Skip to content

New Jersey · Nonprofit

Court Appointed Special Advocates of Union County Inc

Court Appointed Special Advocates of Union County Inc (New Jersey) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,407,613 to it, the largest being COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF NEW JERSEY INC ($938,503). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2022
$728k
Funders on record
21
Grants received
$1.4M
Net assets
$653k
10/21 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 40%
01What it does

What Court Appointed Special Advocates of Union County Inc does

Mission

Recruit, train and supervise volunteers to advocate for abused, neglected and abandoned children placed in foster homes. CASA volunteers ensure children's best interests remain the priority and their needs met while working to establish a safe, stable and permanent home.

As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.

Program

  1. The Organization recruits, trains and supervises volunteers who are appointed by a judge in family court to advocate for children in the child welfare system. This program is affiliated with Court Appointed Special Advocates of New Jersey (NJ CASA) and the National CASA/GAL Association for Children.

    $490,543 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2021 Form 990. Program spending in total: $490,543.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($477k) Expenses 100 ($485k) Net assets 100 ($89k)2018 Revenue 113 ($542k) Expenses 101 ($489k) Net assets 159 ($142k)2019 Revenue 118 ($562k) Expenses 109 ($531k) Net assets 194 ($173k)2020 Revenue 131 ($624k) Expenses 106 ($515k) Net assets 317 ($283k)2021 Revenue 163 ($776k) Expenses 99 ($481k) Net assets 647 ($577k)2022 Revenue 153 ($728k) Expenses 127 ($618k) Net assets 732 ($653k)
201720182019202020212022
Revenue (153)Expenses (127)Net assets (732)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $302k to $669k (+122%).

$121k
$167k
$184k
$302k
$669k
$697k
201720182019202020212022
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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 32% · 2018 51% · 2019 58% · 2020 55% · 2021 48% · 2022 61%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$7k
’17
$53k
’18
$31k
’19
$109k
’20
$295k
’21
$111k
’22
7.3
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.

Board chair

Anne Collart

Chair

As listed on its FY2022 Form 990.

201720182019202020212022
Listed131316171617
Joined·+2+4+5+0+5
No longer listed·21414
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $127k → $144k.

6 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 Union County 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 Union County Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

89% 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 Union County Inc.

67%
largest funder
79%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 86% · 2019 75% · 2020 62% · 2021 52% · 2022 55% · 2023 100% — 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

45% of Court Appointed Special Advocates of Union County Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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

96% of Court Appointed Special Advocates of Union County Inc's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.

WA
IL
NY
PA
NJ

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
New Jersey out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $165k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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

Organizations like Court Appointed Special Advocates of Union County Inc

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 New Jersey

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 9%Fundraising 12%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Court Appointed Special Advocates of Union County Inc: 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.

A paid feature, included from the $75 plan up. Sign in to download.

Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds Court Appointed Special Advocates of Union County Inc?
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Union County Inc (New Jersey) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,407,613 to it, the largest being COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF NEW JERSEY INC ($938,503). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Court Appointed Special Advocates of Union County Inc have?
IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,407,613 in grants to Court Appointed Special Advocates of Union County Inc, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Court Appointed Special Advocates of Union County Inc?
COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF NEW JERSEY INC is the largest funder on record, with $938,503 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Court Appointed Special Advocates of Union County 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.

Play a game about who funds Court Appointed Special Advocates of Union County →

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), 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