Sanctuary Counseling Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 825167219
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2020
- Location
- Memphis, TN, USA
- Phone
- 9016728119
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Counseling, Support Groups
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $350,722
- Expenses
- $381,162
- Assets
- $510,886
- Liabilities
- $2,897
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DR WILLIAM FINNELL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- DR WILLIAM FINNELL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $92,492 total reported compensation
- DR MURRAY GARROTT (SECRETARY): $1,984 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The sanctuary counseling center provides affordable counseling to full-time vocational ministry workers and their families in memphis.
What it reported doing in 2025
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.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 79% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 93%; rating input score 93
- Program expense ratio: 85.6%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -8.7%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.34; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 24.8%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -9.1% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.2% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 93% of revenue deployed · 85.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $326K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $92K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 43/100.