The Rogue Fitness NOligarchy Profile
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Rogue Fitness earns a NOligarchy Score of 89.8 out of 100 — one of the stronger scores in its sector. However, because Rogue is a private company, the public record has real limits. Across every source this project tracks, no lobbying, Political Action Committee (PAC), executive-donation, CEO pay, stock buyback, fine, or subsidy records have been matched to Rogue Fitness. That reflects the current state of available public records, not a confirmed finding of compliance or spending in any direction.
Current Pillar Scores
Political Access
100.0
Wealth Extraction
59.1
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 records, and no executive-donation records have been matched to Rogue Fitness from Q3 2024 through Q2 2026 — the two-year tracking period. Whether that reflects genuine absence or a gap in matching is not something the available public record can resolve.
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Wealth Extraction Grade: 59.43/100. Rogue is privately held and carries no legal obligation to disclose executive pay or shareholder payouts. No company-specific pay, buyback, or dividend records have been matched. The grade reflects the limits of what private companies are required to put on the public record.
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Playing by the Rules Grade: 100/100. No regulatory fines and no public subsidies have been matched to Rogue Fitness across the two-year period. Again, this reflects what is visible in tracked sources, not necessarily a complete accounting.
Rogue Fitness ranks 1st out of 22 companies among companies sharing its federal industry classification (Sporting Goods, Hobby, and Musical Instrument Retailers). Its score of 89.8 sits well above the sector average of 68.3 — placing it at the top of its peer group on the accountability metrics that are publicly visible. That said, private companies file far less than public ones, and the absence of matched records is partly a function of disclosure structure, not only corporate behavior.
The Bottom Line: A Public Record With No Matched Data — And No Way to Read That as Confirmation
No lobbying filings, no PAC contributions, no executive political donations, no CEO pay disclosures, no stock buyback data, no regulatory fines, and no public subsidies have been matched to Rogue Fitness across any source this project currently tracks — spanning the eight quarters from Q3 2024 through Q2 2026. That is the honest limit of the public record, not a clean bill of health. Rogue is a private company with no obligation to file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and the disclosure systems that generate this project’s data were built primarily around publicly traded corporations and federal contractors. Until a more complete match is available, the profile reflects what federal systems can see — which, for Rogue Fitness, is very little.
Outside Current Tracking Coverage
No federal lobbying filings have been matched to Rogue Fitness under the Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA) during the two-year period. No PAC records and no executive contributions to federal candidates appear in Federal Election Commission (FEC) data linked to this company. No outside lobbying firms and no lobbyists — including former government insiders — are on record as working on Rogue’s behalf.
Whether that means Rogue genuinely has no Washington presence, or whether records exist that have not yet been linked to this company, is not something the current data can settle. For a company that manufactures and sells heavy fitness equipment — a business where tariff policy on steel and aluminum, trade rules on raw materials, and federal workplace safety standards all have direct consequences — the question of whether any lobbying activity exists but simply hasn’t been matched is a meaningful one.
EXHIBIT — THE RESERVED SEAT
$0 in lobbying · $0 in PAC money
Rogue Fitness 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 pay, buyback, or dividend records have been matched to Rogue Fitness. As a private company, Rogue is not required to publicly disclose executive compensation, and no filing equivalent to a public company’s proxy statement exists in the accessible record. The best available reference point is a sector-level industry estimate — not a figure derived from Rogue’s own books. That estimate, drawn from AFL-CIO Executive Paywatch benchmarks for comparable companies in this sector, places the CEO pay ratio at 182:1. What that means in practical terms: in the broader industry Rogue operates within, estimates suggest a chief executive earns roughly $182 for every $1 earned by a typical frontline worker. Whether that benchmark applies to Rogue specifically is not something the public record can confirm.
No stock buyback or dividend data is on record for Rogue Fitness, which is expected given its private structure. The financial flows that, at publicly traded corporations, reveal exactly how much cash leadership chose to channel to shareholders rather than workers simply do not appear in any public filing here. That accountability gap is not unique to Rogue — it applies to every private company of comparable size — but it is real.
Outside Current Tracking Coverage
No regulatory fines and no public subsidies have been matched to Rogue Fitness for the two-year period. No labor citations, no consumer safety penalties, and no environmental infractions appear in the tracked enforcement record. Equally, no government grants, tax incentives, or local development deals have been matched. What the sources currently show is a blank — which, for a private manufacturer of heavy steel equipment employing a physical workforce, leaves the full compliance picture genuinely incomplete. The public enforcement databases this project draws from are more reliably comprehensive for publicly traded companies with standardized filing obligations; private companies of Rogue’s scale may have a fuller docket that simply hasn’t been connected in available records yet.
The Data Evidence
The public record for Rogue Fitness is constrained by its private corporate structure. The sources below represent the scope of what federal disclosure systems currently make visible for this company.