Other · DOL Form 5500 · 2023

Northwest Carpenters Retirement Plan

Data updated 2026-05-15

$3.3B
Total assets
15,892
Participants
100th
Percentile by assets
$206,853
Avg per participant

Sponsored by Board of Trustees, Northwest Carpenters Retirement · Washington · Construction

What the 2023 filing shows

Northwest Carpenters Retirement Plan holds $3.3B for 15,892 participants - about $206,853 per participant, among the largest 1% of all filed plans, up 10.6% over the 2023 plan year.

$3.3B
total plan assets (2023 EOY)
15,892
covered participants
100th
percentile by assets (of 126,618 plans)
$206,853
avg assets per participant
State
Industry
Construction

Other · DOL Form 5500 · 2023

What the Filing Says About Northwest Carpenters Retirement Plan

Northwest Carpenters Retirement Plan is an Other retirement plan sponsored by Board of Trustees, Northwest Carpenters Retirement, headquartered in Washington. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's 2023 Form 5500 filing, the plan reports $3.3B in total end-of-year assets and covers 15,892 participants across the Construction industry. The sponsor's EIN on file with the U.S. Department of Labor is 916029051, and the plan has been effective since 1960-01-01. Its filing status is currently FILING RECEIVED.

Year over year, total assets grew at a solid clip from $3.0B at the beginning of 2023 to $3.3B at year-end - up 10.6%. Net assets (after liabilities) closed the year at $3.3B, with reported net income of $318M 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, Northwest Carpenters Retirement has on file with PlainRetire (2022-2024), sponsor-wide plan assets have no comparable total-assets figures across every year, while reported participants moved from 15,284 to 15,177 (-0.7%). The strongest year on file by total sponsor assets was 2023 at $3.3B; the softest was 2024 at N/A. Year-by-year, sponsor-wide filings show: 2022 - $3.0B in assets across 1 plan covering 15,284 participants; 2023 - $3.3B in assets across 1 plan covering 15,892 participants; 2024 - N/A in assets across 1 plan covering 15,177 participants.

By assets, Northwest Carpenters Retirement Plan outranks nearly all the 126,618 plans that filed a Form 5500 for the 2023 plan year, and holds roughly 33x 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 Northwest Carpenters 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)$3.0B
Total Assets (End of Year)$3.3B
Net Assets (End of Year)$3.3B
Net Income$318M
Plan TypeOther
Employer EIN916029051
Plan Effective Date1960-01-01
Filing StatusFILING RECEIVED

Sponsor Plan History (Board of Trustees, Northwest Carpenters Retirement)

Year Plans Participants Total Assets
2022 1 15,284 $3.0B
2023 1 15,892 $3.3B
2024 1 15,177 N/A

Nearby Other Plans in Washington

Peer Other plans, same state, same plan type, ranked by total assets.

Frequently Asked Questions

How much money is in the Northwest Carpenters Retirement Plan?
As of the 2023 Form 5500 filing, Northwest Carpenters Retirement Plan holds $3.3B in total assets with 15,892 participants. It is sponsored by Board of Trustees, Northwest Carpenters Retirement.
What type of plan is Northwest Carpenters Retirement Plan?
Northwest Carpenters Retirement Plan is an Other plan. It has been effective since 1960-01-01. The plan is filed with the U.S. Department of Labor under EIN 916029051.
Who sponsors the Northwest Carpenters Retirement Plan?
Northwest Carpenters Retirement Plan is sponsored by Board of Trustees, Northwest Carpenters Retirement, located in Washington. The sponsor's EIN is 916029051 and the plan operates in the Construction industry.
How did Northwest Carpenters Retirement Plan perform in 2023?
Northwest Carpenters Retirement Plan grew at a solid clip - up 10.6% during 2023, moving from $3.0B to $3.3B in total assets. Net income was $318M.

What this filing means

Ways to act on Northwest Carpenters Retirement Plan's numbers.

  • By total assets, Northwest Carpenters Retirement Plan ranks among the largest 1% of all filed plans. See the largest 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 916029051.

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.