The Toro Company

Minnesota
Commercial and Professional Services

Corprate Bias Ratings

Risk Level:

Rating - Clear
Lower Risk

The Toro Company has not publicly terminated business relationships based on views or beliefs. The Toro Company funds Planned Parenthood and supports ESG within its business practices. However, it likely protects its employees against viewpoint discrimination and does not discriminate against religious organizations in its charitable giving. For these reasons, The Toro Company receives a Lower Risk rating.

Criteria
Risk Level
Rationale
Corporate Weaponization
Criteria

Has denied service to customers, suppliers, or vendors due to their political views or religious beliefs OR corporately boycotts, divests, or sanctions regions, people groups, or industries.

Risk Level
Rationale

The Toro Company has not publicly fired customers, suppliers, or vendors based on political views or religious beliefs (1).

Criteria

Charitable giving (including employee matching programs) policies or practices discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or religious beliefs.

Risk Level
Rationale

The Toro Company does not discriminate against religious organizations in its charitable giving (1). They partner with Habitat for Humanity, which is a faith-based organization.

Criteria

Employment policies fail to protect against discrimination based on political affiliation/views and/or religion.

Risk Level
Rationale

The Toro Company likely protects its employees from viewpoint discrimination (1). The Toro Company “promote[s] a workplace where employees know that their perspectives and contributions are heard and valued” (2).

Corporate Governance and Public Policy
Criteria

Uses corporate reputation to support ideological causes and/or organizations hostile to freedom of expression.

Risk Level
Rationale

The Toro Company supports ESG within its business practices. It is “committed to improving our procurement processes and implementing relevant global standards, including human rights standards, to enable consistent ESG expectations throughout our supply chain” (1).

Criteria

Uses corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

Risk Level
Rationale

The Toro Company funds The United Way, which funds Planned Parenthood (1). Otherwise, there are no publicly known cases of The Toro Company using its corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies (2).

Criteria

Uses corporate political contributions for ideological, non-business purposes.

Risk Level
N/A
Rationale

The Toro Company does not operate a PAC or engage in lobbying at this time (1)(2)(3).

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October 4, 2023

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