Category Leaderboard
Home Improvement & Hardware
8 tracked retailers, ranked by NOligarchy Score. Best pick: Build.com (86.3).
0 · worst score
avg 63.5
100 · best
4 of 8 tracked retailers rate Trusted, making Home Improvement & Hardware one of the cleaner categories to shop in. Scores range from 86.3 (Build.com) down to 20.5 (Home Depot). Home Improvement & Hardware ranks 25th cleanest of 44 tracked categories.
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Members span 3 federal industry classifications (NAICS).
Spend
$17.3M
Federal lobbying
$13.0M
PAC & Super PAC
$4.3M
Executive donations
$58K
Pillars
62 avg
Political Access
73
Wealth Extraction
37
Playing by the Rules
75
Ownership risk
7 flagged
86.3
/100
Trusted
build.com
85.1
/100
Trusted
menards.com
83.6
/100
Trusted
fleetfarm.com
81.6
/100
Trusted
ferguson.com
73.1
/100
Moderate
acehardware.com
53.9
/100
Moderate
harborfreight.com
23.8
/100
Avoid
lowes.com
20.5
/100
Avoid
homedepot.com
Scores reflect disclosed federal spending only. Dark money (501(c)(4) donations) is not included. How we score →