Background: A budget is a written plan for an organization's operations that is specified quantitatively for a certain period of time and is usually stated in monetary units. Due to a low budget for the community nutrition improvement program in 2017, the number of cases in 2018 was 1,574. Subjects and Methods: This is a descriptive analytic study with a retrospective approach undertaken at the South-Central Timor Regency Health Office. The study population consisted of health department data and financial reports. The financial statements of the public nutrition improvement program budget are the variables in this study. Data was gathered at the research site by collecting secondary data. Result: The research findings include the amount of the budget for the community nutrition improvement program in the Health Office of South-Central Timor Regency from 2016 to 2019, with the highest budget amount in 2019 amounting to Rp. 2,930. 460,419.00, the highest number of cases in the 2016 - 2019 budget period, including 1,574 cases in 2018, The highest budget deviation in the 2016 - 2019 budget period, namely in 2019, is Rp. 1 094.930.893.00, the effectiveness of the 2016 - 2019 budget period is said to be effective, namely in 2016 - 2017, while 2018 - 2019 is less effective, the budget efficiency for the 2016-2019 budget period is inefficient, with the sum of the budget for cases of malnutrition in the budget period 2016-2019 reaching Rp. 2,930,460,419.00 in 2019 with a total of 800 cases. Conclusion: The size of the budget from 2016 to 2019 influences the amount of malnutrition cases. Whereas the higher the budget, the lower the number of cases of malnutrition.