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A New Way of Life Reentry Project

A New Way of Life (ANWOL) advances multi-dimensional solutions to the effects of incarceration.

$1.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
16
States reached
$133k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Crime & Legal$1.9MHuman Services$1.4MHousing & Shelter$1.3MCommunity Improvement$459kReligion$298kEnvironment$225kPhilanthropy$170kPublic Benefit$160kOther$0
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 25 grants below total $1,601,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,639,575 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $38,575 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $169k
  • $50k–250k19 grants · $1.4M
$50,500
Median grant
16
States reached
$37M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Beauty After The Bars$133,000
RENFORCE$120,500
Social Environmental Entrepre$100,000
Talk To Me Foundation$98,000
Ardellas House Inc$95,500
Arms Around You$95,000
EXPO of Wisconsin Inc$90,500
Turning Point$83,000
Starting Over Inc$70,500
All About Change Recovery Ser$70,500
Queens Butterfly House$70,000
Dream Deferred$55,500
Starting Point Inc$50,500
Network on Women In Prison$50,000
Concerned Citizens of South C$50,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Black Butterfly Womens Servi: $25k → 11%Friends Association for Care: $90k → 6%Ardellas House Inc: $96k → 22%Families & Friends of the Wro: $35k → 20%La Plazita Inc: $30k → 14%Return to Hope dba Block Bui: $100k → 15%SWOP Behind Bars Inc: $60k → 13%Triumphant Together: $100k → 13%Breaking Barriers Mentoring: $30k → 17%Arms Around You: $95k → 9%SacRed Purposes Inc: $50k → 14%True Beginnings: $150k → 13%Minnesota One-Stop for Commun: $35k → 11%Ardellas House Inc: $50k → 22%Tides Foundation: $85k → 10%Families & Friends of the Wro: $25k → 20%La Plazita Inc: $25k → 14%Return to Hope dba Block Bui: $50k → 15%Breaking Barriers Mentoring: $25k → 17%Arms Around You: $60k → 9%Equity and Transformation: $25k → 14%SacRed Purposes Inc: $25k → 14%True Beginnings: $20k → 13%Ardellas House Inc: $50k → 22%Dream Deferred: $75k → 20%Woman With A Plan LTD: $50k → 18%Arms Around You: $50k → 9%True Beginnings: $15k → 13%Ardellas House Inc: $25k → 22%Witness To Mass Incarceration: $50k → 17%Dream Deferred: $56k → 20%Arms Around You: $25k → 9%True Beginnings: $20k → 13%Dream Deferred: $25k → 20%All About Change Recovery Ser: $71k → 14%All About Change Recovery Ser: $50k → 14%Turning Point: $85k → 14%Turning Point: $83k → 14%Turning Point: $50k → 14%Turning Point Alcohol & Drug: $25k → 14%Turning Point: $10k → 14%A Place 2 Go: $28k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
NV
IA
IN
OH
PA
RI
CA
NE
KY
MD
NM
TN
NC
DC
OK
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.3M · 37 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

37 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
21

Total granted

$5.3M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+46%

Still filing today

70%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $203k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterEducationCommunity ImprovementEmploymentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • WI
    WOMEN IN NEED RECOVERY
    3× · 2019–2022 · $491k · revenue ×27 · 74% of their budget
  • NO
    Network on Women in Prison dba Legal Services for Prisoners w Children
    5× · 2019–2024 · $275k · revenue +26%
  • SO
    STARTING OVER INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $256k · revenue +179%

Funded once

  • RI
    RepGA Institute Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $110k · revenue +37% · 38% of their budget
  • BLACK AND PINK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +156%
  • TT
    TRIUMPHANT TOGETHER
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -84% · 32% of their budget
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Unapologetically Hers

support for incarcerated individuals

Civil Rights
2
Lets Get Free- the Women & Trans

We are a group working to end Death by Incarceration also known as life without parole sentencing, build a pathway out of the prisons back to our communities through commutation reform, support successful possibilities for people formerly…

Public Benefit
3
Re-Entry Rocks Inc
Human Services
4
Network for New Life

To help ex offenders to report back to community and family through support and job relocation services

Health
5
Women of Choices

Transitional housing project for ex=offender females

Human Services
6
Goodworks Inc

To assist women upon release

Human Services
7
Women Initiating Success Envisioned Inc

To counsel, educate, and prepare women inmates for successful re-entry into their communities to train, support, and assist women upon release to overcome discrimination, negative stigmas, and other obstacles associated with their past and…

Crime & Legal
8
Bryant Homes Inc

Transitional Living Services for ex-offe

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9
Arise Together Inc

We mentor women coming from incarceration and recovery.

Crime & Legal
10
The Affinity House

Sober living for women

Health
11
Empowering Men and Women on the Move for Re-Entry Inc

Empowering Men and Women On the Move for Re-entry Inc, Supportive Housing Program for who are Homeless in Metro Atlanta. Mission Improve Quality of Life.

Crime & Legal
12
Renewed Start

To empower men and women in transition from prison or treatment to grow socially, spiritually, and financially in healthy homes.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Reaching Educating for Community Hope Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Reign 4 Life. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

53 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 53 of the 65 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

13
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/53
Grantees still filing
37/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TURNING POINT ALCOHOL AND DRUG EDUCATION PROGRAM INC: $253,000 · Human ServicesTURNING POINT ALCOHOL AND DRUG EDUCAT…ARMS AROUND YOU FOUNDATION: $230,000 · Human ServicesARMS AROUND YOU FOUNDATIONARDELLA'S HOUSE INC: $220,500 · Human ServicesARDELLA'S HOUSE INCTrue Beginnings: $205,000 · Human ServicesTrue BeginningsDREAM DEFERRED INC: $155,500 · Human ServicesDREAM DEFERRED INCRETURN TO HOPE INC: $150,000 · Human ServicesRETURN TO HOPE INCALL ABOUT CHANGE RECOVERY SERVICES INC: $120,500 · Human ServicesALL ABOUT CHANGE RECOVERY SERVICES IN…TRIUMPHANT TOGETHER: $100,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR THE CARE AND PRO: $90,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTER: $85,000 · Human ServicesSACRED PURPOSES INC: $75,000 · Human Services+11 more: $497,500 · Human Services+11 moreNetwork on Women in Prison dba Legal Services for Prisoners w Children: $275,000 · OtherNetwork on Women in Prison dba Lega…RAHAM INC: $183,392 · OtherRAHAM INCBEAUTY AFTER THE BARS INC: $183,000 · OtherBEAUTY AFTER THE BARS INCSTARTING POINT INC: $165,500 · OtherSTARTING POINT INCThe RECH Foundation: $150,000 · OtherThe RECH FoundationBLACK AND PINK INC: $100,000 · OtherVarious donations 5000: $95,000 · OtherQueens Butterfly House: $85,000 · OtherMARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETWORK: $85,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $83,000 · OtherTHE REACHING EDUCATING FOR COMMUNITY HOPE FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Other+14 more: $588,000 · Other+14 moreWOMEN IN NEED RECOVERY: $491,000 · Housing & ShelterWOMEN IN NEED RE…STARTING OVER INC: $255,500 · Housing & ShelterSTARTING OVER IN…TALK 2 ME FOUNDATION: $193,000 · Housing & ShelterTALK 2 ME FOUNDA…S&D PJ HOUSING: $50,000 · Housing & ShelterConstructing Our Future: $198,000 · Crime & LegalConstruct…EXPO of Wisconsin Inc: $140,500 · Crime & LegalEXPO of W…FIRST FOLLOWERS: $55,000 · Crime & LegalFIRST FOL…THE NATIONAL REENTRY NETWORK FOR RE: $50,000 · Crime & LegalTHE NATIO…HOMIES UNIDOS INC: $50,000 · Crime & LegalHOMIES UN…NEW HOUR FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN LI I: $25,000 · Crime & LegalSANTA CRUZ BARRIOS UNIDOS INC: $25,000 · Crime & LegalWelcome Home Sis: $20,000 · Crime & LegalRENFORCE: $275,500 · EmploymentRISE ACADEMY: $60,000 · EmploymentRepGA Institute Inc: $110,000 · EducationREIGN 4 LIFE: $105,000 · EducationALABAMA JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $50,000 · EducationSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $250,000 · Environment
Human Services$2,182,000Other$2,092,892Housing & Shelter$989,500Crime & Legal$563,500Employment$335,500Education$265,000Environment$250,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWOMEN IN NEED RECOVERY: $491,000 over 3y, 74% of budgetRENFORCE: $275,500 over 4y, 54% of budgetNetwork on Women in Prison dba Legal Services for Prisoners w Children: $275,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetSTARTING OVER INC: $255,500 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetTURNING POINT ALCOHOL AND DRUG EDUCATION PROGRAM INC: $253,000 over 5y, 5.4% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $250,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetARMS AROUND YOU FOUNDATION: $230,000 over 4y, 7.1% of budgetARDELLA'S HOUSE INC: $220,500 over 4y, 24% of budgetTrue Beginnings: $205,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetConstructing Our Future: $198,000 over 4y, 50% of budgetTALK 2 ME FOUNDATION: $193,000 over 3y, 96% of budgetDREAM DEFERRED INC: $155,500 over 3y, 97% of budgetRETURN TO HOPE INC: $150,000 over 2y, 56% of budgetEXPO of Wisconsin Inc: $140,500 over 2y, 10% of budgetALL ABOUT CHANGE RECOVERY SERVICES INC: $120,500 over 2y, 39% of budgetRepGA Institute Inc: $110,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetBLACK AND PINK INC: $100,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetTHE REACHING EDUCATING FOR COMMUNITY HOPE FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetTRIUMPHANT TOGETHER: $100,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetFRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR THE CARE AND PRO: $90,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $85,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETWORK: $85,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSACRED PURPOSES INC: $75,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetRISE ACADEMY: $60,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetFAMILIES OF THE WRONGFULLY CONVICTED INC: $60,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetSWOP BEHIND BARS INC: $60,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetMYRIAD USA INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST FOLLOWERS: $55,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetBREAKING BARRIERS MENTORING-WISCONSIN-INC: $55,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetCommunity Success Initiative Inc: $55,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetLA PLAZITA INSTITUTE: $55,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetALABAMA JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $50,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetTHE NATIONAL REENTRY NETWORK FOR RE: $50,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetS&D PJ HOUSING: $50,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetWITNESS TO MASS INCARCERATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetHOMIES UNIDOS INC: $50,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetDARE DIRECT ACTION FOR RIGHTS AND EQUALITY INC: $50,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetNAESM INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE PRAXIS PROJECT INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRESTOREHER USAMERICA INC: $50,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetLIVE FREE CHICAGO: $35,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetA PLACE 2 GO INC: $27,500 over 1y, 50% of budgetEQUITY AND TRANSFORMATION: $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNEW HOUR FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN LI I: $25,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetSANTA CRUZ BARRIOS UNIDOS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetBlack Butterfly Women Service: $25,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetUNIQUE PROJECTS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetWelcome Home Sis: $20,000 over 1y, 95% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Social and Environmen…NEO Philanthropy IncSolidago FoundationBorealis PhilanthropyTides FoundationMs Foundation for Wom…Amalgamated Charitabl…The Heising-Simons Fo…New Venture FundThe National Council …Serving USA Inc Fka S…Prospect Hill Foundat…
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) IncCA63.3× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Solidago Foundation · Borealis Philanthropy · Tides Foundation · Ms Foundation for Women Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Heising-Simons Foundation · New Venture Fund · The National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women & Girls · Serving USA Inc Fka Serving California · Prospect Hill Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization A New Way of Life Reentry Project funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from A New Way of Life Reentry Project. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    5get no government money at all
    20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 65 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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