· Public charity
National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association
The National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association, together with its state and local member programs, supports and promotes court-appointed volunteer advocacy so every child who has experienced abuse or neglect 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 32 grants below total $347,534 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $666,613 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $319,079 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $106k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $241k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CASA OF ORANGE COUNTY | $23,277 |
| BRIGHTSIDE CHILD & FAMILY ADVOCACY | $20,661 |
| CASA CORRIDOR OF EAST TENNESSEE | $20,131 |
| CHILD ADVOCATES OF SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY | $18,588 |
| CASA OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI | $17,256 |
| ALABAMA CASA NETWORK | $14,116 |
| COLORADO CASA | $13,477 |
| HEART OF MISSOURI CASA | $12,941 |
| MONTANA CASAGAL ASSOCIATION | $12,847 |
| CASA OF TRAVIS COUNTY | $12,522 |
| CASA INC | $11,673 |
| CONNECTICUT CASA INC | $11,534 |
| CASA OF ESSEX COUNTY | $10,768 |
| CASA OF LEXINGTON INC | $10,604 |
| CASA OF NORTHWEST ARKANSAS | $10,595 |
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 (FY17–24, $4.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
210 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 181 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k 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 NEW HAMPSHIRE INC7× · 2017–2023 · $798k · revenue +115%
- CCCONNECTICUT COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC7× · 2018–2024 · $681k · revenue +34% · 67% of their budget
- RCRichland County Court Appointed Special Advocates7× · 2017–2023 · $480k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $218k
- CFCASA FOR DOUGLAS COUNTYone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +10%
- NCNEBRASKA CASA ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $91k · revenue +120%
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.
Child Advocacy Services
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To provide all abused and neglected children with a voice in the court process.
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
The Sonoma County Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) Program serves abused and neglected children coming before the Juvenile Court of Protection and Rehabilitation 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 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.
Advocates for abused, neglected and other identified children within the court system, with the belief that every child is entitled to a safe and stable home.
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…
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To provide trained community volunteers, to advocate for the best interests of abused and neglected children, and to promote community awareness about child abuse issues.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Court Appointed Special Advocates of Atlantic Cape May & Camden Countiesinc and the most unlike its peers is Okmulgee County Family Resource Ctr. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
279 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. 279 of the 330 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 NEW HAMPSHIRE INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds Richland County Court Appointed Special Advocates ↗
- Who funds Washington Court Appointed Special Advoc ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CASA for Children of the District of Columbia ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds NEVADA CASA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO CASAGAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN CASA INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA CASA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CASA PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN CASA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Colorado CASA Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO CASA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds JACKSON COUNTY CASA ↗
- Who funds TEXAS CASA INC ↗
- Who funds THE WEST VIRGINIA CASA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CASA FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds CASA CORRIDOR OF EAST TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS CASA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CASA MISSISSIPPI INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO KIDS MATTER INC ↗
- Who funds MONTANA CASAGAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CASA OF WESTMORELAND INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA CASA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES (CASA) OF SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds CASA of Adams & Broomfield Counties ↗
- Who funds CASA YOUTH ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF PHILADELPHIA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF MISSOULA ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY CASA NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CASA FOR CHILDREN OF ESSEX 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: Kappa Alpha Theta Foundation Inc · Kappa Alpha Theta Fraternity Group Return · Ticket to Dream Foundation · In-N-Out Burgers Foundation · Dutch Bros Foundation · Illinois Association of Court Appointed Special Advocates · Texas Casa Inc · California Court Appointed Special Advocate Association · Pennsylvania Casa Association Inc · Simple Generosity Foundation · National Children's Alliance Inc · Oregon Casa Network
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 National 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.
- Oregon Casa Network — 100% of income from government
- Massachusetts Casa Association — 72% of income from government
- Maryland Casa Association Inc — 60% of income from government
- Friends of Children Inc — 54% of income from government
- Umatilla-Morrow Headstart Inc — 44% of income from government
- Casa of Baltimore County Inc — 38% of income from government
- Child Focus Inc — 29% of income from government
- Life Crisis Center Inc — 24% of income from government
- Boston Casa Inc — 20% of income from government
- Casaprince George's County Inc — 17% of income from government
- Family Services of the Merrimack Valley Inc — 11% of income from government
- Casa of Central Oregon — 2% of income from government
- Casa for Children Inc — 2% of income from government
- Casa of Marion County Inc — 1% of income from government
- Casa of Linn County Inc — 0% of income from government
- Casa of Clackamas County — 0% of income from government
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.