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VERMONT HUMANITIES COUNCIL

EIN 51-0187809 MONTPELIER, VT

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Revenue 2025
$1,833,885
Expenses 2025
$1,922,074

Program services were 72.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
11 LOOMIS ST

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

Mission

USING THE HUMANITIES, WE CONNECT WITH PEOPLE ACROSS VERMONT TO CREATE JUST, VIBRANT, AND RESILIENT COMMUNITIES, AND TO INSPIRE A LIFELONG LOVE OF LEARNING.

Activities or mission (Part I)

CONNECT WITH PEOPLE ACROSS VERMONT TO CREATE JUST, VIBRANT, AND RESILIENT COMMUNITIES.

  • COMMUNITY GRANTS - COMPETITIVE GRANT ROUNDS ARE HELD TO SUPPORT HUMANITIES PROJECTS THROUGHOUT THE STATE OF VERMONT. APPLICATIONS ARE EVALUATED BY A BOARD COMMITTEE. GRANT OPPORTUNITIES ARE AVAILABLE SEVERAL TIMES PER YEAR.

    Expenses $451,041 · Grants $310,785 · Revenue $250

  • LECTURE AND DISCUSSION PROGRAMS (INCLUDING SNAPSHOT) - THESE PROGRAMS BRING HUMANITIES PRESENTATION, DISCUSSIONS, AND CONFERENCES TO INDIVIDUALS ACROSS THE STATE. EVERY YEAR, SPEAKERS MAKE MORE THAN 150 APPEARANCES AT LOCAL LIBRARIES, SCHOOLS, HISTORICAL SOCIETIES, SENIOR CENTERS, AND OTHER COMMUNITY SPACES.

    Expenses $266,161 · Grants $41,540 · Revenue $12,550

  • HUMANITIES BASED LITERACY PROGRAMS - VARIETY OF PROGRAMS TO PROMOTE LITERACY IN VERMONT. PROGRAMS INCLUDE "VERMONT READS" A ONE BOOK ANNUAL STATEWIDE READING, EARLY LITERACY WORKSHOPS FOR CHILDCARE PROVIDERS, AS WELL AS FAMILY LITERACY TRAININGS FOR PARENTS. HUMANITIESCAMPS ARE WEEKLONG SUMMER DAY CAMPS THAT AIM TO STRENGTHEN LITERACY SKILLS AND BUILD POSITIVE PEER GROUPS AND A LOVE OF READING. "CONNECTIONS" WORKS ON LITERACY WITH PERSONS IN AND EMERGING FROM THE CORRECTIONAL SYSTEM.

    Expenses $671,184 · Grants $101,200 · Revenue $22,105

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.

  • Luis Vivanco

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $350
    From this org
    $350
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • Gizelle Guyette

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Ron Miller

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Yasmine Ziesler

    CO-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Kiah Morris

    CO-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Joseph Antonioli

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • Ellen Bethea

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • Sandra Gartner

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • Susanna Gellert

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • T Elijah Hawkes

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • Jinny Huh

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • Candace Lewis

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • Dottie Morris

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • Kathryn Santiago

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • Patricia Sears

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • Vera Sheehan

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • Christopher Kaufman Ilstrup

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $157,706
    From this org
    $140,276
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $17,430
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $140,276
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $17,430
    Filer's total
    $157,706

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $1,833,885
    Expenses
    $1,922,074
    Contributions
    $1,705,838
    Grants paid
    $453,525
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,227,967
    Expenses
    $2,289,751
    Contributions
    $2,118,157
    Grants paid
    $556,251
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,994,159
    Expenses
    $2,347,925
    Contributions
    $1,969,160
    Grants paid
    $775,850
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,880,483
    Expenses
    $1,801,947
    Contributions
    $1,849,966
    Grants paid
    $317,109

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.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,606,511
    Expenses
    $1,881,252
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,523,596

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,997,823
    Expenses
    $1,579,879
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,049,401

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,475,847
    Expenses
    $1,561,119
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,494,350

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,565,700
    Expenses
    $1,430,466
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,377,986

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,360,907
    Expenses
    $1,306,848
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,352,174

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,293,487
    Expenses
    $1,302,606
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,181,550

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,319,257
    Expenses
    $1,253,118
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,135,055

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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Grants received

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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.