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New Life Foundation

New Life Foundation (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,500 to it, the largest being STOWERS MACHINERY FOUNDATION INC ($2,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$80k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$3k
Net assets
$1.4M
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What New Life Foundation does

Mission

The purpose of New Life Foundation is to provide alcoholism treatment facilities that are dedicated to two goals providing additional beds for treatment of alcoholics and providing treatments at reasonable costs.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Alcohol and Drug Treatment Facility Program Provide a treatment facility for out-patient treatment, Alcoholics Anonymous, Al-Anon, and Alateen. Approximately 150 meetings per month, and approximately 2,500 participants per month.

    $31,881 spent
    50% of program spending
  2. Alcohol and Drug Treatment Residential Program Provide an alcohol and drug sober living facility with an average of 4 residents per month.

    $25,505 spent
    40% of program spending
  3. Alcohol and Drug Treatment Volunteer Program Volunteer counselors, volunteer group leaders, and key volunteers conduct weekly group meetings and provide other facility needs on an average of 40 hours per week. Also assist churches, courts, and treatment centers with aftercare patients.

    $6,376 spent
    10% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $63,762.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($109k) Expenses 100 ($149k) Net assets 100 ($774k)2019 Revenue 101 ($110k) Expenses 79 ($118k) Net assets 99 ($767k)2020 Revenue 91 ($99k) Expenses 75 ($111k) Net assets 97 ($755k)2021 Revenue 784 ($855k) Expenses 67 ($100k) Net assets 195 ($1.5M)2022 Revenue 82 ($90k) Expenses 72 ($107k) Net assets 190 ($1.5M)2023 Revenue 101 ($110k) Expenses 73 ($110k) Net assets 191 ($1.5M)2024 Revenue 84 ($91k) Expenses 99 ($147k) Net assets 186 ($1.4M)2025 Revenue 74 ($80k) Expenses 114 ($170k) Net assets 176 ($1.4M)
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Revenue (74)Expenses (114)Net assets (176)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $755k to $1.5M (+100%).

$775k
$767k
$755k
$1.5M
$1.5M
$1.5M
$1.4M
$1.4M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$40k
’18
−$8k
’19
−$12k
’20
$754k
’21
−$17k
’22
$568
’23
−$56k
’24
−$90k
’25
0.5
months of
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

Foy Gilliland

CEO

Board chair

Christopher Kelly

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed96666666
Joined·+0+0+0+0+1+1+0
No longer listed·3000110
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'23
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of New Life Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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.

Where its funders are

100% of New Life Foundation's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.

TN

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like New Life 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 Tennessee

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

50% of spending goes to programs.

Program 50%Management 50%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

49%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

TN

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for New Life 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 Life Foundation?
New Life Foundation (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,500 to it, the largest being STOWERS MACHINERY FOUNDATION INC ($2,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does New Life Foundation have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $2,500 in grants to New Life Foundation.
Who is the largest funder of New Life Foundation?
STOWERS MACHINERY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like New Life Foundation find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 1 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