Colorado · Nonprofit
NATURAL HIGHS--HEALTHY ALTERNATIVES TO DRUGS AND ALCOHOL
NATURAL HIGHS--HEALTHY ALTERNATIVES TO DRUGS AND ALCOHOL (Colorado) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $222,967 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($72,745). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $193k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $223k
- Net assets
- $233k
What Natural Highs--Healthy Alternatives to Drugs and Alcohol does
Mission
Natural Highs offers school-based and community-based substance abuse prevention and intervention services for teens parents and adults. We also offer free AcuDetox Acuwellness for people of all ages as a healthy alternative to alcohol and drugs.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Substance Abuse Prevention and mental health classes and presentations for teens. We offered 92 classes in 2024 and served 1,525 teens.
$39,200 spentof which $39,000 as grants28% of program spendingTrauma and stress management support for substance abuse prevention and mental health with Community AcuDetox AcuWellness for teens parents and adults. 358 Acudetox programs in 2024= Total participants 4,500 total in 2024
$53,445 spentof which $43,477 as grants38% of program spendingProviding Acudetox Certification Trainings for community members to support healthy alternatives 2 trainings offered 27 people trained - ARPA fund
$11,729 spentof which $11,729 as grants8% of program spendingBilingual Parent Education Programs in schools and in the community 36 presentations in 2024= total of 728 parents served.
$17,482 spentof which $17,682 as grants12% of program spendingCertified translation of all Acudetox certification materials into Spanish and made it available nationwide to support Spanish Speakers in becoming certified Acudetox Providers
$17,963 spentof which $17,963 as grants13% of program spendingCommunity mental health and trauma trainings for the teens parents professionals: 4 trainings in 2024 56 participants ARPA Fund
$2,223 spentof which $2,223 as grants2% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $142,042.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $121k to $173k (+43%).
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.
16% of NATURAL HIGHS--HEALTHY ALTERNATIVES TO DRUGS AND ALCOHOL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $15k → $31k.
8 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 NATURAL HIGHS--HEALTHY ALTERNATIVES TO DRUGS AND ALCOHOL’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
NATURAL HIGHS--HEALTHY ALTERNATIVES TO DRUGS AND ALCOHOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
99% 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 NATURAL HIGHS--HEALTHY ALTERNATIVES TO DRUGS AND ALCOHOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 55% · 2020 45% · 2021 43% · 2022 33% · 2023 42% — 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
43% of NATURAL HIGHS--HEALTHY ALTERNATIVES TO DRUGS AND ALCOHOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
99% of NATURAL HIGHS--HEALTHY ALTERNATIVES TO DRUGS AND ALCOHOL's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $2k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 2 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $221k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
NATURAL HIGHS--HEALTHY ALTERNATIVES TO DRUGS AND ALCOHOL has grown faster than three-quarters of the 13,754 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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In Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NATURAL HIGHS--HEALTHY ALTERNATIVES TO DRUGS AND ALCOHOL?
- NATURAL HIGHS--HEALTHY ALTERNATIVES TO DRUGS AND ALCOHOL (Colorado) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $222,967 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($72,745). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NATURAL HIGHS--HEALTHY ALTERNATIVES TO DRUGS AND ALCOHOL have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $222,967 in grants to NATURAL HIGHS--HEALTHY ALTERNATIVES TO DRUGS AND ALCOHOL, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATURAL HIGHS--HEALTHY ALTERNATIVES TO DRUGS AND ALCOHOL?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $72,745 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATURAL HIGHS--HEALTHY ALTERNATIVES TO DRUGS AND ALCOHOL 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 10 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