Vanguard Municipal Cash Management Fund Prospectus ...

[Pages:28]Vanguard Municipal Cash Management Fund Prospectus

December 17, 2021 Investor Shares Vanguard Municipal Cash Management Fund

This prospectus contains financial data for the Fund through the fiscal year ended August 31, 2021. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has not approved or disapproved these securities or passed upon the adequacy of this prospectus. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.

Contents

Fund Summary

1 Financial Highlights

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Investing in Tax-Exempt Funds

5 Investing With Vanguard

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Investing in Money Market Funds

6 Additional Information

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More on the Fund

8 Glossary of Investment Terms

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The Fund and Vanguard

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Investment Advisor

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Dividends and Taxes

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Share Price

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Fund Summary

Investment Objective The Fund seeks to provide current income that is exempt from federal personal income taxes, while maintaining liquidity.

Fees and Expenses The following table describes the fees and expenses you may pay if you buy, hold, and sell shares of the Fund. You may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees to financial intermediaries, which are not reflected in the table and example below.

Shareholder Fees (Fees paid directly from your investment)

Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases Purchase Fee Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Reinvested Dividends Redemption Fee

None None None None

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (Expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

Management Fees 12b-1 Distribution Fee Other Expenses Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses

0.01% None 0.00% 0.01%

Example

The following example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. It illustrates the hypothetical expenses that you would incur over various periods if you were to invest $10,000 in the Fund's shares. This example assumes that the Fund provides a return of 5% each year and that total annual fund operating expenses remain as stated in the preceding table. You would incur these hypothetical expenses whether or not you were to redeem your investment at the end of the given period. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

1 Year $1

3 Years $2

5 Years $3

10 Years $6

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Principal Investment Strategies The Fund invests in a variety of high-quality, short-term municipal securities. To be considered high quality, a security must be determined by Vanguard to present minimal credit risk based in part on a consideration of maturity, portfolio diversification, portfolio liquidity, and credit quality. The Fund invests in securities with effective maturities of 397 days or less, maintains a dollar-weighted average maturity of 60 days or less, and maintains a dollar-weighted average life of 120 days or less. As a matter of fundamental policy, the Fund will invest at least 80% of its assets in tax-exempt municipal bonds (including securities that may be subject to alternative minimum tax) under normal market conditions.

Principal Risks On August 12, 2016, the Fund, as an institutional money market fund, was required to transition to a floating net asset value (NAV) as a result of the SEC's money market fund reforms. The Fund is designed for investors with a low tolerance for risk; however, the Fund is subject to the following risks, which could affect the Fund's performance, and the level of risk may vary based on market conditions:

? Income risk, which is the chance that the Fund's income will decline because of falling interest rates. Because the Fund's income is based on short-term interest rates--which can fluctuate significantly over short periods--income risk is expected to be high. A low or negative interest rate environment will adversely affect the Fund's return. Low or negative interest rates, depending on their duration and severity, could prevent the Fund from, among other things, providing a positive yield and/or maintaining a stable share price of $1.

? Credit risk, which is the chance that the issuer of a security will fail to pay interest or principal in a timely manner or that negative perceptions of the issuer's ability to make such payments will cause the price of that security to decline. Credit risk should be very low for the Fund because it invests primarily in securities that are considered to be high quality.

? Tax risk, which is the chance that all or a portion of the tax-exempt income from municipal bonds held by the Fund will be declared taxable, possibly with retroactive effect, because of unfavorable changes in tax laws, adverse interpretations by the Internal Revenue Service or state or local tax authorities, or noncompliant conduct of a bond issuer.

? Manager risk, which is the chance that poor security selection will cause the Fund to underperform relevant benchmarks or other funds with a similar investment objective.

? Structured products risk. The Fund may invest in structured products such as tender option bonds and long-term municipal bonds combined with a demand

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feature (i.e., variable rate demand notes or VRDNs), which may involve risks different from, and possibly greater than, those of investments directly in the underlying securities or assets.

You could lose money by investing in the Fund. Because the share price of the Fund will fluctuate, when you sell your shares they may be worth more or less than what you originally paid for them. The Fund may impose a fee upon sale of your shares or may temporarily suspend your ability to sell shares if the Fund's liquidity falls below required minimums because of market conditions or other factors. An investment in the Fund is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The Fund's sponsor has no legal obligation to provide financial support to the Fund, and you should not expect that the sponsor will provide financial support to the Fund at any time.

Annual Total Returns The following bar chart and table are intended to help you understand the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows how the performance of the Fund has varied from one calendar year to another over the periods shown. The table shows how the average annual total returns of the Fund compare with those of a comparative benchmark, which has investment characteristics similar to those of the Fund. Returns for the Tax-Exempt Money Market Funds Average are derived from data provided by Lipper, a Thomson Reuters Company. Keep in mind that the Fund's past performance does not indicate how the Fund will perform in the future. Updated performance information is available on our website at performance or by calling Vanguard toll-free at 800-662-7447.

Annual Total Returns -- Vanguard Municipal Cash Management Fund Investor Shares1

2011 3%

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

2%

1.43

1.47

1%

0.82

0.40

0.55

0.15

0.15

0.10

0.05

0.03

0%

1 The year-to-date return as of the most recent calendar quarter, which ended on September 30, 2021, was 0.03%.

During the periods shown in the bar chart, the highest and lowest returns for a calendar quarter were:

Highest Lowest

Total Return 0.43% 0.01%

Quarter June 30, 2019 March 31, 2015

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Average Annual Total Returns for Periods Ended December 31, 2020

Vanguard Municipal Cash Management Fund Investor Shares

Tax-Exempt Money Market Funds Average

1 Year 5 Years

0.55% 0.93% 0.34% 0.58%

10 Years

0.51% 0.29%

Investment Advisor The Vanguard Group, Inc. (Vanguard)

Portfolio Manager

John Grimes, CFA, Portfolio Manager at Vanguard. He has managed the Fund since 2017.

Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares The Fund has been established by Vanguard as a cash management vehicle for the Vanguard funds and certain trusts and accounts managed by Vanguard or its affiliates. The Fund is not available to other investors. As a result of the Fund's transition to a floating NAV, subscription orders in the Fund can only be placed in dollars, while redemption orders can be placed in units or dollars. When a trade is processed depends on the day and time Vanguard receives the request in good order and the manner in which it is submitted. Generally, trades placed after the close of business are processed during the next business day.

Tax Information The Fund's distributions may be taxable as ordinary income or capital gain. A majority of the income dividends that you receive from the Fund are expected to be exempt from federal income taxes. However, a portion of the Fund's distributions may be subject to federal, state, or local income taxes or the federal alternative minimum tax.

Payments to Financial Intermediaries The Fund and its investment advisor do not pay financial intermediaries for sales of Fund shares.

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Investing in Tax-Exempt Funds

What Are Municipal Bond Funds? Municipal bond funds invest primarily in interest-bearing securities issued by state and local governments and by other governmental authorities to support their needs or to finance public projects. A municipal bond--like a bond issued by a corporation or the U.S. government--obligates the issuer to pay the bondholder a fixed or variable amount of interest periodically and to repay the principal value of the bond on a specific maturity date. Unlike most other bonds, however, municipal bonds generally pay interest that is exempt from federal income taxes and, in some cases, from state and local taxes. For certain shareholders, the interest may be subject to the alternative minimum tax.

Taxable Versus Tax-Exempt Funds Yields on tax-exempt bonds--such as some municipal bonds--are typically lower than those on taxable bonds, so investing in a tax-exempt fund makes sense only if you stand to save more in taxes than you would earn as additional income while invested in a taxable fund.

To determine whether a tax-exempt fund--such as Vanguard Municipal Cash Management Fund--makes sense for you, compute the tax-exempt fund's taxable-equivalent yield. This figure enables you to take taxes into account when comparing your potential return on a tax-exempt fund with the potential return on a taxable fund.

To compute the taxable-equivalent yield, divide the tax-exempt fund's yield by the difference between 100% and your federal tax bracket. For example, if you are in the 37% tax bracket and subject to the 3.8% Net Investment Income tax, and can earn a tax-exempt yield of 5%, the taxable-equivalent yield would be 8.45% (5% divided by 59.2% [i.e., 100% ? 37% ? 3.8%]).

In this example, you would choose the tax-exempt fund if its taxable-equivalent yield of 8.45% were greater than the yield of a similar, though taxable, investment.

Remember that we have used an assumed tax bracket in this example. Make sure to verify your actual effective marginal rate before calculating taxable-equivalent yields of your own.

There is no guarantee that all of a tax-exempt fund's income from its municipal bonds will remain exempt from federal, state, or local income taxes. Income from municipal bonds held by a fund could be declared taxable, possibly with retroactive effect, because of unfavorable changes in tax laws, adverse interpretations by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) or state or local tax authorities, or noncompliant conduct of a bond issuer.

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Investing in Money Market Funds

What is Money Market Fund Reform? In July 2014, the SEC implemented a number of regulatory changes designed to enhance the stability and resilience of all money market funds. The reforms have created three categories of money market funds: ? Retail money market funds, which may maintain a stable net asset value (NAV) but are subject to liquidity fees and redemption gates. ? Government money market funds, which may maintain a stable NAV but are not required to implement liquidity fees and redemption gates. ? Institutional money market funds, which are required to have a floating NAV and are subject to liquidity fees and redemption gates.

The board of trustees of Vanguard CMT Funds (the Board), in accordance with the best interest of the shareholders, approved a number of changes in response to the SEC's 2014 amendments to the rules governing money market funds. These changes--including the Fund's transition to a floating NAV and the Board's ability to implement liquidity fees and redemption gates if the Fund's weekly liquid assets fall below established thresholds--are now in effect. As part of these changes, information regarding the Fund's weekly liquid assets for the prior six months (by day, as of the close of business) is available on the Fund's Portfolio page at .

How Does This Affect Vanguard Money Market Funds? The money market fund reforms impact money market funds differently depending on the types of investors permitted to invest in a fund and the types of securities in which a fund may invest.

Vanguard Municipal Cash Management Fund Vanguard has designated Vanguard Municipal Cash Management Fund as an institutional money market fund.

Institutional money market funds are not limited to "natural persons" and may be held by institutional as well as retail investors. An institutional money market fund generally is not permitted to use amortized cost or penny rounding methods to calculate NAV. Rather, an institutional money market fund is required to transact at a floating NAV, a market-based NAV calculated to four decimal places or an equivalent value for funds with a different share price (e.g., $10.000 or $100.00). If an institutional money market fund's weekly liquid assets fall below a certain threshold, the institutional money market fund may be subject to liquidity fees and redemption gates.

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