Michael Miller

Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program operates as a non profit organization that focuses on supporting donors' charitable plans. fulfills its mission to increase charitable giving by administering a donor-advised fund, a tax-effective way to consolidate, accrue, and grant assets to charity. The company was founded in December 1997 and is headquartered in Wayne, PA.

The Vanguard Group, Inc. (VGI) is an independent registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in Malvern, Pennsylvania. The firm was founded in 1975 by John Bogle. In 1976, they introduced the first indexed mutual fund, the First Index Investment Trust (now known as the Vanguard 500 Index Fund), to individual investors. VGI provides investment advisory services to Vanguard family of funds and Vanguard's non-US clients, which are comprised of the following: (1) funds established as trusts under the laws of the Province of Ontario in Canada and (2) separate account clients of Vanguard's international subsidiaries.