Tennessee · Nonprofit
VOLUNTEER BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM
VOLUNTEER BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM (Tennessee) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $338,760 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL TENNESSEE ($186,527). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $95M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $339k
- Net assets
- $69M
What Volunteer Behavioral Health Care System does
Mission
Provide behavioral health services to clients located in middle and east tennessee
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Medical services - volunteer provides psychiatric evaluations and medication management services performed by md's and nurse practitioners for population groups served within the volunteer system.
$5,475,967 spent$5,188,691 earned by the program8% of program spendingCase management care coordination - case management is a series of actions taken whose major responsibilities are to help a client make informed choices, to assure timely and cost-effective access to quality services, and to help a client to make and/or take advantage of opportunities for growth and personal enhancement. Case managers help to arrange provision of medical, crisis, vocational and housing services as needed. Services include identifying needs and strengths, developing short and long term goals and assisting to access services required to accomplish those goals. Case management is provided throughout the volunteer system.
$8,818,460 spent$16,540,228 earned by the program13% of program spendingCrisis - crisis services are available 24 hours a day to respond to adults experiencing a mental health crisis. A mental health crisis is an emergency condition that involves a serious disruption in an individual's daily functioning. Crisis services offers information and crisis phone counseling, face to face crisis evaluation, triage and referrals by mobile crisis teams. Crisis walk-in centers are available in chattanooga and cookeville. Follow-up services include encouragement and assistance for the individual in accessing on-going services.
$4,696,044 spent$5,804,446 earned by the program7% of program spendingThe organization provides alcohol and drug abuse prevention and treatment, diagnostic evaluations, treatment and follow up care for clients from locations covering 31 counties in middle and east tennessee.
$46,589,380 spent$4,403,586 earned by the program71% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $65,579,851.
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 2020 to 2021, from $27M to $44M (+62%).
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 38% · 2018 38% · 2019 43% · 2020 40% · 2021 42% · 2022 45% · 2023 44% · 2024 54% · 2025 65%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
65% of VOLUNTEER BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM’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. 0 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
Phyllis Persinger
President/CEO
Board chair
Linda Bennett
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $59k → $98k.
2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 VOLUNTEER BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 8 of 10 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
VOLUNTEER BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% 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
93% 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 VOLUNTEER BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 56% · 2021 98% · 2022 99% · 2023 76% — 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of VOLUNTEER BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 30% 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
93% of VOLUNTEER BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31k 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
VOLUNTEER BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM runs a healthier operating margin 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 VOLUNTEER BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $33.7M on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$21.6M
- Department of Health and Human Services$6.4M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$5.7M
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 VOLUNTEER BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Hamilton County Mental Health · exempt
- Mental Health Housing II · exempt
- Mental Health Housing III · exempt
- Knights of Columbus Home of Cowan · exempt
- Dawson Properties · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds VOLUNTEER BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM?
- VOLUNTEER BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM (Tennessee) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $338,760 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL TENNESSEE ($186,527). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VOLUNTEER BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $338,760 in grants to VOLUNTEER BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VOLUNTEER BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM?
- UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL TENNESSEE is the largest funder on record, with $186,527 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VOLUNTEER BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM 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.
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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 10 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