Full report
Points deducted by category
- DEI hiring, pay & suppliers: 13.5/15 points deducted
- "Diversity, Opportunity & Inclusion" page with identity-based offices (Black, Hispanic & Latino, Asian & Pacific Islander, LGBTQ+, Women's affairs, and others). (source)
- $30B racial-equity commitment included $750M in spending with Black and Latinx suppliers. (source)
- The same release tied Operating Committee compensation to DEI progress. (source)
- Internal policies & benefits: 8/10 points deducted
- Free speech, debanking, deplatforming & anti-military/anti-American conduct: 0/15 points deducted
- Chase closed the National Committee for Religious Freedom's account (2022). Chase denies any viewpoint motive. (source)
- Account-closure complaints from Defense of Liberty and the Arkansas Family Council (2021), as reported by ADF. Chase denies any viewpoint motive. (source)
- Reversal: Amended its Code of Conduct to prohibit discrimination based on religion and on political opinions, speech or affiliations. (source)
- Reversal: WePay "social risk" policy language dropped (per ADF). (source)
- Political giving (PAC, treasury, leadership): 1/10 points deducted
- Federal PAC: 52.6% of 2024-cycle candidate dollars to Democrats ($372.5k D vs $335.5k R). (source)
- Advocacy, lobbying & public statements: 0/15 points deducted
- Marketing, products & content: 0/10 points deducted
- Charitable & activist funding: 2.5/10 points deducted
- $30B, five-year racial-equity commitment (incl. $2B philanthropy); it was said to be "nearly complete" by 2024. (source)
- ESG, activist investing & industry/regional boycotts: 0/10 points deducted
- The OCC's preliminary debanking review of the nine largest banks, including JPMorgan Chase Bank, found 2020 to 2023 policies restricting financing to lawful industries (firearms, fossil fuels and others). The review does not attribute each policy to a specific bank. (source)
- Reversal: Left the Net-Zero Banking Alliance. (source)
- Reversal: JPMorgan Asset Management (the firm's asset-management arm) did not renew its Climate Action 100+ membership. (source)
- China & foreign-adversary ties: 0/5 points deducted
- Election & voting-law activism: 0/10 points deducted
- Border & immigration enforcement: 3.5/10 points deducted
- Operating Committee statement celebrating the Supreme Court's DACA ruling and urging a path to citizenship. (source)
- JPMorgan Chase said it would "no longer bank the private prison industry" (a company spokesman, quoted by Reuters/NBC News, Mar 5, 2019); a JPMorgan spokeswoman told Semafor in June 2025 the bank "had not changed its policies." (source)
- Faith, family & children: 0/10 points deducted
- Climate & anti-fossil-fuel advocacy: 4/10 points deducted
- Carbon Compass: financed-emissions intensity targets for energy, power, autos and other sectors, now extended to 2035. (source)
- Second Amendment & lawful-firearms commerce: 0/10 points deducted
- Government-coordinated content moderation: 0/10 points deducted
- Abortion advocacy, benefits & funding: 1/10 points deducted
- Reported (NPR, June 24, 2022): "JP Morgan told employees in a memo that if they live in states where abortion is outlawed, the company will cover the cost of travel to a state where it's legal, beginning in July." (source)
- American Workers & H-1B Displacement: 0/10 points deducted
Final verdict: Grade D
Grades run A (best) to F (worst) on a 0–100 scale, where a higher score is better: every company starts at 100 and loses points for each finding. Every finding links to its source. See how we rate for the scale and the category caps.