Tennessee Voices for Children
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 621576400
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Goodlettsville, TN, USA
- Phone
- 6152697751
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Mental Health Association
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $24,272,103
- Expenses
- $23,053,204
- Assets
- $18,268,254
- Liabilities
- $3,350,334
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
26 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RIKKI HARRIS (CEO)
- LOGAN GARRETT (IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT)
- JONATHAN JOYCE (PRESIDENT)
- TROY CHISOLM (PRESIDENT-ELECT)
Highest reported compensation
- RIKKI HARRIS (CEO): $412,203 total reported compensation
- WILLIE VOSS (COO): $184,913 total reported compensation
- NATALIE HANLON (DIRECTOR OF ADULT SERVICES): $160,710 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
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.
What it reported doing in 2024
Therapeutic 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.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 81% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 94% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 72
- Accountability: 96
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.8%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 87.1%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $203.8 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 97.1%; rating input score 97; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.79; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.18; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.4%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 23.3% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 20.4% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.2% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 82.8% of revenue deployed · 87.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 16 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $20.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $412K · 26 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $2.4M reported
- Consistency: 33 of 34 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 9 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 54/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 39/100.