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The SPLC’s ‘Hate Map’ Is Still Used to Limit Giving to Conservative Organizations

Allen Mendenhall | Christopher Lynch

The Southern Poverty Law Center’s descent from its once-vaunted role as a sentinel against extremism has been precipitous and ironic. An organization whose “hate map” promiscuously equates parental rights groups such as Moms for Liberty with neo-Nazi organizations now stands indicted by the Department of Justice on charges of wire fraud, false statements, and conspiracy to commit money laundering.

Federal prosecutors allege that, between 2014 and 2023, the SPLC secretly funneled millions of donor dollars—more than $4 million by some accounts—to individuals associated with the very groups it professed to combat, including the Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, and National Socialist outfits. Prepaid credit cards and shell accounts, it is said, facilitated this curious philanthropy.

To the disinterested observer, such revelations ought to suffice as a final discreditation. Yet portions of Corporate America remain stubbornly unpersuaded. Many large firms continue to rely on Benevity, a Canadian “corporate social responsibility” software provider, for employee charitable matching and donation programs.

Benevity’s platform has deployed the SPLC’s tendentious diagnostic tools—including its notorious hate map—to screen and redirect contributions away from conservative and religious nonprofits.

During the most recent proxy season, we at The Heritage Foundation discovered precisely........

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