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Court Appointed Special Advocates of Southwest MI

Court Appointed Special Advocates of Southwest MI (Michigan) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $535,459 to it, the largest being MICHIGAN CASA INC ($140,126). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$268k
Revenue FY2024
13
Funders on record
$535k
Grants received
$328k
Net assets
7/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 35%

Against its field

Court Appointed Special Advocates of Southwest MI holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,529 crime & legal nonprofits its size.

Operating margin19% · above the median
Months of reserve18.3mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,529 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($227k) Expenses 100 ($145k) Net assets 100 ($139k)2021 Revenue 122 ($276k) Expenses 127 ($184k) Net assets 166 ($230k)2022 Revenue 100 ($226k) Expenses 162 ($234k) Net assets 160 ($222k)2023 Revenue 128 ($291k) Expenses 167 ($242k) Net assets 201 ($279k)2024 Revenue 118 ($268k) Expenses 150 ($218k) Net assets 237 ($328k)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (118)Expenses (150)Net assets (237)Peer revenue range

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 34% · 2023 38% · 2024 27%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

97% of Court Appointed Special Advocates of Southwest MI’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,767 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$81k
20
$92k
21
$9k
22
$48k
23
$50k
24
18
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $40k → $80k.

4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)37% 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 Southwest MI’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 Southwest MI leans on a few funders — its largest provides 26% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

91% 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 Southwest MI.

26%
largest funder
64%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 63% · 2020 41% · 2021 32% · 2022 62% · 2023 50%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

0% of Court Appointed Special Advocates of Southwest MI's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

80% of Court Appointed Special Advocates of Southwest MI's grant income comes from Michigan funders.

WA
MI
IN

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

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20
21
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Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $198k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 13 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like Court Appointed Special Advocates of Southwest MI

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Michigan

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 10%Fundraising 10%

Governance

0
board members
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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

MI

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Court Appointed Special Advocates of Southwest MI: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds Court Appointed Special Advocates of Southwest MI?
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Southwest MI (Michigan) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $535,459 to it, the largest being MICHIGAN CASA INC ($140,126). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Court Appointed Special Advocates of Southwest MI have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $535,459 in grants to Court Appointed Special Advocates of Southwest MI, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Court Appointed Special Advocates of Southwest MI?
MICHIGAN CASA INC is the largest funder on record, with $140,126 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Court Appointed Special Advocates of Southwest MI find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 13funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing