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Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
To increase philanthropy and maximize its impact over time.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 27,221 grants below total $3,432,214,916 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,503,325,979 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $71,111,063 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5587 grants · $39M
- $10k–50k14923 grants · $304M
- $50k–250k5138 grants · $516M
- $250k+1573 grants · $2.6B
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CLEAR FUND | $101,439,692 |
| FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND | $87,288,229 |
| RENAISSANCE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC | $85,146,152 |
| DEMOCRACY FUND INC | $64,750,000 |
| NATIONAL CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT INC | $50,000,000 |
| DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING | $46,308,571 |
| HUMANITY UNITED | $36,117,000 |
| NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR | $31,579,852 |
| FOLLOW YOUR DREAM FOUNDATION INC | $31,252,389 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $28,898,010 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $26,620,804 |
| UATX | $26,389,500 |
| CONVERGENT RESEARCH INC | $25,100,000 |
| SPIRIT OF AMERICA WORLDWIDE | $25,080,000 |
| ARC RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $20,501,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $181.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +20% since the first grant, against -5% for the ones you funded once.
1783 repeat relationships — 1666 still active in FY2025, 117 since wound down; 46 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175M 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
- TCTHE CLEAR FUND5× · 2021–2025 · $257M · revenue +31% · 27% of their budget
Cornell University5× · 2021–2025 · $61M · revenue +23%- SOSpirit of America Worldwide5× · 2021–2025 · $59M · revenue +168% · 56% of their budget
Funded once
- TKTHE KIND FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $11M · revenue -88%
- GOGUARANTEE OUR VOTES PROJECTone grant, 2024 · $9.9M · 71% of their budget
- TPThe Principia Corporationgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $6.5M · revenue +42%
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.
Founded 131 years ago, the boston architectural college is a recognized institution providing excellence in practice-integrated design education to members of diverse communities with students representing 35 countries. the bac offers…
See schedule ouniversity of new haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts & professional education.
To advance professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power.
Highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on u.s. foreign policy
Offer a challenging education that develops the qualities of mind, spirit and body for students.
the organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the UCSF Foundation.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
To provide a superior, student-centered learning experience integrating liberal arts and professional education and preparing individuals for lasting achievement and responsible leadership in their careers and communities.
University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders in the sciences. see sch. ouniversity of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and…
Oklahoma city university prepares all learners to create, lead and serve.
The common application promotes access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Basic Fund and the most unlike its peers is Sterling and Francine Clark Art. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
1789 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. 1789 of the 2,000 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 IMPACTASSETSINC ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds THE CLEAR FUND ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT FUNDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR EDUCATION REFORM ↗
- Who funds Democracy Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds Spirit of America Worldwide ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Arc Research Institute ↗
- Who funds GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds KYIV SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS ↗
- Who funds THE JAMES FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Worthington Scholarship Foundation ↗
- Who funds Mercatus Center Inc ↗
- Who funds GIVEDIRECTLY INC ↗
- Who funds FOLLOW YOUR DREAM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Humanity United ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds UATX ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OXFORD INC ↗
- Who funds CHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation · The Dunn Foundation · 25th Century Foundation · Anne & Philip Glatfelter III Family Foundation · Tipping Point Private Foundation · Kh Dominion Foundation 5507-21-40 · Keren Keshet - the Rainbow Foundation · The Malone Family Foundation · John Crain Kunkel Foundation · Urbanek Family Foundation · John and Carole Bartholdson Foundation · The Maguire Foundation
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 Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program 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.
- Buzzards Bay Coalition — 37% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- The Broad Institute Inc — 19% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation — 7% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation — 2% of income from government
- Groton Hill Music Inc — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Portland State University Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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