Boeing Credit Union

Industries Banks
Activism

Companies that likely use Benevity to vet charitable recipients, thereby discriminating against mainstream advocacy organizations through the SPLC's overly broad "Hate List."

Rating Overview

Risk Rating: Medium

Boeing Credit Union is Medium Risk.

Boeing Credit Union is Medium Risk. The company often yields to political activism in shaping corporate governance, potentially alienating consumers, dividing employees, and harming shareholders. The company implements race and identity-based policies that replace merit, excellence, and integrity with preferential treatment and outcomes. The company occasionally embraces corporate initiatives that redirect its central focus from business goals to partisan policies and divisive issues at times. This approach fails to safeguard free exercise, free speech, and free enterprise.

Rating Criteria

Corporate Weaponization Risk Levels
Criteria Risk Level
Cancellations Lower Risk
Discriminatory Philanthropy High Risk
Employment Protection Medium Risk

Corporate Weaponization

Corporate Governance and Public Policy Risk Levels
Criteria Risk Level
Advocacy Bias Medium 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:

Boeing Credit Union 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:

High

Rationale:

Boeing Credit Union likely uses Benevity as its charitable giving platform. Benevity vets charities according to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hate List, which includes mainstream libertarian, conservative, family, and religious advocacy organizations (1)(2)(3).

Criteria:

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

Risk Level:

Medium

Rationale:

Boeing Credit Union offers DEI training to its employees (1). Boeing Credit Union protects its employees against viewpoint discrimination (2).

Corporate Governance and Public Policy


Criteria:

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

Risk Level:

Medium

Rationale:

Boeing supports DEI within its business practices, employing a DEI Committee and Officers (1). Boeing supports DEI within its business practices, hosting a DEI Council (2). Boeing Credit Union supports DEI within its business practices. From its 2021 Annual Report: “We aim to embed equity and inclusion into
every aspect of the way we operate by
building structures that look to not only
change internal policies and practices, but
externally to create more access and
inclusion for our members and community” (3). Boeing Credit Union held a virtual LGBTQ Pride celebration that included drag performances (4). Boeing Credit Union wrote a blog encouraging people to support LGBTQ Pride year-round by giving money specifically to LGBTQ-owned businesses (5). Otherwise, Boeing Credit Union has not supported ideological causes or policies (6).

Criteria:

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

Risk Level:

High

Rationale:

Boeing donated $5 million “to support nonprofit partnerships that improve the Black community” some of which went to the National Urban League (1)(2). Otherwise, there are no publicly known cases of the company using corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies (3).

Criteria:

Uses corporate political actions and/or financial contributions for ideological, non-business purposes.

Risk Level:

Lower

Rationale:

Boeing Credit Union does not operate a PAC at this time and has not used its lobbying for ideological purposes (1)(2)(3).