Zonta Foundation Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
396044770
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Milwaukee, WI, USA
Phone
4143341439
Rating
35
Verdict
REVIEW
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$58,487
Expenses
$40,004
Assets
$280,075
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Cheryl Nowak (President)
  • Joni Reese (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Cheryl Nowak (President)
  • Joni Reese (Vice President)
  • Donna Neal (Treasurer)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

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.

What it reported doing in 2025

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

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 64% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 75
  • Sustainability: 78
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 31.6%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 7; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: -47.5% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 7.3% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.