CivicCause budget overview
Sunnyvale Budget Overview
FY 2025/26 Budget and Recent Trends
Draft budget previewBudget adoption: FY 2025/26 adopted
Sunnyvale's CivicCause budget overview highlights major current-year budget changes, department shifts, recent trends, and the official public source documents behind them.
This Sunnyvale budget preview is available for internal and prelaunch review. City launch status remains coming soon.
Total Budget
$779.6M
Derived from current total expenditures in the expenditure summary.
Projected Balance
$0
Current loaded public totals show revenue and expenditure in balance.
What Changed
Largest department-level changes in the strongest currently loaded comparison layer.
Projects & Equipment
↓
Decrease-20.42%
2024/25: $297,566,301
2025/26: $236,808,158
-$60.8M
↓Decrease
Operating
↑
Increase+8.36%
2024/25: $362,279,563
2025/26: $392,579,299
+$30.3M
↑Increase
Contribution to Reserves
↑
Increase+21.60%
2024/25: $59,317,726
2025/26: $72,133,214
+$12.8M
↑Increase
Other
↑
Increase+11.13%
2024/25: $70,252,590
2025/26: $78,074,097
+$7.8M
↑Increase
Budget units
Sunnyvale FY 2025/26 adopted budget-unit data. Prior-year comparisons are not available in the current public data.
| Budget unit | 2025/26 |
|---|---|
| Budget Stabilization Fund - % of Resources | $33 |
| Difference | -$14,931,609 |
| Total Current Requirements | $290,405,935 |
| Total Current Resources | $275,474,326 |
Expenditure categories
Sunnyvale FY 2024/25 to FY 2025/26 expenditure-category comparison from adopted budget artifacts.
| Name | 2024/25 | 2025/26 | Delta | % Change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Projects & Equipment | $297,566,301 | $236,808,158 | -$60.8M | -20.42% | ↓Decrease |
| Total Expenditures | $730,098,454 | $779,594,768 | +$49.5M | +6.78% | ↑Increase |
| Operating | $362,279,563 | $392,579,299 | +$30.3M | +8.36% | ↑Increase |
| Contribution to Reserves | $59,317,726 | $72,133,214 | +$12.8M | +21.60% | ↑Increase |
| Other | $70,252,590 | $78,074,097 | +$7.8M | +11.13% | ↑Increase |
Revenue
Sunnyvale FY 2024/25 to FY 2025/26 revenue-category comparison from adopted budget artifacts.
| Name | 2024/25 | 2025/26 | Delta | % Change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bond/Loan Proceeds | $119,766,384 | $217,805,371 | +$98.0M | +81.86% | ↑Increase |
| Total Revenues | $730,098,454 | $779,594,768 | +$49.5M | +6.78% | ↑Increase |
| Service Fees | $216,177,576 | $232,826,825 | +$16.6M | +7.70% | ↑Increase |
| Taxes | $217,943,002 | $232,821,115 | +$14.9M | +6.83% | ↑Increase |
| Development Impact Fees | $46,595,593 | $32,048,514 | -$14.5M | -31.22% | ↓Decrease |
| Contribution to Reserves | $59,317,726 | $72,133,214 | +$12.8M | +21.60% | ↑Increase |
| Federal/State Funding | $17,856,118 | $14,185,462 | -$3.7M | -20.56% | ↓Decrease |
| Franchises Rents | $20,961,798 | $21,605,813 | +$644.0K | +3.07% | ↑Increase |
| Other Revenues | $7,080,172 | $7,385,134 | +$305.0K | +4.31% | ↑Increase |
5-year budget unit trends
These longer-range budget unit trends show how major topline Sunnyvale budget measures move across the financial plan.
Budget Stabilization Fund - % of Resources
↓Decrease
2023/2024$44
2027/2028$25
2023/2024: $442024/2025: $402025/2026: $332026/2027: $292027/2028: $25
5-year change: -$19
↓Decrease
Difference
↓Decrease
2023/2024$8,274,343
2027/2028-$7,164,167
2023/2024: $8.3M2024/2025: -$39.8M2025/2026: -$14.9M2026/2027: -$9.0M2027/2028: -$7.2M
5-year change: -$15.4M
↓Decrease
Total Current Requirements
↑Increase
2023/2024$256,427,436
2027/2028$296,937,320
2023/2024: $256.4M2024/2025: $312.2M2025/2026: $290.4M2026/2027: $289.8M2027/2028: $296.9M
5-year change: +$40.5M
↑Increase
Total Current Resources
↑Increase
2023/2024$264,701,779
2027/2028$289,773,153
2023/2024: $264.7M2024/2025: $272.4M2025/2026: $275.5M2026/2027: $280.7M2027/2028: $289.8M
5-year change: +$25.1M
↑Increase
Community and Organization Perspectives
Perspectives on this budget will appear here.
Methodology and caveats
- Extracted from adopted budget PDFs using best-effort label matching. Review extraction notes before public use. Direct scripted fetches to sunnyvale.ca.gov may return 403 behind Akamai; this extractor is designed for local/manual PDF inputs first. Artifacts are best-effort and intentionally inspectable before any DB import is attempted. Volume 1 department/service-area tables were detected, but this extractor currently emits only the agreed comparison, trend, and project-category artifacts.
- Current values come from the FY 2025/26 five-year financial plan extraction and prior values come from FY 2024/25 label matching. Direct scripted fetches to sunnyvale.ca.gov may return 403 behind Akamai; this extractor is designed for local/manual PDF inputs first. Artifacts are best-effort and intentionally inspectable before any DB import is attempted. Volume 1 department/service-area tables were detected, but this extractor currently emits only the agreed comparison, trend, and project-category artifacts.
- Trend rows are best-effort PDF extraction output and may require manual cleanup before public display. Direct scripted fetches to sunnyvale.ca.gov may return 403 behind Akamai; this extractor is designed for local/manual PDF inputs first. Artifacts are best-effort and intentionally inspectable before any DB import is attempted. Volume 1 department/service-area tables were detected, but this extractor currently emits only the agreed comparison, trend, and project-category artifacts.
Sources and official documents
FY 2025/26 Adopted Budget Volume 1 - Summary and Operating Budget
Section: Summary and Operating Budget
Fiscal year: FY 2025/26
Column used: fy-2025-26-adopted-budget-volume-1.pdf
Notes: Local PDF artifact imported from /Users/Gumby/Projects/civicpulse/scripts/data/sunnyvale-budget/fy-2025-26-adopted-budget-volume-1.pdf. Direct scripted fetches to sunnyvale.ca.gov may return 403 behind Akamai; this extractor is designed for local/manual PDF inputs first. Artifacts are best-effort and intentionally inspectable before any DB import is attempted.
FY 2025/26 Adopted Budget Volume 2 - Projects Budget
Section: Projects Budget
Fiscal year: FY 2025/26
Column used: fy-2025-26-adopted-budget-volume-2.pdf
Notes: Local PDF artifact imported from /Users/Gumby/Projects/civicpulse/scripts/data/sunnyvale-budget/fy-2025-26-adopted-budget-volume-2.pdf. Direct scripted fetches to sunnyvale.ca.gov may return 403 behind Akamai; this extractor is designed for local/manual PDF inputs first. Artifacts are best-effort and intentionally inspectable before any DB import is attempted.
FY 2024/25 Adopted Budget Volume 1 - Summary and Operating Budget
Section: Summary and Operating Budget
Fiscal year: FY 2024/25
Column used: fy-2024-25-adopted-budget-volume-1.pdf
Notes: Local PDF artifact imported from /Users/Gumby/Projects/civicpulse/scripts/data/sunnyvale-budget/fy-2024-25-adopted-budget-volume-1.pdf. Direct scripted fetches to sunnyvale.ca.gov may return 403 behind Akamai; this extractor is designed for local/manual PDF inputs first. Artifacts are best-effort and intentionally inspectable before any DB import is attempted.
FY 2024/25 Adopted Budget Volume 2 - Projects Budget
Section: Projects Budget
Fiscal year: FY 2024/25
Column used: fy-2024-25-adopted-budget-volume-2.pdf
Notes: Local PDF artifact imported from /Users/Gumby/Projects/civicpulse/scripts/data/sunnyvale-budget/fy-2024-25-adopted-budget-volume-2.pdf. Direct scripted fetches to sunnyvale.ca.gov may return 403 behind Akamai; this extractor is designed for local/manual PDF inputs first. Artifacts are best-effort and intentionally inspectable before any DB import is attempted.