2026 · Sources and uses

The budget, past the headline

The $100 receipt on the dashboard shows where the city’s 2026 money goes. This page is what sits behind it: the same five fund groups, what a household pays, and three things marked as not read yet: the money per resident, the largest General Fund line, and where the money comes from.

FACT Source: 2026 Budget book · City of Colorado Springs · every figure here comes from it unless its own line names another publisher

Where the money goes, by fund group CALC

The book’s five fund groups for 2026, per $100 of the all-funds total. This site holds each group as a share of the printed total, so no dollar column is shown: a dollar figure is never rebuilt from a rounded share.

Fund group	Per $100
General Fund	$46.74
Enterprise Funds	$19.85
Special Revenue Funds	$19.68
Grant Funds	$13.67
Permanent Funds	$0.06
Total	$100.00

The total leaves out Colorado Springs Utilities and the Internal Services Funds, by the book’s own design. Both are explained on the dashboard.

Per Colorado Springs resident PENDING

A per-resident figure divides a budget total by the Census Bureau’s resident count for the city. That count has not been read into this site’s data for Colorado Springs, so no per-resident figure is shown. The budget book prints a population estimate of its own, and this site does not use it: a per-resident figure takes the Census count, never a budget book’s own.

The largest General Fund line PENDING

The book prints the General Fund by department. Those lines have not been read into this site’s data yet, so no line is ranked here. A rank is only taken over a list that has been read whole and checked against its printed total. Nothing here is estimated.

Where the money comes from

PENDING

Where the city’s 2026 money comes from (taxes, charges, fees and grants, by source) is printed in the same 2026 Budget book. It has not been read into this site’s data yet, so this section stays blank on purpose until it is read and checked against the book’s own printed total. Nothing here is estimated.

What a household pays

Each line names where it is published. A household also pays El Paso County, its school district and the Pikes Peak Rural Transportation Authority, which are not the city’s money, and none is added to a city figure.

FACT Public Safety Sales Tax: a 0.4% city sales tax funding police and fire. The book budgets $52,262,048 of 2026 expenditures from it, in a special revenue fund of its own. Source: City of Colorado Springs, 2026 Budget ("Final Budget" book), Overviews chapter.
PENDING The city’s general sales tax rate is printed in the city’s budget book. It has not been read into this site’s data yet, so no rate is printed here.
PENDING The city’s own property tax levy is not on this page yet. A county’s levy is the county’s, so it stays blank rather than borrowed from the county.

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