Benevity

Benevity is one of the largest corporate charitable-giving platforms in the world, powering employee donation programs, matching gifts, volunteering, and grants for more than 200 Fortune 1000 companies and facilitating billions in giving annually. As a certified B-Corporation, Benevity promotes the idea that corporations should advocate for the nonprofits they support to a degree that exceeds what most shareholders would consider appropriate — rather than simply facilitating employee generosity.

Benevity uses the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) discredited “Hate List” and “Hate Map” as a filter to determine which nonprofits are eligible for employee donations and corporate matching funds. This effectively blacklists mainstream conservative, religious, pro-family, and parental-rights organizations while allowing partisan groups like the SPLC itself to remain eligible.

Examples include Focus on the Family, Family Research Council, Moms for Liberty, PragerU, Turning Point USA, Alliance Defending Freedom, and others. These are mainstream organizations that do not engage in violence or extremism.

The SPLC has a well-documented history of bias, financial mismanagement, and using its list as a political weapon against ideological opponents. It has been criticized across the political spectrum for decades. In April 2026, the SPLC was federally indicted on multiple counts, including wire fraud and money laundering, allegedly funneling millions to the very extremist groups it claims to oppose.

Despite multiple letters from 1792 Exchange and a growing coalition (including Turning Point USA, PragerU, Focus on the Family, and others), Benevity has not publicly ended its use of the SPLC filter.

Demand that Benevity immediately:

1. Stop using the SPLC’s Hate List or any SPLC designations.
2. Adopt viewpoint-neutral eligibility criteria.
3. Restore access to organizations previously excluded based on SPLC labels.
   Companies should reconsider the partnership if Benevity refuses to implement neutral policies.