Colorado · Nonprofit
JOHNNYS AMBASSADORS INC
JOHNNYS AMBASSADORS INC (Colorado) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $543,673 to it, the largest being THE GERALD AND DAPHNA CRAMER FOUNDATION ($175,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $544k
- Net assets
- $330k
What Johnnys Ambassadors Inc does
Mission
Johnnys Ambassadors educates parents and teens about the dangers of todays high-THC marijuana on adolescent brain development, mental illness, and suicide.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
1.Created a weekly series of Johnnys Ambassadors Expert Webinar Series for Parents2.Created a weekly newsletter with articles on the harms of marijuana3.Created a database of hundreds of scientific articles on marijuana4.Created a world-class website with educational materials on marijuana
$9,498,071 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $9,498,071.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $305k to $491k (+61%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of JOHNNYS AMBASSADORS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Laura Stack
CEO
Board chair
John Stack
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $108 → $195k.
8 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of JOHNNYS AMBASSADORS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
JOHNNYS AMBASSADORS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
47% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund JOHNNYS AMBASSADORS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 93% · 2021 99% · 2022 50% · 2023 38% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
30% of JOHNNYS AMBASSADORS INC's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 48% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
JOHNNYS AMBASSADORS INC draws 92% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $219k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
JOHNNYS AMBASSADORS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,580 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,580 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding JOHNNYS AMBASSADORS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $34k on record.
- OTHER PROFESSIONAL SERVICE$34k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like JOHNNYS AMBASSADORS INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JOHNNYS AMBASSADORS INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds JOHNNYS AMBASSADORS INC?
- JOHNNYS AMBASSADORS INC (Colorado) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $543,673 to it, the largest being THE GERALD AND DAPHNA CRAMER FOUNDATION ($175,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JOHNNYS AMBASSADORS INC have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $543,673 in grants to JOHNNYS AMBASSADORS INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JOHNNYS AMBASSADORS INC?
- THE GERALD AND DAPHNA CRAMER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $175,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JOHNNYS AMBASSADORS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 21 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing