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COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF NEW JERSEY INC

COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF NEW JERSEY INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $586,409 to it, the largest being National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association ($131,257). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$4.5M
Funders on record
21
Grants received
$586k
Net assets
$1.2M
8/21 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%
01What it does

What Court Appointed Special Advocates of New Jersey Inc does

Mission

Promoting, assisting and supporting the sustainability and growth of casa programs in new jersey. Casa programs promote the protection of abused and neglected children by using trained volunteers to advocate for these children in courts with particular focus on the child's safety, well-being and permanency.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Casa of new jersey, together with local programs, supports and promotes court-appointed advocacy. Working through community volunteers, local programs advocate on behalf of children and youth involved in child welfare and judicial systems to ensure their well-being and ultimate placement in safe and nurturing permanent homes. Support delivered by casa of nj is delivered through training, technical assistance, public awareness and grants in aid.

    $4,212,373 spentof which $3,294,872 as grants$44 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,212,373.

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 ($2.3M) Expenses 100 ($2.2M) Net assets 100 ($611k)2018 Revenue 108 ($2.5M) Expenses 110 ($2.5M) Net assets 105 ($640k)2019 Revenue 129 ($3.0M) Expenses 127 ($2.8M) Net assets 128 ($784k)2020 Revenue 133 ($3.1M) Expenses 135 ($3.0M) Net assets 135 ($828k)2021 Revenue 144 ($3.3M) Expenses 136 ($3.0M) Net assets 181 ($1.1M)2022 Revenue 132 ($3.0M) Expenses 147 ($3.3M) Net assets 139 ($851k)2023 Revenue 124 ($2.9M) Expenses 122 ($2.7M) Net assets 159 ($974k)2024 Revenue 195 ($4.5M) Expenses 194 ($4.4M) Net assets 184 ($1.1M)2025 Revenue 194 ($4.5M) Expenses 196 ($4.4M) Net assets 196 ($1.2M)
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Revenue (194)Expenses (196)Net assets (196)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 2021 to 2022, from $1.3M to $970k (−27%).

$630k
$661k
$885k
$1.1M
$1.3M
$970k
$1.1M
$1.2M
$1.3M
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 90% · 2018 87% · 2019 88% · 2020 91% · 2021 87% · 2022 88% · 2023 90% · 2024 94% · 2025 94%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF NEW JERSEY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (93% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,392 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$64k
’17
$29k
’18
$143k
’19
$45k
’20
$274k
’21
−$251k
’22
$122k
’23
$133k
’24
$68k
’25
3.0
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.

Chief executive

Angela Waters

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed131921212217121311
Joined·+11+2+2+1+2+0+3+0
No longer listed·50207522
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $41k → $86k.

4 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 NEW JERSEY 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 OF NEW JERSEY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

92% 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 NEW JERSEY INC.

22%
largest funder
51%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 45% · 2019 65% · 2020 39% · 2021 69% · 2022 48% · 2023 43% — 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

30% of COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF NEW JERSEY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF NEW JERSEY INC draws 61% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 6 states in all.

WA
NY
PA
NJ
CO
DE

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

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’22
’23
New Jersey out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $130k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 NEW JERSEY INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 7 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin2% · below the median
Months of reserve3.0mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF NEW JERSEY INC

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

96% of spending goes to programs.

Program 96%Management 3%Fundraising 1%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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

NJ

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Questions and answers

Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF NEW JERSEY INC?
COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF NEW JERSEY INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $586,409 to it, the largest being National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association ($131,257). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF NEW JERSEY INC have?
IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $586,409 in grants to COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF NEW JERSEY INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF NEW JERSEY INC?
National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association is the largest funder on record, with $131,257 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF NEW JERSEY INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 21 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