Washington · Nonprofit
CHOOSE 180
CHOOSE 180 (Washington) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,282,559 to it, the largest being SEATTLE FOUNDATION ($1,003,950). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.6M
- Funders on record
- 56
- Grants received
- $5.3M
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What Choose 180 does
Mission
Choose 180 exists to transform oppressive systems that have caused harm and assist young people as they heal from hurt to wholeness.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
In 2025, the school-based diversion program served 129 students across highline school district, seattle public schools, tacoma school district, and summer school-based programming. Through restorative, relationship-centered support, the program helped young people build skills, strengthen school engagement, and work toward their personal goals.participants received individualized support focused on education, employment, housing stability, family relationships, social connections, and mental and behavioral health. Throughout the year, 68 students achieved goals in one or more of these areas, while 24 basic needs requests were fulfilled to help reduce barriers to success. Students reported increased support, stronger connections to school, and improved confidence in their ability to make positive decisions and achieve their academic goals.the program continued to strengthen partnerships with school districts throughout the region and expanded its presence in tacoma, increasing access to diversion and prevention services for young people. Staff participated in Choose 180 days at schools across highline and seattle school districts, creating opportunities to connect students and…
$414,459 spentof which $2,974 as grants20% of program spendingIn 2025, the counseling program provided trauma-informed mental health support to youth and young adults through individual therapy, support groups, and connections to community resources. The program delivered 417 free one-on-one therapy sessions to 54 participants and facilitated 35 group sessions in both community and school settings, including partnerships with highline and seattle public schools.counseling staff continued to provide weekly online support groups and collaborated with community partners such as mary's place, youthcare, and ywca job training programs to strengthen wraparound support for participants. The team also expanded and completed a mental health and expressive arts curriculum that will support future programming efforts. Staff further strengthened their prevention and intervention skills through participation in training opportunities, including the community anti-drug coalitions of america (cadca) conference focused on substance misuse prevention and building healthy, safe communities.participants demonstrated meaningful growth throughout the year. Twenty-seven participants reported increased resilience and well-being, and 19 achieved goals related to…
$302,545 spentof which $8,325 as grants15% of program spendingIn 2025, choose freedom continued to support youth and young adults impacted by incarceration and community violence through mentorship, relationship-building, restorative programming, and individualized support. The program served 55 participants through community-based services and ongoing engagement in detention settings, including monthly workshops at echo glen children's center and in the community.participants worked toward goals related to education, employment, housing stability, family relationships, social connections, and mental and behavioral health. Throughout the year, 21 participants achieved 39 goals across these areas, demonstrating progress toward greater stability and well-being. To help address immediate barriers, the program also fulfilled 20 basic needs requests for 12 individuals, providing access to essential resources and support.through credible mentorship, cognitive behavioral practices, and meaningful relationships, the program continued to interrupt cycles of violence and support youth and young adults impacted by gang, group, and community violence. By fostering accountability, resilience, and connection, choose freedom helped participants build…
$302,450 spentof which $2,110 as grants15% of program spendingOther program services include: advocacy, restorative community pathways, young adult diversion, aftercare, and teaching and advancement. In 2025, the teaching and advancement team expanded Choose 180's impact by supporting research, training, and knowledge-sharing efforts focused on youth justice, violence prevention, and community-based alternatives to incarceration. The team collaborated with four organizations and participated in seven external events and partnerships throughout the year.teaching and advancement provided research support for projects with highline public schools, the university of washington's firearm injury prevention research program, and byrd barr place. As part of this work, approximately $6,000 was distributed to community members for their participation in research activities, helping ensure that lived experience informed project findings and recommendations.the team also shared Choose 180's approach and expertise at regional and national events, including presentations at the institute on violence, abuse and trauma conference in hawaii and the coalition for juvenile justice's youth justice in action conference in minnesota. In addition, staff…
$1,010,028 spentof which $7,917 as grants50% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,029,482.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.
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 $1.6M to $2.5M (+58%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 50% · 2021 44% · 2022 46% · 2023 58% · 2024 68% · 2025 48%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of CHOOSE 180’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Nneka Payne
CEO
Board chair
Kia Franklin
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $82k → $968k.
10 of 56 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 CHOOSE 180’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 56 funders by total. 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
CHOOSE 180 has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
68% 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 CHOOSE 180.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 92% · 2019 44% · 2020 30% · 2021 28% · 2022 21% · 2023 26% — 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
50% of CHOOSE 180's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.
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
76% of CHOOSE 180's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Against its field
CHOOSE 180 is better cushioned than half of the 1,152 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,152 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding CHOOSE 180 receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $798k on record.
- Department of Justice$798k
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.
Organizations like CHOOSE 180
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
56% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHOOSE 180: 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 CHOOSE 180?
- CHOOSE 180 (Washington) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,282,559 to it, the largest being SEATTLE FOUNDATION ($1,003,950). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHOOSE 180 have?
- IRS filings report 56 organizations giving $5,282,559 in grants to CHOOSE 180, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHOOSE 180?
- SEATTLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,003,950 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHOOSE 180 find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 56 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing