Missouri · Nonprofit
CASA OF ST LOUIS
CASA OF ST LOUIS (Missouri) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,863,645 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ($1,028,319). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 57
- Grants received
- $4.9M
- Net assets
- $3.4M
What Casa of St Louis does
Mission
Casa of st. Louis advocates for abused and neglected children and youth in st. Louis by representing their best interests in court and in the community. Our vision is that every child lives in a safe permanent home and has the opportunity to thrive.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Casa of st. Louis trains and supports volunteers who serve as court appointed special advocates (casas) for children in foster care. Our advocacy helps them heal from trauma, progress in school, participate in childhood activities, and achieve the best possible outcome including a permanent home. The casa volunteer is the one caring, committed adult attending to all details of a child's life, even as their placement, case workers, schools, teachers, and care providers change.
$1,242,359 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,242,359.
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 $2.9M to $3.5M (+18%).
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 41% · 2018 37% · 2020 56% · 2021 61% · 2022 62% · 2023 47% · 2024 51% · 2025 47%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of CASA OF ST LOUIS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% 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
Jennifer Howard
Executive director
Board chair
Ami Boehlje
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 30 funders, grant income rose $199k → $785k.
12 of 57 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 ST LOUIS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 57 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 OF ST LOUIS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
54% 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 ST LOUIS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 37% · 2019 30% · 2020 26% · 2021 21% · 2022 30% · 2023 22% — 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
52% of CASA OF ST LOUIS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
81% of CASA OF ST LOUIS's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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 OF ST LOUIS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 479 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 479 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 OF ST LOUIS: 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 ST LOUIS?
- CASA OF ST LOUIS (Missouri) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,863,645 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ($1,028,319). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CASA OF ST LOUIS have?
- IRS filings report 57 organizations giving $4,863,645 in grants to CASA OF ST LOUIS, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CASA OF ST LOUIS?
- UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,028,319 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CASA OF ST LOUIS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 57 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