Recreation & Parks
Department REC · Culture & Recreation · $259.0M adopted (FY2024)
In fiscal year 2024, San Francisco budgeted $259.0M for Recreation & Parks, 1.8% of city spending, against $171.0M of revenue it brings in. Source: San Francisco adopted budget (Controller open data), data as of 13 July 2026.
Adopted budget (FY2024)
$259.0M
Share of city spending
1.8%
Budgeted revenue
$171.0M
Service area
Culture & Recreation
Spending by category — FY2024
Offsets & adjustments
Transfer Adjustment - Uses · Spending−$36.4M
Overhead and Allocations · Spending−$1.4M
Carry-Forward Budgets Only · Spending−$100,000
Transfer Adjustment-Source · Revenue−$36.4M
Where this department’s money comes from — FY2024
Property Taxes$79.5MCharges for Services$45.8MTransfers In$24.1MRents & Concessions$19.6MFines, Forfeiture, & Penalties$11.0MIntraFund Transfers In$8.2MUnappropriated Fund Balance$6.5MOther Revenues$5.1M
+ 3 smaller categories
Expenditure Recovery$4.1MIntergovernmental: Other$3.4MIntergovernmental: State$145,000Adopted vs executed — FY2024, Operating funds
Adopted (operating)$194.3M
Executed (operating)$186.1M
Deviation−$8.2M (−4.2%)
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 2024, from the SF Controller’s budget dataset: Budget (xdgd-c79v) ↗