Citigroup has led the financial industry in cutting off business with the firearm industry. For this, it received the highest grade of any bank from “Is Your Bank Loaded,” a partisan gun control pressure group (1). Citigroup does little business with the firearm industry and will fire any retail customers who sell guns to those under 21 (2). Citi required employees to get the Covid-19 vaccine or an exemption to maintain employment (3). Citi also has a written policy requiring suppliers not to discriminate on the basis of LGBTQ identity and received a score of 100 from the Human Rights Campaign’s (HRC) Corporate Equality Index (4)(5).

Citigroup permits giving to religious groups as long as the said organization is “engaged in a project benefiting an entire community,” a restriction that does not require other entities with ideological interests (1).

Citigroup does not protect its employees from viewpoint discrimination (1).

Citigroup has a perfect score on the HRC’s 2022 Corporate Equality Index. This score indicates the company covers the cost of “medically necessary transition-related care” for its employees and their children (1)(2). The company also signed public letters endorsing the Equality Act and opposes protecting women’s sports (3)(4). The bank also opposed the GA voting integrity bill (5). Citigroup opposed the Florida Parental Rights in Education Act, which prohibits teaching gender identity and sexual orientation in schools to kids in K-3rd grade (6). Citigroup is part of the Net Zero Banking Alliance, a Ceres Network Member, and a PCAF member, committed to net zero carbon emissions by 2040 (7)(8)(9)(10). CEO Jane Fraser is a member of the Business Roundtable and Former CEO Michael Corbat signed its 2019 Statement on the Purpose of Corporation, which promotes stakeholder capitalism over traditional obligations to shareholders and customers (11)(12).

Citigroup is a Silver Corporate Partner of the HRC (1). Citigroup makes other charitable contributions to apolitical nonprofits (2)(3). However, in 2020, the bank designated $100 million over three years to “change agents” working on racial equity (4)(5). In 2022, Citigroup announced that it would fund interstate employee travel in order to seek an abortion (6). Citi also funded the Boise Pride event, which featured a children’s drag show for children as young as 11 years old (7). Citi is a copper sponsor of Out & Equal and is a corporate partner of the National LGBT Chamber of Commerce (8)(9).

Citigroup has donated to ideological PACs such as the Equality PAC (1).