IKEA ‘Unlawfully’ Fires Christian Employee Who Refused To Use Trans Pronouns: Legal Watchdog

Growing scrutiny of the Southern Poverty Law Center has sparked a broader conversation about how its “Hate List” is being used to blacklist mainstream advocacy organizations, particularly Christian and conservative nonprofits, from corporate charitable giving programs. This occurs most notably through Benevity who is used by hundreds of the Fortune 1000 companies. Below, we track how companies are responding to the public call to distance themselves from the SPLC and to stop using its designations as a filter in corporate giving. 9 Publicly removed the SPLC filter 5 Confirmed no politicized filters 5 Distanced themselves from the SPLC 2 Dodged or downplayed the filter 238 Have not addressed the SPLC filter 9 Publicly removed the SPLC filter BlackRock IWP Capital Salesforce Bowyer Research (Substack) Mastercard Bowyer Research (Substack) Texas Instruments Bowyer Research (Substack) AT&T Bowyer Research (Substack) NVIDIA Daily Signal Microsoft Daily Signal American Express Inspire Investing DoorDash Daily Signal 5 Confirmed they do not use politicized hate-group filters for charitable eligibility Meta Bowyer Research (Substack) Morgan Stanley Bowyer Research (Substack) Citi Citi Foundation statement McDonald’s Inspire Investing Philip Morris Bowyer Research (Substack) 5 Publicly distanced themselves from the SPLC Reported together in a single account of tech companies stepping …

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1792 Exchange Marks One Year of Success in Campaign to End Corporate Reliance on SPLC’s “Hate List”

Benevity SPLC

October 22, 2026

Following a year of research, corporate engagement, coalition building, and public accountability, major corporations have started to abandon SPLC-based charitable gift matching restrictions, charitable-giving processors have changed their practices, and hundreds of companies have faced calls for reform. October 17 marks one year of 1792 Exchange’s campaign to end corporate reliance on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) controversial “Hate List” to determine which nonprofit organizations are eligible for employee charitable giving and corporate matching programs. Working alongside Bowyer Research, Inspire Investing, The Heritage Foundation, Alliance Defending Freedom, and other coalition partners, 1792 Exchange has helped secure meaningful policy changes at major American corporations, raised national awareness of discriminatory charitable-giving practices, and pressed major charitable giving processors and hundreds of companies to review their reliance on the SPLC’s “Hate List” data. The campaign began with original research by 1792 Exchange into Benevity, one of the nation’s largest corporate charitable-giving platforms, which processes billions of dollars in donations annually. The research helped uncover how Benevity uses SPLC designations to exclude mainstream conservative, Christian, pro-family, and other advocacy organizations from corporate charitable gift matching programs, often without employees or corporate leadership understanding the criteria behind those restrictions. 1792 Exchange identified more than 200 Fortune …