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CASA of Effingham County

CASA of Effingham County (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $594,828 to it, the largest being ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES ($494,375). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$239k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$595k
Net assets
$0
5/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 63%
01What it does

What CASA of Effingham County does

Mission

The trained volunteers of CASA of Effingham County work alongside legal and child welfare professionals, educators, and service providers to advocate for the best interests of children who have experienced abuse and/or neglect. These children are under the supervision of the Effingham County judicial system, and CASA volunteers strive to ensure that each child achieves a safe and permanent home.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Volunteers are specially trained to serve as advocates for abused and neglected children. They are available to the children 24 hours a day, seven days a week, dedicating approximately 3,000 hours and driving over 8,000 miles in support of their cases.

    $246,728 spentof which $50,962 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $246,728.

02The 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($127k) Expenses 100 ($105k) Net assets 100 ($93k)2018 Revenue 115 ($146k) Expenses 133 ($140k) Net assets 106 ($98k)2019 Revenue 160 ($203k) Expenses 176 ($185k) Net assets 126 ($117k)2020 Revenue 144 ($182k) Expenses 185 ($195k) Net assets 113 ($105k)2021 Revenue 159 ($201k) Expenses 210 ($221k) Net assets 91 ($85k)2022 Revenue 186 ($235k) Expenses 212 ($223k) Net assets 104 ($97k)2023 Revenue 130 ($164k) Expenses 211 ($222k) Net assets 42 ($39k)2024 Revenue 189 ($239k) Expenses 264 ($278k) Net assets 0 ($0)
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Revenue (189)Expenses (264)Net assets (0)

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 $99k to $42k (−58%).

$94k
$102k
$119k
$108k
$89k
$99k
$42k
$0
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 50% · 2021 49% · 2022 56%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$21k
’17
$6k
’18
$18k
’19
−$12k
’20
−$20k
’21
$12k
’22
−$58k
’23
−$39k
’24
5.0
months of
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

Mariah Hayes

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

20192020202120222024
Listed101112119
Joined·+1+2+1·
No longer listed·012·
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $14k → $104k.

2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 of Effingham County’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 of Effingham County leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

94% 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 of Effingham County.

83%
largest funder
96%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 75% · 2021 94% · 2022 81% · 2023 89% — 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

80% of CASA of Effingham County's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

94% of CASA of Effingham County's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

MN
IL
WI
OH

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

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’21
’22
’23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $46k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like CASA of Effingham County

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 Illinois

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 8%Fundraising 4%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

IL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CASA of Effingham County: 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 of Effingham County?
CASA of Effingham County (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $594,828 to it, the largest being ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES ($494,375). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CASA of Effingham County have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $594,828 in grants to CASA of Effingham County, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CASA of Effingham County?
ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES is the largest funder on record, with $494,375 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CASA of Effingham County find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 8 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