JD Vance's Net Worth, by His Own Disclosure

The Filing Every Official Has to Make — Finally Readable

The President, the Vice President and every Cabinet member file a financial disclosure with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics (OGE): an annual snapshot of what they own and earn (Form 278e), plus a report every time they buy or sell (Form 278T). The documents are public — just scanned PDFs with no database and no search.

So we parsed Vice President Vance's. Every figure on this page comes from his own OGE filing. We report what it says, and draw no conclusions.

How Much Is JD Vance Worth?

The honest answer is a range. The OGE form records each asset in a bracket, so a precise figure isn't possible from the document alone. Adding up his disclosed brackets yields a net worth of roughly $6.5 million to $22.4 million — a fraction of a percent of the President's. It is the portfolio of a successful venture investor and author, not a business empire: a few large fund and ETF positions, a venture stake, some real estate, and cash.

Where the Money Comes From

Two engines: venture capital and a bestselling book. After Yale Law and a stint in finance, Vance worked at Peter Thiel's Mithril Capital and then co-founded Narya Capital, a Cincinnati venture fund seeded with Thiel backing. His 2016 memoir Hillbilly Elegy became a No. 1 bestseller and a Netflix film. Both show up directly in the filing: a $1–5 million promissory note from Narya Capital Management, a stake in Narya Capital Fund I, and Hillbilly Elegy royalties of $50,001–$100,000 a year.

The Portfolio: ETFs, a VC Fund, a Book and Bitcoin

The largest line items in the disclosure, by the form's value brackets:

Notice what isn't there: no individual public-company stocks. Vance's market exposure is almost entirely through diversified index funds plus his own venture fund — a structure that carries far fewer single-company conflicts than a hand-picked stock portfolio. His largest disclosed liability is a $1–5 million Charles Schwab line of credit.

The assets you can actually picture

Most of his book is index funds — but three holdings are concrete, and all three are disclosed:

A Vice President Holding Bitcoin in Office

One line stands out for a sitting Vice President: a Bitcoin position valued at $250,001–$500,000, retained on his disclosure while the administration formulates federal cryptocurrency policy. It is disclosed and legal — and it is exactly the kind of holding the disclosure system exists to make visible.

The One Tie Worth Watching: Narya and Peter Thiel

Vance's disclosure keeps him tied to Narya Capital — the fund he co-founded with backing from Peter Thiel, who also funded a roughly $15 million super PAC supporting Vance's 2022 Senate campaign. He retains the Narya Fund I stake, the $1–5 million Narya note, and a management-fee receivable. None of this is hidden; all of it is on the 278e. It is simply the relationship a reader should keep in view — the same backer behind both his fortune and his political rise.

How He Stacks Up

At $6.5–$22.4 million, Vance is wealthy by any normal standard and modest by the standard of this administration. President Trump's disclosed net worth runs into the billions; Cabinet members like Howard Lutnick and Scott Bessent are worth hundreds of millions to billions. Against the richest members of Congress, Vance lands in the upper-middle of the pack — with a cleaner, more index-driven portfolio than most.

How We Count It

Every figure aggregates parsed line items from Vice President Vance's OGE Form 278e annual disclosure. Asset and income figures use the form's brackets, which band each holding (for example, “$1,000,001 – $5,000,000”), so the net-worth figure is a defensible range rather than a single number. We report what the document says and draw no legal conclusions about any person.

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Not financial advice. All data from public federal disclosures. GovGreed reports disclosed financial information and does not allege that any person violated any law.