Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2023
Board of Trustees of Nba Players' Pension Plan Pension Plan
Data updated 2026-07-24
- $610M
- Total assets
- 435
- Participants
- 98th
- Percentile by assets
- $1.4M
- Avg per participant
Official DOL plan name: National Basketball Association Players' Pension Plan · Sponsored by Board of Trustees of Nba Players' Pension Plan · Indiana · Arts, Entertainment & Recreation
$610M in assets, 435 participants
Board of Trustees of Nba Players' Pension Plan's National Basketball Association Players' Pension Plan reported $610M in total assets and 435 participants in its 2023 DOL Form 5500 filing, ranking in the 98th 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.
- 98th percentile by assets (of 126,618 plans)
What the 2023 filing shows
National Basketball Association Players' Pension Plan holds $610M for 435 participants - about $1.4M per participant, in the top 5% of all filed plans by assets, up 13.0% over the 2023 plan year.
- $610M
- total plan assets (2023 EOY)
- 435
- covered participants
- 98th
- percentile by assets (of 126,618 plans)
- $1.4M
- avg assets per participant
Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2023
What the Filing Says About National Basketball Association Players' Pension Plan
National Basketball Association Players' Pension Plan is a Defined Benefit (Pension) retirement plan sponsored by Board of Trustees of Nba Players' Pension Plan, headquartered in Indiana. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's 2023 Form 5500 filing, the plan reports $610M in total end-of-year assets and covers 435 participants across the Arts, Entertainment & Recreation industry. The sponsor's EIN on file with the U.S. Department of Labor is 832172122, and the plan has been effective since 1965-02-02. Its filing status is currently FILING RECEIVED.
Year over year, total assets grew at a solid clip from $540M at the beginning of 2023 to $610M at year-end - up 13.0%. Net assets (after liabilities) closed the year at $603M, with reported net income of $68M 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 of Nba Players' Pension Plan has on file with PlainRetire (2022-2024), sponsor-wide plan assets have moved from $540M to $725M, a gain of 34.3%, while reported participants moved from 438 to 520 (+18.7%). The strongest year on file by total sponsor assets was 2024 at $725M; the softest was 2022 at $540M. Year-by-year, sponsor-wide filings show: 2022 - $540M in assets across 1 plan covering 438 participants; 2023 - $610M in assets across 1 plan covering 435 participants; 2024 - $725M in assets across 1 plan covering 520 participants.
By assets, National Basketball Association Players' Pension Plan outranks 98% of the 126,618 plans that filed a Form 5500 for the 2023 plan year, and holds roughly 6.1x 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 National Basketball Association Players' Pension 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) | $540M |
|---|---|
| Total Assets (End of Year) | $610M |
| Net Assets (End of Year) | $603M |
| Net Income | $68M |
| Plan Type | Defined Benefit (Pension) |
| Employer EIN | 832172122 |
| Plan Effective Date | 1965-02-02 |
| Filing Status | FILING RECEIVED |
Sponsor Plan History (Board of Trustees of Nba Players' Pension Plan)
| Year | Plans | Participants | Total Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1 | 438 | $540M |
| 2023 | 1 | 435 | $610M |
| 2024 | 1 | 520 | $725M |
Nearby Defined Benefit (Pension) Plans in Indiana
Peer Defined Benefit (Pension) plans, same state, same plan type, ranked by total assets.
National Basketball Association Players' Pension Plan vs. nearby Defined Benefit (Pension) plans in Indiana, assets vs. participants
- The Lilly Retirement Plan $11.7B · 19,111
- Cummins Pension Plan $3.3B · 26,560
- Indiana Laborers Pension Fund $1.7B · 10,800
- Elevance Health Cash Balance Plan a $1.3B · 8,197
- Nisource Pension Plan $1.1B · 2,174
Similar-Sized Defined Benefit (Pension) Plans Nationally
Defined Benefit (Pension) plans in other states closest to National Basketball Association Players' Pension Plan by total assets, not by location.
- Western States Office & Professional Employees Pen (OR) $610M · 659
- Legacy Ghs/Tuomey Pension Plan (SC) $611M · 3,346
- Structural Iw Local #1 Pension Plan (IL) $611M · 1,310
- Detroit Medical Center Consolidated Pension Plan (MI) $611M · 1,803
Frequently Asked Questions
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What this filing means
Ways to act on National Basketball Association Players' Pension Plan's numbers.
- By total assets, National Basketball Association Players' Pension 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 Indiana. Compare plans
- Board of Trustees of Nba Players' Pension Plan's sponsor-wide assets have grown 34.3% since 2022 across 3 plan years on file. More Arts, Entertainment & Recreation 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 832172122.
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 2026-07-24.