National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association

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National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association

Q: How much did National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association grant in FY2024?

National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association reported 32 grants totaling $666,613 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Q: Where is National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association based?

National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association is based in WA.

The association supports state and local casa and gal programs which recruit, train, deploy and supervise volunteers to advocate for abused or neglected children.

$667k

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$23k

Largest

01What you fund

0178% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Civil Rights$12MCrime & Legal$5.6MHuman Services$4.3MPhilanthropy$904kYouth Development$511kHealth$83kEducation$50kHousing & Shelter$42kPublic Benefit$33kOther$6.9M

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

2018

equitysan franciscocommittedyellowstoneyoungmentaladvancing

2019

danecorporationadvocates subjectssubjects judicialjudicial proceedingsproceedings involvinginvolving allegations

2020

volunteer knoxadvocates eddycfaccmentalyellowstonedevelopmental disabilitiescarry

2021

statewide guardianaccesseducation interventionforeverwiregrasslinnhorn basin

2022

improving children'slives strengtheningstrengthening educationriverwiregrassscanbrought

2023

parentspartnershipselfriverriskmentoringmarin

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k15 grants · $106k
$10k–50k17 grants · $241k

$10,184

Median grant

States reached

$6.9M

Total assets

Largest grants

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

02The need

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 (FY17–24, $3.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 10%. 75% 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 edge

repeat funding

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$27M · 209 repeat orgs$3.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against +45% for the ones you funded once.

209 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 180 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

209

111

Total granted

$27M

$3.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%

+45%

Still filing today

88%

74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Civil RightsCrime & LegalHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyHealthOther

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

CO
CASA of New Hampshire Inc - Manchester
7× · 2017–2023 · $798k · revenue +71%
CC
Connecticut CASA Inc
7× · 2018–2024 · $681k · revenue +34% · 67% of their budget
CC
California CASA Association
6× · 2017–2023 · $403k · revenue +2717%

Funded once

CO
CASA OF ARIZONA
one grant, 2017 · $218k
VC
VALLEY CASA
one grant, 2021 · $209k
CF
CASA For Douglas Countygraduated
one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +57%

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

04Your 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.

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

Casa of Tipton County

Child Advocacy Services

Crime & Legal

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

Court Appointed Special Advocates of Bastrop Count

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

Civil Rights

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

Court Appointed Special Advocate

Court appointed special advocates (casa) provides a powerful voice and a meaningful connection for children who have experienced abuse, neglect, and abandonment.

Civil Rights

Canadian County Casa Inc

Serve as court appointed special advocates for abused and neglected children in the judicial system

Crime & Legal

Court Appointed Special Advocates

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.

Civil Rights

Court Appointed Advocates for Children

Provide specially-trained volunteers, who are appointed by the courts to represent the best interests of abused and neglected children in court proceedings.

Civil Rights

Casa of Kosciusko County Inc

Casa is committed to speaking in the best interest of children, who are at risk for abuse and neglect. casa recruits, trains, & supports volunteers to serve at-risk children in the family court system.

Civil Rights

Court Appointed Special Advocates

Training and supporting quality volunteers who speak out for the best interest of abused and neglected children in court in an effort to find each child a safe, permanent, nurturing home.

Civil Rights

Court Appointed Special Advocates of

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…

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa Childrens Intervention Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Beginnings Inc. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%6/299

the rest of the field

11%

206,158/1,819,266

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.

05the grantee network

274 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

135

Early backer (in before they grew)

267/274

Grantees still filing

234/274

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Civil Rights$12,143,906Other$6,982,118Crime & Legal$5,607,566Human Services$4,324,322Philanthropy$903,629Youth Development$511,123Health$82,927

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.

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.

Kappa Alpha Theta FraternityIN53.8× affinity23 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kappa Alpha Theta Fraternity · Kappa Alpha Theta Foundation · Ticket to Dream Foundation · In-N-Out Burgers Foundation · Texas Casa Inc · Illinois Association of Court Appointed · Dutch Bros Foundation · California Court Appointed Special · Pennsylvania Casa Association Inc · Simple Generosity Foundation · National Children's Alliance Inc · Colorado CASA Inc

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 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.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

05Through 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: Massachusetts CASA.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.5× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 823536706 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 Massachusetts CASA, 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

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 93% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
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 National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association?

Find your warmest path to National Court Appointed Special Advocate 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.

National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

274 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association?

More from the funding graph

National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

274 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association?

More from the funding graph