The Bonanza NOligarchy Profile
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Bonanza earns a NOligarchy Score of 82.94 out of 100 — but that headline figure masks a significant internal split. Two of the three pillar grades are perfect; the third drags the overall score down sharply, driven entirely by what the public record cannot see rather than what it can.
Current Pillar Scores
Political Access
100.0
Wealth Extraction
39.8
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 corporate Political Action Committee (PAC), and no executive political donations have been matched to Bonanza across any source this project tracks from Q3 2024 through Q2 2026 (8 quarters — the two-year tracking period).
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Wealth Extraction Grade: 39.84/100. This grade is depressed by an industry-benchmark estimate of the CEO pay gap. No company-specific executive compensation disclosures, stock buyback records, or dividend data have been matched to Bonanza.
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Playing by the Rules Grade: 100/100. No regulatory fines, penalties, or public subsidies have been matched to Bonanza across the tracked sources.
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The Sector Context: Bonanza ranks 4th out of 21 among companies sharing its federal industry classification (Warehouse clubs, supercenters, and other general merchandise retailers). With a score of 82.94 against a sector average of 55.8, Bonanza sits well above its peer group’s baseline — making it an outlier in this sector, though the DATA COVERAGE NOTE below is essential context for interpreting that position.
The Bottom Line: No Public-Record Data Found — Score Reflects Estimated Benchmarks, Not Confirmed Filings
No lobbying records, PAC filings, executive political donations, CEO pay disclosures, stock buyback or dividend data, regulatory fines, or public subsidy grants have been matched to Bonanza across any of the sources this project tracks during the two-year period from Q3 2024 through Q2 2026. This reflects the current state of available public records — not a confirmed finding that Bonanza spent nothing, paid nothing in fines, or disclosed nothing. As a private company with a limited public filing footprint, matching records may exist but have not yet been linked to this company in the tracked databases.
Outside Current Tracking Coverage — Political Spending
The Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA) database shows no filings naming Bonanza as a client from Q3 2024 through Q2 2026. Federal Election Commission (FEC) records show no corporate PAC spending and no executive political donations matched to the company over the same period.
What that means in practice: there is no documented evidence of Bonanza paying to shape federal legislation, hiring former government officials to work its connections, or cutting checks to candidates through a corporate political fund. Whether that represents a genuine absence of political activity or a gap in record-matching is not something the current data can resolve.
EXHIBIT — THE RESERVED SEAT
$0 in lobbying · $0 in PAC money
Bonanza 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 — Pay and Shareholder Returns
Bonanza is a private company and is not required to file the executive compensation disclosures that publicly traded companies submit to the Securities and Exchange Commission. As a result, no company-specific CEO pay ratio, no stock buyback records, and no dividend data have been matched to Bonanza across the tracked sources.
The best available proxy comes from industry benchmarks maintained by the AFL-CIO’s Executive Paywatch program. The CEO pay ratio for companies in this sector is AFL-CIO Executive Paywatch 552:1, based on AFL-CIO Executive Paywatch industry benchmarks for comparable companies in this sector. That is a benchmark estimate for the industry — not a number Bonanza has disclosed or confirmed. It means that at companies of this type, a chief executive typically earns 552 times what a median frontline worker takes home: for every dollar an average worker makes in a year, the person at the top collects the equivalent of more than five centuries of that worker’s earnings.
Because no buyback or dividend data has been matched to Bonanza, no per-worker raise calculation can be made. The pay gap figure above is the only wealth-extraction signal available in the current public record.
Outside Current Tracking Coverage — Regulatory Record
No regulatory fines, penalties, or public subsidy grants have been matched to Bonanza in the Good Jobs First violation and subsidy databases across the two-year period from Q3 2024 through Q2 2026. As with the other sections of this profile, the absence of a matched record is not the same as a confirmed clean history — it reflects what the current state of record-matching can and cannot show for a private marketplace company with a limited public filing footprint.