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Vanguard Small-Cap Growth Index Fund proxy voting record
Vanguard Index Funds files this fund's proxy votes with the SEC once a year. This is what it did with the shares your retirement savings paid for.
SourceProxy-voting record filed by Vanguard Index Funds on 2025-08-27 · open the filing · vote table (ProxyVotingTable.xml, 4 MB)
How it voted, by issue
Proposals are grouped by the subject the filer itself recorded. On management's own executive pay resolutions, this fund voted in favour 96.3% of the time across 463 votes.
| Issue | Proposals faced | Backed | Share backed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Climate & environment | 3 | 0 | 0% |
| Workers & human rights | 1 | 0 | 0% |
| Pay equity & inclusion | 3 | 0 | 0% |
| Executive pay | 1 | 0 | 0% |
| Corporate governance | 21 | 8 | 38.1% |
| Other social issues | 3 | 0 | 0% |
Ballots it voted
Casey's General Stores, Inc. · 28 August 2024 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Climate & environment
Should Casey's General Stores publish a fuller account of its emissions and how it plans to cut them?
Shareholders asked the company to disclose its greenhouse gas emissions more completely, or to have its reduction targets independently assessed, so that the plan can be checked rather than taken on trust.
AGAINST Vanguard Small-Cap Growth Index Fund voted with 523,513 shares
“Shareholder proposal regarding greenhouse gas emissions reporting.”
The column headers and this one row, lifted unaltered out of EDGAR’s rendering of the filing.
SourceVanguard Index Funds, Form N-PX filed 2025-08-27 · accession 0001104659-25-083466 · series S000002846 · open the filing
Columbia Sportswear Company · 5 June 2025 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Climate & environment
Should Columbia Sportswear publish a fuller account of its emissions and how it plans to cut them?
Shareholders asked the company to disclose its greenhouse gas emissions more completely, or to have its reduction targets independently assessed, so that the plan can be checked rather than taken on trust.
AGAINST Vanguard Small-Cap Growth Index Fund voted with 218,261 shares
“Shareholder proposal regarding the adoption of GHG emissions reduction targets.”
The column headers and this one row, lifted unaltered out of EDGAR’s rendering of the filing.
SourceVanguard Index Funds, Form N-PX filed 2025-08-27 · accession 0001104659-25-083466 · series S000002846 · open the filing
A. O. Smith Corporation · 8 April 2025 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Workforce & human rights
A Board report on our hiring practices with respect to formerly incarcerated people
AGAINST Vanguard Small-Cap Growth Index Fund voted with 1,707,364 shares
“Stockholder proposal requesting a Board report on our hiring practices with respect to formerly incarcerated people, if properly presented at the Annual Meeting.”
The column headers and this one row, lifted unaltered out of EDGAR’s rendering of the filing.
SourceVanguard Index Funds, Form N-PX filed 2025-08-27 · accession 0001104659-25-083466 · series S000002846 · open the filing
DraftKings Inc. · 19 May 2025 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Pay equity & inclusion
Should DraftKings disclose, or change, who sits on its board?
Shareholders asked the company to publish a board skills-and-diversity matrix, or to commit to a minimum representation of women among its directors.
AGAINST Vanguard Small-Cap Growth Index Fund voted with 6,589,857 shares
“To consider a shareholder proposal regarding board matrix disclosure.”
The column headers and this one row, lifted unaltered out of EDGAR’s rendering of the filing.
SourceVanguard Index Funds, Form N-PX filed 2025-08-27 · accession 0001104659-25-083466 · series S000002846 · open the filing
Planet Fitness, Inc. · 6 May 2025 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Pay equity & inclusion
Should Planet Fitness publish the workforce breakdown it already files with the government?
Shareholders asked the company to publish its EEO-1 report — the table of employees by job category, race and sex that it is already required to submit to federal regulators — instead of keeping it confidential.
AGAINST Vanguard Small-Cap Growth Index Fund voted with 1,207,612 shares
“Stockholder proposal regarding EEO-1 report disclosure policy.”
The column headers and this one row, lifted unaltered out of EDGAR’s rendering of the filing.
SourceVanguard Index Funds, Form N-PX filed 2025-08-27 · accession 0001104659-25-083466 · series S000002846 · open the filing
Texas Pacific Land Corporation · 8 November 2024 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Executive pay
Should Texas Pacific Land be able to take back pay awarded on results that turn out to be wrong?
Shareholders asked the board to strengthen its clawback policy, so that bonuses and share awards can be recovered when they were earned on misstated results or on conduct that later causes the company harm.
AGAINST Vanguard Small-Cap Growth Index Fund voted with 128,121 shares
“To consider a non-binding stockholder proposal regarding an amendment to the Company's Clawback Policy.”
The column headers and this one row, lifted unaltered out of EDGAR’s rendering of the filing.
SourceVanguard Index Funds, Form N-PX filed 2025-08-27 · accession 0001104659-25-083466 · series S000002846 · open the filing
Riot Platforms, Inc. · 10 June 2025 · put on the ballot by shareholder
Should every Riot Platforms director face election every year?
Shareholders asked the company to end its staggered board, so that all directors stand for election annually rather than once every three years.
FOR Vanguard Small-Cap Growth Index Fund voted with 4,219,406 shares
“Approve, in a non-binding vote, D. E. Shaw's proposal, if properly presented at the Annual Meeting, requesting that the Board take all necessary steps in its power, including amending the Company's bylaws, to declassify the Board so that all directors are elected on an annual basis.”
The column headers and this one row, lifted unaltered out of EDGAR’s rendering of the filing.
SourceVanguard Index Funds, Form N-PX filed 2025-08-27 · accession 0001104659-25-083466 · series S000002846 · open the filing
Exact Sciences Corporation · 12 June 2025 · put on the ballot by shareholder
Should a Exact Sciences director who fails to win a majority actually leave?
Shareholders asked the company to adopt a policy under which a director who receives more votes withheld than for must resign and the board must act on it — closing the gap where a director can lose an election and stay on.
AGAINST Vanguard Small-Cap Growth Index Fund voted with 2,600,192 shares
“To vote on a shareholder proposal concerning the adoption of a director election resignation governance policy, if properly presented.”
The column headers and this one row, lifted unaltered out of EDGAR’s rendering of the filing.
SourceVanguard Index Funds, Form N-PX filed 2025-08-27 · accession 0001104659-25-083466 · series S000002846 · open the filing
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