The Fleet Farm NOligarchy Profile
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NOligarchy Score
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Fleet Farm earns a NOligarchy Score of 83.57 out of 100 — second in its sector. The score’s only meaningful drag is a sharply revised estimate of the executive-to-worker pay gap, a figure Fleet Farm, as a privately held company, is under no legal obligation to explain publicly.
Current Pillar Scores
Political Access
100.0
Wealth Extraction
41.6
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. From Q3 2024 through Q2 2026 — the two-year tracking period — the Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA) database shows zero filings and zero dollars spent on federal lobbying. No Political Action Committee (PAC) was registered or funded, and no executive political donations appear in Federal Election Commission (FEC) records. No matching records have been found across the sources this project tracks — whether that reflects genuine absence or a gap in available public data is not confirmed either way.
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Wealth Extraction Grade: 41.63/100. This score is pulled down substantially by a revised industry-benchmark estimate of the CEO-to-worker pay gap. Because Fleet Farm is privately held, no stock buyback or dividend data exists on the public record, and no formal pay-ratio disclosure is legally required — leaving an accountability void where the most consequential numbers would otherwise sit.
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Playing by the Rules Grade: 100/100. No regulatory fines, no violations, and no public subsidies appear on the record. No matching enforcement or subsidy records have been found across the tracked sources, though this reflects the current state of available public data rather than a verified finding.
The Sector Context: Fleet Farm ranks 2nd out of 21 companies in the Warehouse clubs, supercenters, and other general merchandise retailers sector, above the sector average score of 54.0. In a peer group where companies have accumulated extensive lobbying, enforcement, and buyback records, Fleet Farm stands apart — though the gap partly reflects the limits of what public records can confirm about a private company.
The Bottom Line: A Profile the Public Record Cannot Yet Complete
No lobbying, PAC, executive-donation, stock buyback, fine, or subsidy records have been matched to Fleet Farm across any source this project tracks — covering Q3 2024 through Q2 2026 (8 quarters). That finding reflects the current state of available public records, not a confirmed conclusion that Fleet Farm spent nothing or violated nothing. The single figure the data does surface — an industry-benchmark CEO pay estimate — points toward a significant pay gap inside the company, but because Fleet Farm operates as a private company, no public filing exists to verify, refine, or dispute it.
Outside Current Tracking Coverage
No federal lobbying filings, PAC contributions, or executive political donations have been matched to Fleet Farm for Q3 2024 through Q2 2026. The Senate LDA database returns no filings under the company’s name; FEC records show no individual contributions logged under it either. Whether that represents a genuine choice to stay out of federal influence channels, or a gap in how records are attributed to this privately held company, the available public data cannot confirm.
No revolving-door hires — former legislators, agency staff, or congressional aides brought on to work the halls in Washington — appear in the record. No external lobbying firms were retained under the company’s name.
EXHIBIT — THE RESERVED SEAT
$0 in lobbying · $0 in PAC money
Fleet Farm filed no federal lobbying and ran no corporate PAC in this window — the reserved seat at the witness table sits empty.
For a large regional retailer operating across the upper Midwest, with a merchandise mix spanning agriculture, firearms, outdoor goods, and apparel, the absence of any matched federal lobbying activity is notable. Companies of comparable size in this sector routinely engage on trade policy, fuel regulations, labor rules, and product-safety standards. Fleet Farm, at least on the available public record, does not appear among them.
An Unverifiable Pay Gap Hidden Behind Private Walls
Fleet Farm’s most uncomfortable number is one it never has to publish. The best available figure for its CEO-to-worker pay ratio is 513:1, based on AFL-CIO Executive Paywatch industry benchmarks for comparable companies in this sector. That means for every dollar a typical Fleet Farm worker takes home, the person at the top of the organization is estimated to collect $513. For a store associate earning $40,000 a year stocking shelves or working the register, that benchmark implies the CEO pockets the equivalent of more than a decade of that worker’s earnings every single year.
Because Fleet Farm is privately held, no stock buyback or dividend data is recorded anywhere on the public record. The company carries no publicly traded shares, files no Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) disclosures of shareholder distributions, and is not required to publish an executive compensation proxy. The 513:1 figure is an industry-sector estimate, not a confirmed disclosure — and no matching CEO pay records have been found across the sources this project tracks. What the private structure creates is an accountability gap, not a clean bill of health.
Outside Current Tracking Coverage
No regulatory fines, enforcement actions, or public subsidies have been matched to Fleet Farm for Q3 2024 through Q2 2026. The Good Jobs First violations database returns no wage-theft settlements, environmental citations, consumer protection penalties, or workplace-safety fines linked to this company during the two-year period. No government grants, tax incentives, or other public money tracked in the Good Jobs First subsidy database appear under Fleet Farm’s name either.
Whether this reflects a genuinely clean compliance record or a gap in how enforcement actions are attributed to this privately held regional company is not confirmed by the available public data. What is on the record: zero matched fines and zero matched subsidies. That is the full extent of what the current sources can show.