Vanguard Group

Who owns it

No filing-sourced ownership yet. That means we haven’t found a filing — not that the company has no owners.

What’s documented

• 2026-12-31politicalDonationCorporate PAC contributed ~$383,000 to federal candidates/committees (2026 cycle).source →
• 2026-04-21otherPeople's Union USA called for a national boycott of General Mills products from April 21-28, 2026, as part of its rolling Economic Blackout Tour targeting major corporations over DEI rollbacks and economic inequality; targeted brands include Cheerios, Betty Crocker, Pillsbury, Nature Valley, and other General Mills products; the campaign follows earlier boycotts of Amazon, Nestle, Walmart, and Target in the same seriessource →
• 2026-04-18otherPeople's Union USA organized a three-day national economic blackout from April 18-20, 2026, timed to Easter weekend, urging Americans to withhold all spending at major retailers and online platforms including Walmart, Amazon, and Target; the protest builds on earlier single-company boycotts and aims to spotlight corporate rollbacks of DEI programs and rising prices; organizers have pledged to continue mobilizing through at least July 4, 2026source →
• 2026-03-19otherThe Target DEI boycott reignited in mid-March 2026 after pastor Jamal Bryant declared the yearlong protest over on March 11; grassroots organizers including former Ohio State Senator Nina Turner and Minneapolis activist Nekima Levy Armstrong rejected his decision, vowed to escalate actions, and confirmed the nationwide boycott continuessource →
• 2026-03-11otherLeaders of a yearlong boycott against Target announced in March 2026 that they are ending the protest that began after the retailer scaled back diversity, equity, and inclusion programs; the boycott ended without any new commitments or policy reversals from Targetsource →
• 2026-03-01regulatoryActionIn early 2026, the DOJ urged Judge Leonie Brinkema to force Google to sell its ad exchange (AdX) and open-source its auction algorithms after the court ruled in August 2025 that Google illegally monopolized two markets for publisher ad tools and tied them together anticompetitivelysource →
• 2026-02-25environmentalEnbridge and Energy Transfer announced plans in early 2026 to begin transporting up to 250,000 barrels per day of Alberta tar sands crude oil through a pipeline to US refineries, raising concerns from environmental and Indigenous rights groups about new fossil fuel infrastructuresource →
• 2025-12-31lobbyingReported ~$1,310,000 in US federal lobbying activity (2025) on Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities, Retirement, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code; lobbied 9 government entities.source →
• 2025-12-29legalProceedingThe EEOC filed a lawsuit against Wendy's International alleging disability and age discrimination after a district manager in his late 50s was barred from returning to work following disability-related surgery despite having a medical releasesource →
• 2025-08-01lobbyingBell Canada submitted a brief to the House of Commons Finance Committee arguing that Canada's 3.5 GHz spectrum auction cost carriers $8.9B (10x Australia's comparable auction) and that high spectrum fees raise wireless bills for consumerssource →
• 2025-05-15lobbyingBell Canada launched a national multimedia lobbying campaign ('Build. Connect. Grow Canada.') urging the CRTC and federal government to reverse decisions allowing competitors to resell services on Bell's fibre networks, and reduced capital expenditures by $1.2B since the CRTC's November 2023 decisionsource →
• 2025-02-01laborRelationsCostco reached a new three-year contract with the Teamsters Union representing 18,000 workers after 85% of unionized workers voted to authorize a strike; the deal raised top-of-scale wages to $30.20/hr (rising to $32.20/hr by 2027) and increased pension contributions by 22%source →
• 2025-01-31otherVanguard significantly softened its proxy voting policies on board diversity, removing prior language requiring negative votes against nominating chairs for insufficient action on gender, race, and ethnicity representation on corporate boardssource →
• 2024-12-31lobbyingReported ~$300,000 in US federal lobbying activity (2024) on Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities, Retirement, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code; lobbied 2 government entities.source →
• 2024-12-31politicalDonationCorporate PAC contributed ~$438,000 to federal candidates/committees (2024 cycle).source →
• 2024-01-15laborRelationsWendy's faced ongoing boycott campaign over refusal to join the Fair Food Program; a supplier farm (Bioparques del Occidente) was investigated for child labor, physical violence, and forced labor in operations supplying tomatoes to Wendy'ssource →
• 2022-12-31politicalDonationCorporate PAC contributed ~$73,500 to federal candidates/committees (2022 cycle).source →

What we’ve classified so far

• environmental damage3
• political influence2
• worker exploitation2
• discrimination1

14 further documented actions have not been classified yet. These counts show what we have got to, not a total.