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Missouri Court Appointed Special Advocate Association
MISSOURI COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE ASSOCIATION advocates for the best interest of abused and neglected children by promoting and supporting the development, growth and continuation of quality court appointed special advocate programs and services to benefit children throughout missouri.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k18 grants · $473k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $389k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JACKSON COUNTY CASA | $88,551 |
| CASA OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI | $87,828 |
| CASA OF MIDEAST MO | $73,991 |
| CASA OF ST LOUIS | $71,205 |
| HEART OF MISSOURI CASA | $67,861 |
| JASPER COUNTY CASA | $44,714 |
| CASA OF SOUTH CENTRAL MO | $44,557 |
| CASA OF JEFFERSON COUNTY | $36,165 |
| CAPITAL CITY CASA | $30,754 |
| VOICES FOR CHILDRENCASA | $29,219 |
| NEW-MAC CASA | $26,494 |
| CASA OF THE 36TH JUDICIAL COURT | $26,363 |
| Individual grant recipient | $26,309 |
| CASA OF THE PARKLAND | $25,660 |
| Individual grant recipient | $24,883 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $448k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 66% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
24 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CACOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI7× · 2019–2025 · $300k · revenue +140%
- HOHEART OF MISSOURI CASA7× · 2019–2025 · $238k · revenue +476%
- JCJACKSON COUNTY CASA7× · 2019–2025 · $236k · revenue +75%
Funded once
- COCASA OF MIDEAST MOone grant, 2025 · $74k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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.
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.
Child Advocacy Services
To provide all abused and neglected children with a voice in the court process.
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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Missouri court appointed special advocate association advocates for the best interest of abused and neglected children by promoting and supporting the development, growth and continuation of quality court appointed special advocate…
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.
Casa - new orleans trains volunteers to become court appointed special advocates for abused and neglected children in the juvenile justice system.
Casa is an organization that provides one-to-one court advocacy to abused, neglected, or abdandoned children who are dependents of the juvenile court. casa recruits, trains, and superises adult volunteers.
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
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa of Mideast Missouri and the most unlike its peers is Douglass Community Services Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 25 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds HEART OF MISSOURI CASA ↗
- Who funds JACKSON COUNTY CASA ↗
- Who funds CASA OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds JASPER COUNTY CASA ↗
- Who funds CASA OF MIDEAST MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL CITY CASA ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF THE PARKLAND ↗
- Who funds NEW-MAC CASA ↗
- Who funds THE 15TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASA ↗
- Who funds 37TH JUDICIAL COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES ↗
- Who funds DOUGLASS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF DUNKLIN COUNTY INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association · Missouri Children's Trust Fund · Edward Jones Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Missouri 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.
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.