Who Funds the Southern Poverty Law Center’s $129 Million Revenue and $800 Million Assets?

The SPLC’s funding comes primarily from large liberal donors, including Apple and JPMorgan Chase, George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, and a direct-mail fundraising operation built on urgent appeals tied to high-profile racial incidents, generating $129 million in revenue in fiscal year 2024 alone. Photo courtesy of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

On April 21, 2026, a federal grand jury in Montgomery, Alabama, indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center on 11 counts of wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank...