Other · DOL Form 5500 · 2023
Sentara Healthcare Retirement Plan
Data updated 2026-08-25
- $3.3B
- Total assets Very large vs avg
- 25,806
- Participants Very large workforce
- 100th
- Percentile by assets National rank
- $127,401
- Avg per participant Near avg balance/head
Official DOL plan name: Sentara 403(b) Savings Plan · Sponsored by Sentara Healthcare · Virginia · Healthcare & Social Assistance
$3.3B in assets, 25,806 participants
Sentara Healthcare's Sentara 403(b) Savings Plan reported $3.3B in total assets and 25,806 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.
- #17,640 in Healthcare & Social Assistance (17,684 peers)
Coverage in Virginia
Sentara 403(b) Savings Plan covers 25,806 participants in Virginia, 33x the typical Virginia plan (state average ~782 per filing). Assets: $3.3B.
- #17,640
- in Healthcare & Social Assistance (17,684 peers)
- +20.5%
- assets growth YoY
- 33×
- vs typical plan assets (national mean)
Sentara 403(b) Savings Plan's outsized position by total assets
Sentara 403(b) Savings Plan vs every filed plan by assets
End-of-year total assets · plan year 2023 · DOL Form 5500
$3,287,712,192 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
Sentara 403(b) 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. Sentara 403(b) Savings Plan is a mega filing (25,806 participants), the rightmost band on the breakdown.
What changed between DOL Form 5500 filings
plan year 2022 → plan year 2023
- Sentara 403(b) Savings Plan reported net income rose from -$504M in the plan year 2022 filing to $560M in the plan year 2023 filing.
- Sentara 403(b) Savings Plan end-of-year assets rose from $2.7B in the plan year 2022 filing to $3.3B in the plan year 2023 filing.
- Sentara 403(b) Savings Plan reported participants fell from 26,421 in the plan year 2022 filing to 25,806 in the plan year 2023 filing.
EBSA filing schedule strip
Filing strip 521271901 · Sentara Healthcare PY 2023 · Other
Sentara 403(b) Savings Plan · $3.3B · 25,806 · 100th
- EIN $3.3B
- EIN 25,806
- EIN 100th
- EIN Other
- EIN near Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center 403(b) Retirement Savings Plan
- EIN ind #17640
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 Virginia →
Sentara 403(b) Savings Plan in the asset neighbourhood
Virginia filing particulars
| Total Assets (Beginning of Year) | $2.7B |
|---|---|
| Net Assets (End of Year) | $3.3B |
| Net Income | $560M |
| Employer EIN | 521271901 |
| Plan Effective Date | 1989-05-01 |
| Filing Status | FILING RECEIVED |
Sponsor Plan History (Sentara Healthcare)
Sponsor-wide plan assets over time
All Sentara Healthcare plans reported in each filing year
- Latest sponsor-wide plan assets
- $7.1B 37.92836143070335% vs 2022
- 2024 filing year
| Year | Plans | Participants | Total Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 4 | 58,592 | $5.2B |
| 2023 | 4 | 57,999 | $6.2B |
| 2024 | 4 | 63,288 | $7.1B |
Nearby Other Plans in Virginia
Peer Other plans, same state, same plan type, ranked by total assets.
- The George Washington University Supplemental Retirement Plan $1.5B · 8,047
- Institute for Defense Analyses Tax Deferred Annuity Plan $801M · 1,453
- Carilion Clinic 403(b) Retirement Savings Plan $722M · 12,978
- Centra Health Matching Tax Deferred Savings Plan $670M · 7,141
- University of Richmond Defined Contribution Retirement Plan $629M · 1,843
Scale composition for Sentara 403(b) Savings Plan
Sentara 403(b) Savings Plan reports $3.3B in end-of-year assets across 25,806 participants (0.027% of the $12.3T held by all Form 5500 filers in the national rollup , and 0.027% of 93,925,755 covered participants) - about $127,401 per participant (92% of the national average assets-per-participant) . Net income for plan year 2023 was $560M.
This plan identity (EIN 521271901, plan #003) has 3 Form 5500 filings on file from 2022 to 2024 , with end-of-year assets moving from $2.7B to $3.7B (+37.3%) while covered participants moved from 26,421 to 28,192 . Single-year sparse filers cannot show that trail.
| Plan year | Participants | EOY assets | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 26,421 | $2.7B | Open filing |
| 2023 | 25,806 | $3.3B | This page |
| 2024 · index core | 28,192 | $3.7B | Open filing |
The same sponsor also keeps 3 other index-core plans on PlainRetire:
- Sentara 403(b) Savings Plan (Other, $3.7B, 28,192 participants)
- Sentara Pension Plan (Defined Benefit (Pension), $3.2B, 17,156 participants)
- Sentara 401(a) Retirement Plan (Profit Sharing, $160M, 17,694 participants)
Sentara 403(b) Savings Plan's out-of-state Other peers by assets and headcount
Outside Virginia, the nearest Other by assets is Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center 403(b) Retirement Savings Plan in NC ($3.2B); by covered participants it is Supplemental Retirement Annuity Plan of the University of Pennsylvania in PA (25,712 participants). Same-state nearby plans are listed separately above.
Closest by plan assets
Nearest other-state filings by tot_assets_eoy ($3.3B here).
- Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center 403(b) Retirement Savings Plan (NC) $3.2B · 18,961
- The University of Chicago Contributory Retirement Plan (IL) $3.5B · 4,796
- The University of Pennsylvania Health System 403(b) Retirement Savings Plan (PA) $3.1B · 41,942
- Columbia University Voluntary Retirement Savings Plan (NY) $3.0B · 15,290
Similar participant headcount
Nearest other-state filings by covered participants (25,806 participants); asset peers above are excluded.
- Supplemental Retirement Annuity Plan of the University of Pennsylvania (PA) 25,712 · 94 off
- Orlando Health Retirement Savings Plan 403b (FL) 26,087 · 281 off
- Washington University Retirement Savings Plan (MO) 25,521 · 285 off
- Northside Hospital 403(b) Retirement Plan (GA) 26,208 · 402 off
DOL Form 5500 plan year 2023. Asset totals can differ widely at the same headcount; neither axis is a quality rating.