Texas · Nonprofit
DALLAS CASA
DALLAS CASA (Texas) receives grants from 135 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,941,257 to it, the largest being TEXAS CASA INC ($21,685,675). 76 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 135
- Grants received
- $34M
- Net assets
- $19M
What Dallas Casa does
Mission
Dallas Casa volunteer advocates protect children, restore childhood and help child victims of abuse and neglect achieve their full potential.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Dallas Casa trains and supervises volunteers who are appointed by local courts to represent the best interest of each child involved in a dallas county child welfare case. Over the last seven years that Dallas Casa has been able to accept all court appointments to dallas county child welfare cases, the agency served more than 8,700 children with 3,200 volunteer advocates. Dallas Casa serves more children with volunteer advocates than any of the more than 900 independent casa programs nationwide. For children in foster care, their Dallas Casa volunteer advocate is a lifeline, providing a constant in a young life that has been disrupted by trauma, change and uncertainty. Dallas Casa volunteer advocates model for children how a reliable, trustworthy adult acts, hopefully improving the chances (continued on schedule o)that the cycle of abuse will be broken and that each child can reach their full potential. Among the many risks of foster care is the possibility a child gives up on themselves. Dallas Casa volunteers reduce that risk by seeing the promise of a better future for each child, rather than the sum of their unfortunate circumstances. Dallas Casa staff and volunteers believe…
$11,440,766 spentof which $2,500,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $11,440,766.
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 $24M to $21M (−15%).
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 37% · 2019 46% · 2020 45% · 2021 46% · 2022 46% · 2023 45% · 2024 31% · 2025 41%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
101% of DALLAS CASA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Kathleen Lavalle
President and CEO
Board chair
Scott Orr
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 32 funders to 62 funders, grant income rose $2.5M → $5.4M.
23 of 135 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $8.6M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Dallas Casa Endowment Fund). These are real filings, and they are not money DALLAS CASA raised.
From the IRS filings of DALLAS CASA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 135 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
DALLAS CASA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 73%; 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 DALLAS CASA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 60% · 2019 70% · 2020 74% · 2021 67% · 2022 67% · 2023 62% — 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
49% of DALLAS CASA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
92% of DALLAS CASA's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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
DALLAS CASA is better cushioned than half of the 63 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 63 civil rights nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like DALLAS CASA
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Dallas Casa Endowment Fund · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DALLAS CASA: 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 DALLAS CASA?
- DALLAS CASA (Texas) receives grants from 135 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,941,257 to it, the largest being TEXAS CASA INC ($21,685,675). 76 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DALLAS CASA have?
- IRS filings report 135 organizations giving $33,941,257 in grants to DALLAS CASA, 76 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DALLAS CASA?
- TEXAS CASA INC is the largest funder on record, with $21,685,675 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DALLAS CASA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 135 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