New Jersey · Nonprofit
CASA FOR CHILDREN OF ESSEX COUNTY INC
CASA FOR CHILDREN OF ESSEX COUNTY INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,216,327 to it, the largest being THE PRUDENTIAL FOUNDATION ($375,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Casa for Children of Essex County Inc does
Mission
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 safe, stable and permanent home.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization serves all 22 municipalities in essex county, advocating for the needs of children from birth to age 21 removed from home due to abuse and/or neglect and placed in foster homes or residential facilities. After completion of a rigorous 30-hour curriculum, casa volunteers are sworn in by a family judge and named to a case by court order. In addition to forming a consistent relationship with the child, casa volunteers gather insight from service providers, schools, healthcare professionals, and foster families to advocate for informed decisions that support the childs safety, stability, and long-term success.during fiscal year 2025, casa for children of essex county strengthened its advocacy and service model for youth involved in the foster care system while marking the organizations 40th anniversaryan important milestone reflecting four decades of community partnership and child-centered advocacy.over the course of the year, the organization served 332 children and utilized the service of 155 volunteers who donated 10,819 hours of time to fulfill the mission. Program service expenses presented here do not include $400,002 in donated volunteer services, an estimate…
$1,032,206 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,032,206.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.7M to $1.4M (−16%).
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 22% · 2018 33% · 2019 43% · 2020 52% · 2021 59% · 2022 43% · 2023 53% · 2024 48% · 2025 50%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
84% of CASA FOR CHILDREN OF ESSEX COUNTY INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $144k → $169k.
6 of 37 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 CASA FOR CHILDREN OF ESSEX COUNTY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 funders by total. 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
CASA FOR CHILDREN OF ESSEX COUNTY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
33% 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 CASA FOR CHILDREN OF ESSEX COUNTY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 32% · 2019 71% · 2020 30% · 2021 29% · 2022 33% · 2023 44% — 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
47% of CASA FOR CHILDREN OF ESSEX COUNTY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
62% of CASA FOR CHILDREN OF ESSEX COUNTY INC's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $149k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
CASA FOR CHILDREN OF ESSEX COUNTY INC's funding base is broadening — from 7 funders to 14 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 479 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CASA FOR CHILDREN OF ESSEX COUNTY 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 New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CASA FOR CHILDREN OF ESSEX COUNTY INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CASA FOR CHILDREN OF ESSEX COUNTY INC?
- CASA FOR CHILDREN OF ESSEX COUNTY INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,216,327 to it, the largest being THE PRUDENTIAL FOUNDATION ($375,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CASA FOR CHILDREN OF ESSEX COUNTY INC have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $1,216,327 in grants to CASA FOR CHILDREN OF ESSEX COUNTY INC, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CASA FOR CHILDREN OF ESSEX COUNTY INC?
- THE PRUDENTIAL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $375,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CASA FOR CHILDREN OF ESSEX COUNTY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 37 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing