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STUDENT UNION OF SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY

STUDENT UNION OF SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $131,850 to it, the largest being COUNCIL OF SCHOOLS FOR THE BLIND ($119,350). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$16M
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$132k
Net assets
$7.5M
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Student Union of San Jose State University does

Mission

The Student Union of San Jose State University (the "student union") is an auxiliary organization in the california state university ("csu") system. The purposes of the student union are to provide cultural, educational, social and recreational services to the san jose state university (the "university") campus community, and to manage and operate the renovated student union building, the event center arena, and the spartan recreation and aquatic center.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The student union is a california state university auxiliary organization that manages and maintains three major facilities at the san jose state university campus. The facilities include the student union building, the recreation and aquatic center, and the event center arena. Students interact with the student union on a daily basis, either through the use of facilities or participation in sponsored events or a student union program.

    $11,202,084 spent$15,030,660 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $11,202,084.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($13M) Expenses 100 ($14M) Net assets 100 ($10M)2018 Revenue 96 ($13M) Expenses 82 ($11M) Net assets 99 ($10M)2019 Revenue 116 ($15M) Expenses 101 ($14M) Net assets 113 ($12M)2020 Revenue 130 ($17M) Expenses 109 ($15M) Net assets 132 ($14M)2021 Revenue 82 ($11M) Expenses 91 ($13M) Net assets 129 ($13M)2022 Revenue 41 ($5.4M) Expenses 76 ($10M) Net assets 64 ($6.7M)2023 Revenue 102 ($13M) Expenses 89 ($12M) Net assets 76 ($7.9M)2024 Revenue 91 ($12M) Expenses 99 ($14M) Net assets 64 ($6.6M)2025 Revenue 122 ($16M) Expenses 113 ($15M) Net assets 72 ($7.5M)
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Revenue (122)Expenses (113)Net assets (72)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $16M to $10M (−33%).

$15M
$14M
$15M
$18M
$16M
$10M
$11M
$9.2M
$10.0M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

0% of STUDENT UNION OF SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,251 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$556k
’17
$1.4M
’18
$1.4M
’19
$2.2M
’20
−$1.7M
’21
−$5.0M
’22
$1.2M
’23
−$1.6M
’24
$604k
’25
0.8
months of
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.

Board chair

Sarab Multani

Chair of the board

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.

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Listed141414162016212923
Joined·+3+5+9+5+9+11+14+7
No longer listed·3571136613
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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: $100k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Cal Poly Pomona Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money STUDENT UNION OF SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY raised.

From the IRS filings of STUDENT UNION OF SAN JOSE STATE 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

STUDENT UNION OF SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 STUDENT UNION OF SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY.

91%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

“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.

Where its funders are

STUDENT UNION OF SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.

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Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

STUDENT UNION OF SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY's revenue grew 22% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin4% · below the median
Months of reserve0.8mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Organizations like STUDENT UNION OF SAN JOSE STATE 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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

73% of spending goes to programs.

Program 73%Management 27%Fundraising 0%

Governance

13
board members
46%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Part of a family of 5 related entities

  • The Tower Foundation of San Jose State University · exempt
  • Spartan Shops Inc · exempt
  • San Jose State University Research Foundation · exempt
  • San Jose State University · exempt
  • Associated Students of San Jose State University · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds STUDENT UNION OF SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY?
STUDENT UNION OF SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $131,850 to it, the largest being COUNCIL OF SCHOOLS FOR THE BLIND ($119,350). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does STUDENT UNION OF SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $131,850 in grants to STUDENT UNION OF SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of STUDENT UNION OF SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY?
COUNCIL OF SCHOOLS FOR THE BLIND is the largest funder on record, with $119,350 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like STUDENT UNION OF SAN JOSE STATE 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.

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 2 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