LULU & LEO FUND
The Lulu & Leo Fund (doing business as Choose Creativity) empowers teachers, children, and families to build resilience, creative confidence, and social‑emotional skills through its Learn with Creative Confidence PreK–6 curriculum and instructor training.
About LULU & LEO FUND
The Lulu & Leo Fund is a New York–based 501(c)(3) public charity that powers the Choose Creativity initiative and develops the Learn with Creative Confidence (LwCC) bilingual PreK–6 curriculum. The organization provides curriculum materials, professional development, and ongoing implementation support to schools and after‑school programs. In recent years the Fund has expanded classroom and school partnerships in New York City (including work in DOE Districts 4 and 5) and scaled instructor training to support broader adoption of its 10 Principles of Creativity framework. According to its most recent publicly available IRS filing (fiscal year ending June 2024), the organization reported revenue of $885,048, expenses of $598,151, and net assets of $1,407,829. Choose Creativity emphasizes measurable SEL and resilience outcomes by offering free curriculum resources, bilingual program delivery, and a train‑the‑trainer model that embeds creative confidence language across school communities to improve engagement and social‑emotional learning outcomes.
Notable achievements
Curriculum Development
Created and published the Learn with Creative Confidence PreK–6 bilingual SEL curriculum and the 10 Principles of Creativity, made available to partner schools and educators.
Program Reach Milestone
Reached tens of thousands of students and trained hundreds of instructors since inception (site reports over 30,000 students reached and roughly 1,800 instructors trained).
Sustained Fundraising & Events
Established the Choose Creativity Awards (CCA) as a recurring fundraising event that supports program delivery and expansion.
At a glance
- Total assets
- $1.5M
- Annual revenue
- $885K
- Tax status
- 501(c)(3)Public charity
- EIN
- 46-1316048
- Location
- New York, NY
- Website
- choosecreativity.org
- On Mahalo since
- May 2026
Financial figures from the IRS Business Master File, the IRS’s registry of tax-exempt organizations.
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