How Much do Gun Groups Spend on their Mission? NRA, 2AF, GOA, FPC

[Jerzsubbie]

Ar15.com did a nice overview in one of their videos recently to look at the financial summary of 4 of the key National 2A rights non-profits. By law they have to publish how much they spend on their stated mission, fighting for 2A rights.



2AF 66%


GOA 40%


NRA 71%


FPC 90%



I’m actually surprised GOA is only 40% and that NRA is as high as they are.
The fact that FPC is so small yet seemingly spending their money as intended and filing a ton of lawsuits lately, makes me want to throw them a few bucks.

 

[Get Off My Lawn]

I need to look into FPC. Like he mentioned, I’d like to sees breakdown of where those funds go. Hopefully towards meaningful regulation.

 

[Jerzsubbie]

I need to look into FPC. Like he mentioned, I’d like to sees breakdown of where those funds go. Hopefully towards meaningful regulation.

FPC and GOA have been filing quite a few lawsuits together over the past year, and since ACB got confirmed it’s been like rapid fire. Frankly I question how they can manage so many cases at once, but with enough funds, you can hire all the lawyers you want.

 

[Get Off My Lawn]

FPC and GOA have been filing quite a few lawsuits together over the past year, and since ACB got confirmed it’s been like rapid fire. Frankly I question how they can manage so many cases at once, but with enough funds, you can hire all the lawyers you want.

I was surprised to see GOA’s % that low. I’m still pleased and still sending them $.

 

[Scsmith42]

Those numbers aren’t adding up....

 

[Jerzsubbie]

Those numbers aren’t adding up....

I said the same as first, but realized that the video was only highlighting total revenue, salaries, advertising, and total expenses. Obviously expenses contain a lot more than salaries and advertising, such as legal fees, travel, rent, utilities, IT, etc.

I think their point was seeing how much of each group’s total expenses are salaries and advertising, the two buckets you can argue are not directly supporting the mission but essential to keeping the groups running. So we want to see those pieces being as small a percentage as possible.

 

[Windini]

Very informative post, thanks!

 

[Jerzsubbie]

Since I mentioned it in my previous reply, I thought it would be interesting to see who spends what % of their total revenue on each salaries and advertising.

Group: Salaries; Advertising
2AF: 7.3%; 5.3%
GOA: 15.7%; 2.5%
NRA: 15.3%; 14.2%
FPC: 44.8%; 4.6%

I think this tells an interesting tail... While FPC spends 45% of their revenue on salaries, their revenue is only $1.1M and their highest salary is $136k, which is a nice living but no one is getting filthy rich on that. The NRA on the other hand, spends 15% of their $352M on salaries, including FOUR from $948k-$2.2M. Personally, I take greater issue with the $50M in advertising; Stop offering everyone NRA-branded turds in the form of bags, pens, jackets, etc for their donations and fund some aggressive litigation.

While the NRA's 71% "Total Program Expenses" (TPE) looks very good, the more they spend on salaries the better this number gets. Not what we want to see. On the other hand, FPC looks like their salary spend is huge, but unless they get volunteers (doubtful) or grow their revenue drastically (I hope they do!), that number isn't going to change much. Hopefully FPC's revenues will grow quickly while they maintain similar absolute salary expense.