Spartan Shops Inc

Public charity · Grantmaker San Jose, CA EIN: 94-1392424

The organization's mission is to provide and manage the campus bookstore, dining services and certain real estate properties. Spartan Shops has an agreement with barnes & noble college booksellers ("barnes & noble") for the daily operation of the spartan bookstore and with chartwells higher education ("chartwells") to provide all dining services to the san jose state university ("sjsu") campus. Spartan Shops holds and administers assets for the organization's other post-employment benefits ("opeb") plan in a fiduciary fund.

Spartan Shops Inc at a glance

Total assets
$21,795,752
+23.3% vs 2024
Revenue (2025)
$5,355,963
+39.8% vs 2024
Net investment income (2025)
$294,188
+14.5% vs 2024
Expenses (2025)
$4,441,085
-3.3% vs 2024
Latest 990 filing
Form 990, 2025 View filing

Data from IRS Form 990, 2025; updated September 2026.

Who Spartan Shops Inc funds

How this funder distributes its grants

Grant Size Distribution

2 grants across all recorded years

1<$50K$50–100K1$100–250K$250–500K$500K–1M$1–5M$5M+

The most common grant size was under $50K: 1 grant of 2 (50%).

Geographic Focus

Where this funder awards grants

Grant Distribution by State

1state

States

Cities

San Jose

How Spartan Shops Inc gives

  • Giving grew 912% from 2021 to 2024. Method

From the foundation's IRS Form 990 filings. Methodology.

Giving History

Giving Over Time

Total grant dollars and number of grants per year

$0$50K$100K$150K$200K1 grant2019 1 grant2020 1 grant2021 0 grants2022 0 grants2023 1 grant2024 0 grants2025

From 2019 to 2024, annual grant giving ranged from $15K (2019) to $152K (2024). In 2024 it made 1 grant totaling $152K.

Grants by year

Grant recipients and amounts by year

RecipientPurposeAmount
San Jose State University San Jose, CASpartan Village Paseo Project$151,748
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Financial History

Multi-year comparison from IRS filings

Figures from IRS filings, by filing year
Filing yearTotal AssetsRevenueExpensesGrants paidGrantsNet Investment Income
2025$21,795,752$5,355,963$4,441,085——$294,188
2024$17,682,112$3,831,932$4,594,411$151,7481$256,949
2023$19,500,091$3,271,322$6,034,812——$82,268
2022$18,597,856$2,509,361$3,135,836——$42,265
2021$18,843,295$4,519,374$7,542,768$15,0001$243,135
2020$16,336,147$5,221,094$6,318,350$15,0001$4,934
2019$15,776,765$3,214,923$6,845,505$15,0001$189,297

About Spartan Shops Inc

Based on IRS filings

Spartan Shops Inc is a public charity focused on Education, based in San Jose, CA. IRS filing data is available from 2019 through 2025. As of 2025, the organization holds $21.8M in total assets. Net investment income was $294K.

Focus Areas

Leadership & Key People

Officers and directors from IRS filings

Spartan Shops Inc is led by Charlie Faas, President & Interim Board Chair on every filing since 2020; none of the 5 officers listed in 2025 report compensation.

Officers on the 2025 filing

  • Charlie Faas

    President & Interim Board Chair

    On filings since 2020

    0.1 hrs/week

    No compensation reported

  • Julie Stone

    Director

    On filings since 2019

    0.1 hrs/week

    No compensation reported

  • Mari Fuentes-Martin

    Director

    On filings since 2024

    0.1 hrs/week

    No compensation reported

  • Ariana Lacson

    Director

    New on the 2025 filing

    0.1 hrs/week

    No compensation reported

  • Bill Campsey

    Secretary & Treasurer

    Director → Secretary & Treasurer, 2020

    On filings since 2019

    0.1 hrs/week

    No compensation reported

Former officers (17)
  • Former: Patrick Day (2019–2024) — Director
  • Former: Tanvi Kothari (2019–2024) — Director
  • Former: Sarab Multani (2024) — Director
  • Former: Dhruv Varshney (2023) — Director
  • Former: Nina Chuang (2023) — Director
  • Former: Anoop Kaur (2022) — Director
  • Former: Zobeida Delgadillo (2021) — Director
  • Former: Jeffrey Sanchez (2019–2020) — Golf Manager
  • Former: Branden Parent (2020) — Director
  • Former: Daniella Carrera (2020) — Director
  • Former: Ariadna Manzo (2019) — Director
  • Former: Charles Faas (2019) — Interim Board Chair & President
  • Former: Lisa Thomas (2019) — Executive Director, Secretary & Treasurer
  • Former: Sharon Wiley (2019) — Director
  • Former: Stephanie Fabian (2019) — Marketing Director
  • Former: Steven Olesen (2019) — Chief Oprtng Offcr
  • Former: Vietanh Bui (2019) — Accounting Director

Data from IRS Form 990 filings, 2019–2025. "On filings since" is the earliest filing we hold that lists the person; hours are average hours per week as reported.

Frequently asked questions about Spartan Shops Inc

How large is Spartan Shops Inc?

Spartan Shops Inc reported $21.8M in total assets on its 2025 IRS Form 990. Its revenue that year was $5.4M.

What is Spartan Shops Inc?

Spartan Shops Inc is a public charity focused on Education, based in San Jose, CA. It holds $21.8M in total assets as of 2025.

Where does Spartan Shops Inc operate?

Spartan Shops Inc has awarded grants in California.

What is Spartan Shops Inc's EIN?

Spartan Shops Inc's EIN (Employer Identification Number) is 94-1392424. IRS Form 990 filing data is available on this page for 2019–2025.

Data last updated September 2026. Sourced from IRS Form 990 filings.

Data update history

(6)

When this profile's IRS filing data changed on Grantable

  1. Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2020 (received by the IRS May 17, 2021)
  2. Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2021 (received by the IRS May 13, 2022)
  3. Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2024 (received by the IRS January 30, 2025)
  4. Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2019 (received by the IRS July 13, 2020)
  5. Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2025 (received by the IRS May 12, 2026)
  6. IRS filings on file for fiscal years 2020–2024

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