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COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF TRAVIS COUNTY

EIN 74-2369123 AUSTIN, TX

Largest nonprofits in Texas

Revenue 2025
$6,290,045
Expenses 2025
$6,180,995

Program services were 79.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
8303 N MOPAC EXPRESSWAY STE A100

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT THE BEST INTEREST OF CHILDREN WHO HAVE BEEN ABUSED OR NEGLECTED BY EMPOWERING VOLUNTEERS TO ADVOCATE FOR THEIR SAFETY, WELL-BEING, AND FOR OPPORTUNITIES TO THRIVE.

Activities or mission (Part I)

RECRUITMENT, SCREENING, TRAINING AND SUPERVISION OF COMMUNITYVOLUNTEERS WHO SERVE AS COURT-APPOINTED ADVOCATES FOR THE BEST INTERESTOF CHILDREN WHO HAVE BEEN ABUSED OR NEGLECTED.

  • CASA (COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES) OF TRAVIS COUNTY SPEAKS UP FOR CHILDREN WHO HAVE BEEN ABUSED OR NEGLECTED BY EMPOWERING OUR COMMUNITY TO VOLUNTEER AS ADVOCATES FOR THEM IN THE COURT SYSTEM. WHEN THE STATE STEPS IN TO PROTECT A CHILD'S SAFETY, A JUDGE APPOINTS A TRAINED CASA VOLUNTEER TO MAKE INDEPENDENT AND INFORMED RECOMMENDATIONS IN THE CHILD'S BEST INTEREST. IN 2025, CASA SERVED 982 CHILDREN IN THE COURT SYSTEM DUE TO ABUSE OR NEGLECT IN THEIR HOMES. CASA SUPPORTED A TOTAL OF 560 ACTIVE VOLUNTEERS WHO SERVED CHILDREN DURING THE YEAR AND 90% OF CHILDREN WERE ASSIGNED A LONG-TERM VOLUNTEER.

    Expenses $4,928,612 · Grants $143,559

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Mike Clifford

    IMMEDIATE PAST CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Claire Dunham

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Bruny Rios

    CHILD SAFETY & BEST INTEREST CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Russell Valdez

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • John Berkowitz

    AD HOC-CHAIR APPOINTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kara Grenier

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Mia Karides

    TREASURER/SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Adam Lyons

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ben Rubenstein

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • David Rubin

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Andy Smetana

    POWERFUL VOICES CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ricardo Stinnette

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Heather Walker

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ashley Wright

    AD HOC-CHAIR APPOINTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Simmi Mehta

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Emily Slingerland

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Teri Andresen

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Emily Leblanc

    CPO THRU 7/15/25; CEO EFF. 7/16/25

    Total calculated
    $178,282
    From this org
    $163,245
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $15,037
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $163,245
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $6,795
    Nontaxable benefits
    $8,242
    Filer's total
    $178,282
  • Laura Wolf

    CEO THRU 7/15/25

    Total calculated
    $128,782
    From this org
    $111,345
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $17,437
    Hours/week
    40
  • Stephanie Weiss

    SENIOR DIRECTOR OF ADVOCACY/CPO

    Total calculated
    $121,062
    From this org
    $108,003
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $13,059
    Hours/week
    40
  • Rudy Turrubiartes

    SENIOR DIRECTOR OF ADMINISTRATION

    Total calculated
    $118,249
    From this org
    $105,789
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $12,460
    Hours/week
    40
  • Ehrikka Hodge Messer

    DIRECTOR OF HUMAN RESOURCES AND OPERATIONS

    Total calculated
    $115,365
    From this org
    $102,542
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $12,823
    Hours/week
    40

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $6,290,045
    Expenses
    $6,180,995
    Contributions
    $6,531,762
    Grants paid
    $143,559
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $6,509,775
    Expenses
    $6,687,824
    Contributions
    $6,737,364
    Grants paid
    $128,686
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $7,006,015
    Expenses
    $6,981,122
    Contributions
    $7,223,548
    Grants paid
    $194,063
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $7,171,815
    Expenses
    $6,378,106
    Contributions
    $4,653,868
    Grants paid
    $94,632

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,493,856
    Expenses
    $6,015,507
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,626,722
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,741,943
    Expenses
    $5,263,247
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,091,474
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,177,072
    Expenses
    $5,431,526
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,720,704
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,566,195
    Expenses
    $4,939,888
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,845,607
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,672,593
    Expenses
    $3,877,348
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,181,829
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,457,092
    Expenses
    $3,630,631
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,361,833
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,989,529
    Expenses
    $3,458,731
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,515,707
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,710,606
    Expenses
    $3,032,576
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,968,661
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,324,101
    Expenses
    $2,697,893
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,321,671
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $2,420,698
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,794,297

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.