The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is an American non-profit organization based in Montgomery, Alabama.
Organization
| Name | Position | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Lecia Brooks | Chief of Staff[1] | PopShift[2] |
| Alex Kotch | Contributor[3] | OptOut Media Foundation, Center for Media and Democracy, Institute for Southern Studies |
Partners
SPLC is partnered with Advocates for Responsible Care (ARxC),[4] the Canadian Anti-Hate Network,[5] and the Centre on Hate, Bias and Extremism.[6]
In 2018, SPLC provided $100,000 in funding to MoveOn Civic Action.[7]
COVID-19
In November 2023, SPLC described video platform Odysee as a "digital threat" because it "has little to no content moderation and provides a steady income stream for hate groups and extremists, including fugitives, some of whom are earning thousands of dollars each month peddling hateful or violent content on the site."[8]
On April 21, 2026, the United States Department of Justice announced that SPLC had been charged by a federal grand jury on eleven counts of fraud, accusing the organization of "secretly funding leaders and organizers of white supremacist, racist and other hate groups that the civil rights group claimed to be battling."[9] According to the indictment, SPLC allegedly "used a network of paid informants to infiltrate violent, racist groups. Over time, this network of paid informants morphed into financial support for leadership of racist groups," including the National Alliance, National Socialist Movement, and an individual who helped plan the 2017 "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.[10][11]
Subsidiaries
- Civil Rights Memorial Center
Funding
SPLC has received funding from:[12]
- America's Charities
- Apple
- Cisco Foundation
- Clooney Foundation for Justice
- Fidelity Charitable
- Grove Foundation
- JBP Foundation
- Picower Foundation
- Public Welfare Foundation
- Rice Family Foundation
- Schwab Charitable
- Unbound Philanthropy
- Vanguard Charitable
- W.K. Kellogg Foundation
External links
Lecia Brooks. International Storytelling Center. Retrieved October 25, 2023, from http://archive.today/2023.10.25-183032/https://www.storytellingcenter.net/tellers/lecia-brooks/ ↩︎
EXPERTS_Disinformation. PopShift (by Pathos Labs). Retrieved March 11, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230311002242/https://popshift.org/experts_disinformation/ ↩︎
Kotch, A., & Hayden, M. E. (2021, June 17). Donors Pumped Millions into White Nationalist Group. Southern Poverty Law Center. http://archive.today/2021.06.17-162553/https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2021/06/17/donors-pumped-millions-white-nationalist-group ↩︎
ARxC Partners and Patient Resources. Advocates for Responsible Care. Retrieved May 10, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230510180229/http://www.advocatesforresponsiblecare.org/who-we-are/arxc-partners-and-patient-resources ↩︎
Exposing and stopping hate. Canadian Anti-Hate Network. Retrieved September 16, 2023, from http://archive.today/2023.09.16-021018/https://www.antihate.ca/about ↩︎
Partners. Centre on Hate, Bias, and Extremism. Retrieved October 1, 2020, from http://archive.today/2020.10.01-114302/https://socialscienceandhumanities.ontariotechu.ca/centre-on-hate-bias-and-extremism/partners/index.php ↩︎
2018 Gift Disclosure. MoveOn: People-Powered Progress. Retrieved March 14, 2024, from http://archive.today/2024.03.14-231927/https://front.moveon.org/2018-gift-disclosure/ ↩︎
Fernandez-Aubert, E.-J., Reinhart, R., & Squire, M. (2023, November 6). Digital Threat Report: Odysee. Southern Poverty Law Center. https://web.archive.org/web/20240716061321/https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2023/11/06/digital-threat-report-odysee ↩︎
Mangan, D. (2026, April 21). DOJ charges Southern Poverty Law Center with fraud over secret funding of extremist groups. CNBC. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/21/doj-southern-poverty-law-center-indictment-extremist.html ↩︎
United States of America v. Southern Poverty Law Center, Inc. (2026, April 21). United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, Northern Division. https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1437146/dl ↩︎
Street, D. R. (2026, April 23). United States Department of Justice Indicts the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). Substack; Daniel R. Street’s Fake News Exposed. https://danielrstreet.substack.com/p/united-states-department-of-justice ↩︎
Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). InfluenceWatch. Retrieved October 25, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20231025182345/https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/southern-poverty-law-center-splc/ ↩︎
