The Vanguard Group
The Vanguard Group is an American investor-owned asset manager headquartered in Malvern, Pennsylvania, and is "the largest provider of mutual funds in the world" and the second-largest exchange-traded fund (ETF) provider after BlackRock's iShares. Vanguard manages approximately $12 trillion in assets as of 2025 and employs roughly 20,000 people (the "crew") as of December 31, 2024. The firm was founded on May 1, 1975 by John C. ("Jack") Bogle and is structured as a mutual: "Vanguard is owned by the funds managed by the company and is therefore owned by its customers." Salim Ramji was appointed Chief Executive Officer in July 2024. Vanguard's business spans index and active mutual funds, ETFs, personal advisor services, retirement plan recordkeeping (Vanguard Retirement Plan Services), institutional asset management, fixed income, and a financial-advisor channel served through Vanguard Financial Advisor Services. Vanguard operates across the Americas, Europe, and Asia Pacific. Despite that scale, Vanguard does not publish a public developer API program — there is no public OpenAPI specification, no SDKs, no CLI, no public webhooks, and no Vanguard-published public RSS feed. Investor, advisor, recordkeeping, and distribution-platform integrations are delivered through authentication-gated portals (investor.vanguard.com, advisors.vanguard.com, institutional.vanguard.com), PDF reporting, brokerage/custodian rails, fund-administrator data feeds, and industry recordkeeping interfaces.
Index entry only — little beyond a description and a link, and nothing machine-readable enough for an agent to act on without a human reading the site first.
API Evangelist profiles The Vanguard Group the way a machine reads it — 7 machine-readable artifacts, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — The Vanguard Group scores 11.4/100 (minimal), with a separate agent-readiness read of 0/100 (human only). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
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How we profile The Vanguard Group
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for The Vanguard Group. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
GraphQL 1
Where a provider ships GraphQL, the schema is the contract. We profile it alongside the REST surface so the whole interface is legible in one place.
GraphQL schemas published by this provider.
Vanguard Group GraphQL
The Vanguard Group does not publish a native public GraphQL API. All investor, advisor, recordkeeping, and institutional integrations are delivered through authentication-gated ...
GRAPHQLFeatures 5
The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.
Notable capabilities this provider offers.
Quarterly Holdings and Annual Reports
Fund-level reports (annual, semi-annual, summary prospectus, statement of additional information) published through the corporate site and SEC EDGAR.
SEC EDGAR Filings
13F-HR, N-PORT, N-CSR, N-CEN, N-PX, prospectuses, and other regulatory filings available via SEC EDGAR.
Press Releases and Newsroom
News, press releases, and corporate communications published on the corporate site; no public RSS feed observed.
Research and Commentary
Vanguard Research Center publishes whitepapers on indexing, advice, retirement, and capital-market forecasts (Vanguard Capital Markets Model, VCMM).
Personal Advisor Tools
Authenticated retirement and goals planning tools for Personal Advisor clients (digital, hybrid, and wealth-management tiers).
Security Posture 1
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Resources
Every other property we hold for The Vanguard Group — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 2
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 1
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Learn 1
Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 2
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 9
The organization behind the API
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Other 24
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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