Arizona · Nonprofit
New Life Center
New Life Center (Arizona) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,610,481 to it, the largest being Arizona Coalition to End Sexual and Domestic Violence Inc ($1,327,407). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.7M
- Funders on record
- 49
- Grants received
- $5.6M
- Net assets
- $7.0M
What New Life Center does
Mission
Helping eliminate domestic and sexual violence through support services, education and expertise.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
When we opened in 1991 in a refurbished dormitory on the grounds of a resort in Litchfield Park, Arizona, we were the first domestic violence shelter serving the West Valley of the greater Phoenix metropolitan area. The modest, volunteer-renovated space had just eight beds, but for families fleeing abuse, it offered safety and hope. Today, more than three decades later, we operate one of the largest stand-alone domestic violence shelters in Arizona, with 110 beds, and are recognized as a statewide leader in emergency shelter and survivor support for individuals impacted by domestic violence, sexual violence, and human trafficking. Shelter residents stay an average of nearly 80 days and receive three daily meals, snacks, laundry access, and essential day-to-day supplies. To foster stability and normalcy for families, our shelter campus includes a playground, pet park, basketball court, and a centeral clubhouse with a nursery, teen room, and library. Beyond immediate refuge, we provide comprehensive wrap-around services tailored to each survivors needs. Support may include safety planning, relocation assistance such as airfare, help securing housing through security deposit…
$3,402,451 spent$6,269 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,402,451.
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 2023 to 2024, from $7.2M to $8.6M (+19%).
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 49% · 2018 42% · 2019 52% · 2020 66% · 2021 68% · 2022 59% · 2023 60% · 2024 53% · 2025 52%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of New Life Center’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Kathryn Thoene
Chief of Strategy/CEO
Board chair
Shelly Ward
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $98k → $1.4M.
9 of 49 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 Life Center’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 49 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 Life Center has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
64% 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 Life Center.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 45% · 2019 30% · 2020 21% · 2021 50% · 2022 49% · 2023 37% — 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
42% of New Life Center's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
87% of New Life Center's grant income comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 Life Center is better cushioned than half of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding New Life Center receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $751k on record.
- Department of Justice$751k
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 New Life Center
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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Hope's Closet LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for New Life Center: 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 Life Center?
- New Life Center (Arizona) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,610,481 to it, the largest being Arizona Coalition to End Sexual and Domestic Violence Inc ($1,327,407). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does New Life Center have?
- IRS filings report 49 organizations giving $5,610,481 in grants to New Life Center, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of New Life Center?
- Arizona Coalition to End Sexual and Domestic Violence Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,327,407 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like New Life Center find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 49 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