Mapbox - 1792 Exchange

Rating Overview

Mapbox is Medium Risk.

Mapbox 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	Lower 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	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:

Mapbox integrates ESG into its business practices. From its Responsible Procurment policy: “Mapbox encourages all suppliers to implement programs to minimize their negative impact on the environment. These programs should cover (as applicable to the supplier’s business) policies on energy consumption and greenhouse emissions, air quality, natural resource management, waste reduction, responsible chemical management, water quality and consumption, and other applicable environmental topics that are speciﬁc to the supplier’s business” (1). However, the company has not 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:

Lower

Rationale:

Mapbox does not appear to discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or beliefs (1).

Criteria:

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

Risk Level:

High

Rationale:

Mapbox appears to prioritize diversity over merit in its recruitment, hiring, promotions and leadership composition. From its 2022 Mapbox ESG Sustainability Report: “Principles of equal opportunity, diversity, equity, and inclusion shape all aspects of hiring, promotion and retention” (1). From its Diversity Inclusion at Mapbox blog: “We increased the percent of gender and race/ethnic minority leaders across the workforce by hiring over a dozen women and Under Represented Minorities(URM)/People of Color managers, heads, and VPs” (2). The company requires its employees to take DEI training (3). The company offers allyship language training to its employees (4). The company does not provide viewpoint protections for its employees (5).

Corporate Governance and Public Policy

Criteria:

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

Risk Level:

High

Rationale:

Mapbox hosted LGBTQ Workshops (1). The company is commited to net zero emissions (2). The company supports ESG within its business practices. From its 2022 Mapbox ESG Sustainability Report: “Environmental and social responsibility are at the core of Mapbox and have been since our founding” (3).

Criteria:

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

Risk Level:

High

Rationale:

Mapbox funded GLADD Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to LGBTQ advocacy and cultural change (1). The company funded The Gender Cool Project, a youth-led movement and nonprofit organization that aims to replace misinformed opinions about transgender and non-binary youth (2). The company funded Transgender Law Center, the largest American transgender-led civil rights organization (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:

N/A

Rationale:

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