Georgia · Nonprofit
GEORGIA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC
GEORGIA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC (Georgia) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,967,117 to it, the largest being Joseph B Whitehead Foundation ($500,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.4M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Georgia Court Appointed Special Advocates Inc does
Mission
Georgia Court Appointed Special Advocates, Inc. (the Organization) is a nonprofit organization which strengthens and supports court-sanctioned, affiliate CASA programs that empower community volunteers who advocate for abused or neglected children and contributes to advancements within the child welfare system.The Organizations vision is for all children who experience abuse or neglect to have the opportunity to thrive and reach their full potential with the support of permanent connections to family. Bringing urgency to a childs needs, both in and out of a courtroom, CASA volunteers provide individualized attention and best-interest advocacy for each child. The Organization operates through 47 affiliated programs in Georgia. These affiliated programs operate independent from the Organization, primarily through nonprofit organizations, with mutual accountability, resulting in the highest level of advocacy for all of Georgias dependent children.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Georgia Court Appointed Special Advocates, Inc. (the Organization) is a nonprofit organization which strengthens and supports court-sanctioned, affiliate CASA programs that empower community volunteers who advocate for abused or neglected children and contributes to advancements within the child welfare system.The Organizations vision is for all children who experience abuse or neglect to have the opportunity to thrive and reach their full potential with the support of permanent connections to family. Bringing urgency to a childs needs, both in and out of a courtroom, CASA volunteers provide individualized attention and best-interest advocacy for each child. The Organization operates through 47 affiliated programs in Georgia. These affiliated programs operate independent from the Organization, primarily through nonprofit organizations, with mutual accountability, resulting in the highest level of advocacy for all of Georgias dependent children.
$6,667,094 spentof which $5,161,516 as grants$54,484 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,667,094.
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 2024 to 2025, from $2.1M to $3.1M (+49%).
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 70% · 2018 80% · 2019 79% · 2020 80% · 2021 82% · 2022 82% · 2023 82% · 2024 82% · 2025 80%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of GEORGIA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Board chair
Kim Harrington
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $217k → $691k.
9 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 GEORGIA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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
GEORGIA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 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 GEORGIA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 52% · 2019 45% · 2020 35% · 2021 41% · 2022 20% · 2023 72% — 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
25% of GEORGIA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC'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 GEORGIA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $363k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
GEORGIA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC's funding base is broadening — from 6 funders to 14 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 431 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like GEORGIA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES 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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GEORGIA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GEORGIA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC?
- GEORGIA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC (Georgia) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,967,117 to it, the largest being Joseph B Whitehead Foundation ($500,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GEORGIA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $1,967,117 in grants to GEORGIA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GEORGIA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC?
- Joseph B Whitehead Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GEORGIA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 34 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