Per an article in Forbes, a timeline of the removal of DEI from various large companies and organizations.

April 10, 2025

• IBM shifted its supplier diversity goals away from race and gender to focus on all small businesses and veteran-led companies and stopped linking executive compensation to diversity hiring goals, Bloomberg reported, citing an internal memo that detailed the “inherent tensions in practicing inclusion.”

• Gannett, the United States’ largest newspaper publisher, said it will no longer publish diversity data and removed references to diversity from its corporate website, Nieman Lab reported, citing a company spokesperson who referenced Trumps DEI executive order.

April 8, 2025

• Constellation Brands Inc., which brews Corona and Modelo Especial beer, renamed its DEI team to “inclusive culture,” reframed its supplier diversity goals to focus on all small businesses and will no longer participate in Human Rights Campaign external surveys, Bloomberg reported.

March 26, 2025

• UnitedHealth Group removed webpages dedicated to diversity, equity and inclusion and instead adopted language like “culture of belonging,” TechCrunch first reported (Company spokesperson Tyler Mason told the outlet it seeks to “comply with existing and emerging laws while striving to support what is best for the communities we serve”).

March 22, 2025

• The MLB told the AP it removed references to diversity from its careers site to ensure it complies with federal law, but said the organization’s “values on diversity remain unchanged.”

March 5, 2025

• Victoria’s Secret is reevaluating a supplier diversity goal and halting a goal to promote a certain percentage of Black workers, a Victoria’s Secret representative told Bloomberg, a shift for the company that made investments in DEI throughout the 2020s following a reported workplace harassment scandal as well as controversy and boycotts over an alleged lack of body type diversity among its models.

Feb. 28, 2025

• State Street, which installed the famous “Fearless Girl” statue in Manhattan in 2017, previously expected boards in major indexes to be 30% female and S&P 500 companies to have at least one racial minority director, but these requirements appear to have been dropped in the company’s new proxy voting guidance published on its website, which the company told Reuters was “to ensure alignment with global protocols and local laws and regulations.”

Feb. 27, 2025

• Warner Bros. Discovery said in a staff memo it remains committed to building an “inclusive team” but would rename its DEI programs to simply “inclusion,” cease participating in external diversity surveys and implement a “uniform and consistent application process” across all of its development programs, multiple outlets reported (the company still reportedly said: “Our success absolutely depends on having a team that’s truly diverse”).

• Goldman Sachs, weeks after axing a diversity requirement for companies it takes public, dropped a section about “diversity and inclusion” from an annual filing released Thursday, which CEO David Solomon said was to “reflect developments in the law in the U.S.,” Reuters reported.

Feb. 26, 2025

• Paramount will no longer use diversity targets—tied to race or gender—in hiring, and the company has begun removing DEI language from its website, the New York Times and other outlets reported, citing a company memo in which Paramount executives cited Trump’s anti-DEI executive orders.

Feb. 25, 2025

• Bank of America will end “aspirational” targets for diversity hiring and replaced the word “diversity” with “talent” and “opportunity” in an annual report, Bloomberg reported.

• BlackRock cut references to DEI in its latest annual report, three years after the company’s CEO Larry Fink said the company “must embed DEI into everything we do.”

Feb. 20, 2025

• Citigroup will rename its “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Talent Management” team to “Talent Management and Engagement,” and it will end its diversity hiring goals, Bloomberg reported.

• Pepsi will no longer use representation goals in hiring, will transition its “Chief DEI Officer” position to focus more on employee development and will shift its supplier diversity program to focus on all small businesses, according to an internal memo posted on X by anti-DEI activist Robby Starbuck—who said he contacted the company about “doing a story about their woke policies.”

Feb. 17, 2025

• JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and Citigroup were “removing or watering down” language around their DEI efforts, unnamed people familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal, and other banks including Wells Fargo and Bank of America have begun reviewing their DEI language, as well.

Feb. 13, 2025

• Coca-Cola and PepsiCo were preparing to comply with Trump’s executive order that sought to ban DEI programs as both receive government contracts, Bloomberg reported; Coca-Cola’s changes will likely be disclosed in future Securities and Exchange Commission filings, according to the report, and PepsiCo’s latest filing removed references to its “diverse workforce” and DEI.

Feb. 12, 2025

• Dimon said he “saw how we were spending money on some of this stupid s—-, and it really pissed me off,” stating in response to a question about DEI he will “cancel” some expenses he views as wasteful, Bloomberg reported, though he also reiterated his commitment to Black, Hispanic and LGBTQ community outreach, a viewpoint he has repeated in recent weeks even as other companies roll back their DEI commitments—and he has previously slammed “ridiculous” anti-DEI crusaders targeting his company. (Forbes has reached out to JPMorgan Chase for comment).

Feb. 11, 2025

• Goldman Sachs said it would drop a requirement that a company it takes public must have at least two diverse members on its board of directors, one of whom had to be a woman, which a company spokesperson told Axios is because of “legal developments related to board diversity requirements” (A federal appeals court in December ruled Nasdaq could not require companies to have board diversity quotas.)

• Disney is making several changes to its DEI approach, including shifting its “Diversity & Inclusion” performance metric used to evaluate employees to “Talent Strategy,” which is focused more on business outcomes, while also axing its “Reimagine Tomorrow” website which highlights diverse employees and adjusting content warnings it attached to some of its older films on Disney+ to remove references to diversity and culture.

• Deloitte told U.S. employees working with government clients to remove pronouns from their email signatures and said it would roll back its DEI goals and cease issuing diversity reports—but the firm’s United Kingdom branch told its staff diversity “remains a priority” and it would stand by its diversity goals.

Feb. 10, 2025

• PBS—which Trump has repeatedly called for defunding—shuttered its diversity, equity and inclusion office, and those who worked in DEI roles have left the company, which PBS said in a memo to staff is to make sure it complies with Trump’s anti-DEI executive orders.

• Days after it cut diversity hiring goals, a Google spokesperson told CNBC it no longer marks the start of cultural observances like Pride Month and Black History Month because “maintaining hundreds of moments manually and consistently globally wasn’t scalable or sustainable,” though it said it began making these changes in mid-2024.

Feb. 7, 2025

• NPR first reported more than a dozen companies have pared back, or removed altogether, references to diversity, equity and inclusion in their 2024 annual reports to investors, including Pepsi, GM, Google, Disney, GE, Intel, PayPal, Chipotle and Comcast (GM removed all references to diversity, NPR reported, while Pepsi removed nearly all references after writing in its investor report last year DEI is a “competitive advantage.”)

• Professional services company Accenture said it would no longer use diversity targets in hiring and promoting, citing the Trump administration’s push for private companies to roll back DEI goals, the company’s chief executive Julie Sweet said in a memo to staff, Bloomberg reported.

• Amazon’s annual report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission for 2024 omitted a section included in the company’s prior annual report, which indicated Amazon has a focus on “inclusion and diversity” in hiring (the news was first reported by CNBC).

Feb. 6, 2025

• The government-funded railroad service Amtrak confirmed to Bloomberg it would roll back its DEI programs and policies, which appeared to include efforts to hire and promote diverse employees and employee resource groups, according to the company’s 2023 diversity report.

Feb. 5, 2025

• Google informed its employees in an email that it will no longer have hiring targets around improving diverse representation among its staff, The Wall Street Journal first reported, and it is evaluating whether to continue other DEI programs and release DEI reports—though it will continue having resource groups for underrepresented staff members.

Jan. 28, 2025

• The Smithsonian Institution told employees its diversity office is closing as a “first step” to address Trump’s new federal policy that declared DEI programs as “dangerous” and “demeaning,” the Washington Post reported, and the link to the institution’s 2022 diversity and inclusion initiatives report and link to its equal employment opportunity policy are broken.

Jan. 24, 2025

• Target, which had already curbed its LGBTQ Pride merchandise line in response to conservative backlash, announced it would pull back on racial hiring targets, end its Racial Equity Action and Change program and cease participation in external diversity surveys, with chief community impact and equity officer Kiera Fernandez telling employees in a memo the decisions were made based on “many years of data” and an effort to stay “in step with the evolving external landscape.”

Jan. 17, 2025

• The FBI confirmed in a statement to Forbes it had closed its DEI office—a frequent target of attacks by Republicans—in December, prompting President-elect Donald Trump to demand the agency “preserve and retain all records” relating to the shuttered office as he accused the FBI of “corruption” in a Truth Social post.

Jan. 10, 2025

• Amazon said it would roll back what it called “outdated programs and materials” in an internal memo, though it did not specify what would be discontinued, while certain programs aimed at addressing disparities would continue until the disparities are eliminated.

• Meta said in a memo the company ended several programs intended to increase its hiring of diverse candidates, including its equity and inclusion training programs, after Janelle Gale, Meta’s vice president of people, said the “legal and policy landscape” surrounding DEI efforts in the U.S. is “changing.”

Jan. 6, 2025

• McDonald’s announced it would abandon specific diversity targets, cease participation in external surveys that measure company demographics and would rename its diversity team to “Global Inclusion Team,” citing the Supreme Court decision that ended affirmative action at universities and similar DEI walkbacks by other corporations, though it said it would continue to report demographic information in its own annual report.

Nov. 25, 2024

• Walmart said it would abandon its DEI commitments, including winding down a Center for Racial Equity nonprofit it had founded in 2020 with a $100 million, 5-year commitment, ceasing third-party sellers from offering certain LGBTQ-themed products on its website, no longer participating in the Human Rights Campaign’s external surveys and phasing out the term “diversity, equity and inclusion” in company documents.

Nov. 1, 2024

• Boeing dismantled its global diversity, equity and inclusion department and redirected its staff to its human resources department to focus on talent acquisition and employee experience, Bloomberg reported.

Sept. 4, 2024

• Molson Coors, which had in 2023 defended a feminist-themed ad that sparked conservative backlash, said it would abandon supplier diversity quotas, shift DEI training sessions to focus on business objectives and stop participating in external diversity surveys, despite previously receiving a perfect 100 from the Human Rights Campaign for its LGBTQ policies.

Aug. 28, 2024

• Lowe’s said in an internal memo it would combine its employee resource groups into one umbrella organization, cease participating in HRC surveys and would stop participating in external events like Pride parades.

Aug. 28, 2024

• Ford Motor Co. informed employees it would stop participating in external diversity surveys and would evolve its employee resource groups to focus on networking and mentorship to all employees, citing the evolving “external and legal environment related to political and social issues.”

Aug. 22, 2024

• Jack Daniel’s manufacturer Brown-Forman told employees it would no longer tie executive compensation to DEI progress, remove workforce and supplier diversity goals and cease participating in the HRC index, citing the shifting “legal and external landscape.”

Aug. 19, 2024

• Harley-Davidson said it abandoned its “DEI function” in April and said it does not utilize diversity quotas for hiring or suppliers, and that it would no longer participate in HRC surveys or partner with sponsors that do not focus on its “loyal riding community.”

July 16, 2024

• Farm equipment manufacturer John Deere said it would no longer support “cultural awareness” events like Pride parades and would audit company documents to remove “socially-motivated messages,” adding that diversity quotas and pronoun identification have never been company policy, though it said it would continue to internally track employee diversity.

DEI is Weaponized to Discriminate and Persecute

From a notice posted on May 25^th 2025 by Frank Xu of the Californians for Equal Rights Foundation...

Three former employees at MWD’s Eagle Mountain Pump Plant have sued the district for race and gender discrimination, while one current district-level employee is suing for retaliation. These claims revolve around a union leader who previously worked under the three former employees as an “Operations and Maintenance Tech.” Going to work with an agenda to purge her team of “white males” and “colonialism,” this union personality turned the workplace into a toxic and hostile environment with remarks such as: “all you white boys from Arizona are all racist and bigots,” “I will do whatever it fxxking takes to get rid of [the white manager],” “you better get on board or go back where you came from.” When reported for her bigoted comments and harassment, this individual turned the table and made false claims against her superiors in a “Me-too” style media campaign, effectively causing the subjects of her accusations their jobs and reputation. 
 
MWD leadership, which had just pledged participation in a nationwide movement for equity,  dismissed an internal investigation from its Human Resources Department which proved the union leader’s claims false. Instead, they chased the winds of progressive culture and doubled down by calling on law enforcement(including a SWAT team!) to do a threat assessment on one of the managers. And what about the HR manager who did nothing wrong but to report findings of no harassment? She was punished, sidelined and heavily monitored at her job for not siding with the union or diversity. 
 
You may ask: what enables and emboldens individuals to make false accusations, cause tremendous grief to those accused (and their families) and get away with the lies? Well, in the name of DEI, there can be “good racism” and justice warriors can get away with anything! This said union leader is still in active and gainful employment at MWD, while the accused had their livelihood and peace stripped away. In the meantime, the quality of work necessary for moving water for millions of Californians give way to the pursuit of ideological purity. The same kind of dogma has made Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s indefensible race-based hiring practices (under the banner of “diversity”) fashionable and acceptable.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Funding

Continues to Pour In...

Per an investigative report by Defending Education, we highlight here those portions of the report involving California schools.

SUMMARY
American universities, especially in the wake of George Floyd and Black Lives Matter, have established funds that focus on the advancement of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) inside the institutions. The purpose of these funds range from the establishment of identity-based scholarships to funding DEI related programming on campuses.

While President Trump’s Executive Orders have incentivized universities to take down webpages and halt DEI related programmings, it does not mean that these institutions are necessarily ending these practices permanently. In some cases that are captured in this report, universities just rebranded the fund(s) or program.

To date, we have been able to track down over $373,344,424 in donations to fund institution DEI programs, scholarships, and offices. While some of the funding has been tracked down via “Day of Giving” style campaign webpages, the vast majority of the money has been traced through university announcements, webpages, and reports.

The information contained in this report primarily covers the years from 2021 to present. We aim to highlight these funds as well as current and past DEI-based programs in higher education. This report contains both current and archived university webpages which highlight these DEI funds and the purpose for them.

CALIFORNIA HIGHLIGHTS

• The University of California, Berkeley collected $186,420 in donations for “Increasing Diversity and Opportunity at Cal” during its “Big Give 2025” campaign.

• The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) School of the Arts and Architecture includes its “Anti-racism Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion” program which includes the UCLA Arts Racial Equity Fund which is an “AEDI scholarship fund established to support the realization of a more inclusive, equitable, and representative School of the Arts and Architecture with an emphasis on recruitment and retention practices rooted in diversifying our school community,” and was “created to address disparities in representation, to increase access to education, to strengthen the recruitment and retention of under-represented students.”

• The University of Southern California’s Race and Equity Center features a “National DEI Defense Fund” that is intended to be used to counter anti-DEI efforts such as “ban books,” the elimination of “diversity and inclusion educational programs,” and the suppression of the “teaching of truths about America’s racial past and present.”

hearings and provide evidence-informed guidance to K-12 and higher education leaders, school board members, and elected officials.”

CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY SPECIFICS

The following is not a comprehensive list. As universities continue to remove webpages, links may be taken down or redirected. These will be updated whenever possible.

An * denotes that an archived page has been used in place of the original because that institution has removed the specific webpage.

California Polytechnic Institute*

• Bailey College of Science and Mathematics – Inclusion and Equity Fund

• University Diversity & Inclusion Fund

California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt

• Laura Frank and Eric Wier Natural Resources Scholarship Endowment

California State University Chico

• Office of Diversity and Inclusion

Loyola Marymount University

• SOE Black, Indigenous and People of Color Doctoral Scholarship Fund

Otis College of Art and Design

• JEDI Innovation Fund

Sacramento State University

• 2024 Give Sac State Day – Equity, Diversity, Inclusivity & Access – $26,102

Santa Clara University

• 2024 Day of Giving – Inclusive Excellence – $359,715

• Black Excellence Scholarship Fund

Scripps College

• 2020 – Racial Justice and Equity Fund Donation – $1,000,000

Stanford University

• DIF: Diversity and Inclusion Innovation Funds

• The Solidarity Fund

University of California, Berkeley

• 2020-2021 Division of Equity and Inclusion fundraising – $34,000,000

• 2021 Giving Day – Division of Equity & Inclusion – $1,825

• Cal Athletics Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging and Justice Office

  • 2024 Giving Day – Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging and Justice – $7,622

• College of Chemistry

  • Big Give 2025 – Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Fund – $1950

• Big Give 2025 – Increasing Diversity and Opportunity at Cal – $186,420

• The Black Graduation Fund

• The Green Initiative Fund

University of California, Davis

• School of Medicine

  • Fund for Inclusion, Diversity and Social Justice

• Give Day 2025 – Diversity, Equity and Inclusion – $27,260

University of California, Irvine

• 2022 Giving Day – Black Thriving Initiative – $28,385

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

• Institute of American Cultures

  • 2024 -Morgan and Helen Chu Chair in Asian American Studies and the Helen and Morgan Chu Director’s Chair of the Asian American Studies Center – Donation – $10,000,000

• School of the Arts and Architecture

  • UCLA Arts Racial Equity Fund

• Social Welfare Racial Justice Fellowship Fund

University of California, San Francisco

• School of Medicine – Dean’s Diversity Fund

University of California, Santa Barbara

• Cassandra Jaelie Stewart Memorial Scholarship Fund

University of Southern California

• Funds

  • USC Race and Equity Center – National DEI Defense Fund