Bridgewater Bank - 1792 Exchange

Rating Overview

Bridgewater Bank is Medium Risk.

Bridgewater 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. Bridgewater 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	Medium Risk
Discriminatory Philanthropy	High Risk
Employment Protection	High Risk

Corporate Weaponization ⓘ

Corporate Governance and Public Policy Risk Levels
Criteria	Risk Level
Advocacy Bias	Medium Risk
Funding	Lower Risk
Political Actions	No Data

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:

Medium

Rationale:

Bridgewater Bank has integrated ESG into all its business practices. Its ESG commitments include “board oversight and integration into [its] business more broadly” (1). However, Bridgewater Bank has not publicly canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors based on political views or religious beliefs (2).

Criteria:

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

Risk Level:

High

Rationale:

Bridgewater Bank donates through the Bluestone Bank Charitable Foundation, which does not provide grants for “churches and religious purposes” (1). Bridgewater Bank has partnered with a Jesuit high school for a corporate work-study program, but it is unclear whether this partnership was charitable in nature (2).

Criteria:

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

Risk Level:

High

Rationale:

Bridgewater Bank does not provide viewpoint protections for its employees (1). Bridgewater Bank holds diversity training events for employees (2).