A New Leaf
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 860256667
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Aug 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Mesa, AZ, USA
- Phone
- (602) 595-8700
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Alcohol, Drug and Substance Abuse, Dependency Prevention and Treatment
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $57,828,064
- Expenses
- $46,426,454
- Assets
- $52,930,543
- Liabilities
- $8,007,551
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
39 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MICHAEL HUGHES (CEO)
- LAURA BODE (VICE PRESIDENT OF PHILANTHROPY)
Highest reported compensation
- MICHAEL HUGHES (CEO): $314,551 total reported compensation
- WAYNE MCINTOSH (DIRECTOR OF MEDICAL SERVICES): $207,366 total reported compensation
- CATHERINE DYCIEWSKI (CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER): $171,218 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Helping people find safety, stability, and hope.
What it reported doing in 2024
Behavioral health services-a new leaf offers counseling, behavior coaching, and medication management for about 1,700 individuals annually. These services address conditions such as adhd, anxiety, depression, and trauma through evidence-based interventions and integrated care approaches.real estate: a new leaf provides crisis intervention, shelter, and ongoing support to about 2,600 survivors of domestic and sexual violence yearly. Services for survivors also include court advocacy, hotel-based overflow shelter, rapid re-housing, and trauma-informed workshops to foster healing and safety.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 76% for direct work, and 24% for grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 63
- Transparency & Controls: 88
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 66
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 60.6%; rating input score 61
- Program expense ratio: 75.3%; rating input score 75
- Fundraising efficiency: $8.23 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 19.7%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.14; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.5% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.9% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 6 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 60.6% of revenue deployed · 75.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 27 of 27 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $34.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $315K · 39 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $770K reported
- Consistency: 37 of 37 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 12 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 10 filed related-organization links
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 36/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 26/100.