Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2023

Permanente Physicians Retirement Plan

Data updated 2026-05-15

$678M
Total assets
791
Participants
98th
Percentile by assets
$856,584
Avg per participant

Sponsored by Northwest Permanente, P.C., Physicians & Surgeons · Oregon · Healthcare & Social Assistance

What the 2023 filing shows

Permanente Physicians Retirement Plan holds $678M for 791 participants - about $856,584 per participant, in the top 5% of all filed plans by assets, up 3.9% over the 2023 plan year.

$678M
total plan assets (2023 EOY)
791
covered participants
98th
percentile by assets (of 126,618 plans)
$856,584
avg assets per participant
State
Industry
Healthcare & Social Assistance

Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2023

What the Filing Says About Permanente Physicians Retirement Plan

Permanente Physicians Retirement Plan is a Defined Benefit (Pension) retirement plan sponsored by Northwest Permanente, P.C., Physicians & Surgeons, headquartered in Oregon. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's 2023 Form 5500 filing, the plan reports $678M in total end-of-year assets and covers 791 participants across the Healthcare & Social Assistance industry. The sponsor's EIN on file with the U.S. Department of Labor is 930698548, and the plan has been effective since 1978-01-01. Its filing status is currently FILING RECEIVED.

Year over year, total assets edged up modestly from $652M at the beginning of 2023 to $678M at year-end - up 3.9%. Net assets (after liabilities) closed the year at $678M, with reported net income of $26M 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 Northwest Permanente, P.C., Physicians & Surgeons has on file with PlainRetire (2022-2024), sponsor-wide plan assets have moved from $2.1B to $2.8B, a gain of 31.8%, while reported participants moved from 5,332 to 5,501 (+3.2%). The strongest year on file by total sponsor assets was 2024 at $2.8B; the softest was 2022 at $2.1B. Year-by-year, sponsor-wide filings show: 2022 - $2.1B in assets across 6 plans covering 5,332 participants; 2023 - $2.5B in assets across 6 plans covering 5,486 participants; 2024 - $2.8B in assets across 6 plans covering 5,501 participants.

By assets, Permanente Physicians Retirement Plan outranks 98% of the 126,618 plans that filed a Form 5500 for the 2023 plan year, and holds roughly 6.8x 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 Permanente Physicians 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)$652M
Total Assets (End of Year)$678M
Net Assets (End of Year)$678M
Net Income$26M
Plan TypeDefined Benefit (Pension)
Employer EIN930698548
Plan Effective Date1978-01-01
Filing StatusFILING RECEIVED

Sponsor Plan History (Northwest Permanente, P.C., Physicians & Surgeons)

Year Plans Participants Total Assets
2022 6 5,332 $2.1B
2023 6 5,486 $2.5B
2024 6 5,501 $2.8B

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Frequently Asked Questions

How much money is in the Permanente Physicians Retirement Plan?
As of the 2023 Form 5500 filing, Permanente Physicians Retirement Plan holds $678M in total assets with 791 participants. It is sponsored by Northwest Permanente, P.C., Physicians & Surgeons.
What type of plan is Permanente Physicians Retirement Plan?
Permanente Physicians Retirement Plan is a Defined Benefit (Pension) plan. It has been effective since 1978-01-01. The plan is filed with the U.S. Department of Labor under EIN 930698548.
Who sponsors the Permanente Physicians Retirement Plan?
Permanente Physicians Retirement Plan is sponsored by Northwest Permanente, P.C., Physicians & Surgeons, located in Oregon. The sponsor's EIN is 930698548 and the plan operates in the Healthcare & Social Assistance industry.
How did Permanente Physicians Retirement Plan perform in 2023?
Permanente Physicians Retirement Plan edged up modestly - up 3.9% during 2023, moving from $652M to $678M in total assets. Net income was $26M.

What this filing means

Ways to act on Permanente Physicians Retirement Plan's numbers.

  • By total assets, Permanente Physicians 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 Defined Benefit (Pension) plans in Oregon. Compare plans
  • Northwest Permanente, P.C., Physicians & Surgeons's sponsor-wide assets have grown 31.8% since 2022 across 3 plan years on file. More Healthcare & Social Assistance plans
  • A Defined Benefit (Pension) 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 930698548.

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.