What this site is

ASSUTracker is an independent data-journalism project. It exists to make the annual flow of Stanford's student activity fee legible — which clubs receive it, in what proportions, under what categories, and with what per-capita consequences. The $5,568,231 distributed in the 2026-27 ASSU VSO budget belongs, in a literal sense, to the students who paid it; they should be able to see where it went without learning to read a line-item spreadsheet.

The site is not affiliated with the Associated Students of Stanford University, the Office of Student Engagement, the University, or any student group. It receives no funding from any of them. There are no ads on this site, no paywall, no mailing list, no sponsorships, and no tracking beyond the basic page-view counts Vercel provides by default. If that ever changes, the About page will say so first.

Every figure published here is traceable to a public source, and every methodological choice is documented on the Methodology page. Our goal is to be the kind of site whose numbers you can use in an argument, because the argument already survived being written down.