Enpro - 1792 Exchange

Rating Overview

Enpro is Medium Risk.

Enpro, Inc. 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	Medium Risk
Discriminatory Philanthropy	High Risk
Employment Protection	High Risk

Corporate Weaponization ⓘ

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

Medium

Rationale:

Enpro integrates ESG into its business practices. From its Supplier Code of Conduct: “EnPro expects its Suppliers to: …. Actively reduce carbon footprints and minimize other environmental impacts through responsible activities” (1). From its 2025 Sustainability Report: “Enpro’s Director of Environmental and Sustainability reports quarterly to the Board’s Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, through which environmental, social and sustainability considerations are integrated into the Company’s overall business strategy” (2). However, Enpro Industries has not publicly canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors based on political views or religious beliefs (3).

Criteria:

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

Risk Level:

High

Rationale:

Enpro will not match employee donations to “Religious organizations, such as churches, temples and other houses of worship,
or those whose main purpose is to foster a particular faith or creed. Gifts to
seminaries, theological institutions and Bible colleges are also ineligible for
matching funds” (1). The company’s charitable giving guidelines require that organizations abide by its nondiscrimination policy, including on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, thereby excluding some religious charities (2).

Criteria:

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

Risk Level:

High

Rationale:

Enrpo offers unconscious bias and DEI training to its employees (1)(2). The company appears to prioritize diversity over merit in its recruitment, promotions, and leadership composition. From its 2020 Sustainability Report: “During the recruitment process, we require diverse interview panels and candidate slates. We also recently started a fast-track program to provide a platform for visibility and opportunity for our top diverse talent” (3). From its 2024 Proxy Statement: “Enpro seeks diversity within its board of directors, including diversity in professional experience, skills and industry background, as well as gender, racial ethnic and geographic diversity” (4). Enpro appears to prioritize diversity over merit in its business structure through the establishment of gender and racial targets for its leadership composition. The company was seeking “40% diverse talent and leadership within both the Enpro Executive Committee and division staff” by 2025 (5). The company does not provide viewpoint protections for its employees (6).

Corporate Governance and Public Policy

Criteria:

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

Risk Level:

High

Rationale:

Enpro supports DEI within its business practices, employing a DEI Officer (1). The company supports DEI within its business practices. From its 2023 Sustainability Report: “Enpro firmly believes that a diverse workforce is critical to our success, and we purposefully strive for a vibrant culture that reflects and embraces all forms of diversity. We encourage belonging and psychological safety across the enterprise. In alignment with our values, we infuse the best core practices for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging in every aspect of our colleague experience” (2). Enpro supports ESG within its business practices. From its 2024 Proxy Statement: “We find collaborative ways to achieve our high standards for environmental, social, and governance excellence” (3).

Criteria:

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

Risk Level:

High

Rationale:

From 2020 to 2022, Enpro donated $44,000 to the Equal Justice Initiative (1)(2)(3). Otherwise, there are no publicly known cases of the company using corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies (4).

Criteria:

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

Risk Level:

Lower

Rationale:

Enpro has not used its PAC donations or lobbying for ideological purposes (1)(2)(3).