ESOP · DOL Form 5500 · 2023

NECA-IBEW Pension Benefit Trust Fund

Data updated 2026-05-15

$917M
Total assets
3,999
Participants
98th
Percentile by assets
$229,362
Avg per participant

Sponsored by Board of Trustees of the NECA-IBEW Pension Benefit Trust Fund · Missouri · Construction

What the 2023 filing shows

NECA-IBEW Pension Benefit Trust Fund holds $917M for 3,999 participants - about $229,362 per participant, in the top 5% of all filed plans by assets, up 12.3% over the 2023 plan year.

$917M
total plan assets (2023 EOY)
3,999
covered participants
98th
percentile by assets (of 126,618 plans)
$229,362
avg assets per participant
State
Industry
Construction

ESOP · DOL Form 5500 · 2023

What the Filing Says About NECA-IBEW Pension Benefit Trust Fund

NECA-IBEW Pension Benefit Trust Fund is an ESOP retirement plan sponsored by Board of Trustees of the NECA-IBEW Pension Benefit Trust Fund, headquartered in Missouri. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's 2023 Form 5500 filing, the plan reports $917M in total end-of-year assets and covers 3,999 participants across the Construction industry. The sponsor's EIN on file with the U.S. Department of Labor is 436184756, and the plan has been effective since 1972-08-01. Its filing status is currently FILING RECEIVED.

Year over year, total assets grew at a solid clip from $817M at the beginning of 2023 to $917M at year-end - up 12.3%. Net assets (after liabilities) closed the year at $917M, with reported net income of $101M 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 the NECA-IBEW Pension Benefit Trust Fund has on file with PlainRetire (2022-2024), sponsor-wide plan assets have moved from $817M to $1.0B, a gain of 28.5%, while reported participants moved from 3,894 to 4,119 (+5.8%). The strongest year on file by total sponsor assets was 2024 at $1.0B; the softest was 2022 at $817M. Year-by-year, sponsor-wide filings show: 2022 - $817M in assets across 1 plan covering 3,894 participants; 2023 - $917M in assets across 1 plan covering 3,999 participants; 2024 - $1.0B in assets across 1 plan covering 4,119 participants.

By assets, NECA-IBEW Pension Benefit Trust Fund outranks 98% of the 126,618 plans that filed a Form 5500 for the 2023 plan year, and holds roughly 9.2x 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 NECA-IBEW Pension Benefit Trust Fund 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)$817M
Total Assets (End of Year)$917M
Net Assets (End of Year)$917M
Net Income$101M
Plan TypeESOP
Employer EIN436184756
Plan Effective Date1972-08-01
Filing StatusFILING RECEIVED

Sponsor Plan History (Board of Trustees of the NECA-IBEW Pension Benefit Trust Fund)

Year Plans Participants Total Assets
2022 1 3,894 $817M
2023 1 3,999 $917M
2024 1 4,119 $1.0B

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Frequently Asked Questions

How much money is in the NECA-IBEW Pension Benefit Trust Fund?
As of the 2023 Form 5500 filing, NECA-IBEW Pension Benefit Trust Fund holds $917M in total assets with 3,999 participants. It is sponsored by Board of Trustees of the NECA-IBEW Pension Benefit Trust Fund.
What type of plan is NECA-IBEW Pension Benefit Trust Fund?
NECA-IBEW Pension Benefit Trust Fund is an ESOP plan. It has been effective since 1972-08-01. The plan is filed with the U.S. Department of Labor under EIN 436184756.
Who sponsors the NECA-IBEW Pension Benefit Trust Fund?
NECA-IBEW Pension Benefit Trust Fund is sponsored by Board of Trustees of the NECA-IBEW Pension Benefit Trust Fund, located in Missouri. The sponsor's EIN is 436184756 and the plan operates in the Construction industry.
How did NECA-IBEW Pension Benefit Trust Fund perform in 2023?
NECA-IBEW Pension Benefit Trust Fund grew at a solid clip - up 12.3% during 2023, moving from $817M to $917M in total assets. Net income was $101M.

What this filing means

Ways to act on NECA-IBEW Pension Benefit Trust Fund's numbers.

  • By total assets, NECA-IBEW Pension Benefit Trust Fund ranks in the top 5% of all filed plans by assets. See the largest plans
  • Compare it side-by-side against 3 similar ESOP plans in Missouri. Compare plans
  • Board of Trustees of the NECA-IBEW Pension Benefit Trust Fund's sponsor-wide assets have grown 28.5% since 2022 across 3 plan years on file. More Construction plans
  • An ESOP 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 436184756.

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.