Tennessee · Nonprofit
VOLUNTEER MINISTRY CENTER
VOLUNTEER MINISTRY CENTER (Tennessee) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,779,200 to it, the largest being THE CLAUDE AND BETTY HARRIS FOUNDATION INC ($1,750,000). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.5M
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $5.8M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Volunteer Ministry Center does
Mission
To work with homeless individuals so that they achieve housing and access to supportive services. Also, the organization works to prevent homelessness for marginally housed individuals.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The resource center is a transitional day program providing professional case management to highly vulnerable individuals experiencing homelessness to help them achieve and maintain permanent housing. Showers, meals, laundry, computer access, mail services, classes, and social activities are provided as part of the program. In 2025, 179 individuals received services at the resource center and 60 individuals achieved permanent housing.
$677,402 spentof which $70,391 as grants24% of program spendingThe refuge provides homeless prevention services to households at risk of losing their housing. Individuals experiencing homelessness are provided with essential services and referrals. The refuge is staffed primarily by trained volunteers under the direction of a social worker. 5,770 individuals were provided assistance in 2025 with 178 households provided with direct financial assistance.
$342,104 spentof which $193,920 as grants12% of program spendingThe volunteer ministry dental clinic offers comprehensive dental services to individuals experiencing homelessness and other low-income, uninsured residents of knox county. The clinic is staffed by a part-time dental assistant, a contract dentist, contract dental assistants, and volunteer dental professionals. The clinic is open 1-2 days per week depending on volunteer availability. In 2025, there were 705 patient visits with 1555 dental procedures performed.
$169,902 spentof which $30,803 as grants6% of program spendingOther programs include the organization's street outreach and low-income housing programs, all of which are designed to provide housing and other necessities to disenfranchised individuals.
$1,585,747 spentof which $429,750 as grants57% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,775,155.
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 2022 to 2023, from $10M to $13M (+26%).
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 20% · 2018 19% · 2019 41% · 2020 37% · 2021 53% · 2022 56% · 2023 33% · 2024 36% · 2025 37%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
80% of VOLUNTEER MINISTRY CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (39% 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
Tracey Williams
CEO
Board chair
David Arning
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $382k → $1.6M.
11 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 MINISTRY CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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 MINISTRY CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
51% 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 MINISTRY CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 61% · 2019 56% · 2020 36% · 2021 25% · 2022 26% · 2023 74% — 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
57% of VOLUNTEER MINISTRY CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 82% 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
59% of VOLUNTEER MINISTRY CENTER's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $997k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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 MINISTRY CENTER is better cushioned than half of the 2,367 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,367 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding VOLUNTEER MINISTRY CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.9M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.9M
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 MINISTRY 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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Minvilla Manor LP · partnership
- Minvilla Manor Mt LP · partnership
- Caswell Manor LP · partnership
- Minvilla Manor Gp Inc · corp_trust
- Caswell Manor Gp LLC · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds VOLUNTEER MINISTRY CENTER?
- VOLUNTEER MINISTRY CENTER (Tennessee) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,779,200 to it, the largest being THE CLAUDE AND BETTY HARRIS FOUNDATION INC ($1,750,000). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VOLUNTEER MINISTRY CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $5,779,200 in grants to VOLUNTEER MINISTRY CENTER, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VOLUNTEER MINISTRY CENTER?
- THE CLAUDE AND BETTY HARRIS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,750,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VOLUNTEER MINISTRY 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.
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 39 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing