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Form 990-PFTax year 2025EIN 87-1287109

Third Ward Zen

A private foundation in Greenville, MS. Its return for tax year 2025 lists 4 grants and $1,250 paid in grants.

Tax year 2025 (period ending Dec 31, 2025), read from the IRS e-file on Nov 11, 2026. Returns reach the IRS 5 to 18 months after the year they describe.

How to apply

Preselected only

The return checks the box saying the foundation gives only to preselected organizations and does not accept unsolicited requests.

Assets and giving by year

4 returns on file
Grants paid by tax year. The latest year is in blue.
  • Tax year 2025

    $1,250

    Grants listed
    4
    Assets, end of year
    $1,115
  • Tax year 2024

    $0

    Grants listed
    1
    Assets, end of year
    $3,064
  • Tax year 2023

    $350

    Grants listed
    1
    Assets, end of year
    $5,017
  • Tax year 2022

    $0

    Grants listed
    0
    Assets, end of year
    $5,075

Grants paid in 2025

4 grants, largest first

As listed on the return.

  1. Sankofa Food Sovereignty AllianceGreenville, MS

    To support their Union Street Community Garden summer youth project. Funds were used to assist in providing small stipends for participating youth.

    $500
  2. Support Sports in Sierra Leone IncAtlanta, GA

    To support Hill Station Clean Cooking Project to fund two short videos and general operations. Project is part of Sports in Sierra Leone Inc. which works with youth to promote playing tennis. Through their work theyve discovered food security and environmental health are major issues. The goal of the project is to upgrade the stoves that mothers of the children in the low-income Hill Station neighborhood of Freetown Sierra Leone use to cook their meals. The expected outcomes from providing upgraded cookstoves to cook with are a reduction in the consumption of charcoal a reduction in the amount of money spent on charcoal as fuel to cook food and a reduction in breathing problems caused by cooking with traditional cookstoves; thus helping to improve food security and environmental health.

    $500
  3. Greenville Arts Council for Step AfrikaGreenville, MS

    To support general fund for the Step Afrika! Presents The Evolution Tour; performance by dance group that promotes stepping as an educational tool for young people focusing on teamwork academic achievement and cross-cultural understanding.

    $150
  4. MS Food NetworkJackson, MS

    To support their mission to distribute food and feed vulnerable people in MS. Donations are used to distribute food and goods through 430 member agencies; who in turn distribute to recipients in their respective communities.

    $100

Where the money goes

By cause: grants to organizations we matched to the IRS list of exempt organizations, by their category.

  1. Food and agriculture1 grant $50050% of the total
  2. Youth development1 grant $50050% of the total

By State

Grants to organizations with a US address, latest year.

  1. Mississippi3 grants $750
  2. Georgia1 grant $500

Officers, directors and trustees

6 people as filed

As filed on the return, with average hours per week and pay from the foundation.

  • Ellen HarrisChair Secretary Hours 2Pay $0
  • Cassandra AtleyTreasurer Hours 1Pay $0
  • Deirdra ChesterMember Hours 1Pay $0
  • Rachel VossMember Hours 1Pay $0
  • Jon Phelps SteeleMember Hours 1Pay $0
  • Dominique Joseph MDMember Hours 1Pay $0

The return

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