Toyota and Meta slipped close to Mr. Trump. The Meaning of ‘donation to the presidential inauguration’
“Every company is lining up to ‘buy favors,’” said Bruce Freed, CPA President.
Trump’s inaugural fund has a record $170M US in donations. Why corporations are so eager to give
“The donations to the inaugural fund are basically to gain favour and to gain access,” said Bruce Freed, president and co-founder of the Center for Political Accountability
The Corporate Underwriters Trilogy
The 2024 trilogy of reports by the Center for Political Accountability— Corporate Underwriters and the Democracy Gap, Courting Risk: Corporate Underwriters & State Attorneys General, and Corporate Underwriters: Where the Rubber Hits the Road executive summary.
Boards Increasingly Toss Political Issues to Nom-Gov Committees
The high risk of getting political spending wrong makes it ripe for focused oversight, said Bruce Freed, president of the Center for Political Accountability.
Under-the-Radar Company Political Dollars Spotlighted by New Interactive Database
The Center for Political Accountability today announced the launch of The Barbara and Morris Pearl 527 Interactive Database, a user-friendly interactive database created to shine a spotlight on under-the-radar corporate political spending in the United States.
ISS Analyzes Trends in Corporate Political Activity Disclosures and Related Shareholder Proposals Over the Past Decade
In thinking ahead to the 2025 proxy season, companies should consider, among other things, their CPA-Zicklin Index score.
US companies remain with associations despite divergence on climate
When Donald Trump was elected the 47th US president earlier this month, he did so with considerable help from corporate America. But corporate money is not just deeply embedded in political campaigns, it also has a major influence on the success or failure of specific legislation.
2024 CPA-Zicklin Index of Corporate Political Disclosure and Accountability
The Index’s data reflect leading companies holding firm overall to established norms of political disclosure and accountability, despite fierce headwinds against environmental, social, and governance (ESG) and related principles for investors and U.S. corporations.
US business interests deeply embedded in election
In 2020, fewer than half of companies in the S&P 500 disclosed their election-related contributions to PACs and trade associations, according to the Center for Political Accountability. Among those that did disclose, two-thirds of their spending went to trade associations.
Wells Fargo has tripled political spending with state
Wells Fargo gave a total of $704,300 to three Democratic and three Republican organizations known as 527s that are focused on electing governors, attorneys general and state lawmakers, according to data from the Center for Political Accountability