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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.
$587k
Granted FY2024
10
Grants
1
Communities
$110k
Largest
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of MONTANA CASAGAL ASSOCIATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2021
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2022
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2023
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2024
yellowstoneadvocatesadvocate childrenfoster carecare systemwell-trainedadvocate best
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 10 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k4 grants · $132k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $451k
$51,287
Median grant
1
States reached
$463k
Total assets
Largest grants
- CASA OF YELLOWSTONE COUNTY$110,466
- EASTERN MONTANA CASAGAL ASSO$98,124
- CASA-CAN$86,786
- CASA FOR KIDS OF FLATHEAD COU$54,585
- CASA OF LINCOLN COUNTY$51,287
- CASA OF HILL COUNTY$50,171
- CASA OF LAKE & SANDERS COUNTI$43,216
- CASA OF MISSOULA$40,379
- CASA OF SOUTHWEST MONTANA$35,816
- 5TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT VOICE O$12,813
02The need
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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 (FY24–24, $134k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 12%. 59% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your 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.
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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
2
Casa of Tipton County
Child Advocacy Services
Crime & Legal
3
Court Appointed Special Advocates of
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.
Crime & Legal
4
Court Appointed Special Advocates Casa
Casa provides trained, court-appointed volunteers to serve as advocates for the best interests of abused and neglected children in liberty and chambers counties of texas.
Human Services
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Court Appointed Special Advocates of
Casa recruits, trains,and supervises adult volunteers who are appointed by a juvenile court judge to speak for the best interest of the child and help find the child a safe permanent home. with a casa volunteer, a child is half as likely…
Civil Rights
6
Lincoln County Casa
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.
Crime & Legal
7
Court Appointed Special Advocates
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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Canadian County Casa Inc
Serve as court appointed special advocates for abused and neglected children in the judicial system
Crime & Legal
9
Court Appointed Special Advocates of
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…
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10
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
Civil Rights
11
Casa for Kids Inc
Advocates for abused and neglected children
Crime & Legal
12
Court Appointed Special Advocates
Support and promote volunteer advocacy for abused & neglected foster children in the first judicial dist. the mission of casa, first judicial district is to support and promote volunteer advocacy so that children and youth from santa fe,…
Civil Rights
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.
05the grantee network
9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$326,940Human Services$133,617Crime & Legal$123,279Civil Rights$98,124Youth Development$51,287
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 CASA OF YELLOWSTONE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds EASTERN MONTANA CASAGAL ASSO ↗
- Who funds CASA-CAN ↗
- Who funds CASA FOR KIDS OF FLATHEAD COU ↗
- Who funds CASA OF LINCOLN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CASA OF LAKE & SANDERS COUNTI ↗
- Who funds CASA OF MISSOULA ↗
- Who funds CASA OF SOUTHWEST MONTANA ↗
- Who funds 5TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT VOICE O ↗
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.
Montana Justice FoundationMT20.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Montana Justice Foundation · National Court Appointed Special · Otto Bremer Trust · Headwaters Health Foundation · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · 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 organisation 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: CASA-CAN.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~10 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 810480838 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on CASA-CAN, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 10 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 31% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to Montana Casagal Association?
Find your warmest path to Montana Casagal Association through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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