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SOUTHWEST BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES INC

SOUTHWEST BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES INC (Arizona) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,362,464 to it, the largest being THE NARBHA INSTITUTE INC ($3,091,148). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$91M
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$3.4M
Net assets
$53M
6/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Southwest Behavioral Health Services Inc does

Mission

We inspire people to feel better and reach their potential. Through helping people discover their strengths, we improve our communities.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Southwest behavioral health services provides services in prevention, outreach services, community integration, home-based counseling, case management, methadone maintenance, crisis recovery, community housing, residential services, and outpatient counseling for children and adults suffering from various behavioral and substance abuse problems.

    $78,676,891 spentof which $310,910 as grants$2,732,139 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $78,676,891.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($74M) Expenses 100 ($76M) Net assets 100 ($21M)2018 Revenue 111 ($83M) Expenses 109 ($82M) Net assets 101 ($21M)2019 Revenue 109 ($81M) Expenses 105 ($79M) Net assets 109 ($23M)2020 Revenue 119 ($89M) Expenses 111 ($84M) Net assets 133 ($28M)2021 Revenue 140 ($104M) Expenses 120 ($91M) Net assets 198 ($41M)2022 Revenue 150 ($111M) Expenses 138 ($104M) Net assets 232 ($48M)2023 Revenue 129 ($96M) Expenses 119 ($90M) Net assets 260 ($54M)2024 Revenue 138 ($103M) Expenses 128 ($97M) Net assets 288 ($60M)2025 Revenue 122 ($91M) Expenses 130 ($98M) Net assets 253 ($53M)
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Revenue (122)Expenses (130)Net assets (253)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $42M to $56M (+32%).

$35M
$35M
$36M
$42M
$56M
$67M
$80M
$85M
$76M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 96% · 2018 94% · 2019 81% · 2020 60% · 2021 64% · 2022 76% · 2023 88% · 2024 89%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

95% of SOUTHWEST BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,743 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$1.2M
’17
$218k
’18
$1.7M
’19
$4.9M
’20
$14M
’21
$7.0M
’22
$5.9M
’23
$5.8M
’24
−$7.4M
’25
3.1
months of
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

Steven Sheets

President & CEO

Board chair

Kevin Lawson

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.

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Listed172020191818171923
Joined·+5+6+4+6+3+2+6+6
No longer listed·26573342
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $86k → $1.4M.

Funder
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'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
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'25*
total
$3.1M
$106k
$47k
funders
2
2
3
3
2
2
3
3
3

1 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 SOUTHWEST BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 7 of 8 funders by total. 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

SOUTHWEST BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

98% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund SOUTHWEST BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES INC.

92%
largest funder
97%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 55% · 2020 63% · 2021 67% · 2022 84% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.

“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

98% of SOUTHWEST BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES INC's grant income comes from Arizona funders.

AZ
NC
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Arizona out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $40k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SOUTHWEST BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES INC is better cushioned than half of the 2,843 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−8% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve3.1mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,843 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Government funding SOUTHWEST BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.8M on record.

Federal$6.8M
grants $6.8Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Health and Human Services$6.8M
  • Department of Housing and Urban Development$23k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 20%Fundraising 0%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 11 related entities

  • Sbh Protected Cell of Medtrans · disregarded
  • Villa Agave Corporation · exempt
  • Mihalic's Project · exempt
  • Villa de Confianza · exempt
  • Toby House II · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds SOUTHWEST BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES INC?
SOUTHWEST BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES INC (Arizona) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,362,464 to it, the largest being THE NARBHA INSTITUTE INC ($3,091,148). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SOUTHWEST BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES INC have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $3,362,464 in grants to SOUTHWEST BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SOUTHWEST BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES INC?
THE NARBHA INSTITUTE INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,091,148 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SOUTHWEST BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 8 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