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Auto-Owners Insurance

Logo: Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons3

American insurance company

Auto-Owners Insurance Group is a mutual insurance company that provides life, home, car and business insurance. Its policies are sold exclusively through local and independent insurance agents within their 26 operating states.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1916Founded1
  • Industryfinancial services1
  • HeadquartersDelta Charter Township1
  • Websitewww.auto-owners.com
  • Legal formmutual insurance1

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Auto-Owners Insurance Group is a mutual insurance company that provides life, home, car and business insurance. Its policies are sold exclusively through local and independent insurance agents within their 26 operating states.2

The story

In 1916, Vern V. Moulton and four other associates organized Auto-Owners Insurance Company in Mount Pleasant, Michigan. In 1917, the company moved its headquarters to Lansing, Michigan where the home office has remained.

Auto-Owners began writing insurance in Indiana, its first state outside of Michigan, in 1935. It now offers insurance in 26 states through local, independent insurance agents.

The company has been a member of the Fortune 500 since 2003. In 2020, Auto-Owners Insurance was listed at number 320.

As of 2025, Auto-Owners Insurance was listed at number 270.

From Wikipedia’s article on Auto-Owners Insurance, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Timeline

  1. 1916Founded Founded1

Funding

Where the company's money came from, by calendar year: private offerings filed with the SEC, federal grants, loans, contracts and other assistance from USAspending.gov, and PPP loans from the SBA. Each bar links to the records below.

Money received by year$177.3M 2011–2026
Money received by yearMoney received by year, 2011–2026: $177.3M in all. Other federal assistance $176.1M; Federal contracts $1.2M.$0$50M$100M$150M2011 · Federal contracts: $51.5K20112013 · Federal contracts: $57.3K20132014 · Federal contracts: $44.9K2015 · Federal contracts: $9.8K20152016 · Federal contracts: $8.0K2017 · Federal contracts: $7.3K201720192020 · Federal contracts: $991.6K2021 · Other federal assistance: $1.8M20212022 · Other federal assistance: $8.0M2023 · Other federal assistance: $24.7M20232024 · Other federal assistance: $27.9M2025 · Other federal assistance: $104.2M20252026 · Other federal assistance: $9.5M2026
Figures by year
YearOther federal assistanceFederal contractsTotal
2026$9.5M–$9.5M
2025$104.2M–$104.2M
2024$27.9M–$27.9M
2023$24.7M–$24.7M
2022$8.0M–$8.0M
2021$1.8M–$1.8M
2020–$991.6K$991.6K
2017–$7.3K$7.3K
2016–$8.0K$8.0K
2015–$9.8K$9.8K
2014–$44.9K$44.9K
2013–$57.3K$57.3K
2011–$51.5K$51.5K

Federal awards

Obligated amounts from USAspending.gov5, by calendar year, 2011–2026, for 2 registered units, including subsidiaries under the same parent. Obligations are what agencies committed, not always what was paid out. Contracts pay for goods and services; grants, loans and direct payments are assistance. Loans are charted at the face value of the loans listed here. An award’s amount below is its lifetime total, and some began before the years charted.

Largest contracts

  1. May 29, 2020$300.3K from Department of the Army: Covid-19 2020 200 room nights for 15 nights and 15 days of conference space6 To LAKE COUNTRY CORPORATION Award W912JB20F0036
  2. May 13, 2020$262.7K from Department of the Army: Covid-19 2020 room nights 160 15-31 may and conference space7 To LAKE COUNTRY CORPORATION Award W912JB20F0028
  3. Apr 15, 2020$118.5K from Department of the Army: Covid-19 lodging&conference space 60 hotel rooms and 3 conference space for a total of 15 days8 To LAKE COUNTRY CORPORATION Award W912JB20F0017
  4. May 1, 2020$77.3K from Department of the Army: Covid-19 35 room nights&conference space 1-15 may 20209 To LAKE COUNTRY CORPORATION Award W912JB20F0023
  5. May 3, 2020$64.9K from Department of the Army: Covid-19 2020 room nights 4-15 may 60 rooms10 To LAKE COUNTRY CORPORATION Award W912JB20F0026

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