Briggs & Stratton 401(k) and pension plans

Briggs & Stratton, LLC, Wauwatosa, WI. EIN 85-2711260. Annual reports 2009–2024. Also filed as Briggs & Stratton Corporation.

Briggs & Stratton, LLC has 2 active retirement plans on file. The largest is the Briggs & Stratton, LLC 401(k) Plan, with 4,127 participants and $227 million in assets in 2024. Fidelity has been its recordkeeper since 2020. One of its pension plans was taken over by the PBGC.

Active plans: 2
Participants: 4,824
Plan assets: $236 million
401(k) recordkeeper: Fidelity
Plans on file: 5
Industry: Manufacturing

All 5 plans

Active plans first

Briggs & Stratton, LLC 401(k) Plan

401(k)Active

Active. The plan filed its annual report for the 2024 plan year.

Plan number: 001Employer EIN 85-2711260
Participants (2024): 4,127
Net assets (2024): $227 million
Recordkeeper: Fidelity2020–2024
Plan administrator: Briggs & Stratton, LLC
3300 N. 124TH Street
Wauwatosa, WI 53222
(414) 259-5515As filed for 2024
In effect since: September 21, 2020

Plans merged into this one: Briggs & Stratton Consolidated Retirement & Savings Plan (2021).

Year by year, 2020 to 2024

Plan year	Participants	Net assets	Recordkeeper
2024	4,127	$227 million	Fidelity
2023	5,046	$210 million	Fidelity
2022	5,585	$182 million	Fidelity
2021	4,970	$204 million	Fidelity
2020	3,417	$176 million	Fidelity

Briggs & Stratton, LLC Cash Balance Retirement Plan

Cash balance pension, frozenActive

Active. The plan filed its annual report for the 2024 plan year.

Plan number: 006Employer EIN 85-2711260
Participants (2024): 697
Net assets (2024): $9.2 million
Administered by: FidelityEarlier: Mercer (2023), Fidelity (2017–2022)
Plan administrator: Briggs & Stratton Retirement Plan Committee
12301 West Wirth Street
Wauwatosa, WI 53222
(414) 259-5517As filed for 2024
In effect since: June 29, 2017

Plans merged into this one: Briggs & Stratton Retirement Plan (2017).

Earlier plan names: Briggs & Stratton Cash Balance Retirement Plan.

Year by year, 2017 to 2024

Plan year	Participants	Net assets	Recordkeeper
2024	697	$9.2 million	Fidelity
2023	757	$9.6 million	Mercer
2022	820	$10.1 million	Fidelity
2021	866	$11.0 million	Fidelity
2020	1,003	$14.4 million	Fidelity
2019	1,127	$17.0 million	Fidelity
2018	1,417	$18.3 million	Fidelity
2017	1,561	$18.9 million	Fidelity

Briggs & Stratton Consolidated Retirement & Savings Plan

401(k)Merged

Merged. In 2021 its assets moved to the Briggs & Stratton, LLC, sponsored by Briggs & Stratton, LLC (EIN 85-2711260, plan 001). Accounts moved with them, so that plan is the one to contact.

Plan number: 005Employer EIN 39-0182330
Participants (2020): 4,641
Net assets (2020): $144 million
Recordkeeper: Fidelity2009–2021
Plan administrator: Briggs & Stratton Corporation
3300 N 124TH Street
Wauwatosa, WI 53222
(414) 256-1141As filed for 2021
In effect since: November 1, 1984

Year by year, 2009 to 2021

Plan year	Participants	Net assets	Recordkeeper
2021	0	$0	Fidelity
2020	4,641	$144 million	Fidelity
2019	6,704	$453 million	Fidelity
2018	6,427	$403 million	Fidelity
2017	6,366	$444 million	Fidelity
2016	6,369	$390 million	Fidelity
2015	6,242	$353 million	Fidelity
2014	6,411	$381 million	Fidelity
2013	6,844	$367 million	Fidelity
2012	8,078	$343 million	Fidelity
2011	7,590	$318 million	Fidelity
2010	6,246	$326 million	Fidelity
2009	7,242	$292 million	Fidelity

Briggs & Stratton Pension Plan

Cash balance pension, frozenTaken over by the PBGC

Taken over by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation on October 5, 2020, after the plan ended on September 30, 2020. The PBGC now pays the plan's benefits, up to legal limits (PBGC case 23880100).

Plan number: 007Employer EIN 39-0182330
Participants when it ended: 4,809
Administered by: Fidelity2018
Who pays it now: Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
1-800-400-7242PBGC Customer Contact Center
In effect since: June 13, 2018

Briggs & Stratton Retirement Plan

Pension (defined benefit), frozenMerged

Merged. In 2017 its assets moved to the Briggs & Stratton Cash Balance Retirement Plan, sponsored by Briggs & Stratton, LLC (EIN 39-0182330, plan 006). Accounts moved with them, so that plan is the one to contact.

Plan number: 001Employer EIN 39-0182330
Participants (2016): 7,559
Net assets (2016): $880 million
Administered by: FidelityEarlier: Mercer (2009–2016)
Plan administrator: The Investment Committee of the Briggs & Stratton Pension Plans
12301 W. Wirth Street
Wauwatosa, WI 53222
(414) 259-5517As filed for 2017
In effect since: January 1, 1947

Year by year, 2009 to 2017

Plan year	Participants	Net assets	Recordkeeper
2017	0	$0	Fidelity
2016	7,559	$880 million	Mercer
2015	9,421	$883 million	Mercer
2014	11,354	$974 million	Mercer
2013	11,563	$1.0 billion	Mercer
2012	11,864	$962 million	Mercer
2011	12,346	$966 million	Mercer
2010	12,629	$942 million	Mercer
2009	12,986	$831 million	Mercer

If you had money in one of these plans

Call Fidelity (fidelity.com), which runs the Briggs & Stratton, LLC 401(k) Plan. With your Social Security number and the plan name, it can tell you whether you still have a balance and, if not, where it went.
Or call the plan administrator listed on the plan below ((414) 259-5515). That number was filed for 2024; ask for the benefits or retirement plan office.
If your plan was merged, your account moved with it. Follow the link on the plan to the plan it went into, and contact that one.
For a pension the PBGC took over, call the PBGC at 1-800-400-7242 or search its unclaimed pensions. Have the plan name and your Social Security number ready.
Still stuck? The Department of Labor's benefits advisers help for free: askebsa.dol.gov or 1-866-444-3272. Never pay anyone to find your own money.

What these numbers are

They come from the Form 5500 annual reports each plan files with the Department of Labor, as the plan filed them. A plan year is usually a calendar year.
Participants counts everyone in the plan at year end: current employees, former employees who still have a balance or a pension coming, and retirees or beneficiaries being paid.
The recordkeeper is the service provider whose Schedule C entry says it keeps the plan's records. Small plans do not file Schedule C, so some plans show none.
We cannot see anyone's account. Only the plan or its recordkeeper can tell you your balance.

Sources: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 datasets and PBGC trusteed plans. How we read them.