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Sally Lorraine Sedlak Vaughan Irrevocable Charitable Trust at a glance

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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.

$435k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$115k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Animals$1.7MEducation$200k
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $207k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $218k
$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
ANIMAL PROTECTION LEAGUE$30,000
ALMOST HOME FOUNDATION$30,000
WILD CANINE RESCUE$25,000
WISH BONE 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
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 64% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MENARD ANIMAL PROTECTION: $11k → 9%KEWANEE ANIMAL SHELTER: $10k → 9%TAZEWELL ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY: $25k → 9%WILD CANINE RESCUE: $25k → 11%WISH BONE CANINE RESCUE: $25k → 11%SCOTT COUNTY DOG RESCUE: $10k → 12%PROTECTING ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY: $35k → 12%MACOUPIN COUNTY ADOPT A PET: $43k → 12%MASON COUNTY PETS WITHOUT PARENTS: $37k → 13%QUINCY K-9 CONNECTION: $35k → 13%HUMANE SOCIETY OF LOGAN COUNTY: $60k → 14%ALMOST HOME FOUNDATION: $35k → 14%PEORIA COUNTY ANIMAL PROTECTION SERVICES: $5k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION: $200k → 19%MENARD ANIMAL PROTECTION: $11k → 9%TAZEWELL ANIMAL PROTECTIVE SOCIETY: $10k → 9%WILD CANINE RESCUE: $25k → 11%HUMANE SOCIETY OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS: $8k → 11%SCOTT COUNTY DOG RESCUE: $5k → 12%PROTECTING ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY: $34k → 12%MACOUPIN COUNTY ADOPT A PET: $43k → 12%MASON COUNTY PETS WITHOUT PARENTS: $10k → 13%QUINCY K-9 CONNECTION: $20k → 13%HUMANE SOCIETY OF LOGAN COUNTY: $41k → 14%ALMOST HOME FOUNDATION: $35k → 14%PEORIA COUNTY ANIMAL PROTECTION SERVICES: $5k → 14%MENARD ANIMAL PROTECTION: $5k → 9%ANIMAL PROTECTION LEAGUE: $30k → 11%HUMANE SOCIETY OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS: $5k → 11%MACOUPIN COUNTY ADOPT A PET: $40k → 12%QUINCY K-9 CONNECTION: $20k → 13%HUMANE SOCIETY OF LOGAN COUNTY: $25k → 14%PEORIA COUNTY ANIMAL PROTECTION SERVICES: $5k → 14%WILD WOMEN IN LOVE WITH DOGS: $25k → 11%HUMANE SOCIETY OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS: $4k → 11%MACOUPIN COUNTY ADOPT-A-PET: $53k → 12%QUINCY K-9 CONNECTION: $20k → 13%ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE: $25k → 11%MACOUPIN COUNTY ADOPT A PET: $30k → 12%QUINCY K-9 CONNECTION: $15k → 13%WILD CANINE RESCUE: $25k → 11%ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE: $21k → 11%WISH BONE CANINE RESCUE: $49k → 11%WILD CANINE RESCUE: $25k → 11%WISH BONE CANINE RESCUE: $25k → 11%ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE: $17k → 11%WISH BONE CANINE RESCUE: $25k → 11%FRIENDS OF SANGAMON COUNTY ANIMAL CONTROL: $50k → 11%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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 15 repeat orgs$324k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against -8% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
5

Total granted

$1.6M
$241k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
-8%

Still filing today

73%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k 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
AnimalsEducationOther
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

  • IH
    ILLINOIS HUMANE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $523k · revenue +64% · 98% of their budget
  • MC
    Macoupin County Adopt A Pet
    5× · 2020–2025 · $209k · revenue +53%
  • WB
    WISH BONE CANINE RESCUE
    4× · 2021–2025 · $124k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • University of Illinois Foundation
    one grant, 2024 · $200k · revenue -8%
  • WW
    WILD WOMEN IN LOVE WITH DOGS
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • KA
    KEWANEE ANIMAL SHELTER
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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
Pound Pets Inc

Animal Rescue - finding homes for abandoned animals in Granite City, spaying and neutering stray animals and feral cats

Animals
2
Illinois Animal Welfare Networkers Association
Animals
3
Hope Fur Paws Rescue

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.

Animals
4
Pets Without Partners

Find homes for homeless/abandoned dogs. Provide full vet car and housing while awaiting adoption,

Animals
5
Humane Society of Monroe County Il

The organization rescues animals and cares for them until they can find them qualified homes.

Animals
6
Paws Animal Rescue Center

To help rescue unwanted pets

Animals
7
Paws and Claws Animal Welfare Society Inc

Animal Rescue

Animals
8
Almost Home Canine Rescue

Resuce, care and adopting canines

Animals
9
Fur Animal Rescue

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.

Animals
10
Paws and Claws Animal Shelter
Animals
11
Animal Rescue and Adoption Agency Inc

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.

Animals
12
Raskels Rescue
Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humane Society of Logan County Inc; 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.
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 23 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ILLINOIS HUMANE: $522,500 · AnimalsILLINOIS HUMANEMacoupin County Adopt A Pet: $208,762 · AnimalsMacoupin County Adopt A PetWISH BONE CANINE RESCUE: $124,000 · AnimalsWISH BONE CANINE RESCUEQUINCY K-9 CONNECTION: $110,000 · AnimalsQUINCY K-9 CONNECTIONALMOST HOME FOUNDATION: $100,000 · AnimalsALMOST HOME FOUNDATIONWILD CANINE RESCUE: $100,000 · AnimalsWILD CANINE RESCUEPROTECTING ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY I: $69,125 · AnimalsANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE OF SPRINGFIELD AND SANGAMON COUNTY: $63,000 · AnimalsMason County Pets Without Parents: $47,000 · Animals+2 more: $61,320 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF LOGAN COUNTY INC: $125,613 · OtherHUMANE SOCIETY OF …FRIENDS OF SANGAMON COUNTY ANIMAL CONTROL: $50,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF SANGAMO…ANIMAL PROTECTION LEAGUE: $30,000 · OtherANIMAL PROTECTION …MENARD ANIMAL PROTECTION: $27,100 · OtherMENARD ANIMAL PROT…WILD WOMEN IN LOVE WITH DOGS: $25,000 · OtherWILD WOMEN IN LOVE…PEORIA COUNTY ELECTION COMMISSION: $15,000 · OtherSCOTT COUNTY DOG RESCUE: $15,000 · Other+4 more: $19,000 · Other+4 moreUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $200,000 · EducationUniversity …
Animals$1,405,707Other$306,713Education$200,000

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 budgetILLINOIS HUMANE: $522,500 over 6y, 98% of budgetMacoupin County Adopt A Pet: $208,762 over 5y, 13% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF LOGAN COUNTY INC: $125,613 over 3y, 26% of budgetWISH BONE CANINE RESCUE: $124,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetQUINCY K-9 CONNECTION: $110,000 over 5y, 36% of budgetALMOST HOME FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetWILD CANINE RESCUE: $100,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetPROTECTING ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY I: $69,125 over 2y, 17% of budgetANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE OF SPRINGFIELD AND SANGAMON COUNTY: $63,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF SANGAMON COUNTY ANIMAL CONTROL: $50,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetMason County Pets Without Parents: $47,000 over 2y, 43% of budgetTAZEWELL ANIMAL PROTECTIVE SOCIETY: $39,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS: $22,320 over 5y, 0.8% 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 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 ALMOST HOME FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WILD CANINE RESCUE ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Pedigree FoundationPaypal Charitable Giv…The Blackbaud Giving …Network for GoodThe Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile FoundationFidelity Investments …
Pedigree FoundationTN13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pedigree Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Sally Lorraine Sedlak Vaughan Irrevocable Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sally Lorraine Sedlak Vaughan Irrevocable Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 23 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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