Tennessee · Nonprofit
TENNESSEE VOICES FOR CHILDREN
TENNESSEE VOICES FOR CHILDREN (Tennessee) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,607,868 to it, the largest being FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE ($1,412,355). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $24M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $15M
What Tennessee Voices for Children does
Mission
Tennessee Voices for Children, inc. (tnv) is a statewide and national source of referral, support, and advocacy for families and the systems that serve them. Our mission is to be the collaborative leader guiding mental health transformation. Our vision is to build hope for all generations. Tnv takes an active role in the development of family-friendly policies and encourages and supports family involvement on advisory boards such as the statewide mental health planning council, behavioral health organizations, advisory councils, and community planning groups. Funding for services is provided principally by federal and state grants. Tnv has reached more than 50,000 children, youth, young adults, parents/caregivers, family members, and professionals, and has taken the lead in promoting the use of a coordinated system of care in tn that includes family support and community engagement as key components.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community support services - these services provide valuable support, resources, and training to parents, educators, and caregivers across the state, while also providing direct assistance, support, information, training, and family representation to schools, mental health providers, and policy makers in tennessee. Tnv's high quality in-home and community-based services directly seek to improve the health and well-being to individuals who are in need of mental health services and supports. Also provided are high fidelity wraparound services to children, youth, young adults, and their families suffering from behavioral health needs.
$8,235,493 spentof which $948,249 as grants41% of program spendingHousing services - tnv provides intensive long-term, wraparound support services that are community based and long-term recovery oriented. On-site services include psychiatric, nursing, case management, and treatment services, as well as living skills development and community activity participation. It provides a supported living environment with services mentioned above designed to allow discharge of service recipients from middle tennessee mental health institute.
$4,519,239 spentof which $71,345 as grants$2,938,198 earned by the program22% of program spendingTherapeutic services - this program provides an effort to direct families from further court and dcs involvement with partnership between tnv and juvenile justice courts in some counties through funding provided by tdmhsas. The program supports children, youth and families involved in the juvenile justice system helping provide assistance in navigating the child-service systems, advocacy, support, and therapeutic skill-building to prevent placement outside the home to a higher level of care. Tnv's outpatient services provide therapy services with a master's level clinician to meet the needs of individuals and families. Tnv provides a strengths-based approach while using evidence-informed practices to provide quality trauma-informed care. Our therapists help children, adolescents, and adults with mental and behavioral health concerns such as anxiety, depression, mood disorders, adhd, grief/loss, parenting, trauma and more. In addition to outpatient, school-based and primary care integrated services are offered in certain counties.
$3,148,491 spentof which $5,315 as grants$858,038 earned by the program16% of program spendingMaternal, infant, and early childhood home visiting - supports pregnant women and parents with young children who live in communities that face greater risks and barriers to achieving positive maternal and child health outcomes. Families choose to participate in home visiting programs, and partner with health, social service and child development professionals to set and achieve goals that improve their health and well-being.program enhancement services - includes smaller programs that contribute to the overall mission of the organization.
$4,184,670 spentof which $131,093 as grants21% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $20,087,893.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $14M to $18M (+31%).
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: 2017 49% · 2018 90% · 2019 89% · 2020 76% · 2021 77% · 2022 78% · 2023 83% · 2024 85% · 2025 81%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
83% of TENNESSEE VOICES FOR CHILDREN’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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
Rikki Harris
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $84k → $236k.
5 of 17 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 TENNESSEE VOICES FOR CHILDREN’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
TENNESSEE VOICES FOR CHILDREN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
90% 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 TENNESSEE VOICES FOR CHILDREN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2018 87% · 2019 25% · 2020 78% · 2021 81% · 2022 77% · 2023 83% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
How long its funders stay
30% of TENNESSEE VOICES FOR CHILDREN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
97% of TENNESSEE VOICES FOR CHILDREN's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $371k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
TENNESSEE VOICES FOR CHILDREN has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,843 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,843 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding TENNESSEE VOICES FOR CHILDREN receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.1M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.1M
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.
Organizations like TENNESSEE VOICES FOR CHILDREN
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 TENNESSEE VOICES FOR CHILDREN: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TENNESSEE VOICES FOR CHILDREN?
- TENNESSEE VOICES FOR CHILDREN (Tennessee) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,607,868 to it, the largest being FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE ($1,412,355). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TENNESSEE VOICES FOR CHILDREN have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $2,607,868 in grants to TENNESSEE VOICES FOR CHILDREN, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TENNESSEE VOICES FOR CHILDREN?
- FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE is the largest funder on record, with $1,412,355 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TENNESSEE VOICES FOR CHILDREN 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.
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 17 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