Knife Rights Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 743197994
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2009
- Location
- Gilbert, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 6024762702
- Rating
- 90
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Civil Liberties
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $114,156
- Expenses
- $110,125
- Assets
- $145,426
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DOUGLAS RITTER (CHAIRMAN/CEO)
People named in this filing
- DOUGLAS RITTER (CHAIRMAN/CEO)
- SUSAN RITTER (SEC/TREASURER)
- ETHAN BECKER (DIRECTOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
1. Encouraging safe and responsible use of knives and edged tools through education and outreach; 2. Educating knife owners, public officials and the general public about the history of knives and edged tools; 3. Educating knife owners, public officials and the general public about knife and edged tool related laws and regulations; 4. Defense of knife owners and their civil rights through litigation; 5. To engage in any and all activities and for any and all purposes as shall be permitted by law for non-profit organizations.
What it reported doing in 2024
Massachusetts supreme judicial court struck down the state's ban on "switchblades" longer than 1.5-inches in which knife rights foundation filed an amicus brief.knife rights foundation supports an appeal of district court's decsion in lawsuit seeking to end California's to unconstitutional "switchblade" ban in which knife rights inc. Is a plaintiff.knife rights foundation supports a lawsuit seeking to end Minnesota's unconstitutional "switchblade" ban in which knife rights inc. Is a plaintiff.knife rights foundation supports a lawsuit challenging certain portions of the federal switchblade act as unconstitutional in which knife rights inc. Is a plaintiff.knife rights foundation supports updates to its legal blade app.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 57
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.4%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 89.6%; rating input score 90
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.5%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.32; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -4.6% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.6% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 86.4% of revenue deployed · 89.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $99K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 44/100.