Zurn Elkay Water Solutions

Rating Overview

Zurn Elkay Water Solutions is Medium Risk.

Zurn Elkay Water Solutions 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	Medium Risk

Corporate Weaponization ⓘ

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

Zum Elkay Water Solutions integrates ESG into its business practices. From its wepbage: “The company embeds sustainability objectives directly to guide daily operations, product development, and strategic planning” (1). Zurn Elkay Water Solutions has not publicly canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors based on political views or religious beliefs (2)(3).

Criteria:

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

Risk Level:

Lower

Rationale:

Zurn Elkay Water Solutions does not discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or beliefs. The company’s charitable giving focus areas are “Basic Needs, Education, and Environment” (1).

Criteria:

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

Risk Level:

Medium

Rationale:

Zurn Elkay Water Solutions does not provide viewpoint protections for its employees (1).

Corporate Governance and Public Policy

Criteria:

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

Risk Level:

High

Rationale:

Zurn Elkay Water Solutions supports DEI within its business practices. From its webpage: “The shared culture of Zurn Elkay focuses on serving customers, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, and a commitment to water and environmental stewardship to the communities where employees live and work” (1)(2). Zurn Elkay Water Solutions supports ESG within its business practices. From its 2025 Sustanability REport: “Operates under a strict Environmental Management System and a board-level ESG Committee.” (#) Zurn Elkay Water Solutions has not supported ideological causes or policies (4).

Criteria:

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

Risk Level:

Medium

Rationale:

Zurn Elkay Water Solutions is a corporate partner of the National LGBT Chamber of Commerce (1). Otherwise, there are no publicly known cases of the company using corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies (2).

Criteria:

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

Risk Level:

N/A

Rationale:

Zurn Elkay Water Solutions does not operate a PAC or engage in lobbying at this time (1)(2)(3).