Recreation & Parks
Department REC · Culture & Recreation · $237.3M adopted (FY2023)
In fiscal year 2023, San Francisco budgeted $237.3M for Recreation & Parks, 1.7% of city spending, against $149.1M of revenue it brings in. Source: San Francisco adopted budget (Controller open data), data as of 13 July 2026.
Adopted budget (FY2023)
$237.3M
Share of city spending
1.7%
Budgeted revenue
$149.1M
Service area
Culture & Recreation
Spending by category — FY2023
Offsets & adjustments
Transfer Adjustment - Uses · Spending−$35.1M
Overhead and Allocations · Spending−$1.5M
Transfer Adjustment-Source · Revenue−$35.8M
Where this department’s money comes from — FY2023
Adopted vs executed — FY2023, Operating funds
Adopted (operating)$187.1M
Executed (operating)$179.7M
Deviation−$7.4M (−3.9%)
Every comparable year
2019−34.0%
2020−1.4%
2021−6.0%
2022−5.1%
2023−3.9%
2024−4.2%
2025−1.9%
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 REC, fiscal year 2023, from the SF Controller’s budget dataset: Budget (xdgd-c79v) ↗