California · Nonprofit
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Sacramento County
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Sacramento County (California) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,652,554 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE ASSOCIATION ($1,580,261). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $2.7M
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Court Appointed Special Advocates of Sacramento County does
Mission
Ensuring consistency and support for children in the foster care system through the use of volunteer advocates advancing the best interests of each child.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Served children in Sacramento County by training volunteers to become a child's voice in court and offered children the critical components of consistency and support, enhanced by the comfort of a long-term relationship. Over 11,998 of volunteer hours were donated during the fiscal year to serve the children at greatest risk in Sacramento County.
$1,667,922 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,667,922.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.5M to $2.7M (+80%).
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 22% · 2018 20% · 2019 59% · 2020 52% · 2021 60% · 2022 40% · 2023 50% · 2024 41% · 2025 50%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
77% of Court Appointed Special Advocates of Sacramento County’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $101k → $755k.
10 of 35 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 Sacramento County’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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 Sacramento County leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 of Sacramento County.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 42% · 2019 43% · 2020 35% · 2021 26% · 2022 21% · 2023 69% — 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
58% of Court Appointed Special Advocates of Sacramento County's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
91% of Court Appointed Special Advocates of Sacramento County's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $484k 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 Sacramento County has grown faster than half of the 431 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 431 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Court Appointed Special Advocates of Sacramento County
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 of Sacramento County: 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 of Sacramento County?
- Court Appointed Special Advocates of Sacramento County (California) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,652,554 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE ASSOCIATION ($1,580,261). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Court Appointed Special Advocates of Sacramento County have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $2,652,554 in grants to Court Appointed Special Advocates of Sacramento County, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Court Appointed Special Advocates of Sacramento County?
- CALIFORNIA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,580,261 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Court Appointed Special Advocates of Sacramento County find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 35 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