Bellingham as an Organization

2026 adopted budget · every fund, department, and connected government · City Comparison project

Where the money goes — all 43 funds

2026 adopted expenditures (operating + capital) by fund, colored by fund type. The General Fund is 24% of total spend; utilities and other enterprise funds are the biggest block.

Who does the work — 1,120 FTEs by department and bargaining unit

2026 budgeted positions. Each bar is a department; segments are employee groups (union locals, non-represented, temporary).

What gets built — 2026 capital by department

$155.9M capital budget. Hover for the 2027–2031 plan.

The entity graph — governments Bellingham is wired to

Edge width ∝ documented dollars. Blue = money flows in to the city (it sells services regionally); orange = city money out; dashed gray = joint programs or overlapping jurisdictions without a direct dollar flow in the budget. Hover nodes and edges for detail.

Sources: City of Bellingham 2026 Adopted Budget (fund tables, budgeted positions, capital plan); 2021 ACFR notes (reporting entity, interlocal agreements). Parsed datasets in bellingham/data/. Fire District 8 edge is a 2021 actual — the only pre-2026 dollar shown.