Refunds Payable
A spending category in the City’s payment ledger
In FY2025, San Francisco paid $138.3M for refunds payable to 15 payees across 10 departments, 0.8% of the year's payments. Source: SF Controller vendor payments (open data).
Balance-sheet and revenue lines that appear in the payments file without being a payment for anything.
$138.3M
paid in FY2025 · 0.8% of the City’s payments that year
Who was paid in FY2025
15 payees, 10 departments.
Single Payment Payees$134.6M
Single Payment Payees$1.0M
ALAMEDA COUNTY$987,036
CA dept of Tax & Fee Admin (BOE)$984,982Single Payment Payees$135,321
BROADWAY SANSOME ASSOCIATES LP$120,788
15 more not shown.
Spent by year
From FY2018, when the City renumbered its chart of accounts.
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Tallest bar — FY2026: $283.4M. Bars are scaled to this category’s own peak year.
Departments in those payments
10 in all; these are the ones above.