Not an accurate Org Chart at all...
My ballot was languishing until I read the original post and the thumbs up from the Big Ape. It is now sent.
Not sure who came up with that org chart, but it's not accurate at all. No one at NRA reports to the President. The Executive Vice President is the CEO, and all employees report to him. He reports to the Board.
NRA has two major divisions: General Operations and ILA. Each of those has an Executive Director with various deputies and so forth down the line. ILA is responsible for lobbying and political activity, while General Operations is responsible for everything else.
Within ILA, there are Federal Affairs and State and Local, with division chiefs over each, a small PR department, Grassroots division, and some others.
On the General Operations side there are lots of divisions: Publications, Education & Training, Competitions, Member Services, Membership (recruiting and retention), Range Development, Hunting, etc.
Then you have the vendors and consultants. The top vendor for decades was the PR firm Ackerman McQueen. In 2019 they were pulling down something north of $40 million per year from the Association. Ack-Mac was followed by various other vendors, mostly fundraisers like the phone-bank company, and no fewer than 5 "Fundraising Consultants" who must be really good because they were getting paid a lot of money, even though there was no paper trail showing what NRA actually got from them.
A detailed org chart would be interesting, especially if it included salaries.
You can learn a lot from NRA's IRS form 990 that they file every year. You can find those on sites like GuideStar and ProPublica, or on my site, FirearmsCoalition.org.
We have lots of really good people working for the NRA, and a few greedy bassfishermen at the top.
They laid off over half fo the employees a few years ago, pushing many into early retirement to try and reduce expenses -- while still paying WLP over $1.5 million per year and flying him around on private jets.
ILA can (and in my opinion, should) be pretty much self-sufficient and independent.
A lot of the PR functions should be done in-house, but after they got rid of Ack-Mac, those duties, and the payments, went to their lawyer's firm for "crisis communications." We've been paying them something like $2 million per month for the past 5 or 6 years.
I'd like to see a hard-nosed, retired executive type with deep corporate experience put in the Interim CEO position to lead the reorganization, so the new, more permanent CEO will have a clean, tidy house and no blood on his hands.
The judge will be deciding much of this in July. I just hope he'll demand big changes and get rid of the "leaders" who have been gas-lighting the membership all these years.
