New Life Community Development Corporation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 113204890
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Elmhurst, NY, USA
- Phone
- 9292793853
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $719,067
- Expenses
- $642,943
- Assets
- $891,342
- Liabilities
- $7,291
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- AMY ZHAO (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- AMY ZHAO (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $76,955 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
As a demonstration of god's love, we partner with our neighbors to create pathways to physical, emotional, and social health that confront cycles of intergenerational poverty.
What it reported doing in 2025
Food and clothing pantry - the new life food & clothing pantry operates weekly, providing meals and clothing to community members experiencing homelessness, and delivering groceries to families experiencing food insecurity in elmhurst and corona. In 2025, the pantry served up to 45 families weekly through grocery deliveries and more than 400 neighbors experiencing homelessness through the meals program.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 84% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 89
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 74.4%; rating input score 74
- Program expense ratio: 82.9%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: $38.7 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 98.1%; rating input score 98; 50th 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 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: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 10.6%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.39; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.6% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.9% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.7% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 74.4% of revenue deployed · 82.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $533K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $77K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 33 of 34 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 57/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 32/100.