Revenue−$199.7M
Where this department’s money comes from — FY2020
Adopted vs executed — FY2020, Operating funds
Adopted (operating)$2.0B
Executed (operating)$2.3B
Deviation$240.1M (+11.8%)
Every comparable year
2019−23.0%
2020+11.8%
2021+6.9%
2022+5.6%
2023+5.0%
2024+7.0%
2025+9.9%
Outline = adopted budget · fill = actual spending · ochre = spent above the adopted figure.

Operating funds only, transfer characters and related government units excluded — the one perimeter where adopted and executed are the same thing (measured; capital and multi-year project funds spend across years by design).

Source

Adopted budget lines for department DPH, fiscal year 2020, from the SF Controller’s budget dataset: Budget (xdgd-c79v) ↗