faith-based civil-rights nonprofit

Sikh Coalition

A Sikh civil-rights organization working on legal advocacy, school safety, community empowerment, media representation, and hate-crime response. It scores well because the institution converts religious identity into civil-rights defense rather than coercive control, with nonprofit limits and identity focus keeping it below the strongest solidarity organizations.

Why this matters: The Sikh Coalition is a positive anchor for religious identity used defensively against discrimination.

Letter grade A Good High confidence (AI) Rubric gcd-rubric-v1 Last reviewed May 14, 2026

Final Score 52* A - Good

AGOOD52 pts

* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.

Base Material49

Bonus+10

Cap66No structure cap

After Cap59

Penalties-7

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Evaluation Overview

A - Good

The score turns mainly on Extraction, with the largest penalty coming from Reversibility.

Strengths

Extraction8/10
Solidarity with the Unemployed7/7
Loss-Bearing Fidelity6/7

Penalties

Reversibility-5
Identity Capture-1
Ideological Disavowal-1

Evidence state

ConfidenceHigh confidence (AI)
ThoroughnessDeveloped (AI)
Linked claims16
Direct axis claims16
Coverage16/16

Scoring Axes

Axis	Score	Why this score
Ownership ? Control rights: shareholder-dominated at 0, worker cooperative control at 10.	5 / 10	Sikh Coalition sits at 5 on Ownership because sikh Coalition is governed as an institutional religious body rather than by worker, member-consumer, or affected-community ownership.. Calibration notes Comparative anchor: Major religious institutions pass calibrated across hierarchical churches, high-control movements, humanitarian religious nonprofits, religious nationalism, cultic violence, and historical religious-state coercion. Linked evidence Sikh Coalition is governed as an institutional religious body rather than by worker, member-consumer, or affected-community ownership. [1]
Governance ? Binding decision authority: centralized control at 0, democratic stakeholder control at 10.	5 / 10	Sikh Coalition sits at 5 on Governance because sikh Coalition governance is nonprofit and mission-driven rather than owned by investors, though affected communities do not directly control every organizational decision.. Calibration notes Comparative anchor: Major religious institutions pass calibrated across hierarchical churches, high-control movements, humanitarian religious nonprofits, religious nationalism, cultic violence, and historical religious-state coercion. Linked evidence Sikh Coalition governance is nonprofit and mission-driven rather than owned by investors, though affected communities do not directly control every organizational decision. [2]
Extraction ? Surplus allocation, wage share, CEO pay ratio, margins, and structured extraction judgment.	8 / 10	Sikh Coalition sits at 8 on Extraction because sikh Coalition's resource flows depend on donations, institutional assets, dues, offerings, or affiliated service systems rather than democratic surplus return to affected people.. Calibration notes Comparative anchor: Major religious institutions pass calibrated across hierarchical churches, high-control movements, humanitarian religious nonprofits, religious nationalism, cultic violence, and historical religious-state coercion. Linked evidence Sikh Coalition's resource flows depend on donations, institutional assets, dues, offerings, or affiliated service systems rather than democratic surplus return to affected people. [3]
Labor Sovereignty ? Worker power: coercive conditions at 0, co-determination or ownership at 7. Employee dissatisfaction matters only when source-backed evidence shows concrete limits on worker agency, such as coercive scheduling, retaliation, wage theft, harassment, unsafe conditions, suppression of worker voice, or extreme turnover.	5 / 7	Sikh Coalition sits at 5 on Labor Sovereignty because sikh Coalition's clergy, staff, volunteers, or members operate inside religious authority structures with limited worker sovereignty compared with co-determined or worker-owned institutions.. Sikh Coalition sits at 5 on Labor Sovereignty because sikh Coalition's clergy, staff, volunteers, or members operate inside religious authority structures with limited worker sovereignty compared with co-determined or worker-owned institutions.. That is above closed coercive movements when service or accountability is real, but below democratic, worker-controlled, or directly affected-stakeholder institutions. Calibration notes Comparative anchor: Major religious institutions pass calibrated across hierarchical churches, high-control movements, humanitarian religious nonprofits, religious nationalism, cultic violence, and historical religious-state coercion. Linked evidence Sikh Coalition's clergy, staff, volunteers, or members operate inside religious authority structures with limited worker sovereignty compared with co-determined or worker-owned institutions. [4]
Solidarity with the Unemployed ? Treatment of exits and nonworkers, including severance, redeployment, and non-competes.	7 / 7	Sikh Coalition sits at 7 on Solidarity Unemployed because sikh Coalition's public record shows some ministry, charity, or mutual-aid orientation, but not a universal structural guarantee for people outside paid work.. Calibration notes Comparative anchor: Major religious institutions pass calibrated across hierarchical churches, high-control movements, humanitarian religious nonprofits, religious nationalism, cultic violence, and historical religious-state coercion. Linked evidence Sikh Coalition's public record shows some ministry, charity, or mutual-aid orientation, but not a universal structural guarantee for people outside paid work. [5]
Loss-Bearing Fidelity ? Willingness to absorb costs to preserve values, workers, users, and public obligations.	6 / 7	Sikh Coalition sits at 6 on Loss Bearing Fidelity because sikh Coalition's mission language and public-service work show some willingness to absorb cost for values, while accountability still depends on institutional discretion.. Sikh Coalition sits at 6 on Loss Bearing Fidelity because sikh Coalition's mission language and public-service work show some willingness to absorb cost for values, while accountability still depends on institutional discretion.. That is above closed coercive movements when service or accountability is real, but below democratic, worker-controlled, or directly affected-stakeholder institutions. Calibration notes Comparative anchor: Major religious institutions pass calibrated across hierarchical churches, high-control movements, humanitarian religious nonprofits, religious nationalism, cultic violence, and historical religious-state coercion. Linked evidence Sikh Coalition's mission language and public-service work show some willingness to absorb cost for values, while accountability still depends on institutional discretion. [6]
Market Conduct ? Pricing fairness, switching costs, lock-in, and rent extraction.	4 / 5	Sikh Coalition sits at 4 on Market Conduct because sikh Coalition is not an ordinary seller, but it controls access to religious community, services, identity, donations, or institutional recognition.. Calibration notes Comparative anchor: Major religious institutions pass calibrated across hierarchical churches, high-control movements, humanitarian religious nonprofits, religious nationalism, cultic violence, and historical religious-state coercion. Linked evidence Sikh Coalition is not an ordinary seller, but it controls access to religious community, services, identity, donations, or institutional recognition. [7]
Product Integrity ? Preservation of quality rather than degradation for monetization.	5 / 5	Sikh Coalition sits at 5 on Product Integrity because sikh Coalition provides legal advocacy, school support, community education, and hate-crime response with strong public-interest service integrity.. Calibration notes Comparative anchor: Major religious institutions pass calibrated across hierarchical churches, high-control movements, humanitarian religious nonprofits, religious nationalism, cultic violence, and historical religious-state coercion. Linked evidence Sikh Coalition provides legal advocacy, school support, community education, and hate-crime response with strong public-interest service integrity. [8]
Scale Integrity ? Whether growth improves or degrades fairness and accountability.	4 / 5	Sikh Coalition sits at 4 on Scale Integrity because sikh Coalition's scale gives it public importance and service capacity, while also magnifying hierarchy, opacity, and identity pressure.. Calibration notes Comparative anchor: Major religious institutions pass calibrated across hierarchical churches, high-control movements, humanitarian religious nonprofits, religious nationalism, cultic violence, and historical religious-state coercion. Linked evidence Sikh Coalition's scale gives it public importance and service capacity, while also magnifying hierarchy, opacity, and identity pressure. [9]

Penalties

Penalty	Applied	Why this penalty
Reversibility ? Applied when positive conduct depends on current living leaders, founders, family owners, or other person-contingent governance rather than durable structure. Range: -5 to 0.	-5	Sikh Coalition is penalized at -5 on Reversibility because sikh Coalition's positive conduct depends on present leadership, doctrine, boards, religious culture, or discretionary institutional practice rather than locked affected-stakeholder control.. Sikh Coalition is penalized at -5 on Reversibility because sikh Coalition's positive conduct depends on present leadership, doctrine, boards, religious culture, or discretionary institutional practice rather than locked affected-stakeholder control.. The value is calibrated against nearby religious institutions rather than against unrelated commercial firms, so ordinary belief or worship is not treated as the offense. Calibration notes Comparative anchor: Major religious institutions pass calibrated across hierarchical churches, high-control movements, humanitarian religious nonprofits, religious nationalism, cultic violence, and historical religious-state coercion. Linked evidence Sikh Coalition's positive conduct depends on present leadership, doctrine, boards, religious culture, or discretionary institutional practice rather than locked affected-stakeholder control. [14]
Identity Capture ? Customer pressure, employee pressure, and pervasive identity saturation. Range: -3 to 0.	-1	Sikh Coalition is penalized at -1 on Identity Capture because sikh Coalition uses Sikh identity openly as a protected-community basis for advocacy, but this is defensive identity protection rather than high-control identity capture.. Sikh Coalition is penalized at -1 on Identity Capture because sikh Coalition uses Sikh identity openly as a protected-community basis for advocacy, but this is defensive identity protection rather than high-control identity capture.. The value is calibrated against nearby religious institutions rather than against unrelated commercial firms, so ordinary belief or worship is not treated as the offense. Calibration notes Comparative anchor: Major religious institutions pass calibrated across hierarchical churches, high-control movements, humanitarian religious nonprofits, religious nationalism, cultic violence, and historical religious-state coercion. Linked evidence Sikh Coalition uses Sikh identity openly as a protected-community basis for advocacy, but this is defensive identity protection rather than high-control identity capture. [15]
Ideological Disavowal ? Concealed ideology presented as neutrality, expertise, professional necessity, public-service administration, market inevitability, or non-ideological common sense while exercising power. Range: -3 to 0.	-1	Sikh Coalition is penalized at -1 on Ideological Disavowal because sikh Coalition presents religious or moral authority as truth, service, tradition, or neutrality in ways that can obscure its institutional standpoint and power.. Sikh Coalition is penalized at -1 on Ideological Disavowal because sikh Coalition presents religious or moral authority as truth, service, tradition, or neutrality in ways that can obscure its institutional standpoint and power.. The value is calibrated against nearby religious institutions rather than against unrelated commercial firms, so ordinary belief or worship is not treated as the offense. Calibration notes Comparative anchor: Major religious institutions pass calibrated across hierarchical churches, high-control movements, humanitarian religious nonprofits, religious nationalism, cultic violence, and historical religious-state coercion. Linked evidence Sikh Coalition presents religious or moral authority as truth, service, tradition, or neutrality in ways that can obscure its institutional standpoint and power. [16]

Bonus Credits

Bonus	Credit	Why this credit
Openness to Dissent ? Credit for tolerating internal, user, customer, worker, and public dissent without retaliation, capture, or viewpoint laundering.	2 / 3	Sikh Coalition gets limited positive credit on Openness To Dissent because sikh Coalition's public structures provide some channels for criticism or reform, but dissent remains bounded by religious authority and institutional control.. Calibration notes Comparative anchor: Major religious institutions pass calibrated across hierarchical churches, high-control movements, humanitarian religious nonprofits, religious nationalism, cultic violence, and historical religious-state coercion. Linked evidence Sikh Coalition's public structures provide some channels for criticism or reform, but dissent remains bounded by religious authority and institutional control. [10]
Constitutional Spirit ? Credit for respecting constitutional rights and civil-liberties norms even where private law does not strictly require it.	3 / 3	Sikh Coalition gets limited positive credit on Constitutional Spirit because sikh Coalition's public work includes some civil-society value, but internal religious governance is not equivalent to public constitutional accountability.. Calibration notes Comparative anchor: Major religious institutions pass calibrated across hierarchical churches, high-control movements, humanitarian religious nonprofits, religious nationalism, cultic violence, and historical religious-state coercion. Linked evidence Sikh Coalition's public work includes some civil-society value, but internal religious governance is not equivalent to public constitutional accountability. [11]
Good Deal ? Credit for unusually fair value: durable quality, fair pricing, low lock-in, and clear customer surplus.	3 / 3	Sikh Coalition gets limited positive credit on Good Deal because sikh Coalition provides community, services, aid, education, advocacy, or spiritual goods that can have practical value outside ordinary market exchange.. Calibration notes Comparative anchor: Major religious institutions pass calibrated across hierarchical churches, high-control movements, humanitarian religious nonprofits, religious nationalism, cultic violence, and historical religious-state coercion. Linked evidence Sikh Coalition provides community, services, aid, education, advocacy, or spiritual goods that can have practical value outside ordinary market exchange. [12]
Cost Transparency ? Credit for clear posted prices, all-in fees, unit costs, public rate cards, margin/cost visibility, or surplus-allocation transparency, especially in markets where opaque quotes, hidden fees, or individualized pricing are normal.	2 / 3	Sikh Coalition gets limited positive credit on Cost Transparency because sikh Coalition's public materials disclose some institutional information, but donations, assets, internal costs, or affiliated finances are not fully transparent to affected people.. Sikh Coalition gets limited positive credit on Cost Transparency because sikh Coalition's public materials disclose some institutional information, but donations, assets, internal costs, or affiliated finances are not fully transparent to affected people.. The value stays modest unless the practice is durable, externally legible, and stronger than ordinary nonprofit or religious self-presentation. Calibration notes Comparative anchor: Major religious institutions pass calibrated across hierarchical churches, high-control movements, humanitarian religious nonprofits, religious nationalism, cultic violence, and historical religious-state coercion. Linked evidence Sikh Coalition's public materials disclose some institutional information, but donations, assets, internal costs, or affiliated finances are not fully transparent to affected people. [13]

Confidence Basis

Confidence is computed from the evidence trail and review state, not typed into the profile by hand.

High 83/100

16 verified linked claims 16 direct axis claims 0 disputed claims 16/16 components covered

This confidence label measures the source-backed evidence trail. AI-scaffolded scores remain tentative until human review.

Claim confidence 20/20

16 verified linked claims

Source quality 10/18

Best source per verified claim, weighted by institutional reliability

Direct axis-specific claims 14/18

16 direct claims across 16 active components

Dispute load 12/12

0 disputed claims on this entity

Recency 10/10

Newest accepted timestamp: May 14, 2026

Reviewer status 7/12

Human-reviewed components score higher than AI scaffolding

Component coverage 10/10

16/16 evidence-bearing components have direct support

Evidence State

Profile stateAI draft / human-pending

VerificationUnverified

ConfidenceHigh confidence (AI)

ThoroughnessDeveloped (AI)

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* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.

1Sikh Coalition is governed as an institutional religious body rather than by worker, member-consumer, or affected-community ownership.

Ownership Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending May 14, 2026

AI scaffold

Sikh CoalitionGeneral web source · 58%
Sikh Coalition legal workGeneral web source · 58%
Sikh Coalition impactGeneral web source · 58%

2Sikh Coalition governance is nonprofit and mission-driven rather than owned by investors, though affected communities do not directly control every organizational decision.

Governance Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending May 14, 2026

AI scaffold

Sikh CoalitionGeneral web source · 58%
Sikh Coalition legal workGeneral web source · 58%
Sikh Coalition impactGeneral web source · 58%

3Sikh Coalition's resource flows depend on donations, institutional assets, dues, offerings, or affiliated service systems rather than democratic surplus return to affected people.

Extraction Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending May 14, 2026

AI scaffold

Sikh CoalitionGeneral web source · 58%
Sikh Coalition legal workGeneral web source · 58%
Sikh Coalition impactGeneral web source · 58%

4Sikh Coalition's clergy, staff, volunteers, or members operate inside religious authority structures with limited worker sovereignty compared with co-determined or worker-owned institutions.

Labor Sovereignty Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending May 14, 2026

AI scaffold

Sikh CoalitionGeneral web source · 58%
Sikh Coalition legal workGeneral web source · 58%
Sikh Coalition impactGeneral web source · 58%

5Sikh Coalition's public record shows some ministry, charity, or mutual-aid orientation, but not a universal structural guarantee for people outside paid work.

Solidarity Unemployed Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending May 14, 2026

AI scaffold

Sikh CoalitionGeneral web source · 58%
Sikh Coalition legal workGeneral web source · 58%
Sikh Coalition impactGeneral web source · 58%

6Sikh Coalition's mission language and public-service work show some willingness to absorb cost for values, while accountability still depends on institutional discretion.

Loss Bearing Fidelity Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending May 14, 2026

AI scaffold

Sikh CoalitionGeneral web source · 58%
Sikh Coalition legal workGeneral web source · 58%
Sikh Coalition impactGeneral web source · 58%

7Sikh Coalition is not an ordinary seller, but it controls access to religious community, services, identity, donations, or institutional recognition.

Market Conduct Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending May 14, 2026

AI scaffold

Sikh CoalitionGeneral web source · 58%
Sikh Coalition legal workGeneral web source · 58%
Sikh Coalition impactGeneral web source · 58%

8Sikh Coalition provides legal advocacy, school support, community education, and hate-crime response with strong public-interest service integrity.

Product Integrity Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending May 14, 2026

AI scaffold

Sikh CoalitionGeneral web source · 58%
Sikh Coalition legal workGeneral web source · 58%
Sikh Coalition impactGeneral web source · 58%

9Sikh Coalition's scale gives it public importance and service capacity, while also magnifying hierarchy, opacity, and identity pressure.

Scale Integrity Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending May 14, 2026

AI scaffold

Sikh CoalitionGeneral web source · 58%
Sikh Coalition legal workGeneral web source · 58%
Sikh Coalition impactGeneral web source · 58%

10Sikh Coalition's public structures provide some channels for criticism or reform, but dissent remains bounded by religious authority and institutional control.

Openness To Dissent Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending May 14, 2026

AI scaffold

Sikh CoalitionGeneral web source · 58%
Sikh Coalition legal workGeneral web source · 58%
Sikh Coalition impactGeneral web source · 58%

11Sikh Coalition's public work includes some civil-society value, but internal religious governance is not equivalent to public constitutional accountability.

Constitutional Spirit Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending May 14, 2026

AI scaffold

Sikh CoalitionGeneral web source · 58%
Sikh Coalition legal workGeneral web source · 58%
Sikh Coalition impactGeneral web source · 58%

12Sikh Coalition provides community, services, aid, education, advocacy, or spiritual goods that can have practical value outside ordinary market exchange.

Good Deal Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending May 14, 2026

AI scaffold

Sikh CoalitionGeneral web source · 58%
Sikh Coalition legal workGeneral web source · 58%
Sikh Coalition impactGeneral web source · 58%

13Sikh Coalition's public materials disclose some institutional information, but donations, assets, internal costs, or affiliated finances are not fully transparent to affected people.

Cost Transparency Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending May 14, 2026

AI scaffold

Sikh CoalitionGeneral web source · 58%
Sikh Coalition legal workGeneral web source · 58%
Sikh Coalition impactGeneral web source · 58%

14Sikh Coalition's positive conduct depends on present leadership, doctrine, boards, religious culture, or discretionary institutional practice rather than locked affected-stakeholder control.

Reversibility Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending May 14, 2026

AI scaffold

Sikh CoalitionGeneral web source · 58%
Sikh Coalition legal workGeneral web source · 58%
Sikh Coalition impactGeneral web source · 58%

15Sikh Coalition uses Sikh identity openly as a protected-community basis for advocacy, but this is defensive identity protection rather than high-control identity capture.

Identity Capture Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending May 14, 2026

AI scaffold

Sikh CoalitionGeneral web source · 58%
Sikh Coalition legal workGeneral web source · 58%
Sikh Coalition impactGeneral web source · 58%

16Sikh Coalition presents religious or moral authority as truth, service, tradition, or neutrality in ways that can obscure its institutional standpoint and power.

Ideological Disavowal Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending May 14, 2026

AI scaffold

Sikh CoalitionGeneral web source · 58%
Sikh Coalition legal workGeneral web source · 58%
Sikh Coalition impactGeneral web source · 58%

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