SHERWIN WILLIAMS CREDIT UNION
SHERWIN WILLIAMS CREDIT UNION RETIREMENT PLAN · For the plan year ended Dec 31, 2025
Plan summary
What matters most
This plan has a strong employer match and a documented vesting schedule. Reported employer contributions rank below most comparable plans.
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Published only when at least four measures and half of the model weight are available. Missing information is excluded rather than scored as zero.
The stated formula matches employee contributions dollar for dollar up to 6% of eligible pay after one year of service.
See reviewed source ↓At $100,000 of eligible pay, after contributing 6% to capture the full amount. Annual limits and eligibility rules may reduce it.
Employees hired or rehired since 2017 generally become fully vested in company contributions after three years of service, with no partial vesting before then.
Sherwin-Williams pays most plan-administration costs.
Employees who make no investment choice default into an age-appropriate T.
The match generally begins in the quarter after an employee's one-year anniversary, subject to the plan's employee classifications and exclusions.
Eligible new and rehired employees are automatically enrolled at 3% of pre-tax pay.
The filing permits post-tax contributions but does not clearly establish current Roth 401(k) availability, so Roth is left unverified.
Up 0.0% over the filing history shown.
Participation up 0.0% · assets up 0.0%
How the score works →What this tells you: company-wide scale, reported employer support, participation activity, visible administrative cost, and historical direction.
Keep in mind: public filings do not show employee investment returns. Scores use only available measures; missing information lowers confidence, never the score. Reviewed current terms appear below.
How this filing compares
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Peer-group method: industry size. The comparison used the most specific peer group with enough valid filings.
The short version
What employees should know
For the year ended Dec 31, 2025, SHERWIN WILLIAMS CREDIT UNION reported $7,052 in employer contributions across this plan, or $882 per active participant. This is the best company-wide filing average available—not a promise of what any one employee receives.
Up 0.0% across the filing years shown. The filing does not report every employee who was eligible.
Change in employer contributions per active participant.
Change in reported administrative cost per participant. Fund expenses may be separate.
Compared with similarly sized plans in the same industry.
Money and scale
Contributions, assets, and expenses
These are plan-wide totals. They are not individual account balances.
- Employer contributions
- $7,052 $882 per active participant
- Participant contributions
- $7,508
- Other contributions
- Not reported Amounts not classified as employer or participant contributions
- Employer share of contributions
- 48.4%
- Active participants
- 8 Small plan
- Total participants
- 12 12 at the beginning of the year
- Ending assets
- $428,484 $35,707 per participant
- Net-asset change
- Up 0.0% Not the same as investment performance
- Beginning net assets
- $383,864
- Ending net assets
- $428,484
- Beginning liabilities
- Not reported
- Ending liabilities
- Not reported
- Total income
- $54,304
- Total expenses
- $9,684
- Administrative expenses
- $201 $17 per active participant
- Participant loans
- Not reported Not reported of plan assets
Three-year filing history
How the reported figures changed
Each chart uses the selected public filing for that year. Missing values remain blank rather than becoming zero.
| Plan year | Employer money per active participant | Active participants | Plan assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $882 | 8 | 428.5K |
Changes in plan assets are not the same as investment performance.
Plan health
Operational signals worth checking
- Participant loans as a share of plan assets
- Not reported
- Independent accountant’s opinion
- Not stated in the filing
- Late participant contributions reported
- Yes · $3,081A “yes” needs context and is not, by itself, proof of wrongdoing.
- Loan defaults reported
- Not reported
- Lease defaults reported
- Not reportedOnly a small number of filings report these events.
- Nonexempt transactions reported
- Not reported
- Public plan identifier
- 361768818-002
Reported plan details
Identity and filing status
- Plan type
- Retirement plan
- Employer arrangement
- 1
- Plan effective date
- Jul 1, 1994
- Industry
- Finance and insurance
- Amended filing
- No
- Final filing for this plan
- No
- Short plan year
- No
- 401(k) feature reported
- Yes
Show DOL characteristic codes
2E2F2G2J2K2T3D
Company filings
What the company has told the SEC about this plan
We found these passages in official company filings. They may help explain the plan, but we do not treat them as current benefits until the wording and date have been checked.
What it says about employer contributions
Plan. In the absence of participant direction, contributions are directed to an age-appropriate T. Rowe Price target date retirement fund. Employer Contributions The Company makes matching contributions of 100 % on the first 6 % of eligible employee contributions beginning the quarter following the employees' one-year anniversary with the Company. In addition to the matching contribution, the Company may elect to make discretionary contributions. Participants direct the investment of Company contributions into various investment options offered by the Plan. In the absence of participant direction, Company contributions are directed to Company common stock. Effective October 1, 2025, the Company temporarily paused the Company's matching contributions under the Plan for eligible employees. I
What it says about vesting
nuary 1, 2017 are 100 % vested in Company contributions. Participants hired or rehired on or after January 1, 2017 are 100 % vested in Company contributions after completing three years of vesting service. The vesting service period begins at a participant's hire or adjusted service date. There is no partial vesting. Participants that leave the Company before completing three years of vesting service forfeit all Company contributions made on their behalf. Forfeitures Forfeited balances of terminated participants’ unvested accounts are used to reduce future Company contributions. Forfeitures used to reduce Company contributions for the year ended December 31, 2025 were $ 3,083,637 . Forfeited accounts were $ 1,138,554 and $ 150,034 at December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively. Notes Receivab
What it says about automatic enrollment
ship in the Plan; and (c) is employed in the United States or is a United States citizen if not employed therein. Enrollment Eligible employees hired or rehired by the Company are automatically enrolled in the Plan. Employee contributions are established at 3 % of pre-tax earnings. Eligible new hires may change the pre-selected enrollment option, including all or a portion of the contribution source to post-tax earnings or choose not to participate in the Plan prior to being automatically enrolled. If new hires choose not to change the automatic enrollment employee contribution level of 3 %, the employee contribution level will increase at the beginning of each subsequent plan year by 1 %, until either the employee individually changes the employee contribution level or the employee contri
What it says about fees
Hardship withdrawals, which are regulated by the Internal Revenue Service, are permitted for participants incurring an immediate and heavy financial need, as defined by the Plan. Administrative Fees Costs and expenses of administering the Plan are primarily borne by the Company, with the exception of certain recordkeeping fees, fees relating to participant loan activity and qualified domestic relations orders, which are borne by the eligible employees. At times, the Plan receives revenue credits from Fidelity Management Trust Company (the Trustee), which are recorded as Other income on the Statement of Changes in Net Assets Available for Benefits. Additional Information Further information about the Plan is contained in the Plan's Summary Plan Description (SPD). Copies of the SPD are avai
Verified plan terms
What dated primary sources say
These terms come from reviewed official sources. Blank items remain unknown rather than inferred.
- Employer contribution
- The stated formula matches employee contributions dollar for dollar up to 6% of eligible pay after one year of service. Sherwin-Williams temporarily paused matching contributions effective October 1, 2025, so employees should confirm whether the pause remains in effect.
- Eligibility
- The match generally begins in the quarter after an employee's one-year anniversary, subject to the plan's employee classifications and exclusions.
- Vesting
- Employees hired or rehired since 2017 generally become fully vested in company contributions after three years of service, with no partial vesting before then.
- Investment information
- Employees who make no investment choice default into an age-appropriate T. Rowe Price target-date fund. Company contributions without an election are directed to company stock.
- Automatic enrollment
- Eligible new and rehired employees are automatically enrolled at 3% of pre-tax pay. Their rate rises by 1 percentage point each plan year unless they change it.
- Roth contributions
- The filing permits post-tax contributions but does not clearly establish current Roth 401(k) availability, so Roth is left unverified.
- Participant fees
- Sherwin-Williams pays most plan-administration costs. Employees bear certain recordkeeping, loan, and qualified-domestic-relations-order fees.
Source: Sherwin-Williams Company Employee Stock Purchase and Savings Plan — 2025 Form 11-K ↗ · dated Dec 31, 2025
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