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ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES
ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $139,359 to it, the largest being National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association ($138,463). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.0M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $139k
- Net assets
- $313k
What Illinois Association of Court Appointed Special Advocates does
Mission
Supports and promotes court appointed volunteer advocacy for children who have experienced abuse or neglect.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Provide leadership and support in the development and growth of local programs whose volunteers advocate for the best interest of the children in the juvenile court system.
$5,328,685 spentof which $4,305,384 as grants$24,316 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,328,685.
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 $804k to $1.3M (+59%).
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 79% · 2022 99% · 2023 99% · 2024 99% · 2025 99%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES’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. 2 of the last 7 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
Mari Christopherson
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $7k → $179.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES’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
ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 84% · 2022 84% · 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
ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $796 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES has grown faster than three-quarters of the 431 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 431 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $256k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$256k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES: 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 ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES?
- ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $139,359 to it, the largest being National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association ($138,463). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $139,359 in grants to ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES?
- National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association is the largest funder on record, with $138,463 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 3 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