Charitable Giving Badges help you track your progress in your quest to make the world a better place. As you earn badges, you can rest assured that you’re maximizing your impact and putting your tools and strategies to good use. Use your earned badges to discover your strengths as a generous giver!
All available badges
Here you’ll find all available badges and their descriptions. Use these to compare your giving style to fellow donors and perhaps discover new ways to give.
Charity Champion
Our donors are generous, thoughtful givers, and they’ve supported nearly 42,000 distinct charities in 2022 across cause areas and around the world.
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Charity Champion
While the average U.S. donor contributes to 4.5 different charities in a year,1 our donors have supported an average of about 6 charities per year over the last 5 years.
The top tier of donors who earned a Charity Champion badge have supported at least 7 different charities in 2022.
Limitless Giver
In 2022, 73% of our grants were gifted for unrestricted purposes. Choosing an ‘unrestricted’ grant purpose when recommending grants puts your favorite charities in the driver’s seat.
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Limitless Giver
Research shows that only 20% of nonprofit funding in the U.S. is unrestricted. This can contribute to charities limiting their overhead to attract and retain funding, preventing investment in future growth and innovation.2
Donors who earned a Limitless Giver badge recommended 100% of grants in 2022 as unrestricted.
Year-Round Giver
While December is the most popular month for charitable donations, nonprofits need support beyond the end of the year. By granting year-round, donors can better support the causes they care about, maximizing their impact.
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Year-Round Giver
Vanguard Charitable donors recommend grants in an average of 3.6 months of the year. This allows nonprofits to better plan their budgeting goals for the rest of the year as they receive a steady stream of grants rather than waiting for the end of the year.
The top-tier of donors who earned a Year-Round Giver badge recommended a grant in at least 5 different months in 2022.
Repeat Supporter
In 2022, 23% of our donors’ recommended grants were recurring. Setting up a recurring grant to your charity of choice is a powerful way to help it grow its organizational capacity.
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Repeat Supporter
On average, 50% of individuals give just once to a charity.3 Recurring grants reduce fundraising costs, increase investment in the organization’s sustainability, and support future plans.
Committed Collaborator
When you partner with the same nonprofit for more than a year or two, you open the door to building a long-term relationship with the charity.
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Committed Collaborator
Committed giving creates a relationship based on accountability, transparency, and trust. You’re also giving the charity room to grow in capacity, expertise, and infrastructure.
Interstate Idealist
Our toughest social, environmental, and economic challenges aren’t always neatly bound by geographic borders. The organizations leading the charge to address these issues are found throughout the United States.
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Interstate Idealist
You can use your account to easily support charities—regardless of where they’re physically located. Approximately 44% of our donors’ recommended grants were issued to charities located outside of donors’ home states.
Alternative Hero
Donating illiquid gifts and other complex assets to fund your account is a fantastic way to unlock charitable dollars in your portfolio and maximize your tax savings.
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Alternative Hero
We liquidated tens of millions of dollars in recent years in complex assets for our donors, efficiently unlocking those dollars for charities. We have years of experience in accepting, processing, and liquidating complex assets.
Retirement Fund Maximizer
Qualified Charitable Distributions (QCDs) are direct distributions from an IRA to an eligible charity.4
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Retirement Fund Maximizer
Although donor-advised fund accounts are ineligible to receive QCDs, they can often be contributed to our mission-driven charitable funds. Read more about our funds here.
Global Benefactor
In an increasingly interconnected world, many donors are seeking ways to make their giving go global.
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Global Benefactor
Thanks to our partnerships with international grantmaking experts, we are more equipped than ever to send grants to organizations working throughout the world quickly, safely, and affordably.
Footnotes
1The Ultimate List Of Charitable Giving Statistics For 2022
25 Ways Nonprofits Struggle (And How To Overcome Them)
3Sargeant, Adrian and Elaine Jay. Building Donor Loyalty. Jossey-Bass 2004, p. 2.
4Qualified Charitable Distributions (QCDs) are direct distributions from an IRA to an eligible charity. IRA accountholders who are at least age 72 (previously 70 ½) can contribute some or all of their IRAs to charity in fulfillment of some of their required minimum distribution requirements (RMDs). Although donor-advised fund accounts at Vanguard Charitable are ineligible to receive QCDs, QCDs may in some cases be contributed to our mission-driven charitable funds: The Philanthropic Impact Fund and the Sustainable Disaster-Relief Fund.
Maintenance fee may be applied
Accounts having a balance below $25,000 may be subject to an annual maintenance fee of $250.
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Our premier clients enjoy reduced pricing to further maximize their impact.
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