Subsidy Tracker Parent Company Summary
Parent Company Name:
Berkshire Hathaway
Ownership Structure:
publicly traded (ticker symbol BRK.B)
Headquartered in:
Nebraska
Major Industry:
diversified
Specific Industry:
diversified
Subsidy Summary | Subsidy Value | Number of Awards |
---|---|---|
State/Local | $1,563,200,630 | 633 |
Federal (grants and allocated tax credits) | $200,201,369 | 21 |
TOTAL | $1,763,401,999 | 654 |
Loan / Bailout Summary | Total Face Value | Number of Awards |
State/Local loans, bond financing and venture capital | $21,000,000 | 1 |
Federal loans, loan guarantees and bailout assistance (not including repayments) | $24,903,363 | 12 |
TOTAL | $45,903,363 | 13 |
Time Period for State and Local Awards:
Earliest year of data: 1992. Availability of data for earlier years varies greatly from program to program. The majority of the listings for this parent company are for the period since 2012.
Time Period for Federal Awards:
FY2000 to the present
Notes:
The dollar total above adjusts for the fact that there is an overlap between the amount in the Megadeal entry and that of one or more of the other entries. Dollar totals do not include awards for which no subsidy value is disclosed.
Links:
For a summary of this company's regulatory violations see its Violation Tracker summary page here.
For more details on misconduct by this company, see its entry in the Project On Government Oversight's Federal Contractor Misconduct Database.
Top 5 States for state/local awards | Total Subsidy $ | Number of Awards |
---|---|---|
Texas | $802,720,000 | 2 |
New York | $392,763,877 | 170 |
Ohio | $76,184,403 | 19 |
Indiana | $74,576,706 | 44 |
Louisiana | $74,536,826 | 14 |
All other | $142,418,818 | 384 |
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Company | Location | Subsidy Source |
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Subsidy Value | Loan/Bailout Value | Type of Subsidy |
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Precision Edge Surgical Products Company LLC | Michigan | state | 2014 | $55,189 | training reimbursement | |
BNSF Railway Company | Colorado | state | 2014 | $188,006 | tax credit/rebate | |
BNSF Railway Company | Colorado | state | 2014 | $163,215 | tax credit/rebate | |
BNSF Railway Company | Colorado | state | 2014 | $91,746 | tax credit/rebate | |
BNSF Railway Company | Colorado | state | 2014 | $75,273 | tax credit/rebate | |
BNSF Railway Company | Colorado | state | 2014 | $73,525 | tax credit/rebate | |
BNSF Railway Company | Colorado | state | 2014 | $56,263 | tax credit/rebate | |
BNSF Railway Company | Colorado | state | 2014 | $51,042 | tax credit/rebate | |
BNSF Railway Company | Colorado | state | 2014 | $48,766 | tax credit/rebate | |
BNSF Railway Company | Colorado | state | 2014 | $44,808 | tax credit/rebate | |
BNSF Railway Company | Colorado | state | 2014 | $44,330 | tax credit/rebate | |
BNSF Railway Company | Colorado | state | 2014 | $42,573 | tax credit/rebate | |
BNSF Railway Company | Colorado | state | 2014 | $30,971 | tax credit/rebate | |
BNSF Railway Company | Colorado | state | 2014 | $20,126 | tax credit/rebate | |
BNSF Railway Company | Colorado | state | 2014 | $15,973 | tax credit/rebate | |
BNSF Railway Company | Colorado | state | 2014 | $14,808 | tax credit/rebate | |
BNSF Railway Company | Colorado | state | 2014 | $13,561 | tax credit/rebate | |
BNSF Railway Company | Colorado | state | 2014 | $10,772 | tax credit/rebate | |
BNSF Railway Company | Colorado | state | 2014 | $6,472 | tax credit/rebate | |
BNSF Railway Co. | Colorado | state | 2014 | $4,973 | tax credit/rebate | |
BNSF Railway Company | Colorado | state | 2014 | $3,352 | tax credit/rebate | |
BNSF Railway Company | Colorado | state | 2014 | $1,387 | tax credit/rebate | |
BNSF Railway Company | Colorado | state | 2014 | $1,245 | tax credit/rebate | |
McLane Company | California | state | 2014 | $10,948 | tax credit/rebate | |
Saranac Power Partners/North Country Gas Pipeline | New York | local | 2014 | $387,659 | tax credit/rebate | |
GEICO Building -300 CrossPoint Pkwy | New York | local | 2014 | $318,748 | tax credit/rebate | |
Special Metals, Inc. | New York | local | 2014 | $2,447 | tax credit/rebate | |
FlightSafety International, Inc. | Ohio | local | 2014 | undisclosed | property tax abatement | |
FlightSafety International, Inc. | Ohio | local | 2014 | undisclosed | tax credit/rebate | |
GEICO Casualty Company | New York | state | 2014 | $13,785 | enterprise zone | |
GEICO General Insurance Company | New York | state | 2014 | $6,987,821 | enterprise zone | |
GEICO Indemnity Company | New York | state | 2014 | $12,985,478 | enterprise zone | |
Government Employees Insurance Company | New York | state | 2014 | $2,084,057 | enterprise zone | |
Special Metals Corporation | New York | state | 2014 | $44,991 | enterprise zone | |
MARMON RETAIL & END USER TECHNOLOGIES INC | Oklahoma | state | 2014 | $111,562 | tax credit/rebate | |
PRIMUS INTERNATIONAL INC | Oklahoma | state | 2014 | $410,236 | tax credit/rebate | |
FLIGHTSAFETY INTERNATIONAL INC | Oklahoma | state | 2014 | $3,061,715 | tax credit/rebate | |
JOHNS MANVILLE | Ohio | state | 2013 | $50,000 | grant | |
FLIGHTSAFETY INTERNATIONAL INC | Oklahoma | state | 2013 | $18,148 | grant | |
FLIGHTSAFETY INT'L INC #2 | Oklahoma | state | 2013 | $11,462 | grant | |
FLIGHTSAFETY INT'L INC #2 | Oklahoma | state | 2013 | $18,156 | grant | |
Forest River Manufacturing, LLC | Indiana | state | 2013 | $2,727,500 | tax credit/rebate | |
Forest River Manufacturing, LLC | Indiana | state | 2013 | $772,500 | tax credit/rebate | |
Campbell Hausfeld / Scott Fetzer Company | Kentucky | state | 2013 | $300,000 | tax credit/rebate | |
Lubrizol Advanced Materials, Inc. | Kentucky | state | 2013 | $480,000 | tax credit/rebate | |
Lubrizol Advanced Materials, Inc. | Kentucky | state | 2013 | $740,000 | tax credit/rebate | |
UNION TANK CAR CO | Maine | state | 2013 | $2,676 | property tax abatement | |
JOHNS MANVILLE | Maine | state | 2013 | $7,130 | property tax abatement | |
MEDICAL PROTECTIVE COMPANY THE | Indiana | local | 2013 | $43,080 | property tax abatement | |
Government Employees Insurance Company (GEICO) | Indiana | state | 2013 | $10,000,000 | tax credit/rebate | |
Government Employees Insurance Company (GEICO) | Indiana | state | 2013 | $400,000 | training reimbursement | |
PCC Structurals, Inc. | Oregon | state | 2013 | $21,822 | tax credit/rebate | |
PCC Structurals | Oregon | state | 2013 | $16,400 | tax credit/rebate | |
McLane Foodservice, Inc. | Oregon | state | 2013 | $232,910 | tax credit/rebate | |
PCC Structurals | Oregon | state | 2013 | $282,197 | property tax abatement | |
Precision Castparts | Oregon | state | 2013 | $12,221 | property tax abatement | |
Shaw Industries Grp., Inc. | Tennessee | local | 2013 | undisclosed | property tax abatement | |
Shaw Industries Grp., Inc. | Tennessee | local | 2013 | undisclosed | property tax abatement | |
Shaw Industries Grp., Inc. | Tennessee | local | 2013 | undisclosed | property tax abatement | |
DESIGNED METAL CONNECTIONS, INC. | California | state | 2013 | $1,440 | training reimbursement | |
JOHNS MANVILLE CORPORATION | California | state | 2013 | undisclosed | training reimbursement | |
UTLX Manufacturing, LLC | Louisiana | state | 2013 | $195,831 | property tax abatement | |
Shaw Industries Group, Inc. | Tennessee | state | 2013 | $337,536 | grant | |
Ctb, Inc. | United States | federal | 2013 | $2,576,784 | federal loan or loan guarantee | |
Richline Group, Inc. | Massachusetts | state | 2013 | $400,000 | tax credit/rebate | |
McLane Foodservice, Inc. | Wisconsin | state | 2013 | $500,000 | tax credit/rebate | |
Oriental Trading Company, Inc. | Nebraska | state | 2013 | undisclosed | tax credit/rebate | |
Shaw Industries, Inc. | Pennsylvania | state | 2013 | $15,958 | tax credit/rebate | |
Lubrizol Advanced Materials, Inc. | North Carolina | state | 2013 | $5,735 | tax credit/rebate | |
Shaw Industries Group, Inc. | North Carolina | state | 2013 | $304,267 | tax credit/rebate | |
Caledonian Alloys, Inc. | North Carolina | state | 2013 | $26,789 | tax credit/rebate | |
CMH Manufacturing, Inc. | North Carolina | state | 2013 | $12,372 | tax credit/rebate | |
Lubrizol Advanced Materials, Inc. | North Carolina | state | 2013 | $5,735 | tax credit/rebate | |
Special Metals, Inc. | New York | local | 2013 | $2,431 | tax credit/rebate; property tax abatement | |
Special Metals | New York | local | 2013 | $143,854 | tax credit/rebate; property tax abatement | |
GEICO Building -300 CrossPoint Pkwy | New York | local | 2013 | $312,132 | tax credit/rebate; property tax abatement | |
Saranac Power Partners/North Country Gas Pipeline | New York | local | 2013 | $377,074 | tax credit/rebate; property tax abatement | |
ACCRA MANUFACTURING INC | Washington | state | 2013 | undisclosed | tax credit/rebate | |
COMPASS AEROSPACE NORTHWEST INC | Washington | state | 2013 | undisclosed | tax credit/rebate | |
DESIGNED METAL CONNECTIONS INC | Washington | state | 2013 | undisclosed | tax credit/rebate | |
GCM NORTH AMERICAN AEROSPACE LLC | Washington | state | 2013 | undisclosed | tax credit/rebate | |
PRIMUS INTL INC | Washington | state | 2013 | undisclosed | tax credit/rebate | |
S P S TECHNOLOGIES INC | Washington | state | 2013 | undisclosed | tax credit/rebate | |
TITANIUM METALS CORP | Washington | state | 2013 | undisclosed | tax credit/rebate | |
UNIVERSITY SWAGING CORPORATION | Washington | state | 2013 | undisclosed | tax credit/rebate | |
BNSF Railway Company | Colorado | state | 2013 | $215,026 | tax credit/rebate | |
BNSF Railway Company | Colorado | state | 2013 | $40,359 | tax credit/rebate | |
Graver Technologies | Delaware | state | 2013 | $34,628 | training reimbursement | |
Environment One Corporation | New York | state | 2013 | $76,721 | enterprise zone | |
GEICO Casualty Company | New York | state | 2013 | $21,214 | enterprise zone | |
GEICO General Insurance Company | New York | state | 2013 | $24,711,293 | enterprise zone | |
GEICO Indemnity Company | New York | state | 2013 | $16,165,979 | enterprise zone | |
Government Employees Insurance Company | New York | state | 2013 | $9,015,055 | enterprise zone | |
Special Metals Corporation | New York | state | 2013 | $21,498 | enterprise zone | |
The Buffalo News, Inc. | New York | state | 2013 | $34,908 | enterprise zone | |
MARMON RETAIL & END USER TECHNOLOGIES INC | Oklahoma | state | 2013 | $174,019 | tax credit/rebate | |
PRIMUS INTERNATIONAL INC | Oklahoma | state | 2013 | $444,072 | tax credit/rebate | |
FLIGHTSAFETY INTERNATIONAL INC | Oklahoma | state | 2013 | $521,311 | tax credit/rebate | |
McLane Foodservice, Inc. | Kentucky | state | 2012 | $600,000 | tax credit/rebate | |
McLane Foodservice, Inc. | Kentucky | state | 2012 | $800,000 | tax credit/rebate | |
JOHNS MANVILLE | Maine | state | 2012 | $7,982 | property tax abatement |
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