Top 100 Corporate Citizens — Who didn’t make the list?

A list of 100 Best Corporate Citizens is being published today by Corporate Responsibility magazine.

CR’s mission is all about accountability, so transparency and the availability of information are central to earning companies a spot on the magazine’s annual list. Each business is ranked in seven categories:

Environment • Climate Change • Employee Relations • Human Rights • Corporate Governance • Financial Performance • Philanthropy & Community Support

“This annual list is the only ranking that doesn’t rely on self-reporting,” said Elliot Clark, CEO of CR, in a statement. “Each year, we measure the most transparent companies who report on their responsible practices. Our goal is to advance corporate accountability and responsibility.”

The complete list, including category rankings, can be seen here (pdf). But before you go, check this out. Following are the top 10 corporate citizens according to CR’s list.

Yayyy for soup. Now, here’s where it gets interesting. The pool of candidate companies is drawn from the Russell 1000 index, which is a forever-changing list of the thousand largest public companies in the U.S.

So how do the very biggest public companies in the U.S. rate for accountability according to Corporate Responsibility?

Glad you asked. Here are the top 10 holdings on the Russell 1000 (as of 3/31/16) alongside their rankings for corporate citizenship. Wherever you see an X, the company did not make CR‘s list of 100 Best Corporate Citizens for 2016.

             * Alphabet Inc., the parent company of Google, was created in October 2015. Google was not on CR’s 100 Best list.

For more about CR’s rankings and methodology, read the details.