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California Court Appointed Special Advocate Association

California casa was founded in 1987.

$15M
Granted FY2025still arriving
44
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$2.6M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2025.

Civil Rights$31MCrime & Legal$5.5MHuman Services$2.8MHealth$342kOther$3.3M
02FY2025 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $241k
  • $50k–250k19 grants · $2.3M
  • $250k+19 grants · $12M
$181,289
Median grant
1
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CASA OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY$2,565,020
CASA OF ORANGE COUNTY$1,986,474
VOICES FOR CHILDREN$1,301,805
CHILD ADV OF SILICON VALLEY$580,060
CASA OF FRESNO COUNTY$572,338
SAN FRANCISCO CASA$547,061
CHILD ADV OF PLACER COUNTY$501,778
CASA OF SACRAMENTO COUNTY$477,349
CASA OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY$443,873
CASA OF SOLANO COUNTY$409,791
CASA OF MONTEREY COUNTY$400,812
CASA OF KERN COUNTY$363,005
CASA OF SANTA BARBARA CNTY$334,409
CASA OF MARIN COUNTY$317,714
ALAMEDA COUNTY HEALTH CARE SE$301,042
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $2.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 51% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%CHILD ADV OF PLACER COUNTY: $507k → 6%CASA A VOICE FOR CHILDREN: $64k → 9%NEXUS YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $138k → 10%WILD IRIS FAMILY COUNSELING: $68k → 10%TRAINING EMPLOYMENT & COMM: $49k → 14%LASSEN FAMILY SERVICES CASA: $85k → 17%CASA OF KINGS COUNTY: $261k → 18%CHILD ADV OF PLACER COUNTY: $502k → 6%CASA A VOICE FOR CHILDREN: $48k → 9%NEXUS YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $86k → 10%WILD IRIS FAMILY COUNSELING: $44k → 10%TRAINING EMPLOYMENT & COMM: $42k → 14%LASSEN FAMILY SERVICES CASA: $72k → 17%CASA OF KINGS COUNTY: $216k → 18%CHILD ADV OF PLACER COUNTY: $209k → 6%CASA A VOICE FOR CHILDREN: $36k → 9%NEXUS YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $82k → 10%WILD IRIS FAMILY COUNSELING: $26k → 10%TRAINING EMPLOYMENT & COMM: $14k → 14%LASSEN FAMILY SERVICES CASA: $71k → 17%CASA OF KINGS COUNTY: $166k → 18%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$43M · 44 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

44 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
0

Total granted

$43M
$0

Still filing today

95%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Civil RightsCrime & LegalHuman ServicesHealthOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • CO
    CASA OF LOS ANGELES
    4× · 2021–2025 · $7.5M · revenue +44% · 38% of their budget
  • VF
    VOICES FOR CHILDREN
    3× · 2023–2025 · $4.5M · revenue +8%
  • CA
    COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE OF ORANGE COUNTY
    3× · 2023–2025 · $4.4M · revenue +7% · 30% of their budget

Funded once

    Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

    04Your field

    The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

    1
    Court Appointed Special Advocates of Milam County
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    2
    Court Appointed Special Advocates of Santa Barbara County

    To assure safe, permanent, nurturing homes for abused and/or neglected children by providing highly-trained volunteers to advocate for them in the court system of santa barbara county, california.

    Civil Rights
    3
    Casa of Tipton County

    Child Advocacy Services

    Crime & Legal
    4
    Court Appointed Special Advocates of Cook County

    CASA of Cook County's vision is to protect abused and neglected children by providing them in court, a safe and permanent home, and an opportunity to grow, learn and thrive.

    Crime & Legal
    5
    Court Appointed Special Advocates of Union County Inc

    Recruit, train and supervise volunteers to advocate for abused, neglected and abandoned children placed in foster homes. CASA volunteers ensure children's best interests remain the priority and their needs met while working to establish a…

    —
    6
    Court Appointed Special Advocates of Bastrop Count

    The organization recruits, trains, and supervises volunteers who provide advocacy services to child victims removed by the state from homes because of abuse or neglect

    Civil Rights
    7
    Court Appointed Special Advocates of Camden County Inc

    Advocate in the judicial system for the best interest of victims of abuse and neglect in foster care, giving the child a voice in court and moving the child to a safe and permanent home.

    —
    8
    Court Appointed Special Advocates of Ocean County Inc

    The purpose of casa is to advocate for the best interest of the vulnerable children in foster care. these children have been removed from their homes due to a substantiated case of abuse and neglect. the casa volunteer serves as the…

    Crime & Legal
    9
    Court Appointed Special Advocates Casa of Liberty/Chambers Counties

    None

    Human Services
    10
    Casa of Natrona County

    To provide the court with objective information regarding the status of children involved in abuse or neglect cases. Duties of the appointed advocate would include gathering information, developing recommendations, and providing written…

    Human Services
    11
    Casa of Johnson County Inc

    Recruit and train community volunteers to speak out for abused and neglected children in court proceedings so that they can be permanently placed in a safe, nuturing enviroment as quickly as possible.

    Crime & Legal
    12
    Casa-Voices for Children

    To recruit, train and supervise community volunteers to advocate for children/youth who have experienced abuse and/or neglect who are within the legal jurisdiction of the state.

    Civil Rights

    For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa of Placer Yuba and Sutter and the most unlike its peers is Training Employment & Community Help Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

    Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

    THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%0%<5yr15%3%5–10yr20%8%10–20yr17%66%20–35yr11%21%35–55yr13%3%55yr+
    THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%2%5–10yr20%3%10–20yr17%43%20–35yr11%52%35–55yr13%1%55yr+

    The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

    Closures · last 5 years

    The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

    orgs you fund
    0.0%0/44
    the rest of the field
    14%
    26,003/186,934

    Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

    04the grantee network

    42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

    Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

    Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 44 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

    14
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    4
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    42/42
    Grantees still filing
    28/42
    Grew since you first funded

    Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

    CASA OF LOS ANGELES — $7,470,302 · Civil RightsCASA OF LOS ANGELESVOICES FOR CHILDREN — $4,496,123 · Civil RightsVOICES FOR CHILDRENCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE OF ORANGE COUNTY — $4,448,286 · Civil RightsCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE OF ORANGE COUNTYCHILD ADVOCATES OF SILICON VALLEY INC — $1,840,241 · Civil RightsCHILD ADVOCATES OF SILICON VALLEY INCCourt Appointed Special Advocates of Sacramento County — $1,580,261 · Civil RightsCourt Appointed Special Advocates of Santa Cruz County — $1,466,548 · Civil RightsCourt Appointed Special Advocates of Fresno and Madera Counties — $1,459,694 · Civil RightsSan Francisco CASA — $1,298,871 · Civil RightsCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF KERN COUNTY — $1,262,012 · Civil Rights+10 more — $6,141,641 · Civil Rights+10 moreCourt Appointed Special Advocates of Monterey County Inc — $1,049,514 · Crime & LegalCourt Appointe…MARIN COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES — $792,588 · Crime & LegalMARIN COURT AP…CASA of San Mateo County — $790,971 · Crime & LegalCASA of San Ma…CASA OF VENTURA COUNTY INC — $737,868 · Crime & LegalCASA OF VENTUR…CASA EL DORADO — $436,660 · Crime & LegalCASA EL DORADOCourt Appointed Special Advocates of Stanislaus County — $430,503 · Crime & LegalCourt Appointe…Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of Merced County — $425,869 · Crime & LegalCourt Appointe…Youth Empowerment Siskiyou — $258,330 · Crime & LegalFriends of Alameda County CASA Inc — $245,850 · Crime & LegalChild Advocates of Nevada County — $214,831 · Crime & Legal+1 more — $140,045 · Crime & LegalCASA OF SANTA BARBARA CNTY — $1,129,799 · OtherCHILD ADVOCATES OF SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY — $930,681 · OtherAlameda County Board of Supervisors — $531,884 · OtherSAN JOAQUIN COUNTY CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION COUNCIL — $473,589 · OtherNORTHERN VALLEY CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICE INC — $222,459 · OtherCASA of Placer Yuba and Sutter — $1,217,472 · Human ServicesCASA OF KINGS COUNTY INC — $642,993 · Human ServicesNEXUS YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES — $305,317 · Human ServicesLASSEN FAMILY SERVICES INC — $228,062 · Human ServicesCASA A VOICE FOR CHILDREN — $147,488 · Human ServicesWILD IRIS FAMILY COUNSELING & CRISIS CENTER — $138,275 · Human ServicesTraining Employment & Community Help Inc — $104,166 · Human ServicesAlliance for Community Transformations — $182,964 · HealthPLUMAS CRISIS INTERVENTION AND RESOURCE CENTER — $159,076 · Health
    Civil Rights$31,463,979Crime & Legal$5,523,029Other$3,288,412Human Services$2,783,773Health$342,040

    Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

    25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCASA OF LOS ANGELES — $7,470,302 over 4y, 38% of budgetVOICES FOR CHILDREN — $4,496,123 over 3y, 19% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE OF ORANGE COUNTY — $4,448,286 over 3y, 30% of budgetCHILD ADVOCATES OF SILICON VALLEY INC — $1,840,241 over 3y, 15% of budgetCourt Appointed Special Advocates of Sacramento County — $1,580,261 over 3y, 37% of budgetCourt Appointed Special Advocates of Santa Cruz County — $1,466,548 over 5y, 32% of budgetCourt Appointed Special Advocates of Fresno and Madera Counties — $1,459,694 over 3y, 33% of budgetSan Francisco CASA — $1,298,871 over 3y, 13% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF KERN COUNTY — $1,262,012 over 3y, 37% of budgetCASA of Placer Yuba and Sutter — $1,217,472 over 3y, 23% of budgetCourt Appointed Special Advocates of Monterey County Inc — $1,049,514 over 5y, 22% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY INC — $980,728 over 3y, 23% of budgetCASA of Solano County — $945,184 over 3y, 40% of budgetCHILD ADVOCATES OF SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY — $930,681 over 3y, 28% of budgetMARIN COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES — $792,588 over 3y, 24% of budgetCASA of San Mateo County — $790,971 over 3y, 12% of budgetCASA OF TULARE COUNTY — $753,094 over 3y, 19% of budgetCASA OF VENTURA COUNTY INC — $737,868 over 5y, 30% of budgetCHILD ADVOCATES OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY — $737,506 over 3y, 18% of budgetCourt Appointed Special Advocate of Humboldt — $677,068 over 3y, 32% of budgetCASA OF KINGS COUNTY INC — $642,993 over 3y, 37% of budgetCourt Appointed Special Advocates of Imperial County — $626,354 over 3y, 33% of budgetYOLO COUNTY COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES — $585,913 over 3y, 25% of budgetSAN JOAQUIN COUNTY CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION COUNCIL — $473,589 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCASA EL DORADO — $436,660 over 3y, 16% of budgetCourt Appointed Special Advocates of Stanislaus County — $430,503 over 3y, 20% of budgetCourt Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of Merced County — $425,869 over 3y, 23% of budgetCourt Appointed Special Advocates — $358,238 over 3y, 20% of budgetNEXUS YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES — $305,317 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetCourt Appointed Special Advocate of San Benito County Inc — $279,180 over 3y, 37% of budgetYouth Empowerment Siskiyou — $258,330 over 3y, 11% of budgetFriends of Alameda County CASA Inc — $245,850 over 3y, 26% of budgetLASSEN FAMILY SERVICES INC — $228,062 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetNORTHERN VALLEY CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICE INC — $222,459 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetChild Advocates of Nevada County — $214,831 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetCourt Appointed Special Advocates of Mendocino County — $198,376 over 3y, 16% of budgetAlliance for Community Transformations — $182,964 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetPLUMAS CRISIS INTERVENTION AND RESOURCE CENTER — $159,076 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetCASA A VOICE FOR CHILDREN — $147,488 over 3y, 18% of budgetCourt Appointed Special Advocates of Del Norte County — $140,045 over 4y, 9.4% of budgetWILD IRIS FAMILY COUNSELING & CRISIS CENTER — $138,275 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetTraining Employment & Community Help Inc — $104,166 over 3y, 0.8% of budget
    Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

    A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

    The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

    California Foundation…In-N-Out Burgers Foun…National Court Appoin…Ticket to Dream Found…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Teichert FoundationValorusSierra Health Foundat…Sacramento Region Com…Quest FoundationEast Bay Community Fo…Dutch Bros Foundation
    California Foundation for Stronger CommunitiesCA62.9× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

    Open a dossier: California Foundation for Stronger Communities · In-N-Out Burgers Foundation · National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association · Ticket to Dream Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Teichert Foundation · Valorus · Sierra Health Foundation Center for Health Program Management · Sacramento Region Community Foundation · Quest Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Dutch Bros Foundation

    Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

    Government reliance of your grantees

    Every dot is one organization California Court Appointed Special Advocate Association funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

    2024
    ’20’21’22’23’24’25
    no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
      no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
      0get no government money at all
      34report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
      0rely on government for over half their income
      ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
      typical government reliance, FY20–25

      Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

      On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 44 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

      Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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