California Court Appointed Special
San Diego, CA · EIN 68-0163010. Reported 135 grants totalling $43.4M to 45 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For California Court Appointed Special, the IRS classifies it under civil rights rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE R200) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 45 distinct organizations, with 17% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 100% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $197,391. Half of what it reported fell between $82,101 and $352,354; the smallest was $6,200 and the largest $3,047,399. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CASA of Los Angeles | Monterey Park, CA | $7,464,102 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Voices for Children | San Diego, CA | $4,496,123 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Court Appointed Special Advocates of Orange County Inc | Orange, CA | $4,448,286 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Child Advocates of Silicon Valley Inc | San Jose, CA | $1,840,241 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Court Appointed Special Advocates of Sacramento County | Sacramento, CA | $1,580,261 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Court Appointed Special Advocates of Santa Cruz County | Watsonville, CA | $1,461,333 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Court Appointed Special Advocates of Fresno and Madera Counties | Fresno, CA | $1,459,694 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| San Francisco CASA | San Francisco, CA | $1,298,871 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Court Appointed Special Advocates of Kern County | Bakersfield, CA | $1,262,012 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| CASA of Placer Yuba Sutter | Roseville, CA | $1,217,472 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| CASA of Santa Barbara Cnty | Santa Maria, CA | $1,129,799 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Court Appointed Special Advocates of Monterey County Inc | Salinas, CA | $1,044,304 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Court Appointed Special Advocates of San Luis Obispo County Inc | Sn Luis Obisp, CA | $980,728 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| CASA of Solano County | Fairfield, CA | $945,184 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Child Advocates of San Bernardino County | San Bernardino, CA | $930,681 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Marin Court Appointed Special Advocates | San Rafael, CA | $792,588 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| CASA of San Mateo County | Redwood City, CA | $790,971 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| CASA of Tulare County | Visalia, CA | $753,094 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Child Advocates of Contra Costa County | Concord, CA | $737,506 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| CASA of Ventura County Inc | Camarillo, CA | $727,418 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Court Appointed Special Advocate of Humboldt | Eureka, CA | $677,068 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| CASA of Kings County Inc | Hanford, CA | $642,993 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Court Appointed Special Advocates of Imperial County Inc | El Centro, CA | $626,354 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Yolo County Court Appointed Special Advocate Program | Woodland, CA | $585,913 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Alameda County Health Care Se | Alameda, CA | $531,884 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| San Joaquin County Child Abuse Prevention Council | Stockton, CA | $473,589 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| CASA El Dorado | Placerville, CA | $436,660 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Court Appointed Special Advocates of Stanislaus County | Modesto, CA | $430,503 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Court Appointed Special Advocates of Merced County | Merced, CA | $425,869 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Court Appointed Special Advocates of Sonoma County Inc | Santa Rosa, CA | $358,238 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Nexus Youth & Family Services | Jackson, CA | $305,317 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Court Appointed Special Advocates of San Benito County Inc | Hollister, CA | $279,180 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Youth Empowerment Siskiyou | Yreka, CA | $258,330 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Friends of Alameda County CASA Inc | San Leandro, CA | $245,850 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Lassen Family Services Inc | Susanville, CA | $228,062 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Northern Valley Catholic Social Service Inc | Redding, CA | $222,459 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Child Advocates of Nevada County | Nevada City, CA | $214,831 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Court Appointed Special Advocates of Mendocino County | Ukiah, CA | $198,376 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Alliance for Community Transformations | Mariposa, CA | $182,964 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Plumas Crisis Intervention and Resource Center | Quincy, CA | $159,076 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| C a S a - a Voice for Children | Napa, CA | $147,488 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Wild Iris Family Counseling & Crisis Center | Bishop, CA | $138,275 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Court Appointed Special Advocate of Del Norte County | Crescent City, CA | $134,570 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Training Employment and Community Help Inc | Alturas, CA | $104,166 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| CASA of Los Angeles | Monterey Park, CA | $6,200 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
44 of 45 (98%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- CASA of Orange County
STATE APPROP; JUVENILE JUSTICE - San Francisco CASA
STATE APPROP; YOUTH TAX SUPPORT - CASA of Santa Cruz County
STATE APP & JUVENILE JUSTICE - CASA of Humboldt County
STATE APPROP; FAR NORTH SUPPORT
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 39 of 45 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 1 | $6,200 | $6,200 |
| 2021 | 2 | $45,000 | $22,500 |
| 2022 | 44 | $12.0M | $194,257 |
| 2023 | 44 | $16.6M | $250,730 |
| 2024 | 44 | $14.7M | $173,596 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $197,391 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from California Court Appointed Special's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 3 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 41 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 3525 Del Mar Heights Rd 243, San Diego, CA, 92130.
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