California · Nonprofit
NEW BREATH FOUNDATION
NEW BREATH FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,411,682 to it, the largest being THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT ($2,276,500). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What New Breath Foundation does
Mission
New Breath Foundation provides pivotal grassroots organizations the sustainable resources they need to give new beginnings to aanhpis harmed by incarceration, deportation, and systems of violence in the u.s.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Targeted grantmaking: nbf grants grassroots aanhpi organizations with demonstrated experience leading racial justice efforts while promoting leadership of the formerly incarcerated, criminalized communities, and those impacted by detention and deportation. Most grantees have annual budgets under 1 million. In 2024, nbf and community stakeholders identified four organizations to receive between 160,000-210,000 each through the we got us fund, a donor-advised fund managed by the east bay community foundation. Nine returning grantee organizations were awarded between 30,000 and 90,000 as well. Through the new breath fund, managed by nbf, six organizations received 20,000 general grants, and 19 organizations received staff discretionary grants from 1000-5000.
$2,664,226 spentof which $1,583,625 as grants100% of program spendingGrantee organizing, capacity & resource building: nbf continues to build the capacity of our grassroots nonprofit partners. We have leveraged resources for grantees through introductions to other funders, coaches, capacity assessments, and advising. In 2024, we continued our capacity- building support for all we got us fund grantees, including up to 20 hours for each organization in direct coaching services, a self- administered assessment tool valued at 500 per organization, and our in-person convening, which brought together 24 organizations across the country for 3 days to learn, strategize, and collaborate. At the end of 2024 we evaluated our capacity building. 100% of grantees responded positively, and we found high rates of program participation.
Leadership pathways: from its inception, nbf was designed as a vehicle for leadership pathways to philanthropy for aanhpi communities directly impacted by violence due to the criminal-legal and deportation systems. One way is through leadership development support to grantees and members of our community advisory committee (cac). We developed our participatory grantmaking process with cac members, who share recommendations from the field, key strategies, and possible grantees. 75% of the cac are justice system-impacted and violence-impacted leaders. The cac is itself a vehicle to increase participation in philanthropy for folks from marginalized aanhpi communities. Please see schedule o for further information
Continued from page 2 racial solidarity, education, and community advocacy in 2023, we have been a part of coalitions with funders and grassroots organizational partners supporting racial solidarity between aanhpi and other bipoc communities. These include: - seed change, formerly known as statewide cultural strategy working group -the aapi ceos & trustees group with asian american practitioners in philanthropy -the california criminal justice funders group -solidaire network -donors of color network we are also supporting violence prevention and solidarity work through funding and convening. ---------------------- deportation support, incarceration & reentry kites to southeast asia is a coalition created between New Breath Foundation, new light wellness, asian prisoner support committee, mn8, and organizers who work with formerly incarcerated and deported cambodians. New light wellness is a mental health outreach program serving those deported to cambodia, seeded by a grant from New Breath Foundation. New light serves over 50 directly-impacted persons in the us and over 100 directly-impacted participants in cambodia through one-on-one sessions, peer support groups, advocacy…
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,664,226.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2021 to 2022, from $2.3M to $3.8M (+70%).
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: 2021 2% · 2022 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of NEW BREATH FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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
Zachary Nightingale
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $210k → $4.0M.
13 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 NEW BREATH FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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
NEW BREATH FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
46% 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 NEW BREATH FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 40% · 2020 47% · 2021 34% · 2022 34% · 2023 25% — diversifying over time.
“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
67% of NEW BREATH FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
80% of NEW BREATH FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
NEW BREATH FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like NEW BREATH FOUNDATION
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
59%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NEW BREATH FOUNDATION: 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 NEW BREATH FOUNDATION?
- NEW BREATH FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,411,682 to it, the largest being THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT ($2,276,500). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEW BREATH FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $12,411,682 in grants to NEW BREATH FOUNDATION, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEW BREATH FOUNDATION?
- THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT is the largest funder on record, with $2,276,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEW BREATH FOUNDATION 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 38 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing