Defined Benefit (Pension) Ā· DOL Form 5500 Ā· 2023
Retirement Plan of International Paper Company
Data updated 2026-05-15
- $8.8B
- Total assets
- 20,164
- Participants
- 100th
- Percentile by assets
- $438,234
- Avg per participant
Sponsored by International Paper Company Ā· Tennessee Ā· Manufacturing
What the 2023 filing shows
Retirement Plan of International Paper Company holds $8.8B for 20,164 participants - about $438,234 per participant, among the largest 1% of all filed plans, down 0.1% over the 2023 plan year.
- $8.8B
- total plan assets (2023 EOY)
- 20,164
- covered participants
- 100th
- percentile by assets (of 126,618 plans)
- $438,234
- avg assets per participant
The plan reported a net loss of $4M for the year, a single-year figure driven by markets and benefit payments, not a measure of plan health.
Defined Benefit (Pension) Ā· DOL Form 5500 Ā· 2023
What the Filing Says About Retirement Plan of International Paper Company
Retirement Plan of International Paper Company is a Defined Benefit (Pension) retirement plan sponsored by International Paper Company, headquartered in Tennessee. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's 2023 Form 5500 filing, the plan reports $8.8B in total end-of-year assets and covers 20,164 participants across the Manufacturing industry. The sponsor's EIN on file with the U.S. Department of Labor is 130872805, and the plan has been effective since 1945-01-01. Its filing status is currently FILING RECEIVED.
Year over year, total assets held essentially flat from $8.8B at the beginning of 2023 to $8.8B at year-end - down 0.1%. Net assets (after liabilities) closed the year at $8.8B, with reported net income of -$4M 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 International Paper Company has on file with PlainRetire (2022-2024), sponsor-wide plan assets have moved from $14.6B to $15.0B, a gain of 2.8%, while reported participants moved from 52,962 to 54,521 (+2.9%). The strongest year on file by total sponsor assets was 2023 at $15.2B; the softest was 2022 at $14.6B. Year-by-year, sponsor-wide filings show: 2022 - $14.6B in assets across 3 plans covering 52,962 participants; 2023 - $15.2B in assets across 3 plans covering 53,148 participants; 2024 - $15.0B in assets across 3 plans covering 54,521 participants.
By assets, Retirement Plan of International Paper Company outranks nearly all the 126,618 plans that filed a Form 5500 for the 2023 plan year, and holds roughly 88x 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 of International Paper Company 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) | $8.8B |
|---|---|
| Total Assets (End of Year) | $8.8B |
| Net Assets (End of Year) | $8.8B |
| Net Income | -$4M |
| Plan Type | Defined Benefit (Pension) |
| Employer EIN | 130872805 |
| Plan Effective Date | 1945-01-01 |
| Filing Status | FILING RECEIVED |
Sponsor Plan History (International Paper Company)
| Year | Plans | Participants | Total Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 3 | 52,962 | $14.6B |
| 2023 | 3 | 53,148 | $15.2B |
| 2024 | 3 | 54,521 | $15.0B |
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What this filing means
Ways to act on Retirement Plan of International Paper Company's numbers.
- By total assets, Retirement Plan of International Paper Company ranks among the largest 1% of all filed plans. See the largest plans
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- International Paper Company's sponsor-wide assets have grown 2.8% since 2022 across 3 plan years on file. More Manufacturing plans
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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 130872805.
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.