National standardization organisations participating in ISO usually make their budgets publicly available. Last time I looked I got an impression that the stand

National standardization organisations participating in ISO usually make their budgets publicly available. Last time I looked I got an impression that the standards sales are contributing to their budgets (perhaps 1/3 or 1/4 of income). From the annual reports it was a bit unclear why the usual national standardization organization need to have wealth in $50M (instead of between 100'000 and a million) for being able to continue distributing standards.