Vegfest Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 454305077
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Worcester, MA, USA
- Phone
- 7749223427
- Rating
- 46
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Agricultural Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $15,878
- Expenses
- $38,244
- Assets
- $66,292
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JENNIFER WYGLINSKI (PRESIDENT)
- AMANDA HENDRICKSON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- PHILIP CAMPBELL (CLERK)
- JENNIFER WYGLINSKI (PRESIDENT)
- GREGORY OPPERMAN (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
Vegfest is a non-profit, community organization that advocates vegetarian living to the population of new england. Vegfest organizes educational events about veganism, animal rights, and the environmental impact of meat production. The organization is working to create a more peaceful world by encouraging people to think twice about the suffering inherent in eating animals. We focus on building a culture of support for vegetarianism. Vegfest projects include a restaurant outreach program, organizing various community events to encourage plant-base choices, distributing a guide to vegetarian dining in worcester, and organizing a major vegesterian festival.
What it reported doing in 2025
Educational events about veganism, animal rights, and the environmental impact of meat production.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 75% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 21
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 26.9%; rating input score 27
- Program expense ratio: 11.2%; rating input score 11
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -140.9%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.73; rating input score 62; 62nd 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: -15.5% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -7.8% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.1% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 26.9% of revenue deployed · 11.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $4K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 27/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 11/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.