401(k) · DOL Form 5500 · 2023
Poet 401(k) Plan
Data updated 2026-05-15
- $219M
- Total assets
- 2,254
- Participants
- 95th
- Percentile by assets
- $97,187
- Avg per participant
Sponsored by Poet Biorefining LLC · South Dakota · Manufacturing
What the 2023 filing shows
Poet 401(k) Plan holds $219M for 2,254 participants - about $97,187 per participant, in the top 5% of all filed plans by assets, up 27.5% over the 2023 plan year.
- $219M
- total plan assets (2023 EOY)
- 2,254
- covered participants
- 95th
- percentile by assets (of 126,618 plans)
- $97,187
- avg assets per participant
401(k) · DOL Form 5500 · 2023
What the Filing Says About Poet 401(k) Plan
Poet 401(k) Plan is a 401(k) retirement plan sponsored by Poet Biorefining LLC, headquartered in South Dakota. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's 2023 Form 5500 filing, the plan reports $219M in total end-of-year assets and covers 2,254 participants across the Manufacturing industry. The sponsor's EIN on file with the U.S. Department of Labor is 474454378, and the plan has been effective since 2010-01-01. Its filing status is currently FILING RECEIVED.
Year over year, total assets grew sharply from $172M at the beginning of 2023 to $219M at year-end - up 27.5%. Net assets (after liabilities) closed the year at $219M, with reported net income of $47M 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 Poet Biorefining LLC has on file with PlainRetire (2022-2024), sponsor-wide plan assets have moved from $172M to $266M, a gain of 54.6%, while reported participants moved from 2,022 to 2,380 (+17.7%). The strongest year on file by total sponsor assets was 2024 at $266M; the softest was 2022 at $172M. Year-by-year, sponsor-wide filings show: 2022 - $172M in assets across 1 plan covering 2,022 participants; 2023 - $219M in assets across 1 plan covering 2,254 participants; 2024 - $266M in assets across 1 plan covering 2,380 participants.
By assets, Poet 401(k) Plan outranks 95% of the 126,618 plans that filed a Form 5500 for the 2023 plan year, and holds roughly 2.2x 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 Poet 401(k) 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.
Financial Summary (2023)
| Total Assets (Beginning of Year) | $172M |
|---|---|
| Total Assets (End of Year) | $219M |
| Net Assets (End of Year) | $219M |
| Net Income | $47M |
| Plan Type | 401(k) |
| Employer EIN | 474454378 |
| Plan Effective Date | 2010-01-01 |
| Filing Status | FILING RECEIVED |
Sponsor Plan History (Poet Biorefining LLC)
| Year | Plans | Participants | Total Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1 | 2,022 | $172M |
| 2023 | 1 | 2,254 | $219M |
| 2024 | 1 | 2,380 | $266M |
Nearby 401(k) Plans in South Dakota
Peer 401(k) plans, same state, same plan type, ranked by total assets.
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- Daktronics, Inc. 401(k) Plan $235M · 2,254
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What this filing means
Ways to act on Poet 401(k) Plan's numbers.
- By total assets, Poet 401(k) Plan ranks in the top 5% of all filed plans by assets. See the largest plans
- Compare it side-by-side against 3 similar 401(k) plans in South Dakota. Compare plans
- Poet Biorefining LLC's sponsor-wide assets have grown 54.6% since 2022 across 3 plan years on file. More Manufacturing plans
- A 401(k) 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 474454378.
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 2026-05-15.