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New Story Leadership Inc

New Story Leadership Inc (Maryland) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $276,813 to it, the largest being Antonio B and Rita M Pomerleau Foundation Inc ($75,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$280k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$277k
Net assets
$120k
6/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 43%
01What it does

What New Story Leadership Inc does

Mission

Bring outstanding Israeli and Palestinian young adults to Washington DC area to live and work together and develop leadership skills to be able to work towards a shared future together.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. In 2025 New Story Leadership NSL continued to adapt its programming in response to ongoing regional instability maintaining its focus on supporting alumni leadership advancing policy-relevant dialogue and strengthening organizational infrastructure for long-term impact. Building on the alumni-led initiative launched in 2024 NSL continued to support a core group of Israeli and Palestinian alumni working collaboratively on a shared framework for post-conflict recovery and peacebuilding. This initiative formerly referred to as the Phoenix Framework and further developed in 2025 outlines practical experience-informed approaches to key challenges including governance reconstruction trauma-informed healing and preparing societies for a sustainable peace. Throughout 2025 NSL facilitated opportunities for alumni to engage policymakers practitioners and civil society leaders in the United States and internationally. Alumni participated in briefings and meetings with congressional offices policy institutions and international stakeholders contributing perspectives grounded in lived experience and cross-conflict collaboration. These engagements aimed to inform policy conversations and…

    $144,972 spentof which $12,400 as grants$280,032 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. Not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  3. Not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  4. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $144,972.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($55k) Expenses 100 ($57k) Net assets 100 ($6k)2018 Revenue 151 ($84k) Expenses 112 ($64k) Net assets 434 ($26k)2019 Revenue 165 ($91k) Expenses 185 ($106k) Net assets 184 ($11k)2020 Revenue 145 ($80k) Expenses 113 ($65k) Net assets 346 ($20k)2021 Revenue 230 ($127k) Expenses 137 ($78k) Net assets 1169 ($69k)2022 Revenue 256 ($142k) Expenses 232 ($133k) Net assets 1319 ($78k)2023 Revenue 359 ($199k) Expenses 325 ($186k) Net assets 1535 ($91k)2024 Revenue 383 ($212k) Expenses 405 ($232k) Net assets 1199 ($71k)2025 Revenue 506 ($280k) Expenses 403 ($231k) Net assets 2030 ($120k)
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Revenue (506)Expenses (403)Net assets (2030)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $71k to $120k (+69%).

$7k
$27k
$11k
$26k
$72k
$78k
$91k
$71k
$120k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

99% of New Story Leadership Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,945 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$2k
’17
$20k
’18
−$15k
’19
$16k
’20
$49k
’21
$9k
’22
$13k
’23
−$20k
’24
$49k
’25
6.2
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

Caroline Mays

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202320242025
Listed121314
Joined·+1+1
No longer listed·00
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $1k → $75k.

4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 Story Leadership Inc’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.

How concentrated its funding is

New Story Leadership Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 27% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

71% 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 Story Leadership Inc.

27%
largest funder
79%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 51% · 2022 41% · 2023 33% — 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

75% of New Story Leadership Inc's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 75% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

71% of New Story Leadership Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $80k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Maryland, across 4 states.

VT
NY
CA
MD

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’18
’22
’23
Maryland out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $197k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

New Story Leadership Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,468 international nonprofits its size.

Operating margin18% · above the median
Months of reserve6.2mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)22% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,468 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding New Story Leadership Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $14k on record.

Federal$14k
grants $14kcontracts $0
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22
Top agencies
  • Department of State$14k

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

63% of spending goes to programs.

Program 63%Management 28%Fundraising 10%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

70%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MD

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Questions and answers

Who funds New Story Leadership Inc?
New Story Leadership Inc (Maryland) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $276,813 to it, the largest being Antonio B and Rita M Pomerleau Foundation Inc ($75,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does New Story Leadership Inc have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $276,813 in grants to New Story Leadership Inc, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of New Story Leadership Inc?
Antonio B and Rita M Pomerleau Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like New Story Leadership Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 8 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