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Early childhood access and enrollment

CHILDREN'S COUNCIL OF SAN FRANCISCO · DEC Dept of Early Childhood

The Department of Early Childhood pays a nonprofit to run access and enrollment for early childhood care — helping families find and sign up for places. It is a grant the City makes, not a purchase. San Francisco agreed $436.4M with CHILDREN'S COUNCIL OF SAN FRANCISCO for contract 1000036005 (DEC Dept of Early Childhood); $81.5M has been paid on it so far. Source: SF Controller supplier contracts (open data), data as of 13 July 2026.

In plain English

The Department of Early Childhood pays a nonprofit to run access and enrollment for early childhood care — helping families find and sign up for places. It is a grant the City makes, not a purchase.

Register title:DEC ECE Access & Enrollment

Signed by Dept of Early Childhood

Nonprofit
Agreed
$436.4M
Paid
$81.5M
19% of agreed
Remaining (calculated)
$354.9M
The money
Paid against the agreed amount
Payments per fiscal year
2627
Largest year: $81.5M · dashed = fiscal year not closed yet

These bars total $111.2M; the figure above is $81.5M. The first comes from the City’s payment ledger, the second from the contract register’s own paid column. They match on ordinary contracts and drift apart on multi-phase projects, where the work runs through several purchase orders and the ledger counts all of them.

Payment detail begins FY2018
The deal
Contract term
July 1, 2025December 31, 2028
Term running
Recorded purchasing authority
Purchasing authority, verbatim
Grant Competitive Solicitation

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Sources
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