National Sporting Goods Association

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
362139222
IRS 990 coverage
2012–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Downers Grove, IL, USA
Phone
8472966742
Rating confidence
Limited

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$2,585,792
Expenses
$3,367,384
Assets
$35,723,149
Liabilities
$640,965

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

20 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MATT CARLSON (PRESIDENT & CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • MATT CARLSON (PRESIDENT & CEO): $474,550 total reported compensation
  • JULIE PITTS (DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS): $200,706 total reported compensation
  • JENNIFER SHAFFER (CFO / ASST. TREASURER): $170,620 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Nsga supports its members' efforts to grow their business and advocates on their behalf by offering the following: 1) resources for recruiting, training, and development; 2) valuable publications & communications; 3) education and networking; 4) research & insight; 5) advocacy for our retailer and team dealer members; 6) promotion of participation in sports; and 7) leading edge services.

What it reported doing in 2024

The nsga now magazine is published six times a year and has approximately 2,000 subscribers, members and nonmembers. Members can access digital copies by logging into the nsga website. Annual issue highlights include information on the nsga leadership conference and sporting goods industry hall of fame. Regular topics include association and member news, research insights, advocacy, retail and sales best practices, and updates on rule changes and industry-related news. Nsga now also includes feature stories on the hottest topics impacting the industry and its members and a spotlight in each issue of a member and their business.nsga also provides all of this information through the nsga scoreboard, an electronic weekly newsletter, which goes to members and prospects. The nsga scoreboard provides content in a timely fashion. There is some members-only content. The nsga scoreboard has news items on industry news and trends, rule changes that impact our members' business and information on business operations. Nsga also has a monthly newsletter for its hockey dealers association division, the hockey voice, and a monthly newsletter for the national ski and snowboard retailers association. Nsga will also produce special editions of these electronic newsletters if there is breaking industry or business-related news our members should be aware of immediately.

Operating model

Revenue model
Investment-supported. 71% of the money available for current operations came from recurring investment income.
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: 82
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 38
  • Growth: 40

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; 5th 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: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Pass
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: -30.2%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 10.61; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 44.3%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 0.6% per year; rating input score 100; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -1.4% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $475K · 20 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 13 of 14 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes executive pay
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 4/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.