Money Purchase · DOL Form 5500 · 2023

Trustees of Iron Workers Local #397 Annuity Fund Money Purchase Plan

Data updated 2026-07-24

$31M
Total assets
1,596
Participants
79th
Percentile by assets
$19,194
Avg per participant

Official DOL plan name: Iron Workers Local #397 Annuity Fund · Sponsored by Trustees of Iron Workers Local #397 Annuity Fund · Tennessee · Finance & Insurance

$31M in assets, 1,596 participants

Trustees of Iron Workers Local #397 Annuity Fund's Iron Workers Local #397 Annuity Fund reported $31M in total assets and 1,596 participants in its 2023 DOL Form 5500 filing, ranking in the 79th 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.

  • 79th percentile by assets (of 126,618 plans)

What the 2023 filing shows

Iron Workers Local #397 Annuity Fund holds $31M for 1,596 participants - about $19,194 per participant, in the top quartile of all filed plans by assets, up 8.2% over the 2023 plan year.

$31M
total plan assets (2023 EOY)
1,596
covered participants
79th
percentile by assets (of 126,618 plans)
$19,194
avg assets per participant
State
Industry
Finance & Insurance

Money Purchase · DOL Form 5500 · 2023

What the Filing Says About Iron Workers Local #397 Annuity Fund

Iron Workers Local #397 Annuity Fund is a Money Purchase retirement plan sponsored by Trustees of Iron Workers Local #397 Annuity Fund, headquartered in Tennessee. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's 2023 Form 5500 filing, the plan reports $31M in total end-of-year assets and covers 1,596 participants across the Finance & Insurance industry. The sponsor's EIN on file with the U.S. Department of Labor is 597139874, and the plan has been effective since 1998-10-01. Its filing status is currently FILING RECEIVED.

Year over year, total assets grew at a solid clip from $28M at the beginning of 2023 to $31M at year-end - up 8.2%. Net assets (after liabilities) closed the year at $31M, with reported net income of $2M 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 Trustees of Iron Workers Local #397 Annuity Fund has on file with PlainRetire (2022-2024), sponsor-wide plan assets have moved from $28M to $34M, a gain of 18.4%, while reported participants moved from 1,558 to 1,627 (+4.4%). The strongest year on file by total sponsor assets was 2024 at $34M; the softest was 2022 at $28M. Year-by-year, sponsor-wide filings show: 2022 - $28M in assets across 1 plan covering 1,558 participants; 2023 - $31M in assets across 1 plan covering 1,596 participants; 2024 - $34M in assets across 1 plan covering 1,627 participants.

By assets, Iron Workers Local #397 Annuity Fund outranks 79% of the 126,618 plans that filed a Form 5500 for the 2023 plan year, and holds roughly 0.3x 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 Iron Workers Local #397 Annuity 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)$28M
Total Assets (End of Year)$31M
Net Assets (End of Year)$31M
Net Income$2M
Plan TypeMoney Purchase
Employer EIN597139874
Plan Effective Date1998-10-01
Filing StatusFILING RECEIVED

Sponsor Plan History (Trustees of Iron Workers Local #397 Annuity Fund)

$26M$28M$30M$32M$34M$36M 202220232024 $28.3M $33.5M ▲ +18.4%
Total plan assets by year, all Trustees of Iron Workers Local #397 Annuity Fund 401(k) plans on file
Year Plans Participants Total Assets
2022 1 1,558 $28M
2023 1 1,596 $31M
2024 1 1,627 $34M

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Frequently Asked Questions

How much money is in the Iron Workers Local #397 Annuity Fund?
As of the 2023 Form 5500 filing, Iron Workers Local #397 Annuity Fund holds $31M in total assets with 1,596 participants. It is sponsored by Trustees of Iron Workers Local #397 Annuity Fund.
What type of plan is Iron Workers Local #397 Annuity Fund?
Iron Workers Local #397 Annuity Fund is a Money Purchase plan. It has been effective since 1998-10-01. The plan is filed with the U.S. Department of Labor under EIN 597139874.
Who sponsors the Iron Workers Local #397 Annuity Fund?
Iron Workers Local #397 Annuity Fund is sponsored by Trustees of Iron Workers Local #397 Annuity Fund, located in Tennessee. The sponsor's EIN is 597139874 and the plan operates in the Finance & Insurance industry.
How did Iron Workers Local #397 Annuity Fund perform in 2023?
Iron Workers Local #397 Annuity Fund grew at a solid clip - up 8.2% during 2023, moving from $28M to $31M in total assets. Net income was $2M.

What this filing means

Ways to act on Iron Workers Local #397 Annuity Fund's numbers.

  • By total assets, Iron Workers Local #397 Annuity Fund ranks in the top quartile of all filed plans by assets. See the largest plans
  • Compare it side-by-side against 3 similar Money Purchase plans in Tennessee. Compare plans
  • Trustees of Iron Workers Local #397 Annuity Fund's sponsor-wide assets have grown 18.4% since 2022 across 3 plan years on file. More Finance & Insurance plans
  • A Money Purchase 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 597139874.

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 2026-07-24.