National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF)
Legal name: National Shooting Sports Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 060860132
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Shelton, CT, USA
- Phone
- 2034261320
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $62,951,102
- Expenses
- $71,197,671
- Assets
- $90,111,263
- Liabilities
- $26,458,631
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
31 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOSEPH BARTOZZI (PRESIDENT/CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
Highest reported compensation
- JOSEPH BARTOZZI (PRESIDENT/CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $863,183 total reported compensation
- LAWRENCE G KEANE (SR. VP/GENERAL COUNSEL/ASSISTANT SECRETARY): $746,226 total reported compensation
- CHRISTOPHER DOLNACK (SENIOR VP/CHIEF MARKETING OFFICER): $628,944 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
National shooting sports foundation's (nssf) purpose is to promote the shooting sports and foster a better understanding of recreational shooting. Continue on schedule o.nssf works for the general welfare of hunting, target shooting, firearm safety, and an understanding of proper and correct handling of sporting firearms.
What it reported doing in 2024
Safety & education - nssf published and distributed various newsletters, pamphlets and publications to its members and the general public to educate them on the safe use of sporting firearms, various sport shooting events, and to promote wildlife conservation programs related to hunting and the shooting sports. Nssf also promotes gun safety by distributing gun locks and other gun safety materials.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 95% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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: 73
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 46.2%; rating input score 46; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th 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: -13.1%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.27; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.29; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.9%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 17 of 17 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $863K · 31 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $25.1M reported
- Consistency: 13 of 14 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 39 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 28 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 46/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 56/100.