Montana · Nonprofit
FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT CASA-GAL PROGRAM
FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT CASA-GAL PROGRAM (Montana) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $112,882 to it, the largest being National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association ($61,785). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $266k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $113k
- Net assets
- $519k
What First Judicial District Casa-Gal Program does
Mission
The mission of casa (court appointed special advocates) is to provide volunteer guardians to work on behalf of abused and neglected children to promote their best interests in the pursuit of safe, permanent homes.we envision a world in which every child in the first judicial district court system will have a casa volunteer to give them a voice and provide what they believe is in the best interest of the child to the judges who appoint them.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Child advocacy: trained volunteers and casa staff support the needs of children in court cases before the first judicial district court. Casa internally allocates funding to match program spending and devotion of staff time.
$104,679 spent93% of program spendingVolunteer training and support: trained new volunteers to be advocates for abused and neglected children in dependent negligent cases. Casa internally allocates funding to match program spending and devotion of staff time.
$6,571 spent6% of program spendingCommunity education and outreach: staff and volunteers attend meetings and events while sharing brochures and educational materials with the public to raise awareness of how they and casa address the abused and neglected children in the community.
$1,447 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $112,697.
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 $255k to $374k (+46%).
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: 2019 69% · 2020 67% · 2022 53% · 2023 53% · 2024 58% · 2025 48%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT CASA-GAL PROGRAM’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% 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.
Chief executive
Tammy Heigh
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $65.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT CASA-GAL PROGRAM’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
FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT CASA-GAL PROGRAM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT CASA-GAL PROGRAM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 58% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 95% · 2022 48% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT CASA-GAL PROGRAM draws 68% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT CASA-GAL PROGRAM runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT CASA-GAL PROGRAM
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 Montana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
59% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT CASA-GAL PROGRAM?
- FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT CASA-GAL PROGRAM (Montana) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $112,882 to it, the largest being National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association ($61,785). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT CASA-GAL PROGRAM have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $112,882 in grants to FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT CASA-GAL PROGRAM, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT CASA-GAL PROGRAM?
- National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association is the largest funder on record, with $61,785 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT CASA-GAL PROGRAM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Montana. 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 5 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