2025-08-26T07:14:12-05:00 2025-06-30 030327374 McSoley McCoy & Co 118 Tilley Drive Ste 202 South Burlington VT 05403 990EZ 2024-07-01 205231693 Young Writers Project Inc YOUN 8023249538 47 Maple Street 216 Burlington VT 05401 Susan Reid Executive Director 8023249538 2025-08-25 1 0 Connie Fellion P01875413 8026581808 2025-08-25 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X www.youngwritersproject.org X X 136532 X 134167 2365 136532 101602 11073 1489 6845 18818 139827 -3295 111883 0 108588 X 111956 106825 0 1934 111956 108759 73 171 111883 108588 X Young Writers project (YWP) is an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit that began in 2006 in Burlington, VT. Our mission is to inspire, mentor, publish, and promote young writers and artists. With the support of individual donors, foundations, and businesses, all programming is free of charge so that any youth, ages 13-19, can join our creative community. Most of our teen members are from Vermont and around the Northeast. Our website, youngwritersproject.org, is the heart of YWP, a community of teen writers and visual artists who post to their own blogs and connect with each other online, receive support and mentoring, and submit their work for publication. From more than 10,000 annual submissions to our website, we select the best work for publication with our Vermont media partners, and in our monthly literary magazine, The Voice, and annual anthology. Publications: Since Young Writers Project started in 2006, we have published some 27,000 writers and artists in our 16 anthologies, 134 digital magazine issues, and with our Vermont media partners. In fall 2025, we published Anthology 16, our collection of writing and art from the 2024-2025 school year. In this edition, our opinion section draws from a new civic engagement initiative that we began in February 2025 called The Tomorrow Project. During the year, we also published a monthly issue of The Voice, our digital magazine of poetry, commentary, and art. Our complementary disciplines of writing and visual art continue to strengthen our website and publications. We have seen submissions of visual art double on our website since we introduced a special ArtSpace section and added a homepage art gallery and regular art contests and challenges. Throughout the year, our teen writers and artists were also featured with our Vermont media partners - VTDigger.org, Vermont Public, the Rutland Herald, the Barre-Montpelier Times Argus, and Seven Days. 0 28187 Projects and Partnerships - The Tomorrow Project, our recent civic initiative, addresses issues of human rights, democracy, ethics, community, and climate through a series of writing and art challenges, awards, publication, and exhibits. We began the first phase in early winter, capped with an exhibit at Burlington City Hall in May with our partners, Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity (CVOEO) and A Revolutionary Press, printmakers in New Haven, VT. Six young writers and artists will receive awards for their work on the Tomorrow Project in October, and we will continue with a second phase, including new challenges, exhibits, awards, and publication opportunities. During 2024-25, we also offered weekly writing and art challenges, and we sponsored three contests with prizes and publication. We partnered with Sundog Poetry for the Vermont Youth Poet Laureate program, Vermont Humanities for their Words in the Woods series, and with other nonprofit and community groups that support the arts and youth development. 0 20186 YWP Community - Our online community is thriving with 4,200 active users on our website. Our community members, mostly from Vermont and the Northeast, learn about YWP from their peers, teachers, our media partners, and internet searches. We also welcome young people from across the United States and as far away as Australia who find us on the internet. YWP is enriched each year with new members, and with our work-study interns and YWP alumni advisors who provide supportive mentoring, online workshops, and resources. Surveys of our community, including our most recent one in June 2025, continue to give YWP high marks for creativity, accessibliity, and support. 0 34887 83260 Giovanna Di Paola Jager board Member 2.00 0 0 0 Erin Bundock board Member 2.00 0 0 0 Jacques Bailly Board Member 2.00 0 0 0 Shannon Ripp Board Member 2.00 0 0 0 Hillary Read Board President 4.00 0 0 0 Kathy Folley Board Record Keeper 3.00 0 0 0 Doreen Wright Board Treasurer 2.00 0 0 0 Aimee Picchi Board Vice-President 2.00 0 0 0 Susan Reid Executive Director 50.00 75000 0 0 X 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Susan Reid 47 Maple Street 216 Burlington VT 05401 8023249538 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NONE NONE 1 X 190798 164500 125679 155331 134167 770475 190798 164500 125679 155331 134167 770475 222801 547674 142 142 115 200 1909 2224 772841 5065 0.70870 0.69500 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16 - Other Expenses Description: Bank Fees. Amount: 379. Description: Business & Overhead. Amount: 5,689. Description: Marketing. Amount: 320. Description: Liability Insurance. Amount: 1,116. Description: Worker's Comp - Insurance. Amount: 312. Description: Program expenses. Amount: 1,622. Description: Payroll Taxes. Amount: 8,209. Description: QB payment fees. Amount: 1,105. Description: Travel. Amount: 66. Total to Form 990-EZ, line 16: 18,818. Form 990-EZ, Part II, Line 24 - Other Assets Description: Payroll taxes prepaid. Beg. of Year Amount: 0. End of Year Amount: 1,934. Form 990-EZ, Part II, Line 26 - Other Liabilities Description: Credit Card payable. Beg. of Year Amount: 73. End of Year Amount: 171. The organization did not, during the year, receive any funds, directly,or indirectly, to pay premiums on a personal benefit contract.The organization, did not, during the year, pay any premiums, directly,or indirectly, on a personal benefit contract.