Dauphin County Casa
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 831780362
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2020
- Location
- Harrisburg, PA, USA
- Phone
- 7178889973
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $431,944
- Expenses
- $353,539
- Assets
- $298,629
- Liabilities
- $4,975
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CAROL STEINOUR YOUNG (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- CAROL STEINOUR YOUNG (PRESIDENT)
- SARAH HORTON (VICE PRESIDE)
- JACQUELINE BALTHASER (TREASURER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of dauphin county court appointed special advocates ("casa") is to recruit, train, educate, and supervise dedicated volunteers to become agents of change for the abused and neglected youths of dauphin county. Through investigating, listening, and involvement in the courtroom and the child's community, a casa will assist these children to achieve their full potential.
What it reported doing in 2024
In 2025, dauphin county casa recruited and trained the 11th, 12th, and 13th classes of new volunteers since its inception in 2019, bringing the total number of casa volunteers to 55 to advocate on behalf of over 70 foster children. This represents a nearly 60% increase in volunteers from 2024. After completing training with our staff, volunteers are appointed by a judge to act and make recommendations in the best interest of a child or sibling group under the supervision of an advocate supervisor. The growth in the number of advocates allows dauphin county casa to better advocate for the best interest of more children of the over 350 abused or neglected children in dauphin county's foster care system. Our aspirational mission is to provide a casa volunteer for each child in care.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 70% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 60
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 57
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 58.4%; rating input score 58
- Program expense ratio: 70.7%; rating input score 71
- Fundraising efficiency: $8.68 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 18.2%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.84; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 19% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 24.4% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 23.1% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 58.4% of revenue deployed · 70.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $250K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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: Mission deployment rate scored 58/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 35/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 41/100.