· Private foundation
The 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Little Light Urban Ministries | $8,000 |
| Good Spoon | $5,000 |
| The Bridge US | $5,000 |
| Heart of God Africa Foundation | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,200 |
| Washington Korean Baptist Church | $4,000 |
| Virginia Rock Church (Banseok Church) | $4,000 |
| MKPCUSA for Children Education Fellowship | $3,000 |
| Pomona College | $3,000 |
| Washington Mindcare Institute | $2,500 |
| Lawndale Community Church | $2,500 |
| Cross Wilderness Mission | $2,500 |
| 2Twenty Club | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 31% of The New Life Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 36% of the giving stays in VA; by stated purpose, 25%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GSGOOD SPOON7× · 2019–2025 · $33k · revenue +99%
- HOHEART OF GOD AFRICA FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2025 · $32k · revenue +144%
- LLLittle Lights Urban Ministries Inc4× · 2022–2025 · $18k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- PUParkview United Methodist Church3× · 2023–2025 · $5k
- GCGIVE CHANCES INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +317%
- KIKorean Immanuel Presbyterian Churchone grant, 2020 · $4k
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.
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.
Provide bilingual education to local community. Provide English, Chinese, Math, Art and other education program to local residents in Greater Seattle area. Provide education for about 500students in different programs
We are a Christian organization. The mission of this ministry is to preach the Gospel to all nations through the guidance of the Holy Spirit, declare God's glory among the nations and His marvelous deeds.
Our mission is to accomplish the Great Commission through the use of resources of Chinese churches worldwide in mission education, recruitment, training, missionary sending, and all other effective means in collaboration with the Global…
WMI's primary mission is to prepare adults to lead a community of children, supporting all aspects of development. This rigorous training inspires and challenges students in the transformative experience of becoming authentic Montessori…
The mission of the church is to go into the world and make disciples by declaring the gospel of Jesus Christ in the power of the Spirit and gathering these disciples into churches, that they might worship the Lord and obey his commands now…
Curriculum development and distribution & Christian Leadership Training
We advocate for the rights of Korean-american and promote the well-being and prosperity of the Korean-American community. We conduct activities to promote unity and fellowship, community participation, provide educational and social…
Go Live Serve International mobilizes and sends professionals and students to serve short-term and long-term in Asian developing countries as witnesses of God's love in obedience to the Great Commandment (love God and one's neighbors) and…
Spiritual studies based on the word of God Missionary activity
We offer hope and help to refugee, asylumseeking, and immigrant families in the Washington D.C. metro area. We provide educational programs that help families learn English. We provide practical assistance and connections to community…
To promote Christianity
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 30 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 GOOD SPOON ↗
- Who funds HEART OF GOD AFRICA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Bridge US ↗
- Who funds Little Lights Urban Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds Washington Mindcare Institute ↗
- Who funds THE KOREAN CHURCH OF QUEENS ↗
- Who funds POMONA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GIVE CHANCES INC ↗
- Who funds 2TWENTY CLUB ↗
- Who funds Korean American Sharing Movement Inc ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The New Life Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The New Life Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Give Chances Inc: 3% of income from government
How this is measured
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