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COURT APPOINTED ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN INC

EIN 35-1766564 COLUMBUS, IN

Revenue 2024
$1,112,806
Expenses 2024
$1,333,025

Program services were 78.8% 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 2107

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

THE ORGANIZATION PROVIDES SPECIALLY-TRAINED VOLUNTEERS (CASAS COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES) OR STAFF GALS (GUARDIANS AD LITEM), WHO ARE APPOINTED BY THE COURTS TO REPRESENT THE BEST INTEREST OF ABUSED AND NEGLECTED CHILDREN IN COURT PROCEEDINGS. THE COURTS MAY ALSO APPOINT CASA/GAL ADVOCATES TO REPRESENT CHILDREN INVOLVED IN CUSTODY/ GUARDIANSHIP/ PATERNITY/ OTHER CASES OR IN STATUS OFFENSE/ JUVENILE DELINQUENCY CASES. THE ORGANIZATION RECRUITS, SCREENS, TRAINS, AND SUPERVISES THE CASA VOLUNTEERS AND STAFF GALS WHO PROVIDE THESE ADVOCACY SERVICES TO BARTHOLOMEW, DECATUR, AND JENNINGS COUNTIES.

Activities or mission (Part I)

PROVIDE SPECIALLY-TRAINED VOLUNTEERS, WHO ARE APPOINTED BY THE COURTS TO REPRESENT THE BEST INTERESTS OF ABUSED AND NEGLECTED CHILDREN IN COURT PROCEEDINGS.

  • THE ORGANIZATION PROVIDES SPECIALLY-TRAINED VOLUNTEERS (CASAS COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES) OR STAFF GALS (GUARDIANS AD LITEM), WHO ARE APPOINTED BY THE COURTS TO REPRESENT THE BEST INTEREST OF ABUSED AND NEGLECTED CHILDREN IN COURT PROCEEDINGS. THE COURTS MAY ALSO APPOINT CASA/GAL ADVOCATES TO REPRESENT CHILDREN INVOLVED IN CUSTODY/ GUARDIANSHIP/ PATERNITY/ OTHER CASES OR IN STATUS OFFENSE/ JUVENILE DELINQUENCY CASES. THE ORGANIZATION RECRUITS, SCREENS, TRAINS, AND SUPERVISES THE CASA VOLUNTEERS AND STAFF GALS WHO PROVIDE THESE ADVOCACY SERVICES TO BARTHOLOMEW, DECATUR, AND JENNINGS COUNTIES.

    Expenses $1,050,038 · Revenue $1,600

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.

  • DR ANNA CARMON

    VICE-PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ELISE YODER

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • CRUZ BAISA

    PAST PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • VANG SPEAR

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LYDIA HAPPEL

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • STEPHANIE CARMER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KRISHA ECKROTE

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • AMBER FIELDS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JENNIFER HODSON

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • AUDREY HOOD

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DR NANCY HOOVER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • HOLLIE PAYTON

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DR MARY ANN SYNDER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHRIS CALAS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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
    $1,112,806
    Expenses
    $1,333,025
    Contributions
    $999,045
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,059,320
    Expenses
    $1,073,464
    Contributions
    $2,009,039
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,089,835
    Expenses
    $1,120,342
    Contributions
    $1,114,908
    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
    $1,331,845
    Expenses
    $1,122,199
    Assets (EOY)
    $566,115

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,100,322
    Expenses
    $1,131,760
    Assets (EOY)
    $524,719

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,145,615
    Expenses
    $1,062,304
    Assets (EOY)
    $370,550

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $912,669
    Expenses
    $884,624
    Assets (EOY)
    $283,945

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $824,822
    Expenses
    $796,968
    Assets (EOY)
    $259,288

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $773,926
    Expenses
    $768,936
    Assets (EOY)
    $241,927

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $617,492
    Expenses
    $587,359
    Assets (EOY)
    $216,060

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

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.