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Leona Stanford Vollintine Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$442k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$1.4MHealth$1.1MRecreation & Sports$93kYouth Development$86kHuman Services$71kCommunity Improvement$9k
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $300k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $117k
$16,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$65,000
ST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$52,000
ST JOHN'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$39,000
BLACKBURN COLLEGE$22,000
NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND OF ILLINOIS$20,000
COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES$17,000
MILLIKIN UNIVERSITY$16,000
LINCOLN LAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FDN$16,000
ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY$16,000
BRADLEY UNIVERSITY$16,000
EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY$16,000
RICHLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FDN$16,000
AUGUSTANA COLLEGE$16,000
LAKE LAND COLLEGE$16,000
MCKENDREE UNIVERSITY$16,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $131k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND OF ILLINOIS: $20k → 14%CHRISTIAN COUNTY YMCA: $15k → 16%NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND OF ILLINOIS: $20k → 14%CHRISTIAN COUNTY YMCA: $12k → 16%NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND OF ILLINOIS: $20k → 14%CHRISTIAN COUNTY YMCA: $12k → 16%CHRISTIAN COUNTY YMCA: $12k → 16%CHRISTIAN COUNTY YMCA: $10k → 16%CHRISTIAN COUNTY YMCA: $10k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.8M · 26 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

26 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
0

Total granted

$2.8M
$0

Still filing today

50%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $377k · revenue +78%
  • NF
    NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND OF ILLINOIS
    6× · 2020–2025 · $123k · revenue +0% · 37% of their budget
  • AC
    AUGUSTANA COLLEGE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $110k · revenue +27%

Funded once

    How this is measured

    Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

    04Its field

    Closest unfunded matches

    The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

    1
    Illinois College

    Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…

    Education
    2
    Boston Architectural College

    The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

    —
    3
    Wilson College

    Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

    Education
    4
    John Brown University

    John brown university (jbu) provides christ-centered education that prepares students to honor god and serve others by developing their intellectual, spiritual, and professional lives. (continued on schedule o)jbu serves traditional…

    Education
    5
    Columbia College

    Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.

    Education
    6
    Ashland University

    Ashland university, guided by our christian heritage, is a comprehensive, private university that provides a transformative learning experience, shaping graduates who work, serve and lead with integrity in their local, national, and global…

    Education
    7
    Macmurray College

    Macmurray college transforms students' lives by providing a career-directed liberal arts education, preparing students for personal and professional success and life-long learning.

    —
    8
    Columbia College

    Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

    Education
    9
    Muhlenberg College

    Muhlenberg aims to help students become independent thinkers who are intellectually agile, characterized by a zest for reasoned and civil debate, knowledgeable about the achievements and traditions of diverse civilizations and cultures,…

    Education
    10
    Linfield University

    Linfield university advances a vision of learning, life, and community that promotes intellectual challenge and creativity, values both theoretical and practical knowledge, engages thoughtful dialogue in a climate of mutual respect and…

    Education
    11
    Lincoln University Aka Lincoln College

    Lincoln college uniquely empowers students to realize their full potential

    Education
    12
    Medaille University

    Medaille university concentrates on excellence in teaching, with an emphasis on personal attention to its diverse student body. its curriculum provides a solid liberal arts and sciences foundation with early access to career-oriented…

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    How this is measured
    The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Millikin University; the most unlike its peers is Cochlear Implant Awareness Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
    04the grantee network

    14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

    Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

    How this is measured

    Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 26 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

    Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

    1
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    2
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    13/14
    Grantees still filing
    10/14
    Grew since first funded

    Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

    ST LOUIS CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $293,000 · OtherST LOUIS CHILDRENS HOSPITALST JOHN'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $208,000 · OtherST JOHN'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITALCOLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES: $118,000 · OtherCOLORADO SCHOOL OF MINESEASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY: $110,000 · OtherEASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITYLAKE LAND COLLEGE: $110,000 · OtherLAKE LAND COLLEGERICHLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $105,000 · OtherRICHLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY: $104,000 · OtherILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITYSPRINGFIELD PARK FOUNDATION EDWIN WATTS SOUTHWIND PARK PROJECT: $93,000 · OtherSPRINGFIELD PARK FOUNDATION EDWIN WATTS SOUTHWIND PARK…COCHLEAR IMPLANT AWARENESS FOUNDATION INC: $46,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S DYSLEXIA CENTER: $46,000 · Other+5 more: $100,000 · Other+5 moreBLACKBURN UNIVERSITY: $139,000 · EducationBLACKBURN UNIVERSITYMILLIKIN UNIVERSITY: $110,000 · EducationMILLIKIN UNIVERSITYAUGUSTANA COLLEGE: $110,000 · EducationAUGUSTANA COLLEGEMcKendree University: $110,000 · EducationMcKendree UniversityBRADLEY UNIVERSITY: $110,000 · EducationBRADLEY UNIVERSITYMONMOUTH COLLEGE: $105,000 · EducationMONMOUTH COLLEGEST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $377,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDRE…NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND OF ILLINOIS: $123,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $71,000 · Human ServicesLINCOLN LAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $119,000 · PhilanthropyBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC: $45,000 · Youth Development
    Other$1,333,000Education$684,000Health$377,000Human Services$194,000Philanthropy$119,000Youth Development$45,000

    Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

    25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $377,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBLACKBURN UNIVERSITY: $139,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND OF ILLINOIS: $123,000 over 6y, 37% of budgetLINCOLN LAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $119,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetMILLIKIN UNIVERSITY: $110,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAUGUSTANA COLLEGE: $110,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMcKendree University: $110,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBRADLEY UNIVERSITY: $110,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMONMOUTH COLLEGE: $105,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRICHLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $105,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $71,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetCOCHLEAR IMPLANT AWARENESS FOUNDATION INC: $46,000 over 6y, 5.7% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC: $45,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budget
    Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

    A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

    • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
    • Who funds BLACKBURN UNIVERSITY ↗
    • Who funds NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND OF ILLINOIS ↗
    • Who funds LINCOLN LAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
    • Who funds MILLIKIN UNIVERSITY ↗
    • Who funds AUGUSTANA COLLEGE ↗
    • Who funds McKendree University ↗
    • Who funds BRADLEY UNIVERSITY ↗
    • Who funds MONMOUTH COLLEGE ↗
    • Who funds RICHLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
    • Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
    • Who funds COCHLEAR IMPLANT AWARENESS FOUNDATION INC ↗
    • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC ↗
    • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE ILLINOIS CAPITAL REGION INC ↗

    Co-funders

    Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

    Charities Aid Foundation AmericaVA9.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

    Open a dossier: Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

    How this is measured
    Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

    How much its grantees rely on government

    Each dot is one organization Leona Stanford Vollintine Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Leona Stanford Vollintine Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

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    ’20’21’22’23’24’25
    no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
      no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
      0get no government money at all
      2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
      0rely on government for over half their income
      ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
      typical government reliance, FY20–25
      How this is measured
      Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
      05Through Plinth

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      How do I get to Leona Stanford Vollintine Charitable Trust?

      Find your warmest path to Leona Stanford Vollintine Charitable Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

      Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

      On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

      How this is measured
      Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

      Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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