Money Purchase · DOL Form 5500 · 2023

Midwest Pipe Trades Retirement Plan

Data updated 2026-05-15

$190M
Total assets
1,501
Participants
95th
Percentile by assets
$126,585
Avg per participant

Sponsored by Board of Trustees - Midwest Pipe Trades Retirement Plan · Tennessee · Construction

What the 2023 filing shows

Midwest Pipe Trades Retirement Plan holds $190M for 1,501 participants - about $126,585 per participant, in the top 5% of all filed plans by assets, up 19.8% over the 2023 plan year.

$190M
total plan assets (2023 EOY)
1,501
covered participants
95th
percentile by assets (of 126,618 plans)
$126,585
avg assets per participant
State
Industry
Construction

Money Purchase · DOL Form 5500 · 2023

What the Filing Says About Midwest Pipe Trades Retirement Plan

Midwest Pipe Trades Retirement Plan is a Money Purchase retirement plan sponsored by Board of Trustees - Midwest Pipe Trades Retirement Plan, headquartered in Tennessee. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's 2023 Form 5500 filing, the plan reports $190M in total end-of-year assets and covers 1,501 participants across the Construction industry. The sponsor's EIN on file with the U.S. Department of Labor is 311272447, and the plan has been effective since 1989-04-01. Its filing status is currently FILING RECEIVED.

Year over year, total assets grew sharply from $159M at the beginning of 2023 to $190M at year-end - up 19.8%. Net assets (after liabilities) closed the year at $190M, with reported net income of $31M 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 Board of Trustees - Midwest Pipe Trades Retirement Plan has on file with PlainRetire (2022-2024), sponsor-wide plan assets have moved from $159M to $222M, a gain of 39.8%, while reported participants moved from 1,481 to 1,544 (+4.3%). The strongest year on file by total sponsor assets was 2024 at $222M; the softest was 2022 at $159M. Year-by-year, sponsor-wide filings show: 2022 - $159M in assets across 1 plan covering 1,481 participants; 2023 - $190M in assets across 1 plan covering 1,501 participants; 2024 - $222M in assets across 1 plan covering 1,544 participants.

By assets, Midwest Pipe Trades Retirement Plan outranks 95% of the 126,618 plans that filed a Form 5500 for the 2023 plan year, and holds roughly 1.9x 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 Midwest Pipe Trades Retirement 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)$159M
Total Assets (End of Year)$190M
Net Assets (End of Year)$190M
Net Income$31M
Plan TypeMoney Purchase
Employer EIN311272447
Plan Effective Date1989-04-01
Filing StatusFILING RECEIVED

Sponsor Plan History (Board of Trustees - Midwest Pipe Trades Retirement Plan)

Year Plans Participants Total Assets
2022 1 1,481 $159M
2023 1 1,501 $190M
2024 1 1,544 $222M

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Frequently Asked Questions

How much money is in the Midwest Pipe Trades Retirement Plan?
As of the 2023 Form 5500 filing, Midwest Pipe Trades Retirement Plan holds $190M in total assets with 1,501 participants. It is sponsored by Board of Trustees - Midwest Pipe Trades Retirement Plan.
What type of plan is Midwest Pipe Trades Retirement Plan?
Midwest Pipe Trades Retirement Plan is a Money Purchase plan. It has been effective since 1989-04-01. The plan is filed with the U.S. Department of Labor under EIN 311272447.
Who sponsors the Midwest Pipe Trades Retirement Plan?
Midwest Pipe Trades Retirement Plan is sponsored by Board of Trustees - Midwest Pipe Trades Retirement Plan, located in Tennessee. The sponsor's EIN is 311272447 and the plan operates in the Construction industry.
How did Midwest Pipe Trades Retirement Plan perform in 2023?
Midwest Pipe Trades Retirement Plan grew sharply - up 19.8% during 2023, moving from $159M to $190M in total assets. Net income was $31M.

What this filing means

Ways to act on Midwest Pipe Trades Retirement Plan's numbers.

  • By total assets, Midwest Pipe Trades Retirement Plan 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 Tennessee. Compare plans
  • Board of Trustees - Midwest Pipe Trades Retirement Plan's sponsor-wide assets have grown 39.8% since 2022 across 3 plan years on file. More Construction 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 311272447.

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.

Data sourced from U.S. Department of Labor Form 5500 filings (EBSA). See our methodology for details.

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.