The Southern Poverty Law Center spent decades telling donors it was the frontline defense against hate in America.
Now a federal grand jury says the SPLC was secretly writing checks to the hate groups it claimed to be fighting – and Jim Jordan just revealed the number that proves exactly how profitable that racket became.
And the detail about what the Biden Justice Department knew – and when – is exactly what you suspected all along.
The Superseding Indictment: $4 Million in Donor Money Paid to the KKK
Jordan sat down with Sean Hannity Thursday night after the DOJ dropped a superseding indictment against the SPLC – and what he laid out was a fraud operation that would make a mob lawyer blush.
Federal prosecutors allege the SPLC secretly funneled more than $4 million in donor money to individuals inside violent extremist groups – the Ku Klux Klan, the Aryan Nations, the National Socialist Party of America.
The vehicles they used weren't legitimate. The DOJ alleges the SPLC built a network of shell companies with names like "Center Investigative Agency" and "Fox Photography" – fictitious businesses that performed no real services – to disguise payments to active KKK members and neo-Nazis.
When two KKK members reached out to the SPLC hoping to leave the group, the organization allegedly told them to stay inside – and offered them $1,200 a month to keep recruiting.
One SPLC informant, identified in the indictment as Field Source 37, was paid more than $270,000 between 2015 and 2023 to help plan the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia – posting racist content at the SPLC's direction and busing attendees to the event.
A young woman named Heather Heyer was killed that day.
How the SPLC Tripled Its Revenue After Charlottesville
Jordan dropped the revenue numbers Thursday night – and they tell you everything.
Jordan didn't mince words: "He was part of the planning group for the Charlottesville rally. After the event – again, after the event where a young lady is killed – the Southern Poverty Law Center almost tripled their income. They went from $51 million annual income to $133 million."
The superseding indictment contains new details about SPLC revenue pulled directly from the organization's public tax filings. The DOJ included those numbers for a reason – they show the fraud wasn't an administrative error. It was a business model.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche put it plainly at the April press conference: the SPLC wasn't fighting extremism. It was funding it while asking donors to pay the bill.
How Biden's DOJ Used SPLC to Label Catholics as Extremists
Here's where the outrage shifts from disgusting to criminal negligence.
Jordan revealed Thursday that the Biden Justice Department wasn't just aware of the SPLC – it was actively partnering with the organization while an investigation into its finances was already underway.
Lisa Monaco, Biden's deputy attorney general, held regular quarterly meetings with SPLC leadership.
The Biden DOJ allowed SPLC employees into federal buildings to train its own prosecutors on how to identify extremists.
And the now-infamous 2023 FBI Richmond memo – the one that labeled traditional Catholics as potential domestic terrorists – cited the SPLC as a primary source. Internal FBI documents show at least 13 separate bureau files used SPLC material to build cases against American conservatives.
Jordan put it plainly: "They helped make them the standard when in fact it was all a scam."
The Biden DOJ knew about the financial investigation into the SPLC. They didn't bring charges. Jordan says the reason is obvious – you can't indict an organization you're actively using to train your prosecutors.
Todd Blanche, Trump's acting attorney general, brought the indictment in April. The superseding indictment dropped this week.
The SPLC has pleaded not guilty and called the prosecution politically motivated. Their lawyer says the informant program "prevented violence and saved lives." That claim requires believing the SPLC's paid operative – the one posting racist content at SPLC's direction and busing people into Charlottesville – was somehow a force for peace.
Heather Heyer's family might have a different view of that claim.
Jim Jordan: Creating Hate Was More Profitable Than Fighting It
The SPLC wasn't a civil rights organization that went rogue. It was a fundraising machine that learned early what any good grifter knows – fear and outrage pay better than peace.
Biden's team didn't just ignore that. They outsourced federal law enforcement to it.
Your tax dollars paid prosecutors who were trained by an organization now facing 11 federal counts of wire fraud, bank fraud, and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
Jim Jordan was right about one thing Thursday night: the only thing these investigations ever get wrong is underestimating how bad it really is.
Sources:
- Jeff Poor, "Jim Jordan: SPLC 'Nearly Tripled' Its Revenue After Charlottesville," Breitbart, June 5, 2026.
- "DOJ Expands Indictment Against SPLC, Alleging $4M Secretly Funneled to KKK and Extremist Groups," Fox News, June 3, 2026.
- "SPLC Charged With Offering Would-Be KKK, Neo-Nazi Defectors Salaries to Stay In, Spy on Hate Groups," Just the News, June 4, 2026.
- "DOJ Alleges SPLC Funded Unite the Right Rally Organizer in Charlottesville," Fox News, April 23, 2026.
- "Federal Grand Jury Charges Southern Poverty Law Center for Wire Fraud, False Statements, and Conspiracy to Commit Money Laundering," Department of Justice, April 21, 2026.
- "You Won't Be Surprised to Find Out How Biden Handled the Southern Poverty Law Center Fraud Investigation," Townhall, May 20, 2026.
- "House Judiciary Chair Jordan Asks Bondi for Records on Biden DOJ's Ties to Liberal Nonprofit SPLC," Just the News, November 26, 2025.
