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San Francisco Unified School District

Between 2007 and 2026, the City and County of San Francisco paid $328.9M to San Francisco Unified School District, mostly through CHF Children;Youth & Families, with 9 contracts on file. Source: SF Controller vendor payments (open data), data as of 13 July 2026.

Payee9 active contracts
$328.9M
paid by San Francisco, 2007–2026
Departments
33
Categories
30
Payments
1,837
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.

Community Based Org Srvcs$139.5MLombard - Retailbalance-sheet line$2.9MDay Care Assistanceunclassified$2.8MOther Professional Services$2.7MGrants & Forgivable Loansbalance-sheet line$1.3M

30 categories in all.

In FY2025

$15.0M, in the last year with closed books.

CHF Children;Youth & FamiliesCommunity Based Org Srvcs$8.5MDEC Dept of Early ChildhoodCommunity Based Org Srvcs$3.9MPUC Public Utilities CommsnGrants & Forgivable Loans$881,602MTA Municipal Transprtn AgncyLombard - Retail$469,751MTA Municipal Transprtn AgncyOther Professional Services$299,809

Paid by year

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Hatched: FY2026 is not closed yet — the bar shows payments recorded so far, not a full year.

Tallest bar — FY2009: $28.2M. Bars are scaled to this payee’s own peak year.

Who pays them

33 departments, 77.1% of it from CHF Children;Youth & Families.

CHF Children;Youth & Families401 vouchers$253.7M
CFC Children & Families Commsn109 vouchers$23.9M
HSA Human Services Agency98 vouchers$17.3MDEC Dept of Early Childhood26 vouchers$12.1MPUC Public Utilities Commsn141 vouchers$6.3M

Active contracts (9)

+ 3 more contracts

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.

YMCA of San FranciscoSame main paying department, CHF Children;Youth & Families$201.5MJapanese Community Youth CouncilSame main paying department, CHF Children;Youth & Families$193.9MY M C a of San FranciscoSame main paying department, CHF Children;Youth & Families$129.7MSpending category: Community Based Org SrvcsIts main category of payments, and who else the City pays in itCHF Children;Youth & Families: every active contractWhat the department buys, and from whomWho gets paid by San FranciscoEvery vendor payment, by category and department