COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI

EIN 43-1524185 SPRINGFIELD, MO

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Revenue 2024: $1,236,156
Expenses 2024: $1,379,730

Program services were 77.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection: 03
NTEE code: R200
Classification: 1000
Street: PO BOX 4853

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 · 2024

Mission

RECRUIT, TRAIN AND SUPPORT COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS WHO ASSIST THE COURT IN PROTECTING THE BEST INTERESTS OF ABUSED AND NEGLECTED CHILDREN IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI.

LIKE ALL CHILDREN, CHILDREN WHO HAVE BEEN ABUSED AND NEGLECTED HAVE DREAMS. CASA VOLUNTEERS HELP THESE CHILDREN REALIZE DREAMS THAT MOST CHILDREN TAKE FOR GRANTED-TO HAVE A STABLE, LOVING HOME AND A NORMAL LIFE. COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES (CASAS) ARE VOLUNTEERS WHO STAND UP FOR THESE VULNERABLE CHILDREN AND HELP CHANGE THEIR LIVES. DURING 2024, 15 FULL-TIME STAFF SUPPORTED 257 CASA VOLUNTEERS WHO PROVIDED OVER 10,000 HOURS (AND DROVE OVER 53,000 MILES) OF SERVICE TO 461 CHILDREN. THE CASA CLUBHOUSE SERVED AN ADDITIONAL 1,835 CHILDREN THROUGH VARIOUS PROGRAMS TO SUPPORT SAFE FAMILY REUNIFICATION AND EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT.

Expenses $1,067,678

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

Laura FarmerLAURA FARMER

EXECUTIVE DI

Total calculated

$96,842

From this org

$86,455

From related orgs

$0

Other

$10,387

Hours/week

45
Rebecca Susan YaktineREBECCA SUSAN YAKTINE

PRESIDENT

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
Dan PiddingtonDAN PIDDINGTON

VICE PRESIDE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
Colby KeethCOLBY KEETH

TREASURER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
Kristin MarquessKRISTIN MARQUESS

SECRETARY

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
Jennifer HargisJENNIFER HARGIS

PAST PRESIDE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
Sheryl EdwardsSHERYL EDWARDS

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
Skyler HensonSKYLER HENSON

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
Camille KnowlesCAMILLE KNOWLES

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
Erin MaloneERIN MALONE

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
Kate MillingtonKATE MILLINGTON

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
David OliveDAVID OLIVE

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
Kim RippyKIM RIPPY

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
Carly TaftCARLY TAFT

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
Charity ElmerCHARITY ELMER

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
Eric GerkeERIC GERKE

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
Travis GriderTRAVIS GRIDER

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
Vanessa ScavuzzoVANESSA SCAVUZZO

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
Chris ShaeferCHRIS SHAEFER

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
Dr Micheala Steinmetz-BentonDR MICHEALA STEINMETZ-BENTON

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
Kim TilleyKIM TILLEY

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
Kim CashKIM CASH

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

2024

Revenue

$1,236,156

Expenses

$1,379,730

Contributions

$1,233,733

Grants paid

$0
2023

Revenue

$1,427,578

Expenses

$1,205,484

Contributions

$1,417,383

Grants paid

$0
2022

Revenue

$3,705,054

Expenses

$837,053

Contributions

$3,712,696

Grants paid

$0

Tax year	Revenue	Expenses	Contributions	Grants paid
2024	$1,236,156	$1,379,730	$1,233,733	$0
2023	$1,427,578	$1,205,484	$1,417,383	$0
2022	$3,705,054	$837,053	$3,712,696	$0

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

$1,126,348

Expenses

$591,797

Assets (EOY)

$1,159,429
2020 · 990

Revenue

$665,944

Expenses

$528,970

Assets (EOY)

$611,974
2019 · 990

Revenue

$514,645

Expenses

$478,119

Assets (EOY)

$540,139
2018 · 990

Revenue

$343,721

Expenses

$353,372

Assets (EOY)

$462,391
2017 · 990

Revenue

$373,567

Expenses

$298,718

Assets (EOY)

$428,490
2016 · 990

Revenue

$242,588

Expenses

$273,571

Assets (EOY)

$342,758
2015 · 990

Revenue

$263,775

Expenses

$258,807

Assets (EOY)

$343,705
2014 · 990

Revenue

$325,458

Expenses

$279,159

Assets (EOY)

$362,325
2013 · 990

Revenue

$292,105

Expenses

$314,046

Assets (EOY)

$276,278
2012 · 990

Revenue

not reported

Expenses

$338,032

Assets (EOY)

$232,505

Tax year	Form	Revenue	Expenses	Assets (EOY)
2021	990	$1,126,348	$591,797	$1,159,429
2020	990	$665,944	$528,970	$611,974
2019	990	$514,645	$478,119	$540,139
2018	990	$343,721	$353,372	$462,391
2017	990	$373,567	$298,718	$428,490
2016	990	$242,588	$273,571	$342,758
2015	990	$263,775	$258,807	$343,705
2014	990	$325,458	$279,159	$362,325
2013	990	$292,105	$314,046	$276,278
2012	990	not reported	$338,032	$232,505

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

MISSOURI CHILDRENS TRUST FUND BOARD

$410,400

2022
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC

$105,161

2024 SPECIFIC PROGRAM
UNITED WAY OF THE OZARKS

$100,000

2024 EDUCATION-CHILDREN AT RISK
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC

$81,661

2023 SPECIFIC PROGRAM
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC

$53,626

2022 SPECIFIC PROGRAM
UNITED WAY OF THE OZARKS

$48,106

2023 EDUCATION-CHILDREN AT RISK
UNITED WAY OF THE OZARKS

$44,517

2022 EDUCATION-CHILDREN AT RISK
MISSOURI SPORTS HALL OF FAME

$17,945

2022 COMMUNITY
NATIONAL COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE ASSOCIATION

$17,256

2024 PASS THROUGH
VETERANS UNITED FOUNDATION

$15,000

2023 CHILD ADVOCACY

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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.