· Private foundation
Sally Lorraine Sedlak Vaughan Irrevocable 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $207k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $218k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ILLINOIS HUMANE | $115,000 |
| MACOUPIN COUNTY ADOPT-A-PET | $53,000 |
| FRIENDS OF SANGAMON COUNTY ANIMAL CONTROL | $50,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF LOGAN COUNTY | $41,000 |
| QUINCY K-9 CONNECTION | $35,000 |
| ALMOST HOME FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| ANIMAL PROTECTION LEAGUE | $30,000 |
| WISH BONE CANINE RESCUE | $25,000 |
| WILD CANINE RESCUE | $25,000 |
| MENARD ANIMAL PROTECTION | $10,800 |
| TAZEWELL ANIMAL PROTECTIVE SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS | $7,500 |
| PEORIA COUNTY ANIMAL PROTECTIVE SERVICES | $3,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 64% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against -8% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- IHILLINOIS HUMANE6× · 2020–2025 · $523k · revenue +57% · 98% of their budget
- MCMacoupin County Adopt A Pet5× · 2020–2025 · $209k · revenue +53%
- WBWISH BONE CANINE RESCUE4× · 2021–2025 · $124k · revenue +10%
Funded once
University of Illinois Foundationone grant, 2024 · $200k · revenue -8%- WWWILD WOMEN IN LOVE WITH DOGSone grant, 2020 · $25k
- KAKEWANEE ANIMAL SHELTERone grant, 2023 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Animal Rescue - finding homes for abandoned animals in Granite City, spaying and neutering stray animals and feral cats
To help injured, abandoned and unwanted animals. We provide food, vet care that includes heartworm prevention and spay or neuter services, shelter and anything else needed.
Find homes for homeless/abandoned dogs. Provide full vet car and housing while awaiting adoption,
The organization rescues animals and cares for them until they can find them qualified homes.
To help rescue unwanted pets
Animal Rescue
Resuce, care and adopting canines
Animal rescue organization dedicated to finding homes for animals at the animal shelter. we also provde vet care foster homes, and assistance with homing for special needs animals.
An animal rescue/adoption Agency. Rescued animals are from kill shelters or owner surrenders facing hardship then rehabbed/medical completed while in foster care then adopted into loving homes.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humane Society of Logan County Inc and the most unlike its peers is University of Illinois Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 23 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ILLINOIS HUMANE ↗
- Who funds Macoupin County Adopt A Pet ↗
- Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF LOGAN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WISH BONE CANINE RESCUE ↗
- Who funds QUINCY K-9 CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds WILD CANINE RESCUE ↗
- Who funds ALMOST HOME FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROTECTING ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY I ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE OF SPRINGFIELD AND SANGAMON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SANGAMON COUNTY ANIMAL CONTROL ↗
- Who funds Mason County Pets Without Parents ↗
- Who funds TAZEWELL ANIMAL PROTECTIVE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Sally Lorraine Sedlak Vaughan Irrevocable Charitable Trust funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.