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WISCONSIN CASA ASSOCIATION

WISCONSIN CASA ASSOCIATION (Wisconsin) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $484,667 to it, the largest being National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association ($327,069). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$313k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$485k
Net assets
$434k
5/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 62%
01What it does

What Wisconsin Casa Association does

Mission

Wisconsin court appointed special advocates (casa) association champions the needs of abused and neglected children by supporting and expanding local casa programs.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Wisconsin Casa Association champions the needs of abused and neglected children by supporting and expanding local casa programs.

    $162,949 spentof which $45,000 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $162,949.

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 ($252k) Expenses 100 ($229k) Net assets 100 ($174k)2018 Revenue 248 ($626k) Expenses 124 ($285k) Net assets 295 ($515k)2019 Revenue 155 ($392k) Expenses 206 ($473k) Net assets 249 ($434k)2020 Revenue 125 ($316k) Expenses 132 ($303k) Net assets 256 ($446k)2021 Revenue 118 ($298k) Expenses 169 ($389k) Net assets 204 ($356k)2022 Revenue 143 ($360k) Expenses 124 ($284k) Net assets 248 ($432k)2023 Revenue 105 ($265k) Expenses 113 ($259k) Net assets 251 ($438k)2024 Revenue 124 ($313k) Expenses 138 ($317k) Net assets 249 ($434k)
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Revenue (124)Expenses (138)Net assets (249)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 2017 to 2018, from $182k to $525k (+189%).

$182k
$525k
$451k
$456k
$369k
$445k
$473k
$443k
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 32% · 2018 84% · 2019 82% · 2020 96% · 2021 97% · 2022 96% · 2023 97% · 2024 80%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

99% of WISCONSIN CASA ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$23k
’17
$341k
’18
−$82k
’19
$13k
’20
−$91k
’21
$76k
’22
$6k
’23
−$4k
’24
17
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.

Chief executive

Melissa Skalecki

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.

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Listed125667111110
Joined·+1+1+0+2+6+2+1
No longer listed·8001222
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $157k → $21k.

3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 WISCONSIN CASA ASSOCIATION’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

WISCONSIN CASA ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

90% 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 WISCONSIN CASA ASSOCIATION.

67%
largest funder
93%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 100% · 2019 78% · 2020 100% · 2021 98% · 2022 71% · 2023 95% — 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 WISCONSIN CASA ASSOCIATION'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

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

WISCONSIN CASA ASSOCIATION draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 4 states in all.

WA
MN
WI
CT

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

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Wisconsin out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $95k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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

WISCONSIN CASA ASSOCIATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,538 crime & legal nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Months of reserve16.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,538 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like WISCONSIN CASA ASSOCIATION

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 Wisconsin

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

51% of spending goes to programs.

Program 51%Management 32%Fundraising 16%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WI

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WISCONSIN CASA ASSOCIATION: 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 WISCONSIN CASA ASSOCIATION?
WISCONSIN CASA ASSOCIATION (Wisconsin) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $484,667 to it, the largest being National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association ($327,069). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WISCONSIN CASA ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $484,667 in grants to WISCONSIN CASA ASSOCIATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WISCONSIN CASA ASSOCIATION?
National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association is the largest funder on record, with $327,069 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WISCONSIN CASA ASSOCIATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 9 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