NewLife Ethiopia
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 813431164
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Puyallup, WA, United States
- Phone
- 844-330-3990
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Kindergarten, Preschool, Nursery School, Early Admissions
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $502,003
- Expenses
- $379,757
- Assets
- $620,750
- Liabilities
- $1,349
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Joy Casey (President)
- Jason Barta (Vice President/Treasurer)
People named in this filing
- Joy Casey (President)
- Jason Barta (Vice President/Treasurer)
- Randy Averill (Board)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Partnering with God to rewrite life stories. A YWAM mission team from Virginia Beach, VA prepares to go to Ethiopia in June 2011. Two awesome articles from Empowered to Connect… Closing the Gap. This form collects your name and phone number so that we can send you SMS notifications about NewLife Ethiopia. Get Posts by Email Name. Village life is tribal in nature and relationships hold a place of high value. The missionaries are from the same tribe as the people being reached and, of course, speak the native language and understand the customs and culture. The first step for an evangelist is to develop friendships and be a good neighbor. Sharing about Jesus will naturally flow out of relationship and the missionary has written materials that bring further clarity and answers to common questions. House meetings are arranged to disciple new converts and provide fellowship. When there...
What it reported doing in 2025
Working alongside indigenous Ethiopian churches, NLE supported 38 missionaries working in 24 rural villages. Along with community development such as food aid and literacy education for children, the missionaries shared the hope of Jesus Christ with 6,080 people. 604 new believers were discipled by the missionaries and found strength and support in one of the 18 churches built among 3 tribal people groups. 3 new churches were constructed, and 460 children were taught to read through literacy classes held in churches. The final year of our 2-year Bible training program had 12 graduates. Two further trainings were given to all missionaries in an oral inductive Bible study method, and 40 children's leaders were instructed in how to establish Children's Clubs in their communities. 61 children received an outstanding kindergarten education and were provided the necessary supports to enter first grade at the government school. The children were given a nutritious daily lunch, a full set of new clothes, and their families were helped with farming, clothing, bedding, and donkey and cart to generate income and to more easily access water. NLE provides full financial resources to operate a care center for abandoned children. The center accommodates up to 20 children with the goal of family permanency through adoption for each child. 15 babies and toddlers were adopted by Ethiopian families.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 62% for direct work, and 38% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 63
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 71
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63.3%; rating input score 63
- Program expense ratio: 82.7%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Pass
- Conducts site visits: Pass
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 78th 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: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 24.4%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.63; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.6% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.6% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 63.3% of revenue deployed · 82.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $314K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 24 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 5 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.