California · Nonprofit
SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION
SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,932,289 to it, the largest being THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ($960,380). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $89M
- Funders on record
- 55
- Grants received
- $6.9M
- Net assets
- $29M
What San Jose State University Research Foundation does
Mission
As an integral member of the san jose state university community, the San Jose State University Research Foundation provides an entrepreneurial framework through which local, state and federal agencies, businesses and private foundations engage sjsu faculty and students in sponsored research, public service and community projects, consulting and other specialized educational activities in support of the university's mission. Delivering specialized business services to support a diverse range of externally funded activities, the San Jose State University Research Foundation fosters the university's quest for excellence by: (1) supporting faculty success, (2) expanding student horizons, (3) delivering specialized business services, and (4) developing partnerships with the community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Sponsored programs: provide grant and contract proposal development, and support and administration services to san jose state university faculty, generating 347 proposals and receiving 253 awards worth $111,384,752 during fiscal year ending june 30, 2025. The externally surrounding community beneficiaries of these activities are the students whose enriched experience have direct consequences for the future of our metropolitan area.
$60,156,317 spentof which $6,910,818 as grants$11,049,220 earned by the program82% of program spendingCampus and community programs: include numerous non-credit programs and activities that supplement and support the san jose state university's educational mission. These activities benefit the students, faculty, and the surrounding san jose community.
$13,205,046 spent$2,425,439 earned by the program18% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $73,361,363.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $67M to $77M (+15%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 57% · 2018 58% · 2019 60% · 2020 61% · 2021 60% · 2022 78% · 2023 72% · 2024 78% · 2025 79%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
81% of SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $273k → $1.1M.
11 of 55 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $27M from 13 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest University of Miami). These are real filings, and they are not money SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 55 funders by total. 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
SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
96% 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 SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 31% · 2019 33% · 2020 33% · 2021 47% · 2022 62% · 2023 18% — 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
34% of SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION draws 65% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
Against its field
SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $340.3M on record.
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$178.2M
- National Science Foundation$49.5M
- Department of Education$39.1M
- Department of Health and Human Services$24.0M
- Department of Transportation$15.9M
- Department of Commerce$9.0M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 5 related entities
- San Jose State University · exempt
- Spartan Shops Inc · exempt
- Associated Students of San Jose State Univeristy · exempt
- The Tower Foundation of San Jose University · exempt
- Student Union of San Jose State University · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION?
- SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,932,289 to it, the largest being THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ($960,380). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 55 organizations giving $6,932,289 in grants to SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION?
- THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY is the largest funder on record, with $960,380 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION 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.
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 55 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