Georgia · Nonprofit
ATLANTA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC
ATLANTA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC (Georgia) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,106,182 to it, the largest being GEORGIA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC ($1,619,750). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $886k
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $593k
What Atlanta Court Appointed Special Advocates Inc does
Mission
Atlanta Court Appointed Special Advocates, Inc.'s mission: To educate the community and to recruit, train and supervise court appointed volunteers to advocate for the best interest, safety and permanent placement of abused and neglected children in foster care.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
During the year ended June 30, 2025, Atlanta CASA advanced this mission through the following core programs: AdvocacyDirect Service AdvocacyDirect Service Advocacy is the central program of Atlanta CASA. Trained volunteers are appointed by the court to conduct independent, trauma-informed advocacy that ensures the needs of children in foster care are identified and addressed. Advocates monitor safety and well-being, assess barriers to education such as learning differences and misdiagnosis, and elevate special service needs. They participate in school meetings and court hearings and make fact-based recommendations to promote safety, stability, and timely permanency.Family Dependency Treatment CourtAtlanta CASA participates on the multidisciplinary team of the Fulton County Juvenile Court Family Dependency Treatment Court. This collaborative court includes the Court, the Division of Family and Children Services, the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities, parent and child attorneys, Atlanta CASA, and treatment providers. Parents attend regular court sessions and receive intensive supervision and support to address substance use disorders while strengthening…
$716,238 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $716,238.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $334k to $542k (+62%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 75% · 2018 74% · 2019 78% · 2021 78% · 2022 80% · 2023 80% · 2024 84% · 2025 82%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of ATLANTA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Dominque Cooper
CEO
Board chair
Joseph Handy
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $63k → $354k.
5 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ATLANTA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ATLANTA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ATLANTA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 58% · 2019 70% · 2020 50% · 2021 81% · 2022 95% · 2023 92% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
15% of ATLANTA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
97% of ATLANTA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $259k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ATLANTA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 904 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ATLANTA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ATLANTA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC?
- ATLANTA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC (Georgia) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,106,182 to it, the largest being GEORGIA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC ($1,619,750). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ATLANTA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $2,106,182 in grants to ATLANTA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ATLANTA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC?
- GEORGIA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,619,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ATLANTA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 22 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing