Splc is biased – unusually wealthy

The center of the Southern Poverty Law may be more famous in the “hate map”, which not only neglects to track extremist groups on the left, but also the prevailing conservative and religious organizations are also acquired alongside some of the most new Nazis and their white superiority in the country.

For this, he was criticized regularly and right.

The controversial activist group has also become hugely rich, with prominent competing universities and exceeded some of the most famous charities in the country.

Perhaps the last visitors have noticed the next donation site: “Urgent: This is a comprehensive moment of printing. With a lot of stake for American families, we need to help you stop attacks on our most basic rights.

The potential donors who admitted to a “now giving” have been urged to make a one -time contribution between 35 and 250 dollars, or a repeated monthly commitment ranging between 15 and 50 dollars.

The “urgent” appeals of the Foundation for the “emergency” cash leakage of donors in small dollars are confusing, because the group looks literally has more money than you know what to do. Its last forms 990 for the fiscal year ending in October 2024 revealed $ 786.7 million of net assets, most of which are stopped in public and private stock funds. Three -quarters of the two -quarters of its length has doubled more than twice as much as 2016.

For context, this makes Splc richer than many colleges and universities, including in Alabama in the group. Samford University, the largest private school in the state, with more than 6000 registered students, has reached only 547.8 million dollars in net assets in 2024.

The net Splc of the Oborn University Foundation is not late, which had a little more than one billion dollars as of 2024.

Revenue is another way to measure Splc wealth. As of August 2025, the search for propolica put all charitable institutions 501 (3) in Alabama ranked 17th in the latest annual revenue available – behind ten hospitals/health care providers, a private university (SAMFORD and Tuskegee), housing providers, one private institution, and the ConceCation CECCCEC conference.

The total revenues of the organization in 2024 amounted to $ 129 million, most of which are contributions and grants. This decreased from a record distance of $ 169.8 million in the previous year. To put this figure in its correct perspective, the revenues of 2023 of the eight regional banks in Alabama, which is associated with the nutrition of America – which collectively serve the entire country – reached $ 183.6 million. In 2023, SPLC brought about $ 48 million more than UNITED WAY OF Central Alabama.

The non-profit organizations that have brought less money include-as measured by total revenue-from Splc in 2023:

• United Service Organizations ($ 163.5 million)
• YMCA from the United States of America ($ 153 million)
• Special Olympic Games ($ 152.2 million)
• National Park Foundation ($ 151.5 million)
• Central Park Conservance ($ 148 million)
• American Make-A-Wish (135.2 million dollars)

Inaccurately, the total professional football revenue, baseball and basketball that were collected together were only 35 percent of Splc results. The famous field museum in Chicago, which welcomed more than 1.1 million visitors in 2023, was less than two -thirds of SPLC revenues. The National Museum of the Second World War in New Orleans was less than half. The Georgia Aquarium Basin – the largest in the country of more than 11 million gallons of water – has reported less revenue than Splc that year.

There is another important consideration for all of this as well. Such groups, Splc is organized as a charitable specialist 501 (c) (3), stimulated by the American public by estimating taxes and the ability to accept tax -exempt contributions. Unlike, its activities are controversial and disagreeing – Waswan is generally not associated with the word “charitable”.

Of course, Splc is far from alone in biased or false accusations of extremism. This is, unfortunately, almost equally in our current feverish political environment. What really distinguishes the group is how the wealthy has become tremendously to do so. Even assuming that a virtual donor via the Internet given a “donation of emergency situations” for Splc is fully consistent with everything the group does, so why should he or is to spoil a few dollars that were obtained hard to the top of its mountain?

If there is nothing else, there is a cost of an alternative opportunity – one you can appreciate throughout the ideological spectrum. How many non -profit organizations suffer from financial hardship can use some hundreds of millions of dollars in the SPLC investment accounts to make a real positive difference in the lives of others? This is, after all, the final purpose of charity.

Robert Stelison is a major research analyst at the Capital Research Center.