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Department of Social Services

Between 2007 and 2026, the City and County of San Francisco paid $1.6B to Department of Social Services, mostly through HSA Human Services Agency. Source: SF Controller vendor payments (open data), data as of 13 July 2026.

Payee
$1.6B
paid by San Francisco, 2007–2026
Departments
6
Categories
10
Payments
280
Period
2007–2026

What the City pays them for

The City’s own accounting categories, FY2018 on. Hatched bars are money out, but not a purchase.

IHSS Ip Payments$1.4BOther Obligations-Agency Fundnot a purchase$174.2MRefunds Payablebalance-sheet line$664,835Prior Year State Revenue Adjunclassified$626,375CalStateDeptEd-Stage2ChildCareunclassified$259,560

10 categories in all.

In FY2025

$212.4M, in the last year with closed books.

HSA Human Services AgencyIHSS Ip Payments$190.3MHSA Human Services AgencyOther Obligations-Agency Fund$22.0MHSA Human Services AgencyRefunds Payable$83,874HSA Human Services AgencyPrior Year State Revenue Adj$15,811DPH Public HealthFees Licenses Permits$1,915

Paid by year

'07
'08
'09
'10
'11
'12
'13
'15
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24
'25
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Hatched: FY2026 is not closed yet — the bar shows payments recorded so far, not a full year.

Tallest bar — FY2025: $212.4M. Bars are scaled to this payee’s own peak year.

Who pays them

6 departments, 100.0% of it from HSA Human Services Agency.

HSA Human Services Agency252 vouchers$1.6B
HSA Human Services Agency9 vouchers$330,978
DEC Dept of Early Childhood1 vouchers$259,560DPH Public Health16 vouchers$17,584CHF Children;Youth & Families1 vouchers$1,175

Source: SF Controller — Vendor Payments (Vouchers) & Supplier Contracts, name-normalized. Departments and categories are the City's own coding; sorting them into purchases and non-purchases (debt service, benefit plans, tax withholding, payments to other governments, balance-sheet lines) is ours. The file records a fiscal year, never a payment date.

See also

Other payees of its main paying department, and where its payments are classified.

SF In-home Spprtiv Svcs (ihss) Publ AuthSame main paying department, HSA Human Services Agency$763.0MHomebridge IncSame main paying department, HSA Human Services Agency$262.5MSelf-help for the ElderlySame main paying department, HSA Human Services Agency$179.2MSpending category: IHSS Ip PaymentsIts main category of payments, and who else the City pays in itHSA Human Services Agency: every active contractWhat the department buys, and from whomWho gets paid by San FranciscoEvery vendor payment, by category and department