The JD Sports NOligarchy Profile
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JD Sports earns a NOligarchy Score of 88.97 out of 100. That number sits above the sector average, but the honest context is this: no lobbying, PAC, executive-donation, CEO pay, stock buyback, fine, or subsidy records have been matched to this company across any source this project tracks. A score this high, built on absent data rather than confirmed compliance, deserves more scrutiny than celebration.
Current Pillar Scores
Political Access
100.0
Wealth Extraction
68.2
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. A perfect score reflects zero recorded lobbying spend, zero Political Action Committee (PAC) contributions, and zero executive political donations from Q3 2024 through Q2 2026 — the full eight-quarter, two-year tracking period. Whether that represents genuine non-participation or records that simply haven’t been matched to this entity cannot be confirmed from available sources.
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Wealth Extraction Grade: 68.48/100. This grade is pulled down by an industry-benchmark CEO-to-worker pay estimate. No stock buyback or dividend data is on the public record for this entity, leaving the picture substantially incomplete.
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Playing by the Rules Grade: 100/100. No regulatory fines or violations are recorded in the available databases. That reflects the current state of matched records, not necessarily a confirmed finding of compliance.
JD Sports ranks 4th out of 12 companies in the Shoe retailers sector, sitting above the sector average score of 81.5. That above-average standing is real, but it is partly a product of thin public data rather than a richly documented accountability record.
The Bottom Line: A Score Built on What the Public Record Cannot See
No lobbying, PAC, executive-donation, CEO pay, stock buyback, fine, or subsidy records have been matched to JD Sports across any source this project tracks during the two-year period from Q3 2024 through Q2 2026. That could mean the company genuinely made none of these moves — or it could mean records exist somewhere under a parent entity or alternative filing structure that has not yet been linked to JD Sports Fashion US Inc. This profile reflects the current state of available public records, not a confirmed finding of compliance or spending in either direction.
Outside the Reach of Public Records
The Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA) filings show no activity matched to JD Sports Fashion US Inc during the two-year period. The Federal Election Commission (FEC) records return nothing attached to this employer. Zero lobbying firms were retained. No former government officials appear on the roster. No PAC spending and no executive political donations are recorded.
For a company that generated approximately $2.2 billion in US revenue — enough to fund the annual operating budget of a mid-sized American city’s public school system — the absence of any matched political spending is striking. A retailer of this scale operates inside a web of policy questions — tariff exposure on imported footwear, labor regulations governing thousands of store workers, and consumer protection rules — that give large companies strong incentives to influence the rules of the game. Whether JD Sports is genuinely absent from that game, or whether the activity exists under another filing entity tied to its UK parent, the public record for this US subsidiary does not answer.
EXHIBIT — THE RESERVED SEAT
$0 in lobbying · $0 in PAC money
JD Sports filed no federal lobbying and ran no corporate PAC in this window — the reserved seat at the witness table sits empty.
A Pay Gap Without a Paper Trail
Because JD Sports operates as a foreign corporate structure with no US public filings, the company is not required to disclose its CEO pay ratio to American regulators. The best available figure is 115:1, based on AFL-CIO Executive Paywatch industry benchmarks for comparable companies in this sector. That benchmark suggests the person at the top of this company’s pay structure earns an estimated 115 times what the typical worker on the sales floor takes home.
No stock buyback or dividend data is on the public record for this entity, so no per-worker comparison can be computed. The accountability gap that creates is straightforward: more than two billion dollars in US revenue flows through this company every year, and the split between executive earnings and frontline worker paychecks remains invisible beyond this sector-level benchmark.
No Violations on File — Though the File Is Thin
Across the two-year tracking period from Q3 2024 through Q2 2026, no regulatory fines, legal violations, or public subsidies are recorded in the available databases for JD Sports Fashion US Inc. That is the current state of matched records. It is not a confirmed clean bill of health — enforcement visibility tracks with regulatory surface area, and a foreign-owned US subsidiary that files no US public disclosures presents less of a visible target than a fully listed domestic company. No subsidy data is recorded for this entity either, so there is no public money to set alongside the compliance record.