The Pet Supplies Plus NOligarchy Profile
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Pet Supplies Plus earns a NOligarchy Score of 89.48 out of 100 — one of the stronger marks in its sector. But that score reflects the current state of matched public records, not a verified finding of clean conduct. No lobbying, Political Action Committee (PAC), executive-donation, executive pay, stock buyback, fine, or subsidy records have been matched to this company across any source this project tracks. That absence may mean Pet Supplies Plus genuinely has no federal political spending or violation history — or it may mean matching records exist but have not yet been linked to this company. The insufficient-data flag in the underlying data signals the same caution.
Current Pillar Scores
Political Access
100.0
Wealth Extraction
58.2
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 filings, no PAC contributions, and no executive donations connected to the company appear in tracked public records from Q3 2024 through Q2 2026 (8 quarters — the two-year tracking period). Whether that reflects genuine inactivity or a gap in current record matching is not yet confirmed.
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Wealth Extraction Grade: 58.52/100. No company-specific executive pay, stock buyback, or dividend data has been matched to Pet Supplies Plus. The score incorporates an industry benchmark pay ratio — not a Pet Supplies Plus disclosure — as the best available proxy for the gap between executive and frontline earnings.
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Playing by the Rules Grade: 100/100. No regulatory fines, penalties, or violations appear in tracked enforcement databases over the two-year period. As with the other pillars, this reflects what the current public record shows — not a verified finding of compliance.
Pet Supplies Plus ranks 1st out of 5 companies in the Other Miscellaneous Retailers sector — above the sector average score of 72.3. That gap is partly a product of unmatched data: where peers have accumulated documented lobbying tabs and compliance penalties, Pet Supplies Plus simply has no matched entries in either column.
The Bottom Line: No Matched Records Found Across Tracked Sources
No lobbying, PAC, executive-donation, CEO pay, stock buyback, fine, or subsidy records have been matched to Pet Supplies Plus across any source this project currently tracks — covering Q3 2024 through Q2 2026. That may mean this private franchise network genuinely has no federal political spending or regulatory violation history to report. It may equally mean that matching records exist but have not yet been linked to this company by name. Pet Supplies Plus’s status as a privately held company compounds the gap: private firms face fewer mandatory disclosure obligations than publicly traded ones, which means portions of any executive pay, ownership distribution, or state-level enforcement record may simply not reach the public databases this profile draws from.
Outside Current Tracking Coverage
No filings appear under Pet Supplies Plus’s name in the Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA) database for the two-year period. No PAC was registered, no PAC contributions were recorded, and no executive donations connected to the company appear in Federal Election Commission (FEC) records. No outside lobbying firms were retained, and no former government officials are recorded as hired to work on the company’s behalf.
Whether that represents a deliberate choice to stay out of federal rule-making, or simply reflects the limits of current matching coverage for a private franchise network, the available record does not confirm either way. Private companies that channel their advocacy through trade associations rather than direct LDA filings may leave little or no trace in the databases this project tracks, so the absence of entries is not the same as a verified finding of inactivity.
EXHIBIT — THE RESERVED SEAT
$0 in lobbying · $0 in PAC money
Pet Supplies Plus 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
No company-specific executive compensation, stock buyback, or dividend data has been matched to Pet Supplies Plus. As a privately held company, it has no publicly traded shares and faces no legal obligation to disclose what its chief executive earns or what it distributes to its owners — and none of that information appears on the public record.
The best available proxy for the executive-to-worker pay gap is 182:1, based on AFL-CIO Executive Paywatch benchmarks for comparable companies in this sector. That figure is not a Pet Supplies Plus disclosure — it is a sector estimate applied in the absence of any company-specific data. No buyback or dividend data is recorded for this company, so no further wealth-extraction analysis can be drawn from the available public record.
Outside Current Tracking Coverage
No regulatory fines, penalties, or violations tied to Pet Supplies Plus appear in tracked enforcement databases over the two-year period. No public subsidy data — no government grants, no tax incentives, no economic development packages — is recorded either.
For a company operating hundreds of retail and franchise locations across the country, in areas that touch pet food safety, animal welfare standards, and wage-and-hour compliance, the complete absence of matched enforcement records is notable. But it is not confirmation of a clean compliance history. Private companies face less mandatory disclosure pressure than publicly traded peers, and some enforcement actions at the state or local level may not surface in the federal and national databases this profile draws from. What is visible shows no violations; what sits outside that visibility is not known.