{"id":34786,"date":"2026-02-16T12:18:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T17:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/thought-leadership\/?p=34786"},"modified":"2026-02-16T12:19:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T17:19:01","slug":"nathan-goldman-analyzes-landmark-olympic-payout-for-fortune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/thought-leadership\/article\/nathan-goldman-analyzes-landmark-olympic-payout-for-fortune\/","title":{"rendered":"Nathan Goldman Analyzes Landmark Olympic Payout For Fortune"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n

We\u2019re about halfway through the 2026 Winter Olympics, and members of Team USA will have some money to look forward to once the games end, regardless of whether they medal or not.

Ross Stevens, the billionaire CEO of Stone Ridge Holdings Group, has pledged $200,000 for each U.S. Olympian to secure their long term financial security. Fortune <\/em>broke down the particulars of the payout and enlisted the expertise of Nathan Goldman<\/a>, the Dean\u2019s Professor of Accounting at the Poole College of Management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The actual payout is broken into two different payments of $100,000. The first payment \u2013 which will be treated as taxable income \u2013 arrives after the athlete turns 45 or 20 years after they first qualify for the Olympics, depending on which happens later. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is beneficial because many Olympians have second jobs, and even top tier athletes in more marketable sports can lose income after they retire and the sponsorships dry up. \u201cEven the Olympians that we know their names a little bit better, are still nowhere near the million dollars when they\u2019re in these less popular sports as professionals,\u201d says Goldman, who estimates most Olympic athletes earn between $150,000 to $200,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second payment is a guaranteed benefit for the athlete\u2019s family after they die, and Goldman posits that the post-death payment could be subject to estate or gift taxes based on their estate\u2019s total value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can read the full article on Fortune<\/em>\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"raw":"\n\n\n\n\n

We\u2019re about halfway through the 2026 Winter Olympics, and members of Team USA will have some money to look forward to once the games end, regardless of whether they medal or not.

Ross Stevens, the billionaire CEO of Stone Ridge Holdings Group, has pledged $200,000 for each U.S. Olympian to secure their long term financial security. Fortune <\/em>broke down the particulars of the payout and enlisted the expertise of Nathan Goldman<\/a>, the Dean\u2019s Professor of Accounting at the Poole College of Management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The actual payout is broken into two different payments of $100,000. The first payment \u2013 which will be treated as taxable income \u2013 arrives after the athlete turns 45 or 20 years after they first qualify for the Olympics, depending on which happens later. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is beneficial because many Olympians have second jobs, and even top tier athletes in more marketable sports can lose income after they retire and the sponsorships dry up. \u201cEven the Olympians that we know their names a little bit better, are still nowhere near the million dollars when they\u2019re in these less popular sports as professionals,\u201d says Goldman, who estimates most Olympic athletes earn between $150,000 to $200,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second payment is a guaranteed benefit for the athlete\u2019s family after they die, and Goldman posits that the post-death payment could be subject to estate or gift taxes based on their estate\u2019s total value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can read the full article on Fortune<\/em>\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Poole accounting professor helps breaks down the $200,000 gift each U.S. Olympian received from a private donor. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39405,"featured_media":18260,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"source":"","ncst_custom_author":"","ncst_show_custom_author":false,"ncst_dynamicHeaderBlockName":"ncst\/default-post-header","ncst_dynamicHeaderData":"{\"displayCategoryID\":170,\"showAuthor\":true,\"showDate\":true,\"showFeaturedVideo\":false,\"subtitle\":\"The Poole accounting professor helps breaks down the $200,000 gift each U.S. Olympian received from a private donor. \"}","ncst_content_audit_freq":"","ncst_content_audit_date":"","ncst_content_audit_display":false,"ncst_backToTopFlag":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[638,170,77],"tags":[669,260,327,664],"_ncst_magazine_issue":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-34786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-accounting","category-in-the-news","category-newswire","tag-fortune","tag-goldman","tag-in-the-news","tag-olympics"],"displayCategory":{"term_id":170,"name":"In the News","slug":"in-the-news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":170,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":338,"filter":"raw"},"acf":{"ncst_posts_meta_modified_date":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/thought-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/thought-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/thought-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/thought-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39405"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/thought-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34786"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/thought-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34798,"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/thought-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34786\/revisions\/34798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/thought-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/thought-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/thought-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/thought-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34786"},{"taxonomy":"_ncst_magazine_issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/thought-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/_ncst_magazine_issue?post=34786"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/thought-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=34786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}