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COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES CASA FOR THE HIGHLAND LAKES AREA

EIN 74-2606851 KINGSLAND, TX

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Revenue 2024
$800,703
Expenses 2024
$648,334

Program services were 78.2% 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
1719 RIDGEVIEW

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

PROVIDING INDEPENDENT COURT-APPOINTED VOLUNTEER ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN WHO ARE INVOLVED IN THE COURTS SYSTEMS BECAUSE OF ABUSE AND/OR NEGLECT.

  • THE ORGANIZATION RECRUITS, TRAINS, AND SUPERVISES COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS TO FUNCTION AS COURT-APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES TO PROVIDE SERVICES TO CHILD ABUSE VICTIMS WHO HAVE BEEN REMOVED FROM THEIR HOMES BECAUSE OF ABUSE AND/OR NEGLECT. THE ORGANIZATION ASSIGNS CASEWORK SUPERVISORS TO SUPERVISE THE VOLUNTEER CHILD ADVOCATES; ASSIST THE VOLUNTEERS IN MEETINGS WITH THE CHILDREN OR ANYONE ASSOCIATED WITH THE CASE; ASSIST IN EXAMINATION OF COURT FILES, MEDICAL, SCHOOL, AND PSYCHOLOGICAL REPORTS; TRACK PROGRESS OF THE CASES; MAINTAIN DETAILED STATISTICAL CASE DATA CONCERNING THE VICTIM'S AGE, SEX, ETHNIC GROUP, COUNTY OF ORIGIN, TOTAL NUMBER OF CHILDREN SERVED, AND NUMBER OF CHILDREN'S CASES THAT ARE CLOSED. THE ORGANIZATION SERVES BLANCO, BURNET, LAMPASAS, SAN SABA, AND LLANO COUNTIES WITH A TOTAL POPULATION OF APPROXIMATELY 83,500. THE NUMBER OF VOLUNTEER HOURS RECORDED DURING THE YEAR ENDED AUGUST 31, 2023 BY THE ORGANIZATION APPROXIMATED 5,560.

    Expenses $507,176

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Damon Bierele

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Travis Dean

    VICE-PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Jared Fields

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Melissa Edge

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Meghan Peterson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Terri Ortiz

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Phil Zinn

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Tracy Knight

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Brittany Grubbs

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $75,291
    From this org
    $75,291
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $800,703
    Expenses
    $648,334
    Contributions
    $686,947
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $809,904
    Expenses
    $743,498
    Contributions
    $680,004
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $721,297
    Expenses
    $735,686
    Contributions
    $643,832
    Grants paid
    $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
    $660,514
    Expenses
    $649,597
    Assets (EOY)
    $732,573
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $700,684
    Expenses
    $612,767
    Assets (EOY)
    $714,563
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $634,847
    Expenses
    $603,669
    Assets (EOY)
    $621,695
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $526,768
    Expenses
    $582,520
    Assets (EOY)
    $594,286
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $613,361
    Expenses
    $535,043
    Assets (EOY)
    $655,230
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $538,771
    Expenses
    $472,873
    Assets (EOY)
    $561,481
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $465,597
    Expenses
    $440,871
    Assets (EOY)
    $496,883
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $418,855
    Expenses
    $431,016
    Assets (EOY)
    $478,719
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $421,116
    Expenses
    $457,700
    Assets (EOY)
    $492,303
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $394,376
    Assets (EOY)
    $531,991

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

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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.