The ESV also is linked to the National Council of Churches.
Below is a portion of a reference site about the ESV,
found here. It quotes part of an article from World Magazine about the creation of the ESV.
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Some months later, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School professor Wayne Grudem and Crossway President Lane Dennis entered into negotiations with the National Council of Churches to use the 1971 revision of the Revised Standard Version as the basis for a new translation. An agreement was reached in September 1998 allowing translators freedom to modify the original text of the RSV as necessary to rid it of de-Christianing translation choices.
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I do not know if this agreement required that the NCC receives royalties, but it is possible.