Nhra
Legal name: National Hot Rod Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 951686172
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- San Dimas, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6269144761
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $96,662,196
- Expenses
- $92,494,120
- Assets
- $86,703,727
- Liabilities
- $27,448,586
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GLEN CROMWELL (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- GLEN CROMWELL (PRESIDENT): $986,060 total reported compensation
- PETER CLIFFORD (CFO/BOARD CHAIRMAN): $666,217 total reported compensation
- BRADLEY GERBER (VP SALES & CHIEF DVPMT): $553,670 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To be the world's premier sanctioning body for drag racing, providing thrilling competition, safety, and entertainment for fans and participants.
What it reported doing in 2024
The association expends substantial resources in support of improving, promoting, and advancing the common interest of those engaged in the sport of drag racing primarily through providing a governing structure, sanctioning certain races, continuously investing in facility safety and nhra track improvements, and fostering the conduct of thousands of drag racing events annually on national as well as local levels. The association provides support to racer participants, to track operators conducting these events, and to manufacturers and distributors of vehicles, parts and products used in racing.through these activities and events, the association promotes the sport and industry of drag racing by fostering the enthusiasm of the public and participants, and providing a proving ground and showcase for manufacturers and distributors. The association is actively engaged in enhancing the public image of drag racing with a view toward increasing participation and fostering the association's mission of preserving and protecting the sport of drag racing and improving safety in the sport by, among other things, fostering a network of racing venues and racing series. The association's greatest public relations tools are its annual series of national events that are telecast and showcase the best of the sport, including its diverse participants and complex technology, as well as its television programs and website and its publication, national dragster, which is published to provide full coverage during the racing season. Through these events and activities the association works to increase the size and involvement of the businesses which are part of the drag racing industry and which ultimately support the sport and its participants both on the racer and spectator level. The association also provides a full spectrum of racing opportunities beginning at the jr. Drag racing league level where girls and boys as young as five may participate, to the grass roots "street legal" level, and progressing all the way to vehicles with speeds over 300 mph. The association promotes the career and educational opportunities available in the industry through its innovative youth and education services program which exposes several thousand high school students to career opportunities in the sport. The association typically also conducts a dedicated annual career opportunities fair.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 93% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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: 66
- Accountability: 77
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: 47.6%; rating input score 48; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 60%; rating input score 60; 16th 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: 4.3%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.94; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.32; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.3%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -1.3% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 9 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: 3 of 5 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $986K · 12 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $6.2M reported
- Consistency: 12 of 13 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes foreign activity, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 13 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 3 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 48/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 54/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 15/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 54/100.