Palmer College Foundation D/B/a Palmer College of Chiropractic Retirement Plan

Other · DOL Form 5500 · 2022

What the Filing Says About Palmer College of Chiropractic 403(b) Plan

Palmer College of Chiropractic 403(b) Plan is an Other retirement plan sponsored by Palmer College Foundation D/B/a Palmer College of Chiropractic, headquartered in Iowa. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's 2022 Form 5500 filing, the plan reports $54M in total end-of-year assets and covers 431 participants across the Educational Services industry. The sponsor's EIN on file with the U.S. Department of Labor is 426081293, and the plan has been effective since 1990-01-01. Its filing status is currently FILING RECEIVED.

Year over year, total assets declined sharply from $65M at the beginning of 2022 to $54M at year-end - down 16.4%. Net assets (after liabilities) closed the year at $54M, with reported net income of -$11M driven by investment returns, contributions received, and benefit payments during the period. These figures reflect what the plan administrator certified on Schedule H or Schedule I of the Form 5500 annual return and can be compared against 2 prior plan-year filings from the same sponsor shown below.

Across the 3 plan years Palmer College Foundation D/B/a Palmer College of Chiropractic has on file with PlainRetire (2022-2024), sponsor-wide plan assets have moved from $54M to $62M, a gain of 14.2%, while reported participants moved from 431 to 396 (-8.1%). The strongest year on file by total sponsor assets was 2024 at $62M; the softest was 2022 at $54M. Year-by-year, sponsor-wide filings show: 2022 - $54M in assets across 1 plan covering 431 participants; 2023 - $60M in assets across 1 plan covering 405 participants; 2024 - $62M in assets across 1 plan covering 396 participants.

By assets, Palmer College of Chiropractic 403(b) Plan outranks 89% of the 139,258 plans that filed a Form 5500 for the 2022 plan year, and holds roughly 0.5x the national average plan size of $100M and 730 average participants.

Asset totals and participant counts reflect a single plan year snapshot and can change materially with market conditions, plan mergers, or workforce changes. Fields such as "net income" include both realized investment performance and contribution/distribution flows, a single-year figure does not by itself indicate plan health or participant outcomes. This page summarizes public DOL disclosures for research and educational purposes only and is not retirement, tax, legal, or financial advice. Before making decisions about your own retirement benefits or evaluating an employer's plan, verify the underlying filing directly via the DOL EFAST2 system and consult a qualified professional.

How the percentile is calculated: we count every plan that filed a 2022 Form 5500 with a reported end-of-year asset figure (139,258 plans), rank Palmer College of Chiropractic 403(b) Plan against all of them by total assets, and report the share of those plans it outranks. A plan reporting no asset figure for the year is excluded from the ranking rather than assumed to be zero.