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Friends of Alameda County CASA Inc

Friends of Alameda County CASA Inc (California) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,257,128 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE ASSOCIATION ($245,850). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$443k
Funders on record
32
Grants received
$1.3M
Net assets
$1.7M
18/32 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Friends of Alameda County CASA Inc does

Mission

Friends of CASA operates for the specific purpose of supporting the best interests of abused and neglected children in Alameda County by funding and promoting the work of the Alameda County Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) program. It provides input into CASAs overall direction and budget, and serves as a community voice.The Alameda County Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) program operates under administrative auspices of the Alameda County Health (ACH). Friends of CASA has a decision-making authority over its own accounts that are kept separately from ACH. Friends of CASA may decide to use any unrestricted reserves to make up for a budget shortfall or to supplement CASA activities. ACH may provide input to this, but the authority to use Friends of CASA's funds is that of Friends of CASA.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Support youth education, critical needs such as food, clothing and transportation, culture, art, recreation, and enrichment activities, and needs for transitioning into independent adulthood. Support to educate the community about the mission and to recruit volunteers via publications, social media, advertising, and special events. Support the recruitment, training, and ongoing support of volunteers to advocate and mentor. And make recommendations to the court to support the best interests of youth in foster care. Offer staff and volunteer continuing education, and professional development through conferences and classes.

    $322,711 spentof which $101,919 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $322,711.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($193k) Expenses 100 ($108k) Net assets 100 ($637k)2018 Revenue 93 ($179k) Expenses 160 ($172k) Net assets 98 ($623k)2019 Revenue 105 ($203k) Expenses 113 ($121k) Net assets 115 ($732k)2020 Revenue 100 ($193k) Expenses 92 ($99k) Net assets 133 ($848k)2021 Revenue 106 ($204k) Expenses 99 ($107k) Net assets 162 ($1.0M)2022 Revenue 233 ($449k) Expenses 209 ($225k) Net assets 179 ($1.1M)2023 Revenue 358 ($691k) Expenses 330 ($356k) Net assets 235 ($1.5M)2024 Revenue 214 ($413k) Expenses 314 ($338k) Net assets 263 ($1.7M)2025 Revenue 230 ($443k) Expenses 439 ($473k) Net assets 262 ($1.7M)
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Revenue (230)Expenses (439)Net assets (262)Peer revenue range

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 $1.2M to $1.5M (+27%).

$638k
$623k
$732k
$848k
$1.0M
$1.2M
$1.5M
$1.7M
$1.8M
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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
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

81% of Friends of Alameda County CASA Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,778 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$85k
’17
$7k
’18
$81k
’19
$94k
’20
$97k
’21
$224k
’22
$335k
’23
$75k
’24
−$30k
’25
11
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

Lisa Barra

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed10911141714141512
Joined·+3+7+4+3+3+3+2+2
No longer listed·45106315
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $31k → $259k.

8 of 32 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 Friends of Alameda County CASA Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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

Friends of Alameda County CASA Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% 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

77% 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 Friends of Alameda County CASA Inc.

20%
largest funder
48%
top three
~10
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 28% · 2019 30% · 2020 47% · 2021 45% · 2022 54% · 2023 42% — 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

40% of Friends of Alameda County CASA Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

93% of Friends of Alameda County CASA Inc's grant income comes from California funders.

IL
NY
OR
CA
NC
TX
FL

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

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $466k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Friends of Alameda County CASA Inc is better cushioned than half of the 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−7% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve10.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like Friends of Alameda County CASA Inc

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

68% of spending goes to programs.

Program 68%Management 10%Fundraising 22%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

91%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds Friends of Alameda County CASA Inc?
Friends of Alameda County CASA Inc (California) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,257,128 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE ASSOCIATION ($245,850). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Friends of Alameda County CASA Inc have?
IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $1,257,128 in grants to Friends of Alameda County CASA Inc, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Friends of Alameda County CASA Inc?
CALIFORNIA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $245,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Friends of Alameda County CASA Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 32 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