Jackson County Casa
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 431401328
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Kansas City, MO, USA
- Phone
- 8168422272
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Civil Rights
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,236,963
- Expenses
- $3,453,180
- Assets
- $5,030,489
- Liabilities
- $609,845
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
22 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ANGELA BLUMEL (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- ANGELA BLUMEL (CEO): $165,817 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Casa is a unique non-profit helping abused and neglected children in the jackson county family court system. Our team of trained volunteers, staff case supervisors, and staff attorneys allow each child to be represented in a court of law with a voice.
What it reported doing in 2024
Jackson county casa served 991 abused and neglected children, birth to 21 years of age, who are under the supervision of jackson county family court. Our children live in temporary placement facilities, foster homes, with relatives, in treatment facilities, or hospitals. By providing them with a trained casa volunteer, a casa case supervisor, and a casa staff attorney, jackson county casa works to ensure each child is placed in a safe, permanent home and receives appropriate educational, medical, and therapuetic resources while under court jurisdiction. The older foster youth program helps teens, ages 14 to 21 at risk of aging out of the foster care system, develop plans for successful independent living. The program also provides casa youth with ongoing support through age 26.
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.
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: 75
- Accountability: 97
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.5%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 80.1%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: $10.07 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 95.5%; rating input score 95; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -6.7%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.46; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.12; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.8%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.1% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 85.5% of revenue deployed · 80.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 21 of 22 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $166K · 22 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 37 of 37 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 38/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 51/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 55/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 55/100.