The Alibris NOligarchy Profile
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Alibris earns a NOligarchy Score of 89.82 out of 100 — a solid standing within its sector, though the score is pulled below a perfect mark by an estimated pay gap between the top and the bottom of the company. Across the full tracking span from Q3 2024 through Q2 2026 (8 quarters — the two-year tracking period), no lobbying filings, Political Action Committee (PAC) records, executive donations, CEO pay disclosures, stock buyback data, regulatory fines, or public subsidies have been matched to Alibris across any source this project tracks. That reflects the current state of available public records — not a confirmed finding of clean conduct or spending in either direction.
Current Pillar Scores
Political Access
100.0
Wealth Extraction
59.2
Playing by the Rules
100.0
Score history — 23 quarters
Tier bands show where each quarter's score falls — no numeric y-axis needed. The dashed ring marks the year-over-year comparison point. Tap any quarter but the first to see its pillar breakdown.
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Political Access Grade: 100/100. No federal lobbying spend, no PAC, and no executive personal donations to campaigns were matched to Alibris in the tracked sources. The grade reflects an absence of matched records, not a verified zero.
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Wealth Extraction Grade: 59.5/100. No stock buyback or dividend data is on record — Alibris is a private company with no publicly traded shares. The score is weighted by an estimated pay gap based on industry benchmarks, not on Alibris’s own disclosures, which do not exist in the public record.
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Playing by the Rules Grade: 100/100. No regulatory fines, violations, or public subsidies have been matched to Alibris in the tracked sources.
Alibris ranks 6th out of 15 companies in the Book retailers and news dealers sector. The sector average NOligarchy Score is 83.5 — Alibris sits roughly six points above that benchmark, placing it among the stronger performers in a relatively tight competitive field.
The Bottom Line: No Public Record Has Been Matched
Across the two-year tracking period, no lobbying filings, PAC activity, executive donation records, CEO pay data, stock buyback figures, regulatory penalties, or public subsidies have been linked to Alibris in any source this project monitors. That is not the same as a confirmed finding that none of those things exist — it reflects the limits of what public records have captured and what has been matched to this company so far. The one figure the data does surface is an estimated pay gap derived from industry benchmarks rather than from Alibris’s own books, because as a private company Alibris carries no public disclosure obligations on executive compensation.
Outside Current Tracking Coverage
No federal lobbying disclosures, PAC contributions, or executive personal donations have been matched to Alibris in the tracked sources — including Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA) filings and Federal Election Commission (FEC) records — for the two-year tracking period. Whether that means Alibris genuinely spent nothing on federal political access during this stretch, or whether matching records exist that have not yet been linked to this company, cannot be determined from available public data alone.
No outside lobbying firms, no government issue areas, no referenced bills, and no former government officials brought in through the revolving door appear in any matched filing.
EXHIBIT — THE RESERVED SEAT
$0 in lobbying · $0 in PAC money
Alibris filed no federal lobbying and ran no corporate PAC in this window — the reserved seat at the witness table sits empty.
Outside Current Tracking Coverage
Alibris is a private company, which means it carries no obligation to publicly disclose its CEO pay ratio. No company-specific pay data has been matched in the tracked sources. The best available reference point is a sector benchmark from AFL-CIO Executive Paywatch: the estimated CEO-to-worker pay gap for comparable companies in this industry is 182:1, based on AFL-CIO Executive Paywatch industry benchmarks for comparable companies in this sector. That figure is drawn from industry averages, not from Alibris’s own records, and should be read as a rough orientation rather than a verified Alibris disclosure.
No stock buyback or dividend data is recorded for the two-year period — consistent with Alibris’s status as a privately held company with no publicly traded shares.
Outside Current Tracking Coverage
No regulatory violations, fines, penalties, or public subsidies have been matched to Alibris across the tracked sources for the two-year period. That includes no matched records in the Good Jobs First enforcement database, which aggregates federal and state regulatory actions. Whether that reflects a genuinely clean regulatory record, Alibris’s smaller footprint relative to publicly traded sector peers, or simply the current state of what has been matched to this company in available public data is not something the record can confirm.