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| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Aga Khan Development Network | A large Ismaili-linked development network working across health, education, culture, rural development, civil society, and economic development. It scores well because public-benefit service quality and institutional capacity are strong, while hereditary leadership and limited affected-stakeholder control keep it below democratic alternatives. | faith-linked development network | High confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 5 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | -5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -1 | 0 | -1 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Al-Azhar | A major Sunni Islamic university and religious authority in Egypt, combining scholarship, fatwa authority, education, and state-adjacent religious legitimacy. It scores in the lower middle because educational and moderation work are real, but state-linked authority, doctrinal power, youth formation, and limited dissent keep it structurally constrained. | Islamic university and authority | High confidence (AI) | Policy-capture concerns; see Policy Capture. | Developed (AI) | 2 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | -5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -3 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -2 | -3 | 0 | -2 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Catholic Worker Movement | A decentralized Catholic-inspired movement of houses of hospitality, voluntary poverty, mutual aid, antiwar witness, and local service. It scores very well because it is unusually low-extraction and materially solidarity-oriented, though it remains informal, uneven, and dependent on local communities rather than locked governance. | decentralized hospitality movement | High confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 7 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | -5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -1 | 0 | -1 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | A global LDS church with centralized prophetic authority, missionary structure, temples, welfare programs, and large investment assets. It scores low because practical community support and welfare systems are undercut by hierarchy, youth identity formation, financial opacity, and documented SEC disclosure failures. | global hierarchical church | High confidence (AI) | Policy-capture concerns; see Policy Capture. | Developed (AI) | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | -5 | -6 | 0 | 0 | -5 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | -4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -3 | -2 | -3 | -1 | -2 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Church of Scientology | A centralized Scientology institution combining religious identity, paid courses, auditing, media, legal defense, and Sea Org labor structures. It scores near the bottom among present religious institutions because high-control exit costs, litigation posture, labor allegations, paid advancement, and identity capture dominate the evaluation. | centralized religious corporation | High confidence (AI) | Policy-capture concerns; see Policy Capture. | Developed (AI) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -5 | -12 | -4 | 0 | -5 | -8 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -3 | -5 | -2 | -3 | -3 | -3 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Friends General Conference | A Quaker association serving meetings and seekers, grounded in decentralized Quaker practice, committee governance, and non-creedal religious community. Friends General Conference scores well because ownership is comparatively aligned and governance has stronger accountability than peers, though person-dependent governance and identity capture still limits the evaluation. | Quaker religious nonprofit | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Partial (AI) | 8 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | -5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Hillsong Church | A global Pentecostal megachurch and worship-media network marked by founder misconduct, child-abuse reporting controversy, financial-misconduct allegations, and centralized brand power. Hillsong Church scores low because of documented human harm, person-dependent governance, and identity capture, with centralized governance and weak worker power reinforcing the negative evaluation. | global megachurch network | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -5 | -8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | -3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -3 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Islamic Relief Worldwide | A global Muslim humanitarian organization providing emergency relief, development, and aid programs. It scores positively because service value and public humanitarian mission are strong, though governance controversy, leadership reversibility, and faith-based identity keep it below the strongest aid institutions. | faith-based humanitarian NGO | High confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 5 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | -5 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -1 | 0 | -1 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Lakewood Church | A Houston megachurch centered on Joel Osteen’s celebrity ministry and broadcast reach, with large-scale religious branding and weak public governance transparency. Lakewood Church remains weak because of person-dependent governance, identity capture, and material opacity, even where it still has some practical value. | megachurch | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Partial (AI) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -3 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Mennonite Central Committee | A Mennonite and Brethren in Christ relief, development, and peace organization working through aid, disaster response, migration support, and peacebuilding. It scores very well because the institution combines practical solidarity with comparatively low extraction and nonviolent commitments, while still remaining a donor-governed religious nonprofit. | peace church relief organization | High confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 6 | 6 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | -5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | -1 | |||||
| L | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Roman Catholic Church / Holy See | A global hierarchical church and sovereign Holy See with immense sacramental, charitable, educational, cultural, and political reach. It scores very low because service capacity and institutional continuity are overwhelmed by centralized clerical authority, systemic abuse failures, opacity, and strong identity capture. | global hierarchical church | High confidence (AI) | Severe policy-capture record; see Policy Capture. | Developed (AI) | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | -5 | -16 | -3 | -1 | -8 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | -3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -3 | -2 | -3 | -1 | -2 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Saddleback Church | A large evangelical megachurch network with major practical ministry reach, centralized church branding, and denominational controversy over governance and women pastors. Saddleback Church remains weak because of person-dependent governance, identity capture, and material opacity, even where the product or service has practical value. | megachurch | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | -5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -2 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | 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. | faith-based civil-rights nonprofit | High confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 5 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | -5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | -1 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Southern Baptist Convention | A large U.S. evangelical denomination structured as a convention of cooperating churches with major seminaries, missions, and public-policy influence. It scores very low because abuse-reporting failures, doctrinal boundary control, youth formation, and political-cultural power outweigh its decentralized-church structure. | evangelical denomination | High confidence (AI) | Policy-capture concerns; see Policy Capture. | Developed (AI) | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | -5 | -10 | 0 | 0 | -6 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | -3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -2 | -3 | 0 | -2 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | The Salvation Army | A global Christian charity and church providing shelters, disaster relief, thrift stores, addiction programs, and social services through a uniformed hierarchical structure. It scores in the lower middle because large practical services are real, but abuse history, hierarchy, donor opacity, and identity constraints limit trust. | religious charity | High confidence (AI) | Policy-capture concerns; see Policy Capture. | Developed (AI) | 2 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | -5 | -8 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -2 | -2 | 0 | -1 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Tzu Chi Foundation | A Buddhist humanitarian foundation known for disaster relief, medical care, recycling, education, and volunteer service. It scores well because its service model is materially beneficial and comparatively low-extraction, though founder-linked culture and religious identity prevent a top structural score. | Buddhist humanitarian foundation | High confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 5 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | -5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -2 | 0 | -1 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Unitarian Universalist Association | A liberal religious association of congregations governed through elected trustees, General Assembly processes, bylaws, and congregational polity. Unitarian Universalist Association scores well because ownership is comparatively aligned and governance has stronger accountability than peers, though person-dependent governance and identity capture still limits the evaluation. | religious association | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 7 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | -5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society / Jehovah's Witnesses | A centralized Jehovah's Witness institution coordinating doctrine, publications, congregational discipline, and global evangelism. It scores very low because hierarchical authority, shunning, youth formation, blood doctrine, and child-abuse accountability findings create severe power-relation concerns. | centralized religious movement | High confidence (AI) | Policy-capture concerns; see Policy Capture. | Developed (AI) | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -5 | -12 | -1 | 0 | -3 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | -4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -4 | -2 | -3 | -1 | -3 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | World Council of Churches | A global ecumenical fellowship of churches working on dialogue, peace, justice, migration, ecology, and Christian unity. It scores positively because it reduces sectarian isolation and supports public-good advocacy, while remaining a church-network institution with limited direct affected-stakeholder control. | ecumenical church fellowship | High confidence (AI) | Policy-capture concerns; see Policy Capture. | Developed (AI) | 5 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | -5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | -1 |