New Mexico · Nonprofit
CASA of Lea County
CASA of Lea County (New Mexico) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $716,663 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF LEA COUNTY INC ($553,429). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $918k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $717k
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What CASA of Lea County does
Mission
CASA of Lea County strives to make Lea County, New Mexico a safer environment for our communities' abused and neglected children through highly trained volunteer advocacy and other child centered programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Court Appointed Special Advocate program CASA recruits and trains community volunteers to provide unbiased advocacy for foster children from birth to 18 years of age. Each of the children served are victims of abuse and/or neglect to the degree that the State of New Mexico is compelled to protect them by placing them in foster care. Since 2005 CASA volunteers and staff have stood up and provided a powerful voice for children in need of safe, permanent, nurturing homes. Children are assigned to trained volunteer advocates. For any child in the legal system waiting for their own CASA volunteer, CASA program staff provides courtroom advocacy in their best interest. The Children's Court Judge listens to and carefully considers CASA-driven recommendations and observations at each hearing called for children in the foster care system in Lea County.
$253,700 spent44% of program spendingFamily Time Visitation Program FTVP is a community provider of supervised visitation and safe custody exchange services to any family who is referred via the State of New Mexico's Children, Youth, and Families Department CYFD, court order, or self-referral. Via a contract with the New Mexico Administrative Offices of the Courts, FTVP provides services to families affected by domestic violence and high-conflict domestic matters on a sliding fee scale. CYFD-referred children are victims of abuse and/or neglect. FTVP provides safe contact between offending parents, who are working on their treatment plan, and their children.
$189,963 spent$53,658 earned by the program33% of program spendingCASA of Lea Countys Canine Companion Program was established in December 2010 to provide emotional support to children involved in the legal system, including victims of abuse and neglect, witnesses of violent crimes, and juvenile offenders. The program also supported CASA advocates and families in Childrens Court, the Family Time Visitation Center, and the Lea County Juvenile Detention Center. The program has since been rebranded as the Justice Facility Dog Program. Phillip served as the programs facility canine until his retirement on July 1, 2025. CASA of Lea County welcomed its current Justice Facility Dog, Carter, who began service on April 22, 2025, and continues to provide support within the same program settings.
$92,044 spent16% of program spendingEmmas Closets mission is to provide basic necessities to foster children and support foster parents in Lea County, New Mexico, helping to ensure that children entering care have immediate access to essential items and a sense of belonging. The program provides items such as clothing, hygiene products, bedding, and other necessities to children at placement and throughout their time in care, reducing financial strain on foster families and promoting stability for the children served.
$39,287 spent7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $574,994.
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 2024 to 2025, from $1.1M to $1.4M (+21%).
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 26% · 2018 31% · 2019 32% · 2020 52% · 2021 53% · 2022 44% · 2023 57% · 2024 40% · 2025 39%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
64% of CASA of Lea County’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $64k → $46k.
1 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Lea 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 Lea County leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
85% 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 Lea County.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 99% · 2019 98% · 2020 58% · 2021 80% · 2022 78% · 2023 98% — broadly stable.
“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
50% of CASA of Lea County's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
98% of CASA of Lea County's grant income comes from New Mexico funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $357 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 of Lea County runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CASA of Lea 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 New Mexico
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 of Lea 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 Lea County?
- CASA of Lea County (New Mexico) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $716,663 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF LEA COUNTY INC ($553,429). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CASA of Lea County have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $716,663 in grants to CASA of Lea County, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CASA of Lea County?
- UNITED WAY OF LEA COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $553,429 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CASA of Lea County find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Mexico. 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 9 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