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CASA for Children of the District of Columbia

CASA for Children of the District of Columbia (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,123,723 to it, the largest being National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association ($400,370). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$1.2M
Revenue FY2025
29
Funders on record
$1.1M
Grants received
$282k
Net assets
12/29 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 26%

Against its field

CASA for Children of the District of Columbia's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 11 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−4% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,983 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($850k) Expenses 100 ($718k) Net assets 100 ($251k)2018 Revenue 109 ($925k) Expenses 110 ($788k) Net assets 154 ($388k)2019 Revenue 115 ($974k) Expenses 120 ($860k) Net assets 200 ($502k)2020 Revenue 144 ($1.2M) Expenses 164 ($1.2M) Net assets 219 ($549k)2021 Revenue 160 ($1.4M) Expenses 188 ($1.3M) Net assets 224 ($562k)2022 Revenue 190 ($1.6M) Expenses 223 ($1.6M) Net assets 231 ($581k)2023 Revenue 189 ($1.6M) Expenses 261 ($1.9M) Net assets 127 ($319k)2024 Revenue 174 ($1.5M) Expenses 204 ($1.5M) Net assets 133 ($333k)2025 Revenue 141 ($1.2M) Expenses 174 ($1.2M) Net assets 112 ($282k)
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Revenue (141)Expenses (174)Net assets (112)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 84% · 2018 84% · 2019 87% · 2020 91% · 2021 77% · 2022 68% · 2023 82% · 2024 89% · 2025 92%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of CASA for Children of the District of Columbia’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,740 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$132k
17
$137k
18
$114k
19
$48k
20
$13k
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$19k
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$262k
23
$14k
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$52k
25
2.1
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $48k → $129k.

6 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)25% 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 the District of Columbia’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

CASA for Children of the District of Columbia has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 36% 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

84% 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 the District of Columbia.

36%
largest funder
59%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 62% · 2019 34% · 2020 67% · 2021 56% · 2022 40% · 2023 28%diversifying over time.

“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

40% of CASA for Children of the District of Columbia's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

CASA for Children of the District of Columbia draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 8 states in all.

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CA
VA
MD
DE
NC
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Washington, D.C. out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $282k 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 29 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding CASA for Children of the District of Columbia receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.1M on record.

Federal$4.1M
grants $1.3Mcontracts $2.9M
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Top agencies
  • District of Columbia Courts$2.9M
  • Department of Justice$1.3M

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like CASA for Children of the District of Columbia

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Washington, D.C.

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 14%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CASA for Children of the District of Columbia: 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 the District of Columbia?
CASA for Children of the District of Columbia (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,123,723 to it, the largest being National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association ($400,370). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CASA for Children of the District of Columbia have?
IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $1,123,723 in grants to CASA for Children of the District of Columbia, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CASA for Children of the District of Columbia?
National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association is the largest funder on record, with $400,370 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CASA for Children of the District of Columbia find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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 29funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing