Texas · Nonprofit
COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES C
COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES C (Texas) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,551,475 to it, the largest being TEXAS CASA INC ($3,262,798). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $4.6M
- Net assets
- $2.4M
What Court Appointed Special Advocates C does
Mission
To speak out for abused and neglected children caught in the court system.the main goal is placement of these children in a safe,nurturing environment.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Casa speaks out for abused and neglected foster children in court. Trained community volunteers gather information and evaluate the needs of the child.the volunteer speaks in court representing the interest of the child.the main goal is placement of the child in a safe, nurturing place.number of children served 423. Number of cases handled 192. Number of volunteers trained 25. Number of active volunteers 142.
$835,511 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $835,511.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.7M to $2.1M (+23%).
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 49% · 2018 56% · 2019 51% · 2020 45% · 2021 51% · 2022 49% · 2023 61% · 2024 54%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
84% of COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES C’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $374k → $712k.
3 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 ADVOCATES C’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
COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES C leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
89% 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 ADVOCATES C.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 79% · 2019 80% · 2020 73% · 2021 74% · 2022 74% · 2023 71% — 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
64% of COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES C'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
100% of COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES C's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $522k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES C runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 976 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 976 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES C
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
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 ADVOCATES C?
- COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES C (Texas) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,551,475 to it, the largest being TEXAS CASA INC ($3,262,798). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES C have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $4,551,475 in grants to COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES C, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES C?
- TEXAS CASA INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,262,798 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES C find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 24 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