Three distinct clusters run through the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' documented record, two of them already carrying their own dedicated accounts in this atlas.
The Priesthood and Temple Restriction barred men of Black African descent from priesthood ordination, and both men and women of that descent from temple ordinances, from the mid-nineteenth century, first clearly stated by Brigham Young in 1852 and not present under Joseph Smith, until it was lifted by revelation on 9 June 1978 and canonised as Official Declaration 2. The Church's 2013 Gospel Topics essay expressly disavowed the theories once advanced to justify it. Plural marriage was taught as a divine principle from the 1830s, defended through federal prosecution under the Edmunds-Tucker Act, which dissolved the Church's corporation and seized its property, and withdrawn by the 1890 Manifesto; a further 1904 statement ended the practice fully, and the Church now excommunicates for it.
The third cluster is ongoing. A February 2023 US Securities and Exchange Commission settlement order found that Ensign Peak Advisors, the Church's investment reserve fund, and the Church itself used thirteen shell companies from 1997 to 2019 to keep the fund's holdings, roughly 32 billion dollars by 2018, out of public 13F filings; Ensign Peak paid a 4 million dollar penalty and the Church 1 million. A former Ensign Peak manager's 2019 whistleblower complaint separately estimated the fund at more than 100 billion dollars, a figure the SEC order does not confirm. Public 13F filings have continued since the settlement; the most recent reports roughly 53.67 billion dollars.