Tennessee · Nonprofit
TENNESSEE COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE ASSOC
TENNESSEE COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE ASSOC (Tennessee) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $440,917 to it, the largest being TENNESSEE BAR FOUNDATION ($295,700). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $639k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $441k
- Net assets
- $167k
What Tennessee Court Appointed Special Advocate Assoc does
Mission
To support, develop, expand, and unite local casa programs in recruiting and training volunteers to advocate for tennessees children who have been abused and neglected.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To support, develop, expand and unite local casa programs in recruiting and training volunteers to advocate for tennessees children who have been abused and neglected.
$639,582 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $639,582.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $151k to $210k (+39%).
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: 2021 100% · 2022 98% · 2023 99% · 2024 91% · 2025 68%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
75% of TENNESSEE COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE ASSOC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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
Lynne Farrar
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $80k → $40k.
2 of 5 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 TENNESSEE COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE ASSOC’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
TENNESSEE COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE ASSOC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 99%; 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 TENNESSEE COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE ASSOC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 68% · 2019 72% · 2020 52% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
68% of TENNESSEE COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE ASSOC's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k 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
TENNESSEE COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE ASSOC has grown faster than half of the 904 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 904 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like TENNESSEE COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE ASSOC
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TENNESSEE COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE ASSOC: 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 TENNESSEE COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE ASSOC?
- TENNESSEE COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE ASSOC (Tennessee) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $440,917 to it, the largest being TENNESSEE BAR FOUNDATION ($295,700). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TENNESSEE COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE ASSOC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $440,917 in grants to TENNESSEE COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE ASSOC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TENNESSEE COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE ASSOC?
- TENNESSEE BAR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $295,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TENNESSEE COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE ASSOC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 2021–2025), 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