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New Life Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$34k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$90kHuman Services$39kArts & Culture$27kHousing & Shelter$20kInternational$18kEmployment$17kEnvironment$13kHealth$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$165k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE MEHER SPIRITUAL CENTER$10,000
CLACKAMAS WOMEN'S SERVICES$5,000
BELOVED ARCHIVES INC$5,000
MEHER FUND INC$3,000
COLUMBIA RIVERKEEPER$2,000
OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING$2,000
MERCY CORPS$2,000
SHERIAR FOUNDATION$2,000
JOIN INC$2,000
DANDELION HOUSE$1,000
02The need
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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 (FY17–25, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 19% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CLACKAMAS WOMEN'S SERVICES: $5k → 8%CLACKAMAS WOMEN'S SERVICES: $5k → 8%CLACKAMAS WOMEN'S SERVICES: $5k → 8%CLACKAMAS WOMEN'S SERVICES: $3k → 8%CLACKAMAS WOMEN'S SERVICES: $2k → 8%CLACKAMAS WOMEN'S SERVICES: $2k → 8%CLACKAMAS WOMEN'S SERVICES: $2k → 8%CLACKAMAS WOMEN'S SERVICES: $2k → 8%DANDELION HOUSE: $1k → 8%DANDELION HOUSE: $1k → 8%DANDELION HOUSE: $1k → 8%NORTHWEST PILOT PROJECT: $2k → 12%NORTHWEST PILOT PROJECT: $2k → 12%NORTHWEST PILOT PROJECT: $2k → 12%NORTHWEST PILOT PROJECT: $1k → 12%NORTHWEST PILOT PROJECT: $1k → 12%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.
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$219k · 17 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
7

Total granted

$219k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+28%

Still filing today

88%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

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Human ServicesArts & CultureReligionInternationalEmploymentEnvironmentOther
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

  • MS
    MEHER SPIRITUAL CENTER INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $56k · revenue +110%
  • CW
    CLACKAMAS WOMEN'S SERVICES
    8× · 2017–2025 · $26k · revenue +326%
  • MC
    Mercy Corps
    9× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • BODYVOX INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +28%
  • GARY SINISE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +75%
  • GT
    GATEWAY TO COLLEGE NATIONAL NETWORK
    one grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue -91%
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.

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Impact Nw

Impact nw prevents homelessness by supporting people as they navigate their journey to stability and strength. founded in portland in 1966, impact nw now serves 26,944 people a year in the greater portland, oregon metro area, including…

Human Services
2
Portland Trails

Over the next five years, portland trails will work to transform greater portland into a regional hub of connectivity and sustainability. by facilitating the expansion and enhancement of our trail network, we will foster inclusive…

Environment
3
Ywca of Greater Portland

To eliminate racism, empower women and promote peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.

Human Services
4
Metropolitan Denver Homeless Initiative Inc

Mission: leading and advancing collaboration to end homelessness in our region. vision: dedicated to everyone in the metro region having a safe, stable place to call home. values: committed to core values that bring people home: -…

Housing & Shelter
5
Cultivate Initiatives

The organization collectively works alongside those on the margins to empower individuals and communities through an inclusive range of services and support in east portland.

Housing & Shelter
6
Northwest Housing Alternatives

Northwest housing alternatives (nha)s mission is to create opportunity through housing. nha develops, builds, and manages affordable rental housing for families, seniors, and people with disabilities across oregon. these homes help…

Housing & Shelter
7
Milestone Recovery

We provide compassionate care and services to empower individuals experiencing substance use disorders, mental illnesses and homelessness to attain an enhanced quality of life regardless of ability to pay.

Health
8
Sheltercare

Sheltercare offers a variety of housing and support services for people who are homeless or those facing homelessness with a committed focus on the community's most vulnerable individuals dealing with psychiatric disabilities, acquired…

Housing & Shelter
9
New Narrative

From clinical care and peer support programs to housing, we provide resources so people seeking mental health care can develop the tools to thrive, not just survive.

Human Services
10
Welcome Home Coalition

Welcome Home is a diverse coalition in the Portland metropolitan region that uses its collective resources to create healthy communities by ensuring everyone has an affordable and stable home. We use community education and collaboration…

Community Improvement
11
Weshine Initiative

Weshine designs, builds, and operates neighborhood-based micro-villages that provide safe, transitional shelter and services where portland's vulnerable, unsheltered adults can live as they prepare to become successful tenants in…

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12
Portland Street Medicine

We offer our homeless neighbors accessible whole-person care to improve and support health, and to bridge a gap in trust between people and systems.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oregon Food Bank; the most unlike its peers is Cappella Romana. 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

21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 26 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
13/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MEHER SPIRITUAL CENTER INC: $56,000 · OtherMEHER SPIRITUAL CENTER INCCAPPELLA ROMANA: $10,000 · OtherCAPPELLA ROMANACARE INC: $9,500 · OtherCARE INCTransition Projects Inc: $6,000 · OtherTransition Projects IncCOLUMBIA LAND TRUST: $5,000 · OtherOREGON NATURAL DESERT ASSOCIATION: $5,000 · OtherOUTSIDE IN: $4,000 · OtherNEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH INC: $4,000 · Other+7 more: $12,000 · Other+7 moreCLACKAMAS WOMEN'S SERVICES: $26,000 · Human ServicesCLACKAMAS WOMEN'S…NORTHWEST PILOT PROJECT: $7,000 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST PILOT P…DANDELION HOUSE: $3,000 · Human ServicesDANDELION HOUSEBELOVED ARCHIVES INC: $31,000 · ReligionBELOVED ARCHIVE…Mercy Corps: $18,000 · InternationalOREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $14,000 · Arts & CultureBODYVOX INC: $2,000 · Arts & CulturePORTLAND ART MUSEUM: $1,000 · Arts & CultureJOIN INC: $15,500 · EmploymentColumbia Riverkeeper: $3,000 · EnvironmentGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Philanthropy
Other$111,500Human Services$36,000Religion$31,000International$18,000Arts & Culture$17,000Employment$15,500Environment$3,000Philanthropy$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMEHER SPIRITUAL CENTER INC: $56,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetBELOVED ARCHIVES INC: $31,000 over 6y, 5.3% of budgetCLACKAMAS WOMEN'S SERVICES: $26,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetMercy Corps: $18,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetJOIN INC: $15,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetOREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $14,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCAPPELLA ROMANA: $10,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNORTHWEST PILOT PROJECT: $7,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTransition Projects Inc: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON NATURAL DESERT ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOUTSIDE IN: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDANDELION HOUSE: $3,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetColumbia Riverkeeper: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEHER FUND INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetOREGON FOOD BANK: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBODYVOX INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHERIAR FOUNDATION KRYNSKI: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGATEWAY TO COLLEGE NATIONAL NETWORK: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPORTLAND ART MUSEUM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds MEHER SPIRITUAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds BELOVED ARCHIVES INC ↗
  • Who funds CLACKAMAS WOMEN'S SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds Mercy Corps ↗
  • Who funds JOIN INC ↗
  • Who funds OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING ↗
  • Who funds CAPPELLA ROMANA ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST PILOT PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds Transition Projects Inc ↗
  • Who funds OREGON NATURAL DESERT ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds OUTSIDE IN ↗
  • Who funds NEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH INC ↗
  • Who funds DANDELION HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds Columbia Riverkeeper ↗
  • Who funds MEHER FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds BODYVOX INC ↗
  • Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SHERIAR FOUNDATION KRYNSKI ↗
  • Who funds GATEWAY TO COLLEGE NATIONAL NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds PORTLAND ART MUSEUM ↗

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.

The Oregon Community …Meyer Memorial TrustThe Autzen FoundationThe Collins FoundationVanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Oregon Community FoundationOR19.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · The Autzen Foundation · The Collins Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 New Life Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from New Life Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • Clackamas Women's Services: 33% of income from government
  • Outside in: 33% of income from government
  • Transition Projects Inc: 29% of income from government
  • Oregon Food Bank: 21% of income from government
  • New Avenues for Youth Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Oregon Natural Desert Association: 9% of income from government
  • Northwest Pilot Project: 6% of income from government
  • Cappella Romana: 4% of income from government
  • Bodyvox Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Portland Art Museum: 1% of income from government
  • Columbia Riverkeeper: 1% of income from government
  • Oregon Public Broadcasting: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to New Life Foundation?

Find your warmest path to New Life Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 26 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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