Berkshire Hathaway - 1792 Exchange

Rating Overview

Berkshire Hathaway is Lower Risk.

Berkshire Hathaway is Lower Risk. The company does not yield to political activism in shaping corporate governance, preventing initiatives that potentially alienate consumers, divide employees, and harm shareholders. The company elevates merit, excellence, and integrity ahead of race and identity-based policies. Berkshire Hathaway does not embrace corporate initiatives that redirect its central focus from business goals to partisan policies and divisive issues. This approach protects free exercise, free speech, and free enterprise.

Rating Criteria

Corporate Weaponization Risk Levels
Criteria	Risk Level
Cancellations	Lower Risk
Discriminatory Philanthropy	No Data
Employment Protection	Medium Risk

Corporate Weaponization ⓘ

Corporate Governance and Public Policy Risk Levels
Criteria	Risk Level
Advocacy Bias	Lower Risk
Funding	High Risk
Political Actions	Lower Risk

Corporate Governance and Public Policy ⓘ

Rating Criteria Detail

Criteria Risk Level Rationale

Corporate Weaponization

Criteria:

Has canceled 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:

Lower

Rationale:

Berkshire Hathaway has not publicly canceled 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:

N/A

Rationale:

Berkshire Hathaway does not publish charitable giving guidelines at this time (1).

Criteria:

Employment policies fail to protect against viewpoint or other discrimination and/or are ideological in nature.

Risk Level:

Medium

Rationale:

Berkshire Hathaway does not publish a nondiscrimination policy (1).

Corporate Governance and Public Policy

Criteria:

Uses corporate reputation to support causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

Risk Level:

Lower

Rationale:

When pressed to disclose its climate and diversity and inclusion efforts, Berkshire Hathaway stated that it stays out of political causes in business. Mr. Buffet said, “We do some other asinine things because we’re required to do it, so we’ll do whatever’s required,” Buffett said. “But to have the people at Business Wire, Dairy Queen … make some common report, … we don’t do that stuff at Berkshire” (1). Mr. Buffett signed an open letter opposing any discriminatory legislation that restricts ballot access, but he only signed on behalf of himself and not the company (2). Berkshire Hathaway has withstood significant shareholder activist pressure to undertake ESG goals (3). Berkshire Hathaway sponsored Pride in the Valley in 2025 (4).

Criteria:

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

Risk Level:

High

Rationale:

Berkshire Hathaway Energy is a corporate partner of the National LGBT Chamber of Commerce (1). The company is a coalition member of OneTen, appearing to prioritize diversity over merit in its hiring (2)(3)(4). Otherwise, there are no publicly known cases of Berkshire Hathaway using corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies (5).