383 Rhode Island Street
Suite 301 
San Francisco, CA
94103

• Assets: $269,568- (2005)
• Grants Received: $1,733,579 (2005)
• Grants Awarded: $1,120,643 (2005)

The Vanguard Public Foundation was created in 1972 by Peter Stern and others as a pass-through for donors wishing to give money to organizations they considered crusaders for "peace and justice" in the U.S. and around the world. In the words of Vanguard, its grants are funded by "a broad spectrum of individual donors who have pooled their collective resources in order to maximize efforts to end social and economic injustice." Viewing the United States as a nation rife with discrimination against minorities and women, Vanguard "strives to eradicate racism in all its manifestations and promote civil rights, economic justice, gender equality and community empowerment." Other areas of concern are "sexism, homophobia, and environmental degradation."

Among the many recipients of Vanguard Public Foundation grants are: the Tides Foundation; the Tides Center; Global Exchange; Public Media Center; the Natural Resources Defense Council; the Rainforest Action Network; the Pesticide Action Network of North America; the World Wildlife Fund; Just Food; the Institute for Food and Development Policy; the Environmental Defense Fund; People For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals; the New America Foundation; the Fund for Wild Nature; Greenpeace; the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy; the American Civil Liberties Union; the Global Alliance Initiative; the Agape Foundation; Alternet; the American Farmland Trust; the American Friends Service Committee; Amnesty International; Astraea National Lesbian Action Foundation; the Berkeley Zen Center; the Bread and Roses Community Fund; the Buddhist Peace Fellowship; the California League of Conservation Voters Education Fund; the California Peace Action Education Fund; California Prison Focus; the California Public Interest Research Group Charitable Trust; Californians for Justice Education Fund; Casa de Proyecto Lebertad; the Center for Constitutional Rights; the Center for Justice and Accountability; the Center for Third World Organizing; the Center to Prevent Handgun Violence; Changemakers; Children's Alliance; the Children's Defense Fund; the Coalition on Homelessness San Francisco; the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund; Earthjustice; Earth Promise; Eco Village Network of the Americas; the Environmental Law and Justice Clinic School of Law; the Environmental Media Association; the Environmental Protection Information Center; Equal Rights Advocates; Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting; the Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project; the First Amendment Foundation; Friends of Free Speech Radio; Friends of the River; Friends of the Urban Forest; the Funding Exchange; Global Equal Access; the Global Fund for Women; Global Indymedia; Global Greengrants Fund; Green Empowerment; the Guatemalan Human Rights Commission; Human Rights Watch; If Americans Knew; In Defense of Animals; the Immigrant Legal Resource Center; In These Times; the Institute for Policy Studies; the Institute for Public Accuracy; the Integrative Center for Culture and Healing; the International Development Exchange; the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission; the International Society for Ecology and Culture; the Jewish Fund for Justice; Jewish Voices for Peace; Jobs With Justice; KPFA (Pacifica Network Free Speech Radio); La Pena Cultural Center; the Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area; the League of Women Voters of San Francisco; the Legal Aid Society of San Francisco; Mountain View Voices For Peace; the Mount Shasta Bioregional Ecology Center; the Ms. Foundation for Women; the National Center for Lesbian Rights; the National Center for Youth Law; the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty; the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG); the National Organization For Women Foundation; the National Wildlife Federation; Native Action; the Nature Conservancy; Operation Rainbow; Oxfam America; the Peace Action Education Fund; Peace Bridges International; the Peace Development Fund; Peaceworkers; Physicians for Social Responsibility; the Planned Parenthood Federation America; the Ploughshares Fund; the Prison Activist Resource Center; Prison Radio; the Progressive Animal Welfare Society; Rabbis for Human Rights; the Rural Southern Voice for Peace; the School of Americas Watch; Senior Action Network; the Shefa Fund; the Sierra Club Foundation; the Southern Poverty Law Center; The Progressive; the Women's Foundation; the Threshold Foundation; the Unitarian Universalist Association; the United Farmworkers of America; United for a Fair Economy; Western States Legal Foundation; Witness for Peace; the Women's Donors Network; the Women's Employment Rights Clinic; the Women's Funding Network; the World Wildlife Fund; Youth for Environmental Sanity; the Movement Strategy Center; Z Magazine; the Zen Hospice Project; Diversity Works; Death Penalty Focus; the Community Homeless Alliance Ministry; the Asian Pacific Environmental Network; the Gay-Straight Alliance Network; Instituto Laboral de La Raza; the International Indian Treaty Council; the Oakland Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN); the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment and Security; People Acting in Community Together; People Organized to Win Employment Rights; the San Francisco Living Wage Coalition; Solidarity Info Services; War Times; Women of Color Resource Center; the Young Worker Project; Youth Speaks; the Emilio Zapata Oakland Street Academy; Free At Last; the California Latino Civil Rights Network; the Freedom Bound Center; the Madera Coalition for Community Justice; People Organized to Demand Environmental and Economic Rights; Religious Witness with Homeless People; Centro Legal de La Raza; the Indigenous Women's Network; the Progressive Unity Fund/International Action Center; the Third Wave Foundation; and the Bay Area Progressive Forum.