Texas · Nonprofit
COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF COLLIN COUNTY INC
COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF COLLIN COUNTY INC (Texas) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,656,085 to it, the largest being TEXAS CASA INC ($4,050,801). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $5.7M
- Net assets
- $5.8M
What Court Appointed Special Advocates of Collin County Inc does
Mission
CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) of Collin County speaks up for children who have been abused or neglected by empowering the community to volunteer as advocates for them in the court system. When the state steps in to protect a child's safety, a judge appoints a trained CASA volunteer to make independent and informed recommendations in the child's best interest.CASA of Collin County trains and supervises these volunteers for the entirety of the child's case, serving 100% of court-appointed child welfare cases. In the past five years, we have served a total of 865 unduplicated children with the support of 405 volunteer advocates.For children in foster care, their CASA volunteer advocate is a lifeline, providing consistency in a young life that has been disrupted by trauma, change, and uncertainty. CASA advocates see the promise of a better future for each child rather than the sum of their unfortunate circumstances.CASA of Collin County staff and volunteers believe that no child
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Casa volunteers spent many hours serving as advocates and assisting the court in finding solutions for abused and neglected children.
$1,639,159 spentof which $153,180 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,639,159.
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 2018 to 2019, from $4.5M to $5.4M (+21%).
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 29% · 2018 33% · 2019 31% · 2020 37% · 2021 33% · 2022 37% · 2023 45% · 2024 47% · 2025 43%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF COLLIN COUNTY INC’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. 3 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.
Chief executive
Patricia A Clifton Thru 825
CEO/president
Board chair
Pam Murray
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $452k → $765k.
10 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 OF COLLIN COUNTY 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 OF COLLIN COUNTY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 OF COLLIN COUNTY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 79% · 2019 66% · 2020 79% · 2021 63% · 2022 74% · 2023 77% — growing more concentrated.
“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
53% of COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF COLLIN COUNTY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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
95% of COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF COLLIN COUNTY INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 OF COLLIN COUNTY INC's funding base is broadening — from 11 funders to 15 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 431 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF COLLIN COUNTY INC
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
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF COLLIN COUNTY INC?
- COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF COLLIN COUNTY INC (Texas) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,656,085 to it, the largest being TEXAS CASA INC ($4,050,801). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF COLLIN COUNTY INC have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $5,656,085 in grants to COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF COLLIN COUNTY INC, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF COLLIN COUNTY INC?
- TEXAS CASA INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,050,801 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF COLLIN COUNTY INC 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), 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