WASHINGTON, D.C. —1792 Exchange today announced the growing coalition behind an open letter to Benevity demanding that the charitable-giving platform immediately stop using the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) discredited “Hate Map” and “Hate List” to determine eligibility for corporate giving and employee matching programs.
The coalition has expanded with the addition of Turning Point USA, PragerU, and Focus on the Family, joining a powerful group of mainstream organizations that have been slanderously labeled “hate groups” by the SPLC, not for any violence or extremism, but solely for dissenting from progressive orthodoxy on issues of life, family, faith, and liberty.
The open letter was first delivered to Benevity leadership in October 2025. Despite Benevity facilitating billions of dollars in charitable giving each year, the company has provided no response and continues to employ a filter designed to block employee donations to these respected nonprofits while allowing the SPLC itself and ideologically aligned groups like Planned Parenthood to remain fully eligible.
In light of the U.S. Department of Justice’s April 2026 indictment of the SPLC, now further strengthened by a superseding indictment unsealed last week, the coalition is renewing its urgent call for reform. The new filing reveals explosive details: the SPLC secretly paid millions of donor dollars to actual extremists, including KKK leaders, neo-Nazis, Aryan Nations members, and a Unite the Right organizer. These “field sources” used SPLC funds to host rallies, recruit members, purchase cross-burning materials, and grow hate-group chapters, all while the SPLC continued to brand peaceful conservative, Christian, and family organizations as “hate groups” to fuel its fundraising.
The letter states: “By relying on these partisan designations, Benevity legitimizes a severely biased blacklist that inspires violence, urges discrimination against mainstream organizations, and undermines the spirit of charitable giving.” It highlights the SPLC’s role in the 2012 Family Research Council shooting and the troubling timing of its attacks on Turning Point USA immediately before the assassination of its founder, Charlie Kirk.
“Benevity has had more than eight months to do the right thing,” said Douglas Napier, CEO of 1792 Exchange. “Instead of correcting course, it continues to outsource moral judgment to a now-indicted activist organization whose ‘hate’ labels have been weaponized to silence peaceful Americans and restrict employee freedom of conscience. The growing coalition makes clear: this is no longer acceptable. Benevity must immediately drop the SPLC’s discredited lists, adopt a viewpoint-neutral eligibility process, and restore access to the organizations it has unfairly excluded.”
The full open letter, now signed by the following organizations, is available here:
- Alliance Defending Freedom
- American Family Association
- Center for Christian Virtue
- David Horowitz Freedom Center
- Do No Harm
- Family Policy Alliance
- Family Research Council
- Focus on the Family
- GenSpect
- Moms for Liberty
- Partners for Ethical Care
- PragerU
- 1792 Exchange
- Them Before Us
- Turning Point USA
Independent research by 1792 Exchange has identified more than 200 major corporations that use Benevity’s platform. These companies are now on notice: continuing to rely on the SPLC’s blacklist exposes them to significant reputational and shareholder risk while enabling viewpoint discrimination in philanthropy.
The coalition calls on Benevity’s new CEO, Soraya Alexander, to demonstrate a genuine commitment to fairness, transparency, and diversity of thought by publicly ending all use of the SPLC’s “Hate Map” and “Hate List.” It also urges corporations using Benevity to immediately demand these changes—or discontinue their partnership until the platform returns to ideological neutrality.
Charitable giving should empower generosity, not enforce ideology.
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