Some community foundations have been using a list of hate groups compiled by the Southern Poverty Law Center and Horizon Forum to screen grant recipients. This is problematic because SPLC has labeled mainstream conservative and faith based organizations as hate groups. Robert Stilson, calls this a big problem because “it’s substituting the will of a of a of a biased third party like the Southern Poverty Law Center’s” for “the will of the donors themselves.”
Stilson is quoted in the news report:
