Nflpa
Legal name: National Football League Players Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 521169809
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Aug 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Washington, DC, US
- Phone
- (800) 372-2000
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Labor Unions
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $163,542,587
- Expenses
- $77,154,806
- Assets
- $1,310,365,924
- Liabilities
- $156,547,458
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
75 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JALEN REEVES-MAYBIN (PRESIDENT)
- CAMERON HEYWARD (VICE PRESIDENT)
- OREN BURKS (VICE PRESIDENT)
- AUSTIN EKELER (VICE PRESIDENT)
- BRANDON MCMANUS (VICE PRESIDENT)
- CALAIS CAMPBELL (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- DEMAURICE SMITH (FORMER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $3,583,209 total reported compensation
- LLOYD W HOWELL JR (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $3,388,555 total reported compensation
- THOMAS DEPASO (GENERAL COUNSEL): $1,166,588 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The National Football League Players Association (NFLPA) is the union for professional football players in the National Football League. It represents all players in matters concerning wages, hours and working conditions and protects their rights as professional football players. The union makes sure that the terms of the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) are met, negotiates and monitors retirement and insurance benefits, provides other member services and activities, provides assistance to charitable and community organizations, and enhances and defends the image of players and their profession on and off the field.
What it reported doing in 2024
To promote and advance all nfl players and the sport of professional football, and to improve the economic and other working conditions of players as the union and exclusive collective bargaining representative of players in the national football league.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 76
- Accountability: 42
- Sustainability: 83
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 71.8%; rating input score 72; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 52.8%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 16.98; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.12; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.5%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.4% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 0 of 32 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $3.6M · 75 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $14.3M reported
- Consistency: 13 of 14 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes grants and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 51 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 10 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.