Dakota Wesleyan University Retirement Plan

Other · DOL Form 5500 · 2023

What the Filing Says About Dakota Wesleyan University Defined Contribution Plan

Dakota Wesleyan University Defined Contribution Plan is an Other retirement plan sponsored by Dakota Wesleyan University, headquartered in South Dakota. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's 2023 Form 5500 filing, the plan reports $18M in total end-of-year assets and covers 144 participants across the Educational Services industry. The sponsor's EIN on file with the U.S. Department of Labor is 460224589, and the plan has been effective since 1959-07-01. Its filing status is currently FILING RECEIVED.

Year over year, total assets grew at a solid clip from $17M at the beginning of 2023 to $18M at year-end - up 9.5%. Net assets (after liabilities) closed the year at $18M, with reported net income of $2M 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 Dakota Wesleyan University has on file with PlainRetire (2022-2024), sponsor-wide plan assets have moved from $17M to $19M, a gain of 12.4%, while reported participants moved from 137 to 141 (+2.9%). The strongest year on file by total sponsor assets was 2024 at $19M; the softest was 2022 at $17M. Year-by-year, sponsor-wide filings show: 2022 - $17M in assets across 1 plan covering 137 participants; 2023 - $18M in assets across 1 plan covering 144 participants; 2024 - $19M in assets across 1 plan covering 141 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 2023 Form 5500 with a reported end-of-year asset figure (126,618 plans), rank Dakota Wesleyan University Defined Contribution 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.