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COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES (CASA) OF SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT INC

COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES (CASA) OF SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $247,187 to it, the largest being National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association ($232,187). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$190k
Revenue FY2021
2
Funders on record
$247k
Grants received
$0
Net assets
2/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 37%

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2021: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $88k → $70k.

Funder
'19
'20
'21
total
funders
1
2
2

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 (CASA) OF SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT INC’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 (CASA) OF SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

100% 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 (CASA) OF SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT INC.

94%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 94% · 2021 86% — 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.

Where its funders are

COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES (CASA) OF SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 1 state in all.

WA

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

’19
’20
’21
Connecticut out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES (CASA) OF SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Connecticut

Connecticut Court Appointed Special Advocates Inc85%Center for Childrens Advocacy Inc82%Connecticut Association for Human Services Inc81%Chemical Abuse Services Agency Inc79%Connecticut Coalition Against Domestic Violence Inc78%Community Housing Advocates Inc77%Victim Rights Center of Connecticut Inc77%Connecticut Voices for Children Inc77%

Nationally

Court Appointed Special Advocates of Middlesex County86%Cass County Casa Inc85%Connecticut Court Appointed Special Advocates Inc85%Northern Neck Court Appointed Special Advocate Program Inc85%Court Appointed Special Advocates of Monmouth County Inc84%Boston Casa Inc83%Court Appointed Special Advocate Partners83%Crawford County Casa Inc83%
04Profile & governance

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CT

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES (CASA) OF SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT INC: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES (CASA) OF SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT INC?
COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES (CASA) OF SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $247,187 to it, the largest being National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association ($232,187). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES (CASA) OF SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $247,187 in grants to COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES (CASA) OF SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES (CASA) OF SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT INC?
National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association is the largest funder on record, with $232,187 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES (CASA) OF SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 FY2021 (financials across 2021–2021), and the filings of 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing