Mayo Clinic - 1792 Exchange

Rating Overview

Mayo Clinic is High Risk.

May Clinic is High Risk. The company 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. Mayo Clinic embraces corporate initiatives that redirect its central focus from business goals to partisan policies and divisive issues. This approach fails to safeguard free exercise, free speech, and free enterprise.

Rating Criteria

Corporate Weaponization Risk Levels
Criteria	Risk Level
Cancellations	High 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	Medium 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:

High

Rationale:

Mayo Clinic fired hundreds of employees for refusing to get the Covid-19 vaccine. Refusal was only allowed on the grounds of religious exemption. 38 lawmakers defending the employees said: “they were not “opposed to vaccinations” but said “people deserve to make this decision based on the benefits and risks for themselves and not coerced or forced into doing so by threat of losing one’s job” (1).

Criteria:

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

Risk Level:

Lower

Rationale:

Mayo Clinic does not discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or beliefs (1)(2).

Criteria:

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

Risk Level:

High

Rationale:

Mayo Clinic offers Unconscious Bias training to its employees (1). Mayo Clinic does not provide viewpoint protections for its employees (2).

Corporate Governance and Public Policy

Criteria:

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

Risk Level:

High

Rationale:

Mayo Clinic released a statement after the overturn of Roe v. Wade that implied opposition to the decision (1). The company has posted statements supporting transgender theory, including the usage of pronouns in the office and the provision of puberty/hormone blockers to children (2)(3). Mayo Clinic has joined the Better Climate Challenge, a Department of Energy Initiative designed to significantly alter energy practices across the US private sector (4)(5). The company supports DEI in its business practices, employing an Office of Belonging (6). After mass protests against federal immigration enforcement and fatal shootings in Minnesota, Mayo Clinic’s CEO Gianrico Farrugia signed an open letter calling for the immediate de-escalation of violence and for state, local, and federal authorities to work together to restore peace in Minnesota (7).

Criteria:

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

Risk Level:

Medium

Rationale:

Mayo Clinic has contributed to a variety of nonprofits focused on racial equity in the communities in which it operates (1). The company is a sponsor of Twin Cities Pride 2026 (2). Otherwise, there are no publicly known cases of Mayo Clinic 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:

Mayo Clinic does not operate a PAC at this time and has not lobbied for ideological purposes (1)(2)(3).