Which funders back the same organizations as Illinois Association of Court Appointed Special Advocates?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association, George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities, AbbVie Foundation.

Illinois Association of Court Appointed Special Advocates

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Illinois Association of Court Appointed Special Advocates

Q: How much does Illinois Association of Court Appointed Special Advocates give?

Illinois Association of Court Appointed Special Advocates reported 30 grants totaling $5,882,665 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 31 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

Q: What does Illinois Association of Court Appointed Special Advocates fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (88%), Civil Rights (7%), Human Services (5%).

Q: Who are Illinois Association of Court Appointed Special Advocates's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Casa of Southwestern Illinois ($2.1M), Casa Lake County Inc ($1.4M), Casa of the Tenth Judicial Circuit ($1.4M).

Q: Does Illinois Association of Court Appointed Special Advocates fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Q: Where is Illinois Association of Court Appointed Special Advocates based?

Illinois Association of Court Appointed Special Advocates is based in IL.

Supports and promotes court appointed volunteer advocacy for children who have experienced abuse or neglect.

$5.9M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$573k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Crime & Legal$20MCivil Rights$1.6MHuman Services$1.2M

02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

$10k–50k1 grant · $44k
$50k–250k21 grants · $3.0M
$250k+8 grants · $2.9M

$167,493

Median grant

States reached

$1.1M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
CASA OF SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS	$573,200
MACON COUNTY CASA	$386,313
ADVOCACY NETWORK FOR CHILDRENCASA OF ADAMS COUNTY	$365,440
CASA KANE COUNTY	$354,648
CASA LAKE COUNTY	$318,586
SOUTH CENTRAL ILLINOISMARION	$303,291
CASA OF VERMILION COUNTY	$295,345
CHAMPAIGN COUNTY CASA	$255,045
CASA OF WILL COUNTY	$232,962
CASA OF DUPAGE COUNTY	$205,276
CASA OF FRANKLIN & HAMILTON COUNTIES	$199,683
CASA OF THE 10TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT	$197,109
CASA OF SALINE COUNTY INC	$180,313
CASA OF MCHENRY COUNTY	$173,120
WINNEBAGO COUNTY CASA	$167,493

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

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

How this is measured

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

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$23M · 31 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

31 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$23M

Still filing today

90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

RenewedFirst-time

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

Civil RightsCrime & LegalHuman ServicesOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

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CASA OF SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS
6× · 2020–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +34% · 49% of their budget
CASA LAKE COUNTY INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +79%
CO
CASA OF THE TENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
6× · 2020–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +19% · 30% of their budget

Funded once

How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Casa of Tipton County

Child Advocacy Services

Crime & Legal

Court Appointed Special Advocate of Humboldt

To provide all abused and neglected children with a voice in the court process.

Civil Rights

Court Appointed Special Advocates of Milam County

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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

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.

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Mid-Ozark Casa Program

The program provides organization structure, leadership and training for community volunteers who serve as court appointed special advocates(casa) for agbused and neglected children in south central missouri.

Community Improvement

Casa of the Rolling Plains

Casa is a program to advocate for abused and neglected children in the legal and foster system.

Crime & Legal

Canadian County Casa Inc

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Crime & Legal

Court Appointed Special Advocates Casa of Liberty/Chambers Counties

None

Human Services

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

Casa for Kids Inc

To promote and support professionally trained Court Appointed Special Advocates for abused and neglected children in need of safety, stability, and permanency, brought to the attention of the Juvenile Courts, giving them the opportunity to…

Civil Rights

Heartland Casa

Heartland casa (court appointed special advocates) supports abused and neglected children in the court system through recruiting and training informed, caring volunteers who speaks for these children.

Crime & Legal

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa of Southeastern Illinois Inc; the most unlike its peers is Casa of Kendall County. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 31 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

28/28

Grantees still filing

27/28

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Civil Rights$11,319,651Crime & Legal$4,950,709Other$4,304,861Human Services$1,991,575

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

National Court Appointed Special Advocate AssociationWA34.2× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · AbbVie Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Baird Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

How this is measured

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

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Illinois Association of Court Appointed Special Advocates funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Illinois Association of Court Appointed Special Advocates. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home