California · Nonprofit
ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF STANFORD UNIVERSITY
ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF STANFORD UNIVERSITY (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,340,965 to it, the largest being Carnegie Mellon University ($4,839,705). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.9M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $5.3M
- Net assets
- $26M
What Associated Students of Stanford University does
Mission
To provide various services to the students, to the university campus community and provide an educational experience for the students it employs. The organization works to represent the interests, needs and perspectives of stanford students at every level of decision making within the university. The organization advocates on behalf of stanford students on issues such as cost of living, diversity, student life and student activities space. Each year the assu strives to innovative new projects and create new services that will improve the quality of student life offered at stanford. It also hold funds on behalf of student groups and provides administrative, banking and accounting services over the funds for student groups. These groups in turn provide the majority of cultural, political, recreational and religious programming for the entire campus.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Organization receives student activity fees from Stanford University which are collected from undergraduate and graduate students as a separate component of their students account bill. Student activity fees are charged and collected at the start of the fall, winter, and spring quarters. The fee amount for each quarter is approved through a budgeting process, including the administration of ASSU, by the student body, the ASSU governing bodies, and the Vice Provost for Student Affairs.
$1,315,848 spent$1,287,755 earned by the program74% of program spendingStanford Invitational Debate Tournament is an online national invitational tournament hosted by the Organization's SSE division with support from the Stanford Debate Society. The debate tournament is aimed at high school students and provides elite debate competition experience for highly passionate students.
$324,830 spent$376,675 earned by the program18% of program spendingStanford Consulting is a service-based business that provides affordable management consulting services and solutions to small and mid-size companies.
$80,434 spent$91,457 earned by the program5% of program spendingCardinal Ventures
$47,818 spent$37,319 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,768,930.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $26M to $33M (+26%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Jas Espinosa
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $276k → $496k.
4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF STANFORD UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF STANFORD UNIVERSITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF STANFORD UNIVERSITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 91% · 2019 97% · 2020 83% · 2021 88% · 2022 52% · 2023 88% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
14% of ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF STANFORD UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 27% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF STANFORD UNIVERSITY draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $251k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF STANFORD UNIVERSITY
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Sse Ventures LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF STANFORD UNIVERSITY: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF STANFORD UNIVERSITY?
- ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF STANFORD UNIVERSITY (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,340,965 to it, the largest being Carnegie Mellon University ($4,839,705). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF STANFORD UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $5,340,965 in grants to ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF STANFORD UNIVERSITY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF STANFORD UNIVERSITY?
- Carnegie Mellon University is the largest funder on record, with $4,839,705 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF STANFORD UNIVERSITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 11 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing