For schools & collectives · post-House

Revenue sharing just made your athletic department a tax-planning operation.

The House settlement lets schools pay athletes directly for the first time. That turns every institution and collective into a payer — with hundreds of athletes, contested 1099/W-2 classification, and multi-state exposure to manage. SidelineWealth gives you roster-wide, law-current tax illustrations for every athlete, branded to your program and built for compliance at scale.

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$20.5M
first-year revenue-share cap per school (2025–26) — paid directly to athletes for the first time
100s
of athletes per institution now receiving reportable income, each with a multi-state, multi-form picture
50
state tax regimes in play once athletes earn across road games, camps, and appearances

What changed — and why it's now your problem

Before the House settlement, NIL income flowed mostly through third parties and collectives. Now schools distribute revenue-share dollars directly, and those payments are reportable. The prevailing practice is to report them on Form 1099, which keeps S-Corp and QBI strategies available to athletes classified as active-service earners — but that treatment is being challenged, and a shift to W-2 would change the math for your entire roster overnight. An institution that can't show a current, defensible tax picture for the athletes it pays is carrying a quiet compliance and reputational risk.

What SidelineWealth gives an institution

Roster-wide illustrations

Every athlete on revenue share gets a current, accurate tax picture — S-Corp vs. baseline, multi-state allocation, QBI, PTET, and quarterly estimates — generated from one place, not rebuilt by hand per athlete.

Always current with the law

1099-vs-W-2 classification of revenue share is contested. When an approved rule change lands, every athlete's plan recomputes — and the system flags exactly who's affected. Your compliance posture is never a stale spreadsheet.

Branded to the institution

Plans go out under the school's or collective's brand, co-branded with the advisors who serve your athletes — a professional leave-behind that doubles as athlete financial-education.

Built for many hands

Unlimited advisor seats, SSO, and an API so your compliance office, collective staff, and the athletes' own agents and CPAs all work from the same numbers.

How it works at roster scale

1
Load the roster
Import athletes and their revenue-share amounts, home states, and appearance schedules.
2
Generate plans at scale
Each athlete gets an individualized, law-current illustration — no per-athlete rebuild.
3
Distribute, branded
Athletes and their advisors receive a co-branded plan; everyone works from one source of truth.
4
Stay ahead of changes
When the law moves, plans update and affected athletes are flagged for proactive outreach.

Institutional pricing

Pricing is custom and scales with the size of your program — from a single collective to a full Power-conference athletic department. Every plan includes unlimited advisor seats, SSO, API access, a dedicated success manager, and onboarding for your compliance office, collective, and the advisors who serve your athletes. Tell us your roster size below and we'll scope it with you — usually within one business day.

Collectives & mid-majors
A focused roster, one source of truth across your advisors.
Power-conference programs
Hundreds of athletes, multi-state, branded to the program.
Full athletic departments
Department-wide compliance posture with SSO + API.
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No commitment — a quick scope of your program and what it would take to roll out.