Money Purchase · DOL Form 5500 · 2023
Fermi Research Alliance, LLC Money Purchase Plan
Data updated 2026-07-24
- $751M
- Total assets
- 1,685
- Participants
- 98th
- Percentile by assets
- $445,667
- Avg per participant
Official DOL plan name: Retirement Plan for Employees of Fermi Research Alliance, LLC · Sponsored by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC · Illinois · Professional & Technical Services
$751M in assets, 1,685 participants
Fermi Research Alliance, LLC's Retirement Plan for Employees of Fermi Research Alliance, LLC reported $751M in total assets and 1,685 participants in its 2023 DOL Form 5500 filing, ranking in the 98th 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.
- 98th percentile by assets (of 126,618 plans)
What the 2023 filing shows
Retirement Plan for Employees of Fermi Research Alliance, LLC holds $751M for 1,685 participants - about $445,667 per participant, in the top 5% of all filed plans by assets, up 12.2% over the 2023 plan year.
- $751M
- total plan assets (2023 EOY)
- 1,685
- covered participants
- 98th
- percentile by assets (of 126,618 plans)
- $445,667
- avg assets per participant
Money Purchase · DOL Form 5500 · 2023
What the Filing Says About Retirement Plan for Employees of Fermi Research Alliance, LLC
Retirement Plan for Employees of Fermi Research Alliance, LLC is a Money Purchase retirement plan sponsored by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC, headquartered in Illinois. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's 2023 Form 5500 filing, the plan reports $751M in total end-of-year assets and covers 1,685 participants across the Professional & Technical Services industry. The sponsor's EIN on file with the U.S. Department of Labor is 571239010, and the plan has been effective since 1989-03-01. Its filing status is currently FILING RECEIVED.
Year over year, total assets grew at a solid clip from $669M at the beginning of 2023 to $751M at year-end - up 12.2%. Net assets (after liabilities) closed the year at $751M, with reported net income of $82M 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 Fermi Research Alliance, LLC has on file with PlainRetire (2022-2024), sponsor-wide plan assets have moved from $1.3B to $1.5B, a gain of 16.0%, while reported participants moved from 3,576 to 4,023 (+12.5%). The strongest year on file by total sponsor assets was 2024 at $1.5B; the softest was 2022 at $1.3B. Year-by-year, sponsor-wide filings show: 2022 - $1.3B in assets across 2 plans covering 3,576 participants; 2023 - $1.5B in assets across 2 plans covering 3,527 participants; 2024 - $1.5B in assets across 2 plans covering 4,023 participants.
By assets, Retirement Plan for Employees of Fermi Research Alliance, LLC outranks 98% of the 126,618 plans that filed a Form 5500 for the 2023 plan year, and holds roughly 7.5x 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 2023 Form 5500 with a reported end-of-year asset figure (126,618 plans), rank Retirement Plan for Employees of Fermi Research Alliance, LLC 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.
Financial Summary (2023)
| Total Assets (Beginning of Year) | $669M |
|---|---|
| Total Assets (End of Year) | $751M |
| Net Assets (End of Year) | $751M |
| Net Income | $82M |
| Plan Type | Money Purchase |
| Employer EIN | 571239010 |
| Plan Effective Date | 1989-03-01 |
| Filing Status | FILING RECEIVED |
Sponsor Plan History (Fermi Research Alliance, LLC)
| Year | Plans | Participants | Total Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2 | 3,576 | $1.3B |
| 2023 | 2 | 3,527 | $1.5B |
| 2024 | 2 | 4,023 | $1.5B |
Nearby Money Purchase Plans in Illinois
Peer Money Purchase plans, same state, same plan type, ranked by total assets.
Retirement Plan for Employees of Fermi Research Alliance, LLC vs. nearby Money Purchase plans in Illinois, assets vs. participants
- NECA-IBEW Local 176 Pension Trust Fund $678M · 2,263
- NECA-IBEW Local 364 Defined Contribution Plan $468M · 763
- International Association of Heat and Frost Insulators Local 17 Annuity Fund $194M · 1,187
- Sheet Metal Workers Local 219 Retirement Savings Fund $184M · 907
- Sheet Metal Workers Local 91 Annuity Plan $164M · 674
Similar-Sized Money Purchase Plans Nationally
Money Purchase plans in other states closest to Retirement Plan for Employees of Fermi Research Alliance, LLC by total assets, not by location.
- New England Electrical Workers Money Purchase Plan and Trust (CT) $746M · 8,403
- Pipefitters Local Union No. 537 Deferred Income Annuity Fund Individual Account Plan (MA) $739M · 3,231
- Pacific Coast Benefits Trust Fund (WA) $786M · 55,426
- Nysa-Ila Money Purchase Pension Fund and Plan (NJ) $787M · 4,634
Frequently Asked Questions
How much money is in the Retirement Plan for Employees of Fermi Research Alliance, LLC? ▼
What type of plan is Retirement Plan for Employees of Fermi Research Alliance, LLC? ▼
Who sponsors the Retirement Plan for Employees of Fermi Research Alliance, LLC? ▼
How did Retirement Plan for Employees of Fermi Research Alliance, LLC perform in 2023? ▼
What this filing means
Ways to act on Retirement Plan for Employees of Fermi Research Alliance, LLC's numbers.
- By total assets, Retirement Plan for Employees of Fermi Research Alliance, LLC ranks in the top 5% of all filed plans by assets. See the largest plans
- Compare it side-by-side against 3 similar Money Purchase plans in Illinois. Compare plans
- Fermi Research Alliance, LLC's sponsor-wide assets have grown 16.0% since 2022 across 3 plan years on file. More Professional & Technical Services plans
- A Money Purchase plan works differently from other retirement plan types, understand the structural differences before comparing. Compare plan types
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA), Form 5500 public disclosure dataset. Plan year 2023.
Source: DOL EFAST2 filing system (efast.dol.gov) - original filing retrieval by EIN 571239010.
Reference: IRS Publication 560, Retirement Plans for Small Business, contribution-limit rules.
Reference: IRS Publication 590-B, Distributions from IRAs, RMD rules under SECURE Act 2.0.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Every figure on PlainRetire is rendered directly from the Department of Labor's Form 5500 annual return filings, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026-07-24.