Colorado · Nonprofit
COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE INC
COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE INC (Colorado) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,935,648 to it, the largest being Colorado CASA Inc ($850,688). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 43
- Grants received
- $2.9M
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What Court Appointed Special Advocate Inc does
Mission
Organization's mission: casa of larimer county's mission is to advocate for children, strengthen families, and engage communities to ensure every child is supported by safe, healthy relationships. Significant activities: casa of larimer county provides evidence-based, trauma-informed care and services to children and families who have been impacted by abuse, neglect, and trauma. Through court appointed special advocates (casa), family connections, and trust based relational intervention (tbri) programs, we empower children's voices, strengthen their families, and connect them with consistent caring adults.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Court appointed special advocate program: the court appointed special advocate (casa) program pairs trained volunteers with children who have experienced abuse or neglect. Under the guidance of trained staff, casa volunteers monitor child wellbeing, advocate in court for the best interest of the child and help older youth transition into adulthood through the fostering futures curriculum. In 2025, 167 casa volunteers advocated for 309 children. The magistrate on the dependency and neglect docket began referring every new case to the casa program in 2022. All staff and new casa volunteers are trained in trust based relational intervention (tbri) to build felt-safety and improve advocacy.
$549,332 spent45% of program spendingFamily connections at harmony house: this family connections program provides supervised family time and safe custody exchange services. Documentation from these services helps the court determine whether its safe for a child to begin unsupervised visitation, or return to the custody of their parent(s) or guardian(s). Families received individualized supportive case management. All staff are trained as coaches in trust based relational intervention (tbri). Tbri is integrated into services for parents. The tbri caregiver package is also offered outside of services to caregivers of children involved in the family connections program. Taking a holistic, family-centered approach, the family connections program has the opportunity to strengthen parenting skills and provide connections to community resources to support the family long after services at casa of larimer county end. Combining these services makes a real impact on the rates of recurrence of child abuse and neglect in our community. In 2025, 237 children (541 total clients) benefited from 2,369 supervised family time visits and safe custody exchanges.
$410,547 spent34% of program spendingTrust based relational intervention (tbri): casa of larimer county implements trust-based relational intervention (tbri), a trauma-informed, evidence based model designed to support children who have experienced abuse, neglect, and/or trauma. In 2025, casa of larimer county provided tbri training to 122 caregivers, 59 casa volunteers, and 40 local district professionals. These trainings equip participants with practical tools to build trust, promote healing, and respond effectively to trauma-related behaviors. Tbri principles connecting, empowering, and correctingare integrated into the casa advocacy process and the family connections program to enhance parent-child interactions during supervised visits and coaching sessions. The program strengthens adult-child relationships and fosters safe, nurturing environments, resulting in improved outcomes for vulnerable youth and families in larimer county.
$249,065 spent21% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,208,944.
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.
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 $1.5M to $2.1M (+38%).
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: 2019 30% · 2020 33% · 2021 37% · 2022 34% · 2023 47% · 2024 27% · 2025 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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 6 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $133k → $467k.
11 of 43 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 43 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
COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% 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
64% 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 COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 45% · 2019 31% · 2020 24% · 2021 25% · 2022 21% · 2023 23% — 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
61% of COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
78% of COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE INC's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $621k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Organizations like COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE INC
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In Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE INC?
- COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE INC (Colorado) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,935,648 to it, the largest being Colorado CASA Inc ($850,688). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE INC have?
- IRS filings report 43 organizations giving $2,935,648 in grants to COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE INC, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE INC?
- Colorado CASA Inc is the largest funder on record, with $850,688 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 43 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