California · Nonprofit
COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY
COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY (California) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,891,591 to it, the largest being National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association ($239,600). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Court Appointed Special Advocates of Santa Barbara County does
Mission
To assure safe, permanent, nurturing homes for abused and/or neglected children by providing highly-trained volunteers to advocate for them in the court system of santa barbara county, california.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The court appointed special advocates (casas) work to prevent abused, neglected, and abandoned children from becoming lost in the juvenile dependency system, and finds them safe, permanent, nurturing homes as quickly as possible by carefully pairing a casa volunteer with each child to ensure that the child's best interest is served. The advocate spends time with the child, gathers relevant information, assesses the child's needs, wires reports for the juvenile court judge, and attends all court hearings regarding the child until a suitable, nurturing, permanent home is obtained. For the year ending june 30, 2025, 550 children were served by 258 volunteer advocates providing 15,021 hours of service.
$1,655,704 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,655,704.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.8M to $2.5M (+40%).
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 24% · 2018 24% · 2019 23% · 2020 21% · 2021 29% · 2022 31% · 2023 11% · 2024 15% · 2025 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY’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. 4 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
Kim Davis
Executive director
Board chair
Elan Shpigel
Governanace chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $173k → $341k.
8 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 SANTA BARBARA COUNTY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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 SANTA BARBARA COUNTY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
44% 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 SANTA BARBARA COUNTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 22% · 2019 24% · 2020 32% · 2021 18% · 2022 25% · 2023 29% — 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
72% of COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
64% of COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SANTA BARBARA 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. $533k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 SANTA BARBARA COUNTY runs a healthier operating margin 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 SANTA BARBARA 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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 SANTA BARBARA 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 SANTA BARBARA COUNTY?
- COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY (California) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,891,591 to it, the largest being National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association ($239,600). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $1,891,591 in grants to COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY?
- National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association is the largest funder on record, with $239,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SANTA BARBARA 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 39 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