CASA of the South Plains, Inc.
Legal name: Casa of the South Plains Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 752482631
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Lubbock, TX, US
- Phone
- (806) 763-2272
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Child Abuse, Prevention
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,986,464
- Expenses
- $1,794,595
- Assets
- $1,781,941
- Liabilities
- $166,981
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- NICK REID (PRESIDENT)
- JERICKA PARKER (VICE PRESIDENT)
- JACLYN MORRIS (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
Highest reported compensation
- JACLYN MORRIS (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $115,799 total reported compensation
- LAUREN WESTERBERG (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $91,764 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Casa of the south plains inspires, educates, and empowers solution-minded community members who are committed to supporting the best interest of children in the foster care system. Volunteer advocates create connections and promote nurturing relationships for the child and family, encouraging hope and healing. Through court appointment and collaborative efforts, volunteer advocates share informed recommendations for the well-being of the child.
What it reported doing in 2025
Casa of the south plains inspires, educates, and empowers solution-minded community members who are committed to supporting the best interest of children in the foster care system. A casa, or court appointed special advocate, helps foster children navigate the whirlwind of change they face while in the child welfare system and ensures their needs are being met, while working to help find safe, permanent homes. In 2025, casa supported 218 volunteer advocates and served 374 children.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 85.8%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: $17.96 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.7%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.99; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.6%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.8% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.1% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 78% of revenue deployed · 85.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $116K · 17 people listed
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 52/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 33/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 36/100.