Connecticut · Nonprofit
JESSE LEWIS CHOOSE LOVE MOVEMENT INC
JESSE LEWIS CHOOSE LOVE MOVEMENT INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,170,707 to it, the largest being NOVO FOUNDATION ($600,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Jesse Lewis Choose Love Movement Inc does
Mission
Before scarlett lewis's 6-year-old son jesse lewis lost his life at sandy hook school on december 14, 2012, he had written a message on her kitchen chalkboard: nurturing healing love. The words "nurturing and healing" are part of the definition of compassion across nearly all cultures. Love is the foundation on which happy and healthy lives are built. Inspired by jesse's words, the jesse lewis choose love movement was formed with a mission to create safer, more loving communities built on enriching connection, love, awareness, and resilience where every child learns and benefits from the essential life skills required to choose love, and helps to facilitate this teaching within their families, schools and communities. The choose love for schools program is a pre-k through 12th grade character social emotional development (csed) program that empowers and fortifies educators, students, and parents with the power of choice in any situation, neuroscientifically designed to teach emotional
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Jesse Lewis Choose Love Movement continues to update the Choose Love For Schools program which has now been accessed in all 50 states, in more than 135 countries, by more than 15,000 school users. That's more than 10 million people globally that have accessed the no cost curriculum via a robust learning management system that was updated in 2023. In 2025, Choose Love continued to develop, enhance, update, and maintain a substantial collection of supplemental Bonus Lessons. These lessons align with and extend the core Choose Love for Schools curriculum, allowing students and educators to explore important topics more deeply and apply Choose Love skills to real-life experiences, relationships, challenges, and choices.Bonus and supplemental lessons developed, enhanced, updated, or supported in 2025 included:-Shine HOPE-Forgiving Your Enemy-The Heros Journey-Forgiveness as a Superpower-Nonverbal Communication Lessons from Shyboy-Science of Revenge-Choose Love Strong-The Heroic Choice-HeartMath-Inner Resources-Harvesting the Gifts-Authentic Self-Mixed Emotions-Conflict Resolution-Fear Versus Anxiety-Our Personal PrinciplesProgram funding supported the extensive work required to…
$762,126 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $762,126.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2023 to 2024, from $845k to $1.5M (+73%).
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 13% · 2021 8% · 2024 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
75% of JESSE LEWIS CHOOSE LOVE MOVEMENT INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 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.
Board chair
Sierra Ramieri
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $110k → $233k.
10 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 JESSE LEWIS CHOOSE LOVE MOVEMENT INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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
JESSE LEWIS CHOOSE LOVE MOVEMENT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 57%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 74% · 2019 71% · 2020 81% · 2021 48% · 2022 36% · 2023 64% — growing more concentrated.
“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
18% of JESSE LEWIS CHOOSE LOVE MOVEMENT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 34% 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
JESSE LEWIS CHOOSE LOVE MOVEMENT INC draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $302k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
JESSE LEWIS CHOOSE LOVE MOVEMENT INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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
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In Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds JESSE LEWIS CHOOSE LOVE MOVEMENT INC?
- JESSE LEWIS CHOOSE LOVE MOVEMENT INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,170,707 to it, the largest being NOVO FOUNDATION ($600,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JESSE LEWIS CHOOSE LOVE MOVEMENT INC have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $2,170,707 in grants to JESSE LEWIS CHOOSE LOVE MOVEMENT INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JESSE LEWIS CHOOSE LOVE MOVEMENT INC?
- NOVO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $600,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JESSE LEWIS CHOOSE LOVE MOVEMENT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 35 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