Monumental Sports - 1792 Exchange

Rating Overview

Monumental Sports is Lower Risk.

Monumental Sports is Medium Risk. The company often yields to political activism in shaping corporate governance, potentially alienating consumers, dividing employees, and harming shareholders. Monumental Sports 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	Lower Risk
Employment Protection	High 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:

Monumental Sports 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:

Lower

Rationale:

Monumental Sports 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:

Monumental Sports requires its employees to take LGBTQ+ inclusion training (1). The company does not provide viewpoint protections for its employees (2)(3).

Corporate Governance and Public Policy

Criteria:

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

Risk Level:

Medium

Rationale:

Monumental Sports supports DEI within its business practices. From its 2025 Annual Report: “MSE’s Access, Impact, and
Inclusion (AII) department leads efforts to create environments where inclusion is prioritized,
belonging is felt, and every individual is supported to reach their full potential” (1). Otherwise, the company has not supported ideological causes or policies (2).

Criteria:

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

Risk Level:

High

Rationale:

Monumental Sports has donated to the HRC Foundation and the DC Center for the LGBT Community (1). The company is a partner of OutCare Health, a nonprofit dedicated to advancing controversial LGBTQ health initiatives, with a particular focus on “transgender, gender diverse, and intersex (TGI) communities”. OutCare’s initiatives include the OutList directory of LGBTQ “affirming” healthcare providers, mentorship, health equity training, peer support, consulting services, and community building programs, all aimed at increasing the accessibility of “affirming” healthcare resources and services (2)(3). Monumental Sports is a corporate partner of the National LGBT Chamber of Commerce (4). In 2023, the company donated $33,250 to the Greater Washington Urban League (5). In, 2022, Monumental Sports donated $41,610 to the Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League (6). Otherwise, there are no publicly known cases of the company using corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies (7).

Criteria:

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

Risk Level:

Lower

Rationale:

Monumental Sports has not used its PAC donations for ideological purposes and does not report on its lobbying at this time (1)(2)(3).