Missouri · Nonprofit
COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI
COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI (Missouri) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,223,199 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC ($595,272). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $3.2M
- Net assets
- $4.1M
What Court Appointed Special Advocates of Southwest Missouri does
Mission
Recruit, train and support community volunteers who assist the court in protecting the best interests of abused and neglected children in southwest missouri.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Human services: like all children, children who have been abused and neglected have dreams. Casa volunteers help these children realize dreams that most children take for granted-to have a stable, loving home and a normal life. Court appointed special advocates (casas) are special people who stand up for these vulnerable children and help change their lives. The mission of casa of sw missouri is to recruit, train and support community volunteers who assist the court in protecting the best interests of abused and neglected children. During 2023, 15 full-time staff supported 269 casa volunteers who provided over 10,200 hours (and drove over 21,000 miles) of service to 459 children. We also serviced an additional 849 children through our casa clubhouse from july - december 2023.
$950,863 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $950,863.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.2M to $4.1M (+253%).
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 28% · 2019 28% · 2020 42% · 2021 28% · 2022 18% · 2023 36% · 2024 47%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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 8 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 1 funder to 12 funders, grant income rose $30k → $859k.
7 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 MISSOURI’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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 SOUTHWEST MISSOURI has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
60% 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 MISSOURI.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 40% · 2019 36% · 2020 28% · 2021 30% · 2022 50% · 2023 48% — 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
57% of COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
58% of COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $639k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 SOUTHWEST MISSOURI is better cushioned than half of the 978 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 978 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI?
- COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI (Missouri) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,223,199 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC ($595,272). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $3,223,199 in grants to COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC is the largest funder on record, with $595,272 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 37 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing