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Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by ZERO BREAST CANCER.

Totals

Total revenue
$167,336
Total expenses
$436,713
Contributions and grants received
$133,035
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$24,016
Other revenue
$10,285
Total assets, end of year
$238,503
Total liabilities, end of year
$13,444
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$225,059
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$312,735
Management and general expenses
$63,396
Fundraising expenses
$60,582
Program service expenses (Part III)
$312,735

Program services were 71.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1c · Fundraising events

    $40,265

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $92,770

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $7,055 · excluded $7,055

  • 4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds

    total $0

  • 5 · Royalties

    total $0

  • 6d · Net rental income or loss

    total $0

  • 7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory

    securities $480,089

  • 7b · Less cost or other basis and sales expenses

    securities $463,128

  • 7c · Gain or loss

    securities $16,961

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total $16,961 · related or exempt $16,961

  • 8a · Fundraising events: gross income

    $14,059

  • 8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c

    $40,265

  • 8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses

    $3,774

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total $10,285 · excluded $10,285

  • 9c · Net income from gaming

    total $0

  • 10c · Net income from sales of inventory

    total $0

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $0

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $0

  • 2 · Grants to domestic individuals

    total $0

  • 3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals

    total $0

  • 4 · Benefits paid to or for members

    total $0

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $86,170 · program services $21,961 · management and general $36,637 · fundraising $27,572

  • 6 · Compensation of disqualified persons

    total $0

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $206,041 · program services $196,348 · management and general $299 · fundraising $9,394

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $0

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $0

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $31,548 · program services $23,543 · management and general $3,992 · fundraising $4,013

  • 11a · Fees: management

    total $0

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $0

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $12,850 · management and general $12,850

  • 11d · Fees: lobbying

    total $0

  • 11e · Fees: professional fundraising services

    total $0

  • 11f · Fees: investment management

    total $0

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $0

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $1,215 · fundraising $1,215

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $1,567 · program services $1,177 · management and general $115 · fundraising $275

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $0

  • 15 · Royalties

    total $0

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $7,437 · program services $5,554 · management and general $971 · fundraising $912

  • 17 · Travel

    total $1,314 · program services $856 · management and general $74 · fundraising $384

  • 18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials

    total $0

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $0

  • 20 · Interest

    total $0

  • 21 · Payments to affiliates

    total $0

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $0

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $3,092 · program services $2,305 · management and general $395 · fundraising $392

  • 24a · Other expenses: BENEFITS

    total $25,377 · program services $18,904 · management and general $3,278 · fundraising $3,195

  • 24b · Other expenses: SOFTWARE & COMPUTER

    total $10,966 · program services $6,980 · management and general $1,438 · fundraising $2,548

  • 24c · Other expenses: MARKETING CONSULTANT

    total $9,000 · program services $6,665 · management and general $1,166 · fundraising $1,169

  • 24d · Other expenses: RECRUITING & STAFF DEVELOPMENT

    total $6,307 · program services $6,025 · management and general $116 · fundraising $166

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $33,829 · program services $22,417 · management and general $2,065 · fundraising $9,347

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $42,322 · end of year $19,781

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    end of year $186,462

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    end of year $0

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $14,642 · end of year $0

  • 5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people

    end of year $0

  • 6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons

    end of year $0

  • 7 · Other notes and loans receivable

    end of year $0

  • 8 · Inventories for sale or use

    end of year $405

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $6,189 · end of year $3,588

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    end of year $0

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    beginning of year $444,195 · end of year $26,185

  • 12 · Investments: other securities

    end of year $0

  • 13 · Investments: program-related

    end of year $0

  • 14 · Intangible assets

    end of year $0

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $4,370 · end of year $2,082

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $15,620 · end of year $13,444

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $2,288

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $472,310 · end of year $212,559

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $21,500 · end of year $12,500

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

Zero Breast Cancer (ZBC) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1995 to investigate possible environmental causes of high incidence rates of invasive breast cancer in the San Francisco Bay Area. Zero Breast Cancer promotes breast cancer risk reduction through translation of scientific research and evidence-based recommendations that support health and wellness at key stages of life. By 2005, the Organization noted that breast cancer rates had declined in the Bay Area and that outcomes for those who have been diagnosed with breast cancer were improving. However, ZBC also noted that this disease still strikes 1 in 8 women in their lifetime and that 40,000 women die of this disease in the United States of America each year. While ZBC continues a focus on the Bay Area, outreach has extended across the globe. Breast cancer risks are not clear-cut or sudden; they are complex, they interact, and they are embedded in our physical and our social environments. Therefore, risk reduction and preve

Activities or mission (Part I)

ZERO BREAST CANCER'S (ZBC) MISSION IS TO PROMOTE BREAST CANCER RISK REDUCTION THROUGH TRANSLATION OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND EVIDENCE-BASED RECOMMENDATIONS THAT SUPPORT HEALTH AND WELLNESS AT KEY STAGES OF LIFE. WE ENVISION A WORLD WITH ZERO BREAST CANCER.

  • Educational and Outreach Programs: ZBC produces clear, relevant, evidence-based educational content to raise awareness of social and built environment risk factors for breast cancer and provide practical advice for how to reduce that risk. Two key strategies for reaching our intended audience are 1) to use the power of the internet to engage interested parties and 2) to partner with a variety of organizations directly serving the communities and demographics ZBC has determined to be our priorities. Our materials were readily available through frequent, multichannel digital communication initiatives, including blogs, newsletters, and frequent social media posts. Our materials were also shared at virtual and in-person health fairs and promoted in our webinar series. ZBC collaborates with community partners as part of our dissemination plan for ZBC materials to reach lower-income and higher-need communities in the greater San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. ZBC has educational resources in the following areas:1) Girls New Puberty seeks to reduce the likelihood of early puberty and therefore lifetime breast cancer risk. Current multilingual materials directed at parents and caregivers include multilingual bookmarks, infographics, YouTube videos and microsites. These are freely available on ZBCs website, and shared through social media, Google ads, partner organizations and local and national health fairs. A coloring book directed at kids ages 5+ is available in 5 languages and/or cultures (English, Spanish, French, Tagalog, and American Indian). It is shared digitally on ZBCs website and promoted through Google Ads; a hard copy English-language coloring book was disseminated through schools and federally qualified health centers. 2) Healthy Futures is a new activity program for kids ages 5-7 to promote healthy habits to reduce the likelihood of early puberty and therefore lifetime breast cancer risk. The activity book provides different age-appropriate activities in four categories associated with reducing the risk of early puberty and breast cancer later in life: moving more, eating healthy, getting enough sleep, and feeling better (managing stress). Kids complete one activity in each of four areas to receive a patch or zipper pull as a prize. The activity book was posted on ZBCs website and shared with ZBCs audiences on social media and in emails. 3) 13 Ways to Reduce Your Risk of Breast Cancer focuses on ways people can reduce their lifetime risk of breast cancer through healthy behaviors and modifications of their environments. Materials include a web-page, poster, brochures and postcards in English and Spanish. The campaign is shared digitally on ZBCs website, through Google Ads, at on-line events, on social media. Hard copy dissemination focused on health clinics, high schools, social services agencies, and adult schools in the San Francisco Bay Area. 4) Generations seeks to reduce the impact of endocrine disrupting chemicals across multiple generations by educating young adults about how to reduce exposure. Available in English and Spanish, it was developed in collaboration with the Child Health and Development Studies (CHDS) advisory group with input from CHDS researchers. Campaign materials include six educational posters and a section of ZBCs website. 5) Survivorship Fact-sheets: ZBC adapted the Pathways Study newsletter articles produced in collaboration with breast cancer survivors and Pathways researchers for a broader audience. The topics were identified as important by multi-lingual and financially stressed Black, Asian-American, Latina and White women. Digital copies of Memory & Thinking Problems, Breast Cancer-Related Nerve Pain, and Heart Health & Breast Cancer were disseminated on the ZBC website and through webinars and Google Ads. Hard copies of these Fact-sheets were shared through health clinics, oncology facilities and cancer organizations. 6) Webinar Series. ZBC hosts webinars featuring researchers and community members that staff have worked on the mission to reduce the risk of breast cancer and disease recurrence, and to improve health and wellness for all. Topics have included health equity, environmental chemicals, peripheral neuropathology, heart health, diet, Vitamin D, social support, and more. Current webinars are in partnership with the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research and Pathways study researchers. Hundreds of public health workers, breast cancer advocates and survivors have participated from across the U.S. and other countries. The recordings are available on ZBCs website and YouTube channel.

    Expenses $204,925

  • Bridging Researchers and Community Members: From the outset, ZBC differentiated itself from other breast cancer organizations through a unique role in research. ZBC partners with scientists from universities and clinical organizations on multiple levels to represent those affected by the disease and to disseminate findings from studies focused on reducing the risk of primary/recurrent breast cancer and improving quality of life. 1) Pathways Breast Cancer Survivorship Study: Pathways is a prospective study of breast cancer survivorship following a cohort of 4,504 women diagnosed with invasive breast cancer in the Kaiser Permanente Northern California (KPNC) health-care system from 2006-2013. Under the leadership of KPNCs Department of Research and the Roswell Park Cancer Institute, ZBC and other collaborators continued to collect and analyze data with input from study participants, publish and informally share research results with multiple audiences, and expand the research.ZBC continued to facilitate and maintain the refreshed Pathways Study Community Advisory Board (CAB) with continued research advisory aims, and expanded outreach and dissemination goals, given the studys maturity and the increasing number of findings of interest to breast cancer patients/survivors, caregivers, and health care providers. ZBC convenes the CAB four times annually; meetings continued virtually, in keeping with KPNC policy. Researchers routinely share study ideas, designs, issues, analysis approaches, and results, and often receive useful feedback from CAB members.CAB members collaborated with ZBC and KPNC staff, scientists and clinicians to write articles for newsletters mailed to all active study participants (a Spanish version was mailed to those who identified Spanish as their primary language). ZBC works with the CAB members and KPNC staff and scientists to plan a new webinar series. 2) Other Breast Cancer-Related Research: ZBC continued to partner with and advise scientific teams on research projects relevant to ZBCs mission.

    Expenses $107,810

As filed on the 2023 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Anne-Marie Hartwig

    Deputy Director

    Total calculated
    $82,560
    From this org
    $82,560
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    32
  • Melissa Felder

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Judy Wetterer

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Dr Arbella Parrot

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • David Shao

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Lexi Mele-Algus

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kevin Gay

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2023
Filed
13 May 2024
IRS schema version
2023v5.0
Source object
202441349349307104

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