Is volunteersday.org legit or a scam?
Official website for Woodstock Volunteers Day, a legitimate 501(c)(3) nonprofit community event with 22 years of continuous operation and positive local media coverage.
Analysis Summary
No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Website Preview
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MT Intelligence
The domain belongs to Woodstock Volunteers Day Committee Inc, a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit (EIN 30-0529278) tax-exempt since December 2009. Our research found the site mentioned in local news articles dating back to at least 2013, with consistent positive coverage from the Daily Freeman, Hudson Valley One, and Ulster Corps. The domain age of 7,411 days (approximately 20 years) aligns with the nonprofit's long operational history. No scam reports, complaints, or negative mentions appear in any search results. The site's content — mission statement, volunteer listings, sponsorship information, and community-building focus — matches a legitimate local nonprofit. Our antivirus network flagged no malicious content, and the SSL certificate is valid. Business registration data confirms active 501(c)(3) status with public 990-EZ filings available through at least 2025.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for volunteersday.org, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- volunteersday.org is the official website for Woodstock Appreciates its Volunteers (WAiV / Woodstock Volunteers Day Committee), a 22nd annual community event in Woodstock, NY honoring local volunteers with free food, music, activities, and
- The organizing body is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit (EIN 30-0529278), tax-exempt since December 2009, with public 990-EZ filings available through at least 2025 on ProPublica; categorized under Philanthropy, Voluntarism & Grantmaking.
- No scam reports, complaints, or negative mentions found across news, Reddit, or general searches; covered positively by local media (Daily Freeman, Hudson Valley One, Ulster Corps) for over a decade.
- Domain has been in continuous use since at least 2013 (mentioned in 2013 news articles) and aligns with the provided age of ~20 years (7411 days).
- Site contains mission statement to honor volunteers and lists dozens of honored local organizations; includes pages for how to help, sponsorships, and committee info; contact via info@volunteersday.org.
- Facebook page (facebook.com/WoodstockWAIV) and Ulster Chamber of Commerce listing confirm the nonprofit's legitimacy and ongoing annual events.
- No donation solicitation red flags on main pages; sponsorship opportunities listed for businesses; PayPal fundraiser exists under the same EIN.
- Daily Freemanopen
"The Woodstock Volunteers Day Celebration and Day of Gratitude will return on Aug. 15, from 1 p.m. to dusk. For more information and to join the Volunteers Day Team, visit www.volunteersday.org"
- Ulster Corpsopen
"The 21st Annual Volunteer Appreciation Day is on Saturday, August 16, 2025 at Andy Lee Field in Woodstock. This is a 'give back' from the community to all those who give so much."
- Hudson Valley Oneopen
"Woodstock plans fete for volunteers... For information, visit the website volunteersday.org... Woodstock Volunteers Day is a nonprofit."
Woodstock Volunteers Day Committee Inc (EIN 30-0529278), 501(c)(3) tax-exempt since Dec 2009, Woodstock NY; files 990-EZ forms (e.g. 2022, 2025); officers include Catherine Magarelli (President), all unpaid
Our research confirmed that volunteersday.org is the official website for Woodstock Volunteers Day Committee Inc, a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit (EIN 30-0529278) tax-exempt since December 2009. The site has been in continuous operation since at least 2013, as evidenced by news coverage from that period. Local media outlets including the Daily Freeman, Hudson Valley One, and Ulster Corps have covered the annual event positively for over a decade. The organizing body files public 990-EZ tax forms available through ProPublica, with officers including Catherine Magarelli (President), all unpaid. No scam reports, complaints, or negative mentions were found across scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, or general web sources. The nonprofit is also listed in the Ulster Chamber of Commerce directory and maintains an active Facebook community page.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- Phone number listed (2025-12-02).
- Postal address visible on the page.
- Links to 2 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://volunteersday.org/
- 2200https://www.volunteersday.org/cross-domain
Server Reputation
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on volunteersday.org and not a lookalike like v-olunteersday.org.com or an IDN homoglyph.
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Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on volunteersday.org. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- volunteersday.org passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 89/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. volunteersday.org presents a valid TLSv1.2 certificate issued by GoDaddy.com · GoDaddy TLS Intermediate CA DV - R1v1, expiring in 185 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- volunteersday.org is 20.3 years old, registered on 3/3/2006 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 71 antivirus engines in our malware network report volunteersday.org as clean.
- No. volunteersday.org is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- volunteersday.org resolves to an IP operated by GoDaddy.com, LLC in US (usage type: Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 18, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around volunteersday.org have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.
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