Skip to content

Texas · Nonprofit

COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF HIDALGO COUNT

COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF HIDALGO COUNT (Texas) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,106,158 to it, the largest being TEXAS CASA INC ($2,033,652). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$497k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$2.1M
Net assets
$661k
3/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 67%
01What it does

What Court Appointed Special Advocates of Hidalgo Count does

Mission

To provide services for the protection of abused and neglected children that are in the custody of the State of Texas.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. To provide services for the protection of abused and neglected children in Hidalgo County.

    $327,511 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $327,511.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($304k) Expenses 100 ($356k) Net assets 100 ($147k)2018 Revenue 128 ($388k) Expenses 86 ($307k) Net assets 154 ($226k)2019 Revenue 183 ($556k) Expenses 106 ($377k) Net assets 272 ($398k)2020 Revenue 148 ($450k) Expenses 113 ($401k) Net assets 307 ($450k)2021 Revenue 185 ($563k) Expenses 130 ($464k) Net assets 375 ($550k)2022 Revenue 170 ($517k) Expenses 110 ($393k) Net assets 460 ($675k)2023 Revenue 158 ($479k) Expenses 136 ($483k) Net assets 461 ($675k)2024 Revenue 164 ($497k) Expenses 144 ($512k) Net assets 451 ($661k)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Revenue (164)Expenses (144)Net assets (451)Peer revenue range

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 $246k to $423k (+72%).

$171k
$246k
$423k
$508k
$576k
$690k
$703k
$682k
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 77% · 2018 64% · 2019 63% · 2020 83% · 2021 75% · 2022 68% · 2023 76% · 2024 80%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

85% of COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF HIDALGO COUNT’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,975 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$52k
’17
$81k
’18
$180k
’19
$49k
’20
$99k
’21
$124k
’22
−$4k
’23
−$14k
’24
12
months of
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.

Board chair

Alexis Villarreal

Board chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Listed111091013131111
Joined·+1+1+5+5+0+6+3
No longer listed·2242083
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $151k → $300k.

4 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 HIDALGO COUNT’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 OF HIDALGO COUNT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

98% 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 HIDALGO COUNT.

97%
largest funder
99%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 94% · 2019 86% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 94% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.

“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

60% of COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF HIDALGO COUNT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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 OF HIDALGO COUNT's grant income comes from Texas funders.

OR
TX

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $23k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF HIDALGO COUNT is better cushioned than half of the 1,798 civil rights nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−3% · below the median
Months of reserve12.1mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,798 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF HIDALGO COUNT

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

69% of spending goes to programs.

Program 69%Management 31%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF HIDALGO COUNT: 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.

A paid feature, included from the $75 plan up. Sign in to download.

Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF HIDALGO COUNT?
COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF HIDALGO COUNT (Texas) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,106,158 to it, the largest being TEXAS CASA INC ($2,033,652). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF HIDALGO COUNT have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $2,106,158 in grants to COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF HIDALGO COUNT, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF HIDALGO COUNT?
TEXAS CASA INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,033,652 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF HIDALGO COUNT 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.

Play a game about who funds Court Appointed Special Advocates of Hidalgo Count →

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 9 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