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ZONTA FOUNDATION INC

EIN 39-6044770 MILWAUKEE, WI

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Revenue 2025
$58,487
Expenses 2025
$40,004

Program services were 0.0% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
C/O DONNA NEAL 2624 E BELLEVIEW PL

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Primary exempt purpose

The mission of Zonta Foundation, Inc. is to empower women and girls through service and advocacy. We believe that women's rights are human rights and aspire to a world free of violence where women's voices are heard equal to those of men. We raise funds to support local agencies working in areas of violence prevention and social or educational services to women and girls. We support scholarships to young women in business, STEM, and community service/public affairs. We also support the Zonta Foundation for Women and its programs to prevent violence, eliminate child marriage, and service projects related to the education, health, professional, employment, and legal status of women.

  • Grants to the following local agencies: $3000 Milwaukee Muslim Women's Coalition Youth Leadership Program, $2500 Cathedral Center Women's Independence Program, $3000 Milwaukee Women's Center Emergency Shelter, $4000 Sojourner Hope and Healing Program, $2500 Franciscan Peacemakers Social Enterprise Program, $500 Milwaukee Diaper Mission, $3000 The Women's Center Waukesha shelter and critical services, $3000 Chayil Inc.'s Blueprint Business and Succession Planning Program

    Grants $21,500

  • Grant to Zonta Foundation for Women Rose Fund, 1200 Harger Rd Suite 330, Oak Brook, IL 60523

    Grants $10,355

  • $4000 in Scholarships: $2000 Zonta Young Women in Leadership Award for Celine C. Kronstedt, 350 W. Chestnut Lane Grafton, WI 53024, and $2000 Zonta Women in Business Award to Jaquilynn Huff, 719 E Knapp St Apt 45, Milwaukee, WI 53202

    Grants $4,000

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Cheryl Nowak

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.15
  • Joni Reese

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Donna Neal

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.25
  • Donna Conant

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Joann Comodore

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Dawn Zehren

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Diana Barnett

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Deb Koller

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Judith Lehman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $58,487
    Expenses
    $40,004
    Contributions
    $34,111
    Grants paid
    $35,855
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $45,017
    Expenses
    $45,463
    Contributions
    $31,428
    Grants paid
    $44,320
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $133,533
    Expenses
    $34,710
    Contributions
    $38,522
    Grants paid
    $33,044

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2022

Tax period
1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022
Principal officer
Donna Neal
Mailing address
2624 E Belleview PlMilwaukee WI 53211
Website
zontamilwaukee.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

  • 2023 Each year, Zonta Foundation, Inc. donates 1/3 of funds raised at its annual fundraiser to support the programs of Zonta International through the organization's non-profit foundation, the Zonta Foundation for Women. Funds go to both scholarships and service projects. Scholarships include Amelia Earhart Fellowships, Young Women in Public Affairs Awards, and Jane M Klausman Women in Business Scholarships. Service Projects include: Ending Child Marriage - A Program to Accelerate Global Action - Phase 2 (UNICEF managed), Engaging Girls on Climate Change in Madagascar (UNICEF), Adolescent Girls Health and Protection in Peru (UNICEF), and Delivering Survivor-Centered Response to Gender-Based Violence Survivors in Papua Guinea and Timor-Leste (UNFPA).

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.