New York · Nonprofit
Court Appointed Special Advocates Inc
Court Appointed Special Advocates Inc (New York) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,008,437 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($455,600). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2017
- $0
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $752k
What Court Appointed Special Advocates Inc does
Mission
Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA), New York City is a child
As stated on its FY2017 Form 990.
Program
The organization and its volunteer advocates are assigned to family court cases and works with child welfare professionals, jurists, children, youth and families to help the court cases move through the child welfare system efficiently, accurately and fairly. The organization recruits, trains and supervises over 300 volunteers to perform the duties of a casa-nyc volunteer advocate.the organization runs programs that support foster youth transitioning from care (ytc program), foster youth who are pregnant and/or parenting (ppy program).
$1,852,129 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,852,129.
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
Patricia Kerry Moles
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $67k → $349k.
18 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 83% 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 Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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 Advocates Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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
88% 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 Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 89% · 2018 98% · 2019 46% · 2020 44% · 2021 60% · 2022 22% · 2023 26% — 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
62% of Court Appointed Special Advocates Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
83% of Court Appointed Special Advocates Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $342k that is directly attributable, 64% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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 Advocates Inc
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 Court Appointed Special Advocates 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds Court Appointed Special Advocates Inc?
- Court Appointed Special Advocates Inc (New York) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,008,437 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($455,600). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Court Appointed Special Advocates Inc have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $2,008,437 in grants to Court Appointed Special Advocates Inc, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Court Appointed Special Advocates Inc?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $455,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Court Appointed Special Advocates Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2017 (financials across 2017–2017), and the filings of 37 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