# Vanguard Charitable

> Vanguard Charitable is a VC fund in Southeastern backing Non Profit and Innovation Management. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Southeastern, United States
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Mar 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://www.vanguardcharitable.org/

Vanguard Charitable is a top U.S. grantmaking organization

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $10M–$10M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Non Profit | 3 | 100% |
| Innovation Management | 2 | 67% |
| Collaboration | 1 | 33% |
| Social Impact | 1 | 33% |
| Event Management | 1 | 33% |

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 67% |
| Grant | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Pursuit | Pursuit is a social impact organization that creates transformation where it’s needed most. Through their four-year intensive program, they train adults with the most need and potential to get their first tech jobs, advance in their careers, and become the next generation of leaders in tech. Their graduates are hired by leading companies likePinterest, Kickstarter, LinkedIn, BlackRock, and JPMorgan Chase, and increase their average annual salaries from $18,000 to over $85,000.In addition to providing training and career support, Pursuit’s innovative operating model combines partnerships with tech companies to retrain their blue-collar workers and social impact investments to re-envision funding for outcomes-based organizations. By connecting talent with opportunity, Pursuit empowers graduates to bring change to their families, tech companies, and communities across the nation. | $10M | Seed | Mar 31, 2022 |  |
| Pursuit | Pursuit is a social impact organization that creates transformation where it’s needed most. Through our four-year intensive program, we train adults with the most need and potential to get their first tech jobs, advance in their careers, and become the next generation of leaders in tech. Their graduates are hired by leading companies likePinterest, Kickstarter, LinkedIn, BlackRock, and JPMorgan Chase, and increase their average annual salaries from $18,000 to over $85,000.In addition to providing training and career support, our innovative operating model combines partnerships with tech companies to retrain their blue-collar workers and social impact investments to re-envision funding for outcomes-based organizations. By connecting talent with opportunity, Pursuit empowers graduates to bring change to their families, tech companies, and communities across the nation. | $10M | Seed | Mar 31, 2022 |  |
| Future of Life Institute | The Future of Life Institute (FLI) is a nonprofit working to extreme risks from transformative technologies, as well as steer the development and use of these technologies to benefit life. FLI has tended to focus on the risks and opportunities from artificial intelligence in recent years, but also works in the biotechnology, nuclear and climatechange spaces. The Institute's work primarily consists of grantmaking for risk reduction, educational outreach, and policy advocacy within the United States, European Union and United States.FLI has become one of the world's leading voices on the governance of AI having created one of the earliest and most influential sets of governance principles: the Asilomar AI Principles. | $482.5K | Grant | Nov 15, 2021 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Alphadyne Asset Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alphadyne-asset-management) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does Vanguard Charitable invest in?

Vanguard Charitable invests primarily in Non Profit, Innovation Management and Collaboration startups, most often at Seed and Grant stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Vanguard Charitable's check size?

Vanguard Charitable typically joins rounds of $10M–$10M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Vanguard Charitable participates in.

### When did Vanguard Charitable last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Vanguard Charitable closed in Mar 2022. Shizune tracks 3 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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