California · Nonprofit
A NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT
A NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT (California) receives grants from 174 organizations whose IRS filings report $54,163,964 to it, the largest being BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC ($6,600,000). 86 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $9.8M
- Funders on record
- 174
- Grants received
- $54M
- Net assets
- $37M
What A New Way of Life Reentry Project does
Mission
A New Way of Life (ANWOL) advances multi-dimensional solutions to the effects of incarceration.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Replication: Through monthly training and technical assistance, the SAFE Housing Network brings replicators together to tackle a spectrum of key challenges and provides opportunities to experience connecting, communicating, and creating innovative solutions alongside peers, potential partners, and consultants.The SAFE Housing Network currently consists of organizations throughout US cities.A New Way of Life envisions the continued national and international growth of the SAFE Housing Network through additional investments in, and technical support for, new SAFE Housing Network Members.
$2,689,104 spent40% of program spendingOther program servicesAdvocacy and OrganizingAll of Us or None Southern California (AOUON-SC) is an organization of, by and for formerly incarcerated/convicted people who organize to restore the rights of people with convictions. ANWOL held monthly online meetings and new members were recruited through ANWOL services and events.Leadership DevelopmentANWOL's Women Organizing for Justice & Opportunity (WOJO) Leadership Lab is a rigorous, specialized training open only to systems-impacted women. With the first ever, historic, national expansion through our Sisterhood Alliance for Freedom and Equality (SAFE) Housing Network in 2021, thirteen dedicated leaders emerged through their participation in WOJO. They are creating organizing initiatives and implementing campaigns to combat injustices faced by individuals in their local communities.
$1,975,858 spent29% of program spendingRe-Entry Housing: Through safe homes, A New Way of Life served women, mothers ofminor children and adult children. The organization also helped women access educational opportunities, and helped women seeking employment get jobs,helped children formally reunite with their mothers and women were able to access permanent housing.
$1,638,829 spent24% of program spendingFamily ReunificationANWOL is the only holistic family reunification legal practice in Southern California providing parents with legal representation and advocacy in all necessary jurisdictions. We are the only parents lawyers engaging in pre-petition advocacy in child welfare and dependency court actions in Southern California. We are the only parents lawyers in Los Angeles attending meetings with social workers from the Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services as parents support persons. We also are the only pro bono lawyers in Southern California providing direct representation to parents seeking to terminate guardianships in probate court and defend against temporary guardianships.
$402,579 spent6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,706,370.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $5.8M to $20M (+248%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 2% · 2018 2% · 2019 2% · 2021 2% · 2023 12% · 2024 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
83% of A NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Whitney Davis-Houston
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 21 funders to 57 funders, grant income rose $1.2M → $7.3M.
35 of 174 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of A NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 174 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
A NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
68% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund A NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 20% · 2018 22% · 2019 28% · 2020 23% · 2021 12% · 2022 43% · 2023 40% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
37% of A NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
A NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT draws 71% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 20 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
A NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 8,126 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,126 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding A NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.8M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.0M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$500k
- Department of Justice$250k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like A NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Safe House Enterprise Nevada LLC · disregarded
- Safe House Enterprise New York LLC · disregarded
- Safe House Enterprises Texas LLC · disregarded
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for A NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds A NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT?
- A NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT (California) receives grants from 174 organizations whose IRS filings report $54,163,964 to it, the largest being BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC ($6,600,000). 86 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does A NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 174 organizations giving $54,163,964 in grants to A NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT, 86 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of A NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT?
- BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC is the largest funder on record, with $6,600,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like A NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 174 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing