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National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment at a glance

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National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment

The mission is to commission research on and, where feasible, establish standards for athletic equipment.

$413k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$141k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$1.2MRecreation & Sports$1.1MEducation$275k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $400,422, the rows itemized in this filing. The $412,922 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $12,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $50k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $350k
$109,250
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UC Regents$141,226
University of Ottawa$109,250
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill$100,000
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia$49,946
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

US giving: 87% of grant dollars ($2.3M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 13% that went abroad ($324k) is mapped below.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Louis J Acompora Memorial Foundation: $10k → 7%Hospital for Special Surgery: $100k → 17%Board of Regents of University of Wisconsin: $108k → 10%University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: $100k → 13%University of Georgia Res Foundation Inc: $60k → 27%Datalys Center Inc: $100k → 16%Northwestern University: $157k → 14%Virginia Tech Office of Sponsored Programs: $143k → 21%University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: $100k → 13%Northwestern University: $148k → 14%Virginia Tech Office of Sponsored Programs: $136k → 21%University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: $100k → 13%University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: $100k → 13%University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: $100k → 13%University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: $100k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
NY
IN
PA
CA
VA
NC
GA
FL

Beyond the US: 13% of all-years giving ($324k)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Canada$324k · 3 grants
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipmentlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 16% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 6 repeat orgs$575k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
6

Total granted

$2.0M
$525k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+79%

Still filing today

33%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
Recreation & SportsEducationHealthPublic Safety & DisasterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL
    6× · 2019–2024 · $600k
  • UO
    University of Ottawa
    3× · 2017–2024 · $324k
  • Northwestern University
    2× · 2019–2021 · $305k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA
    one grant, 2017 · $147k
  • UO
    University of Wisconsin Madison
    one grant, 2017 · $108k
  • DC
    DATALYS CENTER FOR SPORTS INJURY RESEARCH AND PREVENTION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +18%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field
05the grantee network

7 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 7 of the 13 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
5/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $600,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILLUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA: $296,981 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDAVIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY: $278,594 · OtherVIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITYREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $198,726 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA: $146,657 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDAUniversity of Wisconsin Madison: $108,289 · OtherUniversity of Wisconsin MadisonNorthwestern University: $304,896 · Recreation & SportsNorthwestern Univ…DATALYS CENTER FOR SPORTS INJURY RESEARCH AND PREVENTION INC: $100,000 · Recreation & SportsDATALYS CENTER FO…University of Ottawa: $324,168 · EducationUniversity of Ot…University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc: $59,661 · EducationUniversity of Ge…The Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc: $100,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $49,946 · HealthThe Louis J Acompora Memorial Foundation: $10,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$1,629,247Recreation & Sports$404,896Education$383,829Health$149,946Public Safety & Disaster$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNorthwestern University: $304,896 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDATALYS CENTER FOR SPORTS INJURY RESEARCH AND PREVENTION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetThe Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUniversity of Georgia Research Foundation Inc: $59,661 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $49,946 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Louis J Acompora Memorial Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment?

    Find your warmest path to National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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