Home Depot — C grade · Retail

Political donations

FEC: $65K PAC donations; 92% to Republican, 8% to Democratic committees.

Source: FEC

Environment

hazardous waste violation: $37.8M in federal penalties (Violation Tracker).

Source: EPA

Labor

368 federal penalties totaling $325.1M since 2000 (Violation Tracker).

Source: OSHA · NLRB

DEI

JUST Capital JUST 100 — ranked #71 of Russell 1000 (2025) for treatment of workers, customers, communities, environment. HRC Corporate Equality Index 100/100 (2025) — top-tier LGBTQ+ workplace equality rating.

Source: just-capital · HRC Corporate Equality Index

Charity

$132M reported corporate giving in 2024 (~0.09% of revenue) via Home Depot Foundation. JUST Capital JUST 100 — ranked #71 of Russell 1000 (2025) for treatment of workers, customers, communities, environment. Drucker Institute Management Top 250 — ranked #25 (2024) on customer satisfaction, employee engagement, innovation, social responsibility, and financial strength. Fortune World's Most Admired Companies — ranked #23 (2024). Newsweek Most Trustworthy Companies in America — ranked #47 (2024).

Source: corporate giving disclosures · just-capital · drucker-250 · fortune-admired · newsweek-trust

Animal testing

Home Depot banned the use of glue traps in its 2,200+ U.S. stores in 2017 after a store manager witnessed a mouse suffering on one, but as of 2024 it continues to sell glue traps—a practice PETA has challenged at multiple annual shareholder meetings (2017–2024). Home Depot holds no published cruelty-free certification (e.g., Leaping Bunny, PETA's Animal Test–Free) and no corporate animal welfare sourcing policy has been identified in its public ESG reports.

Firearms

No federal firearms license on record for this company in the ATF FFL registry — no licensed firearms dealing or manufacturing.

Source: atf-ffl

Privacy

1 publicly-disclosed data breach per Have I Been Pwned (2014) — 56M accounts compromised. Most recent: Home Depot (2014).

Source: hibp-breaches

Executive pay

CEO-to-median-worker pay ratio 2026:1 (median employee pay $37,881; CEO total compensation $2K) — SEC proxy statement (DEF 14A, 2011).

Source: sec-def14a

Data sources

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