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Donor-Advised Funds at Vanguard Charitable and Fidelity Processed About $1.5 Million in Grants to Compassion & Choices
Donor-advised funds at the two charities directed approximately $1.5 million to the assisted-suicide advocacy organization between 2021 and 2024. Both charities declined to comment on the grants.
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Vanguard Charitable and Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund facilitated approximately $1.5 million in grants to Compassion & Choices between 2021 and 2024, according to ProPublica data reported by dailycaller.com. The same organizations directed roughly $1.4 million to the group from 2020 through 2023.
Fidelity Investments managed more than $7 trillion in assets in 2024, while The Vanguard Group managed more than $12 trillion. Both charities declined to comment on the grants. Compassion & Choices and its affiliated C&C Action Network spent more than $1.5 million on direct lobbying, $3.7 million on policy and litigation, $3.9 million on advocacy, and $8.3 million on public education in fiscal year 2024-2025.
The organization aims to expand access to assisted suicide to at least half the U.S. population by 2028. Thirteen states and the District of Columbia have legalized the practice. Disabled-rights advocates filed lawsuits last month against assisted-suicide measures in Illinois and New York.
Compassion & Choices defended California’s End of Life Option Act against challenges in April 2023 and March 2025; a second lawsuit remains pending.com. Both charities began denying grants to the Southern Poverty Law Center after the U.S.
Department of Justice indicted the group last April.
