Employee Emergency Assistance Guidelines

  • Employee must be full-time or part-time
  • Employee must have been with the company for at least 60 days
  • Employee must be in good standing with the company
  • Employee must meet the need-based financial qualifications
  • Employee must be experiencing an emergency financial hardship (Certain times of crises or emergencies do not require a financial-need based qualification, but they are rare (e.g. fire, flood, earthquake, tornado, hurricane)
  • The local Community Advisory Committee must approve each request for emergency assistance before being submitted to the Director of Philanthropy to review and process. The employee will submit third-party documentation that shows a financial need to confirm the emergency with their application for assistance (accident report, insurance claim report, home eviction notice, past-due bills).

To ensure our foundation is helping individuals most in need, grant requests are applied to a qualifying charitable class. We follow an industry best practice of defining a charitable class as 350% of the federal poverty guideline per person/family members in a household (poverty guidelines). Please reference the chart below, which outlines the household size, the poverty level income, and the highlighted column, which shows the maximum household income allowed for the award of grants.

2025 Poverty Guidelines: 48 Contiguous States (all states except AK and HI)

Household / Family Size 100%
Poverty Level		 350%
Maximum Income
1 $15,060 $52,710
2 $20,440 $71,540
3 $25,820 $90,370
4 $31,200 $109,200
5 $36,580 $128,030
6 $41,960 $146,860
7 $47,340 $165,690
8 $52,720 $184,520
9 $58,100 $203,350
10 $63,480 $222,180
11 $68,860 $241,010
12 $74,240 $259,840
13 $79,620 $278,670
14 $85,000 $297,500

Example

If there are two people in your household, the entire household income must not exceed $71,540 to qualify for Emergency Financial Assistance.

Primary Family: Our foundation defines primary family as either the employee themselves or someone that they have primary responsibility for (spouse/domestic partner and dependent children). This does not include parents, or siblings of an employee.

Foundation Requests Not Funded:

  • Requests Denied by the local Community Advisory Committee
  • Requests from employees who have not served at least 60 days with the company.
  • Requests from employees who received foundation assistance in the last 12 months.
  • Requests for assistance that exceed $1,000 per employee on an annual basis will be directed to our foundation board for additional consideration.
  • Requests without proper 3rd party documentation or documentation that does not show a financial need.
  • Requests related to legal action/assistance with legal fees.
  • Requests related to work hours adjusted due to census

Foundation Requests Funded up to $1,000:

  • Car repair/payment
  • Food assistance
  • Utilities shut off/payment
  • House eviction
  • House repairs when not created through natural disaster (air-conditioner replacement, plumbing, etc.)
  • Non-life-threatening medical emergency for primary family member
  • Life threatening medical emergency for primary family member (cancer, heart attack, etc.)
  • Death of a primary family member
  • Domestic violence
  • Catastrophic loss of property due to a natural disaster (fire, flood, tornado, earthquake, hurricane, etc.)
  • Other unexpected financial hardships due to a serious occurrence not listed will be considered

Board approval is required for very rare extenuating circumstances over the $1,000 annual limit per employee.