2025-11-17T07:14:09-07:00 2024-12-31 990 2024-01-01 237399322 NORTH AMERICAN VEGETARIAN SOCIETY NORT 5185687970 PO Box 72 Dolgeville NY 13329 Sharon Graff President 5185687970 2025-11-14 1 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z Sharon Graff PO Box 72 Dolgeville NY 13329 399782 0 X navs-online.org X 1974 NJ Our organization educates about the benefits of a vegan lifestyle. We do this through our conference Vegan Summerfest, our webstes, World Vegetarian Day and other activities. 9 6 3 85 0 0 56133 26790 270669 360446 332 408 1314 2036 328448 389680 0 0 0 0 50141 63444 0 0 215 278451 293617 328592 357061 -144 32619 119094 146283 0 0 119094 146283 Our organization educates about the benefits of a vegan lifestyle. We do this through our conference Vegan Summerfest, our webstes, World Vegetarian Day and other activities. 0 0 350737 360446 Vegan Summerfest is our 5 day annual educational conference. We have more than 40 speakers who teach about the benefits of the vegan lifestyle. Vegan diets can improve people's health, saves animals' lives and helps the environment. Our speakers include doctors, dieticians, authors, and many other experts. We teach about nutrition, health, lifestyle, we also have food demos and there are many other topics. We have a children's center and activities for teens. (Approximately 500 were served). 1854 0 Promote veganism through our websites, World Vegetarian Day, posters, help by phone, correspondence and other activities. We also encourage individuals to encourage friends to give veganism a try during October, Vegetarian Awareness Month. We do this through social media and our website. 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RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 24229 0 0 24229 0 0 0 0 24229 Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 2 Sharon and Brian Graff are officers (President and Vice President)of the organization and are married to each other. Their daughter Heidi Fox is employed part time by the organization and Sharon Graff is employed full time. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 6 We are a membership organization. To become a member, individuals pay $22 for individual membership or $28 for a family membership per year. Regular members have voting rights. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 7a Regular members (vegetarian) can make nominations for the board. To be considered nominees must get three nominations from vegetarian members. The nominating committee considers if the nominations are suitable. Then if there is a contest, the regular (vegetarian) members vote in the election. The officers of the organization are selected by the board. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 9 Hal Hamer(6590 Green Rd, Ottawa Lake, MI), Sue Speck (10 Augusta Dr. #1 Vernon, NJ 07462), Pat Griffin (310 12th Ave 1st floor, Belmar, NJ 07719), Bob LeRoy (335 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, Greensboro, NC 27406 ), Maribeth Abrams (273 Windham Ave. Colchester, CT 06415), Jeff Baker (408 Bailey Rd. Montgomery, NY 12549), Heidi Fox ( 235 Loomis St. Little Falls, NY 13365 Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b The officers of the board review the 990, but the board does not. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 All Financial statements and governing documents are available to the public upon request. Form 990, Part XI, Line 9 The change in net balance is due to federal payroll liability tax. We filed form 8868 and received permission to file In November rather than May.