Other · DOL Form 5500 · 2023
Stanford Health Care Retirement Plan
Data updated 2026-08-25
- $5.8B
- Total assets Very large vs avg
- 22,681
- Participants Very large workforce
- 100th
- Percentile by assets National rank
- $254,023
- Avg per participant Above avg balance/head
Official DOL plan name: Stanford Health Care Retirement Savings Plan · Sponsored by Stanford Health Care · California · Healthcare & Social Assistance
$5.8B in assets, 22,681 participants
Stanford Health Care's Stanford Health Care Retirement Savings Plan reported $5.8B in total assets and 22,681 participants in its 2023 DOL Form 5500 filing, ranking in the 100th percentile by assets among filed plans. Figures are as reported by the plan sponsor to the Department of Labor, not audited or endorsed by PlainRetire.
- #17,659 in Healthcare & Social Assistance (17,684 peers)
Coverage in California
Stanford Health Care Retirement Savings Plan covers 22,681 participants in California, 36x the typical California plan (state average ~630 per filing). Assets: $5.8B.
- #17,659
- in Healthcare & Social Assistance (17,684 peers)
- +27.0%
- assets growth YoY
- 58×
- vs typical plan assets (national mean)
Stanford Health Care Retirement Savings Plan's outsized position by total assets
Stanford Health Care Retirement Savings Plan vs every filed plan by assets
End-of-year total assets · plan year 2023 · DOL Form 5500
$5,761,504,142 Highest reported value at or above every one of 127,068 filed plans
Dashed line + filled bar = this entry, among filed plans.
Source U.S. Department of Labor Form 5500 filings (EBSA) · plan year 2023
Stanford Health Care Retirement Savings Plan's mega-plan peer group by participant headcount
Plan-year 2023 Form 5500 filings with a reported participant count, partitioned by headcount band, not by assets. Stanford Health Care Retirement Savings Plan is a mega filing (22,681 participants), the rightmost band on the breakdown.
What changed between DOL Form 5500 filings
plan year 2022 → plan year 2023
- Stanford Health Care Retirement Savings Plan reported net income rose from -$558M in the plan year 2022 filing to $1.2B in the plan year 2023 filing.
- Stanford Health Care Retirement Savings Plan end-of-year assets rose from $4.5B in the plan year 2022 filing to $5.8B in the plan year 2023 filing.
- Stanford Health Care Retirement Savings Plan reported participants rose from 20,237 in the plan year 2022 filing to 22,681 in the plan year 2023 filing.
EBSA filing schedule strip
Filing strip 946174066 · Stanford Health Care PY 2023 · Other
Stanford Health Care Retirement Savings Plan · $5.8B · 22,681 · 100th
- PCT $5.8B
- EIN 22,681
- RANK 100th
- PHOTO Other
- IND near Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Retirement Savings Plan
- EOY ind #17659
Stamps derive from this plan's Form 5500 line items (assets, participants, type, EIN, cohort placement) - not a quality rating of the sponsor. Read with Healthcare & Social Assistance retirement plans → · Plans in California →
Stanford Health Care Retirement Savings Plan in the asset neighbourhood
California filing particulars
| Total Assets (Beginning of Year) | $4.5B |
|---|---|
| Net Assets (End of Year) | $5.8B |
| Net Income | $1.2B |
| Employer EIN | 946174066 |
| Plan Effective Date | 1981-03-01 |
| Filing Status | FILING RECEIVED |
Sponsor Plan History (Stanford Health Care)
Sponsor-wide plan assets over time
All Stanford Health Care plans reported in each filing year
- Latest sponsor-wide plan assets
- $7.0B 47.492054900045005% vs 2022
- 2024 filing year
| Year | Plans | Participants | Total Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 3 | 20,875 | $4.7B |
| 2023 | 3 | 23,244 | $5.9B |
| 2024 | 3 | 24,406 | $7.0B |
Nearby Other Plans in California
Peer Other plans, same state, same plan type, ranked by total assets.
- Stanford Contributory Retirement Plan $11.0B · 21,674
- Sutter Health 403(b) Savings Plan $6.5B · 50,273
- Caltech Base Retirement Plan $4.8B · 10,682
- University of Southern California Tax-Deferred Annuity Plan $4.3B · 21,764
- Cedars-Sinai Health System 403b Retirement Plan $2.2B · 10,989
Scale composition for Stanford Health Care Retirement Savings Plan
Stanford Health Care Retirement Savings Plan reports $5.8B in end-of-year assets across 22,681 participants (0.047% of the $12.3T held by all Form 5500 filers in the national rollup , and 0.024% of 93,925,755 covered participants) - about $254,023 per participant (1.8x the national average assets-per-participant) . Net income for plan year 2023 was $1.2B.
This plan identity (EIN 946174066, plan #002) has 3 Form 5500 filings on file from 2022 to 2024 , with end-of-year assets moving from $4.5B to $6.9B (+52.8%) while covered participants moved from 20,237 to 24,152 . Single-year sparse filers cannot show that trail.
| Plan year | Participants | EOY assets | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 20,237 | $4.5B | Open filing |
| 2023 | 22,681 | $5.8B | This page |
| 2024 · index core | 24,152 | $6.9B | Open filing |
The same sponsor also keeps 1 other index-core plan on PlainRetire:
- Stanford Health Care Retirement Savings Plan (Other, $6.9B, 24,152 participants)
Stanford Health Care Retirement Savings Plan's out-of-state Other peers by assets and headcount
Outside California, the nearest Other by assets is Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Retirement Savings Plan in NY ($5.6B); by covered participants it is Yale-New Haven Hospital and Tax Exempt Affiliates Tax Sheltered Annuity Plan in CT (22,121 participants). Same-state nearby plans are listed separately above.
Closest by plan assets
Nearest other-state filings by tot_assets_eoy ($5.8B here).
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Retirement Savings Plan (NY) $5.6B · 22,855
- The University of Pennsylvania Matching Plan (PA) $6.3B · 20,979
- Retirement Plan for Officers of Columbia University (NY) $5.0B · 14,407
- New York University Retirement Plan for Members of the Faculty, Professional Research Staff and Administration (NY) $4.9B · 10,107
Similar participant headcount
Nearest other-state filings by covered participants (22,681 participants); asset peers above are excluded.
- Yale-New Haven Hospital and Tax Exempt Affiliates Tax Sheltered Annuity Plan (CT) 22,121 · 560 off
- Mainehealth 403(b) Retirement Plan (ME) 22,008 · 673 off
- Columbia University Voluntary Retirement Savings Plan (NY) 23,835 · 1,154 off
- Prisma Health 401(a) Plan (SC) 21,235 · 1,446 off
DOL Form 5500 plan year 2023. Asset totals can differ widely at the same headcount; neither axis is a quality rating.