Colorado · Nonprofit
NATIONAL CANNABIS INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION
NATIONAL CANNABIS INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION (Colorado) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being MARIJUANA POLICY PROJECT FOUNDATION ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $738k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $-22886
What National Cannabis Industry Association does
Mission
Represent legally recognized cannabis industry businesses w respect to Federal legislation and regulation, and promote industry best practices
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Federal lobbying: ncia engages in direct government relations work to raise awareness of the cannabis industry s issues and build support in congress for marijuana policy reforms that benefit the advancement of a responsible, regulated, and legal cannabis industry.
Public relations: ncia works to educate the public on the potential economic and social benefits of legalizing and regulating cannabis sales throughout the us. This is accomplished primarily through targeted media outreach and coordinated and timely response to newsworthy topics.
Conferences: having hosted approximately 50 educational and networking events for members throughout the us, ncia fosters industry best practices and works to build community within the industry.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2018 to 2019, from $1.4M to $681k (−52%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 12% · 2025 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of NATIONAL CANNABIS INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Chris Jackson
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of NATIONAL CANNABIS INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 1 of 2 funders by total. 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.
Where its funders are
NATIONAL CANNABIS INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
NATIONAL CANNABIS INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION's revenue fell 75% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like NATIONAL CANNABIS INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION
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
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL CANNABIS INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION: 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 NATIONAL CANNABIS INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION?
- NATIONAL CANNABIS INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION (Colorado) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being MARIJUANA POLICY PROJECT FOUNDATION ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL CANNABIS INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $10,000 in grants to NATIONAL CANNABIS INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL CANNABIS INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION?
- MARIJUANA POLICY PROJECT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL CANNABIS INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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