National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment

Analysis

National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment is a registered charity in United States, based in Chandler, AZ. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 1972, 54 years ago. Its declared purposes cover recreation and sports, which this site groups under amateur sport and recreation. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment reported income of $3.4m and spending of $2.4m, leaving 27% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $2.6m to $3.4m (+29%), an average of +6.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 26%. Over the whole period it spent 92% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment sits at the 98th percentile: it is larger than about 98% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 90th percentile, and in the 87th percentile within AZ. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Columbus Local Organizing Committee ($3.4m), Orangetown Metro Sports Club Inc ($3.4m) and Eastside Football Club ($3.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from program service revenue 96% of the total. At year end it held assets of $3.5m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $3.5m.