Funding search · EIN 232888152 · Southeastern, PA

Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

Name: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program grants, 2021–2024
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A grantmaking public charity (files IRS Form 990, Schedule I). Charities like this often run real grant programs with application cycles.

94,121
grants reported: $10.29B
total given: 2021–2024
filing years: $17,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2021–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

recipient

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Where the money goes

Donor-advised transfers to other sponsors and community foundations
Higher education: Cornell, Duke, Stanford, Harvard, Princeton, Notre Dame
Global health and poverty relief: GiveDirectly, Against Malaria, MSF
Democracy, civil liberties, and public policy institutes across the spectrum
K-12 school choice, charter schools, and scholarship funds
Environment and conservation: Nature Conservancy, EDF, NRDC

Typical grant

Half of all grants fall between $10,000 and $43,000, with a median of $17,000. The eight and nine figure checks go to other donor-advised sponsors, large universities, and a handful of donors' own vehicles, not to competitive review. Recipients repeat heavily year over year because the same account holders keep recommending the same organizations.

Their words

Phrases from their own grant descriptions, worth speaking back to them.

“FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE”

Positioning adjacent work

Treat this as a pipeline, not a funder: identify individual Vanguard account holders who already give to you.
Confirm your organization is easy to find and correctly named in DAF grant-recommendation systems.
Model a realistic gift at $10,000 to $43,000 from any one donor, not a seven-figure institutional ask.
If your work touches global health, democracy, education choice, or conservation, name those donor communities explicitly in outreach.

Worth knowing: This is a donor-advised fund sponsor, so grant decisions belong to thousands of individual account holders and no staff program officer sets priorities. California and New York recipients dominate by count, and the largest transfers move money between DAF sponsors rather than to operating charities.

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Impactassets1 grant · $308.3M
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund3 grants · $171.5M
The Clear Fund2 grants · $160.4M
Renaissance Charitable Foundation3 grants · $87.3M
Bright Funds Foundation3 grants · $72.5M
Givewell1 grant · $72.3M
Democracy Fund1 grant · $64.8M
Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund2 grants · $52.0M
Kyiv School of Economics3 grants · $50.1M
The James Family Charitable Trust3 grants · $50.1M

Giving over time

$1.83B

2021

$2.05B

2022

$2.98B

2023

$3.43B

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 94,121 grants.

$308.3M
Impactassets · Bethesda, MD · 2023
For recipient's exempt purpose
$101.4M
The Clear Fund · Oakland, CA · 2024
For recipient's exempt purpose
$87.3M
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Boston, MA · 2024
For recipient's exempt purpose
$85.1M
Renaissance Charitable Foundation · Indianapolis, IN · 2024
For recipient's exempt purpose
$72.3M
Givewell · Oakland, CA · 2023
For recipient's exempt purpose
$64.8M
Democracy Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
For recipient's exempt purpose
$59.1M
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Boston, MA · 2022
For recipient's exempt purpose
$58.9M
The Clear Fund · Oakland, CA · 2022
For recipient's exempt purpose
$51.1M
Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund · New York, NY · 2022
For recipient's exempt purpose
$50.1M
The James Family Charitable Trust · Jenkintown, PA · 2022
For recipient's exempt purpose
$50.0M
National Charitable Endowment · Darien, CT · 2024
For recipient's exempt purpose
$47.9M
Bright Funds Foundation · San Jose, CA · 2023
For recipient's exempt purpose
$46.3M
Donor Advised Charitable Giving · San Francisco, CA · 2024
For recipient's exempt purpose
$41.0M
Worthington Scholarship Foundation · Rockland, ME · 2023
For recipient's exempt purpose
$40.1M
Self-Realization Fellowship Church · Los Angeles, CA · 2021
For recipient's exempt purpose
$36.1M
Humanity United · San Francisco, CA · 2024
For recipient's exempt purpose
$35.8M
The Center for Education Reform · Washington, DC · 2023
For recipient's exempt purpose
$31.6M
National Philanthropic Tr · Jenkintown, PA · 2024
For recipient's exempt purpose
$31.3M
Follow Your Dream Foundation · New York, NY · 2024
For recipient's exempt purpose
$29.6M
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junio · Redwood City, CA · 2022
For recipient's exempt purpose
$29.6M
Schwab Charitable Fund · Lone Tree, CO · 2023
For recipient's exempt purpose
$28.9M
Cornell University · Ithaca, NY · 2024
For recipient's exempt purpose
$27.0M
Impactassets · Bethesda, MD · 2022
For recipient's exempt purpose
$26.6M
Duke University · Durham, NC · 2024
For recipient's exempt purpose
$26.4M
Uatx · Austin, TX · 2024
For recipient's exempt purpose
$25.2M
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Boston, MA · 2023
For recipient's exempt purpose
$25.1M
Convergent Research · Cambridge, MA · 2024
For recipient's exempt purpose
$25.1M
Berkeley Repertory Theatre · Berkeley, CA · 2023
For recipient's exempt purpose
$25.1M
Spirit of America Worldwide · Arlington, VA · 2024
For recipient's exempt purpose
$24.9M
Kyiv School of Economics · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
For recipient's exempt purpose
$24.6M
Bright Funds Foundation · San Jose, CA · 2022
For recipient's exempt purpose
$23.1M
Our American Future Foundation · Washington, DC · 2023
For recipient's exempt purpose
$22.9M
Schwab Charitable Fund · San Francisco, CA · 2021
For recipient's exempt purpose
$21.9M
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Boston, MA · 2021
For recipient's exempt purpose
$21.1M
The Center for Education Reform · Washington, DC · 2021
For recipient's exempt purpose
$21.0M
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junio · Redwood City, CA · 2021
For recipient's exempt purpose
$20.5M
Arc Research Institute · Palo Alto, CA · 2024
For recipient's exempt purpose
$20.2M
Teach for America · New York City, NY · 2023
For recipient's exempt purpose
$20.0M
Kipp Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2023
For recipient's exempt purpose
$20.0M
Livingstone College · Salisbury, NC · 2024
For recipient's exempt purpose
$20.0M
Charter Fund · Broomfield, CO · 2023
For recipient's exempt purpose
$18.8M
Center for Education Reform · Washington, DC · 2022
For recipient's exempt purpose
$18.5M
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junio · Stanford, CA · 2024
For recipient's exempt purpose
$18.0M
The Seattle Foundation · Seattle, WA · 2024
For recipient's exempt purpose
$18.0M
M Y Keren Hashluchim · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
For recipient's exempt purpose
$17.9M
Charities Aid Foundation America · Alexandria, VA · 2024
For recipient's exempt purpose
$17.3M
Marin Community Foundation · Novato, CA · 2023
For recipient's exempt purpose
$17.1M
Givedirectly · New York, NY · 2024
For recipient's exempt purpose
$16.9M
M Y Keren Hashluchim · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
For recipient's exempt purpose
$16.7M
International Rescue Committee · New York, NY · 2021
For recipient's exempt purpose
$16.6M
Catawba College · Salisbury, NC · 2024
For recipient's exempt purpose
$16.2M
Stanford University · Stanford, CA · 2023
For recipient's exempt purpose
$16.2M
Nature Conservancy · Arlington, VA · 2024
For recipient's exempt purpose
$16.1M
Lubetzky Family Foundation · New York, NY · 2024
For recipient's exempt purpose
$16.0M
Altneu Foundation Corporation · New York City, NY · 2023
For recipient's exempt purpose
$15.9M
Human Rights Foundation · New York City, NY · 2023
For recipient's exempt purpose
$15.6M
Donors Trust · Alexandria, VA · 2022
For recipient's exempt purpose
$15.4M
Givewell · Oakland, CA · 2021
For recipient's exempt purpose
$15.3M
Kyiv School of Economics · Oakland, CA · 2022
For recipient's exempt purpose
$15.2M
Schwab Charitable Fund · San Francisco, CA · 2022
For recipient's exempt purpose
$14.9M
Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated · New York, NY · 2024
For recipient's exempt purpose
$14.6M
Spirit of America Worldwide · Arlington, VA · 2023
For recipient's exempt purpose
$14.0M
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA · New York, NY · 2024
For recipient's exempt purpose
$13.4M
Pef Israel Endowment Funds · New York City, NY · 2023
For recipient's exempt purpose
$13.3M
University of Notre Dame Du Lac · Notre Dame, IN · 2024
For recipient's exempt purpose
$13.1M
Hopelab Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2024
For recipient's exempt purpose
$13.1M
Doctors Without Borders USA · New York City, NY · 2023
For recipient's exempt purpose
$13.0M
President and Fellows of Harvard College · Cambridge, MA · 2024
For recipient's exempt purpose
$12.7M
St Peters Preparatory School · Jersey City, NJ · 2023
For recipient's exempt purpose
$12.7M
Doctors Without Borders USA · New York, NY · 2021
For recipient's exempt purpose
$12.7M
International Rescue Committee · New York, NY · 2024
For recipient's exempt purpose
$12.6M
P E F Israel Endowment Funds · New York, NY · 2024
For recipient's exempt purpose
$12.2M
American National Red Cross · Washington, DC · 2024
For recipient's exempt purpose
$12.1M
The Barack Obama Foundation · Chicago, IL · 2022
For recipient's exempt purpose
$12.0M
American Friends of University College Oxford · Glastonbury, CT · 2023
For recipient's exempt purpose
$12.0M
Follow Your Dream · New York City, NY · 2023
For recipient's exempt purpose
$12.0M
Arc Research Institute · Palo Alto, CA · 2023
For recipient's exempt purpose
$12.0M
Arc Research Institute · Palo Alto, CA · 2022
For recipient's exempt purpose
$12.0M
Bright Funds Foundation · Oakland, CA · 2021
For recipient's exempt purpose
$11.7M
Citizen56 · Wayland, MA · 2023
For recipient's exempt purpose
$11.6M
President and Fellows of Harvard College · Cambridge, MA · 2022
For recipient's exempt purpose
$11.6M
Charities Aid Foundation of America · Alexandria, VA · 2021
For recipient's exempt purpose
$11.3M
Center for Education Reform · Washington, DC · 2024
For recipient's exempt purpose
$11.3M
Princeton University · Princeton, NJ · 2024
For recipient's exempt purpose
$11.3M
Nature Conservancy · Arlington, VA · 2022
For recipient's exempt purpose
$11.1M
International Rescue Committee · New York City, NY · 2023
For recipient's exempt purpose
$11.1M
Atlas Economic Research Foundation · Arlington, VA · 2024
For recipient's exempt purpose
$11.1M
Institute for Advanced Study · Princeton, NJ · 2023
For recipient's exempt purpose
$11.0M
Trustees of Tufts College · Medford, MA · 2024
For recipient's exempt purpose
$10.7M
Charities Aid Foundation of America · Alexandria, VA · 2023
For recipient's exempt purpose
$10.6M
Mercatus Center · Arlington, VA · 2024
For recipient's exempt purpose
$10.6M
Nova Ukraine · Palo Alto, CA · 2024
For recipient's exempt purpose
$10.5M
Cornell University · Ithaca, NY · 2021
For recipient's exempt purpose
$10.5M
Mercy Ships Foundation · Lindale, TX · 2022
For recipient's exempt purpose
$10.4M
University of Notre Dame Du Lac · Notre Dame, IN · 2021
For recipient's exempt purpose
$10.3M
Spirit of America Worldwide · Arlington, VA · 2022
For recipient's exempt purpose
$10.3M
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints · Salt Lake Cty, UT · 2022
For recipient's exempt purpose
$10.1M
Medecins Sans Frontiers USA · New York, NY · 2022
For recipient's exempt purpose
$10.0M
Kyiv School of Economics · Washington, DC · 2024
For recipient's exempt purpose
$10.0M
Arc Research Institute · Palo Alto, CA · 2021
For recipient's exempt purpose

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Source: IRS Form 990, Schedule I, as filed by this organization. These are grants already paid. Grants paid directly to individuals are reported to the IRS only as totals, so they do not appear as named lines here.