Tennessee · Nonprofit
SANCTUARY COUNSELING CENTER
SANCTUARY COUNSELING CENTER (Tennessee) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,505,920 to it, the largest being THOMAS GARROTT FOUNDATION ($1,288,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $351k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $508k
What Sanctuary Counseling Center does
Mission
The Sanctuary Counseling Center provides affordable counseling to full-time vocational ministry workers and their families in memphis.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Sanctuary Counseling Center provides low-cost mental health counseling to those employed by full-time ministry organizations and also to the immediate family members of those individuals. To address social and economic needs of the community, the center provides affordable services to individuals across demographic and economic levels. The counselors practice a variety of counseling techniques to address mental disorders (such as depression, anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder, panic disorder, etc) and relational family dysfunctions (such as poor communication, low self-worth, self-harm, neglect, or abuse) to reduce symptoms, promote healthy living, and restore the functionality and relationships of individuals and families. The center provides educational seminars for ministry leaders and also for the community at large to raise awareness of mental health issues and equip the leaders with skills to address mental health concerns of individuals in their organizations. The center's services encourage individuals and families to be more productive and make a positive contribution to the community.
$326,264 spent$72,533 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $326,264.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $669k to $557k (−17%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of SANCTUARY COUNSELING CENTER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Dr William Finnell
Executive director
Board chair
Dr Suellen Warren
Officer board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $304k → $112k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of SANCTUARY COUNSELING CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
SANCTUARY COUNSELING CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 98% · 2020 100% · 2021 96% · 2022 46% · 2023 93% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
SANCTUARY COUNSELING CENTER draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $212k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
SANCTUARY COUNSELING CENTER's revenue fell 47% between 2018 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SANCTUARY COUNSELING CENTER
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SANCTUARY COUNSELING CENTER: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds SANCTUARY COUNSELING CENTER?
- SANCTUARY COUNSELING CENTER (Tennessee) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,505,920 to it, the largest being THOMAS GARROTT FOUNDATION ($1,288,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SANCTUARY COUNSELING CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $1,505,920 in grants to SANCTUARY COUNSELING CENTER, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SANCTUARY COUNSELING CENTER?
- THOMAS GARROTT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,288,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SANCTUARY COUNSELING CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
Play a game about who funds Sanctuary Counseling Center →
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 5 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing