How much each City agency was given in the adopted budget, FY2017–FY2027, and how that changed during the year. How this data works · Questions and answers
Correction, November 9, 2026: until this date, every year in this explorer was labeled one year late. For example, the FY2025 adopted budget was shown as 2026. The labels are now fixed. What changed
| Agency | Adopted | Modified | Adopted vs. Modified |
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Where's the money going?
Every year New York City adopts an expense budget of well over $100 billion. For FY2026 it was $117.8 billion as counted here, or $115.9 billion in the City's headline figure, which leaves out money agencies pay each other. It funds the public schools, sanitation, policing, fire protection, public health, housing, parks, and hundreds of other services New Yorkers rely on every day. Its funding comes from you: your income and property taxes, sales taxes, fees, and money from the state and federal governments.
This tool lets you explore that budget by agency and unit of appropriation, and compare each agency's adopted budget against its modified budget, for FY2017–FY2027. Questions? See the questions and answers.
Data comes from NYC Open Data's Expense Budget dataset (mwzb-yiwb). We use the June release of each year. "Adopted" is the budget the City adopted for that fiscal year. "Modified" is that year's budget as modified through June, near year end; the newest year's is not yet published. Until November 9, 2026, years here were labeled one year late; see the correction.
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