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Nebraska Casa Association
The NEBRASKA CASA ASSOCIATION partners with local casa programs to recruit and train volunteers who speak in court for the safety and well-being of abused and neglected children.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k19 grants · $620k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $210k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CASA FOR DOUGLAS COUNTY | $94,698 |
| CASA FOR LANCASTER COUNTY | $63,236 |
| KEARNEYBUFFALO COUNTY CASA | $52,155 |
| NORTH CENTRAL CASA | $45,906 |
| SENCA CASA | $43,963 |
| CASA OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA | $41,924 |
| CASA OF THE MIDLANDS | $39,012 |
| DAWSONGOSPER COUNTY CASA | $38,324 |
| CASA OF SCOTTS BLUFF COUNTY | $35,905 |
| PLAINSWEST CASA | $35,553 |
| PHELPSHARLAN COUNTY CASA | $33,345 |
| TRAILS WEST CASA | $33,086 |
| CASA FOR YORK COUNTY | $31,311 |
| SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA CASA | $30,423 |
| LINCOLN COUNTY CASA | $29,559 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 93% 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.
22 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CFCASA FOR DOUGLAS COUNTY9× · 2017–2025 · $634k · revenue +92%
- CFCASA FOR LANCASTER COUNTY9× · 2017–2025 · $401k · revenue +30%
- COCASA OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA9× · 2017–2025 · $362k · revenue +0%
Funded once
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.
Casa is a program to advocate for abused and neglected children in the legal and foster system.
To provide all abused and neglected children with a voice in the court process.
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, giving them the opportunity to…
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.
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.
The mission of casa is to speak for the best interests of abused and neglected children in the courts. casa promotes and supports quality volunteer representation for children in order to provide each child a safe, permanent, nurturing…
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.
Casa of grant county inc supports the recruitment, training and support of volunteers who provide advocacy for children involved in the court system due to abuse and nelect
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa for Lancaster County and the most unlike its peers is Kid's Plus Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 23 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 CASA FOR DOUGLAS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CASA FOR LANCASTER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CASA OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds Lift Up Sarpy County ↗
- Who funds CASA OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
- Who funds Southeast Nebraska CASA ↗
- Who funds KID'S PLUS INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND CASA ↗
- Who funds CASA OF SCOTTS BLUFF COUNTY ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE UNITED FOR FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN COUNTY CASA ↗
- Who funds CASA OF NORTHCENTRAL NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds CASA FOR YORK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CASA CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CASA of Elkhorn Valley Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CASS COUNTY CASA PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds Casa of Gage County ↗
- Who funds HEAD START CHILD & FAMILY DEVELOPMENT PR ↗
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: First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Snow Redfern Memorial Foundation · Nebraska Children & Families Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · 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 Nebraska Casa 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.