San Francisco Municipal Budget Data from Fiscal Year 2010

The San Francisco Controller's Office maintains budgetary data from the Annual Appropriation Ordinance. This dataset shows departmental spending from the General Fund, adjusted for inter-departmental transfers and recoveries to present gross and net totals. Data is available in CSV, XML, JSON, and RDF formats and is updated annually with each new fiscal year.

Use Cases

• Analyze departmental budget allocations based on the General Fund spending figures.
• Track changes in municipal spending over time based on the annual update cycle.
• Model inter-departmental financial relationships based on transfer and recovery adjustments.
• Compare gross versus net city spending totals based on the accounting methodology.

Strengths

• Data is updated annually when the Appropriation Ordinance is published.
• Time series begins from fiscal year 2010.
• Data is presented in multiple formats including CSV, XML, JSON, and RDF.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Enterprise department budgets for the second year of the two-year cycle are estimates.

Provenance

Source

City of San Francisco Controller's Office

Collection Method

Summarized from the Annual Appropriation Ordinance (AAO).

Time Range

From fiscal year 2010 forward.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-22 04:22:16.164443; freshness should be verified.

Geography

City and County of San Francisco.