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COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF MERCED COUNTY

EIN 27-2084694 MERCED, CA

Revenue 2023
$895,153
Expenses 2023
$661,432

Program services were 90.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
I72
Classification
1200
Street
PO BOX 2362

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 · 2023

Mission

Advocate for foster care children in courts. Providing quality intervention and advocacy services for abused, abandoned, and neglected children.

  • To recruit, screen, and train volunteers from communities throughout the county to serve as advocates in child protection proceedings.

    Expenses $595,290

As filed on the 2023 return.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Henry Strength

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.43

  • Dena Traina

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.79

  • Holly Werner

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.19

  • Jane Lawrence

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Bette Woolstenhulme

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.7

  • Carol Etcheverry

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Carol Hamm

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.05

  • Diane Neves

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5.41

  • Holley Moyes

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.33

  • Steve Tietjen

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.46

  • Laura Fong

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.14

  • Emily Haden

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Greg Hausmann

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Cathie Lancaster

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $79,705
    From this org
    $79,705
    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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $895,153
    Expenses
    $661,432
    Contributions
    $709,179
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $726,194
    Expenses
    $570,748
    Contributions
    $610,876
    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
    $785,028
    Expenses
    $536,463
    Assets (EOY)
    $535,153

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $476,476
    Expenses
    $534,384
    Assets (EOY)
    $300,009

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $448,310
    Expenses
    $464,486
    Assets (EOY)
    $275,558

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $600,148
    Expenses
    $501,543
    Assets (EOY)
    $300,294

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $410,523
    Expenses
    $429,567
    Assets (EOY)
    $203,122

  • 2017 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $0
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,085

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $292,160
    Expenses
    $294,613
    Assets (EOY)
    $203,951

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $278,312
    Expenses
    $241,462
    Assets (EOY)
    $203,767

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.

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 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.