· Public charity
Montana Casagal Association
The montana casa/gal association supports and promotes local casa/gal programs in providing court appointed volunteer advocacy so every abused or neglected child in montana can be safe, have a permanent home and the opportunity to thrive.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $206,290 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $212,703 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $6,413 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $143k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CASA OF BUTTE SILVER BOW | $50,000 |
| CASA OF YELLOWSTONE COUNTY | $41,558 |
| CASA OF LAKE & SANDERS COUNTI | $28,549 |
| CASA-CAN | $28,540 |
| EASTERN MONTANA CASAGAL ASSO | $23,453 |
| CASA OF MISSOULA | $10,465 |
| CASA FOR KIDS OF FLATHEAD COU | $10,409 |
| CASA OF SOUTHWEST MONTANA | $7,215 |
| CASA OF LINCOLN COUNTY | $6,101 |
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 (FY24–25, $180k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 64% 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.
9 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- YCYELLOWSTONE CASA INC2× · 2024–2025 · $152k · revenue +20%
- LMLOCAL MT CASA PROGRAMS3× · 2021–2023 · $150k
- EMEASTERN MONTANA CASAGAL INC2× · 2024–2025 · $122k · revenue -16%
Funded once
- COCASA OF HILL COUNTY INCone grant, 2024 · $50k
- FJFifth Judicial District Voice for Children Incone grant, 2024 · $13k · revenue 0%
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.
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…
Child Advocacy Services
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.
To provide all abused and neglected children with a voice in the court process.
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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.
The organization advocates, promotes, and supports court-appointed volunteer advocacy for abused and neglected children, striving to secure a permanent and safe home for each child.
Casa is a program to advocate for abused and neglected children in the legal and foster 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 purpose of the first judicial district casa program is to recruit, screen, train and supervise community volunteers who are appointed by the court to serve as guardians ad litem for children found to be under the purview of the idaho…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montana Casagal Association and the most unlike its peers is Fifth Judicial District Voice for Children Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 12 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 YELLOWSTONE CASA INC ↗
- Who funds EASTERN MONTANA CASAGAL INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF CASCADE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CASA OF LAKE & SANDERS COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds CASA FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF LINCOLN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF MISSOULA ↗
- Who funds MONTANA CASAGAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Fifth Judicial District Voice for Children 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: Montana Justice Foundation · Headwaters Health Foundation of Western Montana · National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association · Otto Bremer Trust · 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 Montana Casagal 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.