Stanford University Bookstore

Analysis

Stanford University Bookstore is a registered charity in United States, based in Redwood City, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 1962, 64 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education, which this site groups under education and training. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending June 2023, Stanford University Bookstore reported income of $136k and spending of $143k, spending 105% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income fell from $152k to $136k (-10%), an average of -2.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2022, when income rose by 189%. Over the whole period it spent 106% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Stanford University Bookstore sits at the 47th percentile: it is larger than about 46% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 45th percentile, and in the 47th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Tolar Athletic Booster Club ($136k), Goochland Educational Foundation Incorporated ($136k) and Hellenic University Club of New York Inc ($136k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from program service revenue 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $549k against liabilities of $106k, net assets of $443k.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.