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Denver, Colorado · City and County of Denver FY2026 Adopted Budget

Denver — the money trail

$4,435,670,537
Denver is a consolidated city-and-county — one government, one budget, no separate county line (the Assessor, Sheriff, and Clerk are city departments). This is the adopted all-funds budget for 2026, $4.44 billion. The General Fund is $1.68 billion; the biggest non-General-Fund pieces are self-supporting enterprises — Denver International Airport ($789M in operations) and Wastewater. The total is shown net of about $447M in interfund transfers, so those dollars aren’t counted twice. Every figure ties to Denver’s 2026 Final Budget Book and foots to the dollar. Click any number to see exactly where it comes from. Where the trail goes dark, it becomes a numbered issue in the docket. New here? Read our story or take the plain-words tour.
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✓ Sourced○ Cited◐ Partial⚠ Ambiguous✖ Dead end
✓ Sourced = cited to a document and the math re-adds to the dollar. ○ Cited = cited to a document, but the math isn't independently double-checked yet. Hover any mark for what it means.

Where it goes — $4,435,670,537 appropriated

▶General Fund$1,676,329,51038%✓ Sourced
The main operating fund — Safety (Police, Fire, Sheriff) is the largest piece, then transportation, parks, and public health.
▶Special Revenue Funds$970,821,53822%✓ Sourced
Restricted funds for specific purposes.
▶General Government$335,084,37735% of fund✓ Sourced
▶Human Services$215,369,288✓ Sourced
▶Community Development$197,369,923✓ Sourced
▶Culture & Recreation$77,760,911✓ Sourced
▶Public Safety$73,227,734✓ Sourced
▶Health$67,691,793✓ Sourced
▶Economic Opportunity$4,317,512✓ Sourced
▶Enterprise Funds (operations)$1,147,688,93226%✓ Sourced
Self-supporting utilities and Denver International Airport.
▶Aviation — Denver International (DEN)$789,408,09669% of fund✓ Sourced
▶Wastewater Management$264,950,658✓ Sourced
▶Sidewalks$40,750,895✓ Sourced
▶Golf$37,848,633✓ Sourced
▶Environmental Services$14,730,650✓ Sourced
▶Internal Service Funds$136,943,2873%✓ Sourced
Shared internal services charged back to departments.
▶Medical Self-Insurance$96,831,78371% of fund✓ Sourced
▶Workers Compensation$18,090,402✓ Sourced
▶Dental$12,420,900✓ Sourced
▶Asphalt Plant$9,600,202✓ Sourced
▶Capital Projects Funds$951,306,17521%✓ Sourced
Bonds, capital improvements, parks, and enterprise capital.
▶Less: money counted twice (interfund transfers)$-447,418,905◐ Partial
Denver’s all-funds total is reduced by this amount to avoid double-counting dollars that move between funds — the city’s own “less duplications” line.