Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)

Deception & Misdirection, Education Reform
Southern Poverty Law Center suddenly shoves lesson plans for school children down the memory hole
The supposed charity has been criminally accused of using illegal means to fund the very hate they are supposed to be fighting. Now a public school teacher has discovered that…
by Kali Fontanilla on April 29, 2026

Deception & Misdirection
A CRC history of Southern Poverty Law Center controversies
Never a stranger to controversy, the SPLC was indicted on federal fraud charges this week.
on April 22, 2026

Alternatives in Philanthropy
Profits and nonprofits: the odd evolution of OpenAI
ChatGPT’s creator wasn’t originally a conventional tech firm, but rather a tax-exempt nonprofit charity promoting artificial general intelligence. Today, the business structure is so complicated you’ll need actual intelligence to…
by Sebastian Tuininga on February 10, 2026

Organization Trends
SPLC’s “Charitable” Wealth (Best of 2025)
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is among the most-controversial major left-of-center activist nonprofits in the country, and rightly so. What truly sets SPLC apart, even among its activist-charity peers,…
by Robert Stilson on December 16, 2025

Deception & Misdirection
Southern Poverty Law Center is the subject of House Judiciary hearing tomorrow
Tomorrow afternoon the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government will hold a hearing titled "Partisan and Profitable: The SPLC's Influence on Federal Civil Rights Policy.”…
on December 15, 2025

Organization Trends
How homeless advocacy became the plaything of reckless radicals
The NGOs in the homeless industrial complex are spending money—and often a lot of tax dollars—on everything but obvious solutions.
by Ken Braun on October 29, 2025

Deception & Misdirection
The Southern Poverty Law Center is biased — and extraordinarily wealthy
Editorial note: This essay was originally posted by The Hill on September 4. The Southern Poverty Law Center is perhaps most notorious for its “hate…
by Robert Stilson on September 22, 2025

Podcast
InfluenceWatch Podcast #372: The Left’s Big Bully
The Southern Poverty Law Center, trading on a reputation it earned suing the remnants of the organized Ku Klux Klan in the 1980s, claims to be an honest watchdog of…
by Robert Stilson, Michael Watson on July 22, 2025

Organization Trends
SPLC’s “Charitable” Wealth
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is among the most-controversial major left-of-center activist nonprofits in the country, and rightly so. What truly sets SPLC apart, even among its activist-charity peers,…
by Robert Stilson on July 16, 2025

Organization Trends
InfluenceWatch Friday
The information compiled in InfluenceWatch gives news outlets and other interested parties to use this research in future reporting on significant topics that are often overlooked by the American public.
by Jonathan Harsh on July 11, 2025