Full report
Points deducted by category
- DEI hiring, pay & suppliers: 0/15 points deducted
- Internal policies & benefits: 4/10 points deducted
- HRC Corporate Equality Index 2026: 95, verified participant. (source)
- Free speech, debanking, deplatforming & anti-military/anti-American conduct: 0/15 points deducted
- Political giving (PAC, treasury, leadership): 2/10 points deducted
- Owner entity Holdfast Trust gave $200K to Women Vote! (EMILY's List), $300K to House Majority PAC and $100K to Jane Fonda Climate PAC in June 2026. The Holdfast network gave about $2.8M to left-leaning PACs in the 2024 cycle. (source)
- Advocacy, lobbying & public statements: 5.75/15 points deducted
- Company statement "Patagonia supports choice," incl. paying bail for protesting employees. (source)
- Patagonia Works is a plaintiff in Utah Diné Bikéyah v. Trump, No. 1:17-cv-02605 (D.D.C., filed Dec 6, 2017), consolidated under Hopi Tribe v. Trump, No. 1:17-cv-02590 (CourtListener: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6237102/utah-dine-bikeyah-v-trump/), challenging the reduction of Bears Ears National Monument. Patagonia Works press release, Dec 6, 2017: "Broad Coalition Sues to Stop Trump Administration's Unlawful Dismemberment of the Bears Ears National Monument." (source)
- Sewed "Vote the a**holes out" tags into shorts (2020 election). (source)
- Marketing, products & content: 0/10 points deducted
- Charitable & activist funding: 0/10 points deducted
- ESG, activist investing & industry/regional boycotts: 1/10 points deducted
- Stopped selling co-branded vests to finance firms, redirecting corporate sales to "mission-driven" companies (sales restriction based on clients' industries). (source)
- China & foreign-adversary ties: 0/5 points deducted
- Election & voting-law activism: 6/10 points deducted
- Company statement "Business Leaders: Actions Speak Louder Than Words" opposing Georgia's SB 202 election law and urging businesses to act. (source)
- Patagonia, Apr 5, 2021: "we are making an immediate $1 million donation split equally between the Black Voters Matter Fund and The New Georgia Project." (source)
- Border & immigration enforcement: 0/10 points deducted
- Faith, family & children: 14/10 points deducted (cap 10; MAJOR items are not limited by the cap)
- Signed HRC's coalition statement opposing state legislation. (source)
- Patagonia signed the HRC-organized open letter (full-page Dallas Morning News ad, Mar 11, 2022; logo on the ad) opposing Texas's directive to investigate parents of transgender minors receiving gender-transition care: "The recent attempt to criminalize a parent for helping their transgender child access medically necessary, age-appropriate healthcare in the state of Texas goes against the values of our companies." (source)
- Climate & anti-fossil-fuel advocacy: 0/10 points deducted
- Second Amendment & lawful-firearms commerce: 0/10 points deducted
- Government-coordinated content moderation: 0/10 points deducted
- Abortion advocacy, benefits & funding: 8/10 points deducted
- Patagonia said on June 24, 2022 that its health plan covers abortion care and travel (company press release, June 24, 2022). The bail pledge in the same release is scored once, under 5b. (source)
- Patagonia is listed among the businesses that "stand with Don't Ban Equality," a coalition "making the case that abortion access is a workforce and economic issue" (coalition roster, read Oct 20, 2026). The coalition says it "will not take policy positions on behalf of individual signers." (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. Points from MAJOR items are not limited by the category cap, so a category can show more points deducted than its cap.