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Our Exclusion Framework

We exclude companies whose products or conduct preventably harm living things.

2,598 companies excluded across 14 issue categories

Full screening policy: Our exclusion criteria, methodology, and review process are documented in detail and available for public review.

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What ethical funds still hold

Percentage of screened values-aligned funds that hold at least one company we exclude, by category.

What they make
How they behave
Corporate Misconduct
100%
Environmental Harm
100%
Geopolitical Conflict
100%
Labor Rights
100%
Surveillance
100%
Animal Welfare
97%
Weapons & Military
97%
Criminal Justice
89%
Direct Harm
75%
Harmful Products
72%
Fossil Fuels
72%
environmental
67%
border_enforcement
58%
Indigenous Rights
50%

Based on 36 funds marketing themselves as ethical, sustainable, or values-aligned.

Palestine Solidarity

We exclude defense contractors supplying the IDF and firms profiting from the occupation.

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Surveillance

We exclude companies built on mass data collection, facial recognition, and government surveillance contracts. Growing regulatory risk from GDPR, the AI Act, and FTC enforcement makes this a financial position too.

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Animal Welfare

We exclude factory farming, animal testing, and animal-derived products. Thin margins, biosecurity risk, and commodity pricing with no moat. We've screened out factory farming since day one.

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Browse by Category

What companies make and how they behave — both matter.

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Many ethical screening funds rely on third-party ratings. We maintain our own screens across both dimensions.

We’re in the process of migrating legacy screening records to our current taxonomy. Some categories may be incomplete until that work is finished.