Tracking $6 million in Stanford student activity fees, one investigation at a time.
From 2018 to 2026 the ASSU pool doubled and the number of funded clubs tripled. The averages hide who quietly compounded, who collapsed, and who emerged from nothing.
Sports and Greek climbed from 7.7% of the pool to 19% on the back of two unannounced restructures. Muslim Student Union climbed from rank 14 to rank 4 without a step backward. The software category barely exists. We traced every category and every top-ten club across eight years.
Read investigation →Stanford's 253 funded student groups will share $5,568,231 in the 2026-27 budget. Ten clubs take more than a quarter of it; the median group gets $12,750, the largest takes $276,846.
Read investigation →Hammerstrom and Vargas (FARM-RAISED) won 58.21% after five rounds of IRV. Turnout climbed to 23.23% from 17.79% last year. All 282 annual grants passed; both constitutional amendments failed despite supermajority support.
Stanford Daily →Three slates competing for ASSU President/VP. FARM-RAISED claims credit for $10M in VSO funding; opponent Prakash calls the framing a mischaracterization, noting SSE staff handle actual disbursement.
Stanford Daily →The Graduate Student Council reviewed an amendment that would formally eliminate Standard Grants and redirect reserve deposits. Requires 2/3 student approval plus Board of Trustees approval.
Stanford Daily →UGS Appropriations Chair David Sengthay disclosed at a Feb 25 meeting that $2.1M sits in Voluntary Student Organization reserve accounts — unspent funds accumulated from past allocations.
Stanford Daily →The Undergraduate Senate passed a Joint Bill requiring student activities fee-supported organizations to split costs between undergrads and grads in proportion to participation and benefit.
Stanford Daily →ASSUTracker is an independent project that analyzes publicly available Stanford student government budget data. We do not represent ASSU, the University, or any student group.
Every figure on this site is cited to its source — usually the raw ASSU VSO budget spreadsheet. Classification decisions are documented, and disagreements are welcome.
Read more in About or see how we handle data in Methodology.