Preschool for All, Multnomah County’s initiative to provide universal preschool to every child who wants it by 2030, now sits on close to $610 million, marking another year where the program racks up its fund balance.

Data from the county’s annual comprehensive financial report, which was released Nov. 13, shows the county once again collected more revenue than it anticipated for the program, at $224 million instead of the forecasted $163 million.

It also underspent budgeted expenditures, particularly in human services, where the county spent about $90.5 million of the budgeted $101.5 million. (Human services make up the bulk of Preschool for All operational costs.)

County officials have long anticipated the Preschool for All would, in its early years, collect more money than it would s

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