Other · DOL Form 5500 · 2023

Friends Central School Corporation Retirement Plan

Data updated 2026-07-24

$67M
Total assets
190
Participants
88th
Percentile by assets
$351,193
Avg per participant

Official DOL plan name: Friends Central School Defined Contribution Retirement Plan · Sponsored by Friends Central School Corporation · Pennsylvania · Educational Services

$67M in assets, 190 participants

Friends Central School Corporation's Friends Central School Defined Contribution Retirement Plan reported $67M in total assets and 190 participants in its 2023 DOL Form 5500 filing, ranking in the 88th 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.

  • 88th percentile by assets (of 126,618 plans)

What the 2023 filing shows

Friends Central School Defined Contribution Retirement Plan holds $67M for 190 participants - about $351,193 per participant, in the top quartile of all filed plans by assets, up 9.8% over the 2023 plan year.

$67M
total plan assets (2023 EOY)
190
covered participants
88th
percentile by assets (of 126,618 plans)
$351,193
avg assets per participant
State
Industry
Educational Services

Other · DOL Form 5500 · 2023

What the Filing Says About Friends Central School Defined Contribution Retirement Plan

Friends Central School Defined Contribution Retirement Plan is an Other retirement plan sponsored by Friends Central School Corporation, headquartered in Pennsylvania. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's 2023 Form 5500 filing, the plan reports $67M in total end-of-year assets and covers 190 participants across the Educational Services industry. The sponsor's EIN on file with the U.S. Department of Labor is 231352636, and the plan has been effective since 1974-09-20. Its filing status is currently FILING RECEIVED.

Year over year, total assets grew at a solid clip from $61M at the beginning of 2023 to $67M at year-end - up 9.8%. Net assets (after liabilities) closed the year at $67M, with reported net income of $6M 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 1 prior plan-year filing from the same sponsor shown below.

Across the 2 plan years Friends Central School Corporation has on file with PlainRetire (2022-2023), sponsor-wide plan assets have moved from $61M to $67M, a gain of 9.8%, while reported participants moved from 150 to 190 (+26.7%). Year-by-year, sponsor-wide filings show: 2022 - $61M in assets across 1 plan covering 150 participants; 2023 - $67M in assets across 1 plan covering 190 participants.

By assets, Friends Central School Defined Contribution Retirement Plan outranks 88% of the 126,618 plans that filed a Form 5500 for the 2023 plan year, and holds roughly 0.7x 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 Friends Central School Defined Contribution 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)$61M
Total Assets (End of Year)$67M
Net Assets (End of Year)$67M
Net Income$6M
Plan TypeOther
Employer EIN231352636
Plan Effective Date1974-09-20
Filing StatusFILING RECEIVED

Sponsor Plan History (Friends Central School Corporation)

$60M$62M$64M$66M$68M 20222023 $60.8M $66.7M ▲ +9.8%
Total plan assets by year, all Friends Central School Corporation 401(k) plans on file
Year Plans Participants Total Assets
2022 1 150 $61M
2023 1 190 $67M

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Frequently Asked Questions

How much money is in the Friends Central School Defined Contribution Retirement Plan?
As of the 2023 Form 5500 filing, Friends Central School Defined Contribution Retirement Plan holds $67M in total assets with 190 participants. It is sponsored by Friends Central School Corporation.
What type of plan is Friends Central School Defined Contribution Retirement Plan?
Friends Central School Defined Contribution Retirement Plan is an Other plan. It has been effective since 1974-09-20. The plan is filed with the U.S. Department of Labor under EIN 231352636.
Who sponsors the Friends Central School Defined Contribution Retirement Plan?
Friends Central School Defined Contribution Retirement Plan is sponsored by Friends Central School Corporation, located in Pennsylvania. The sponsor's EIN is 231352636 and the plan operates in the Educational Services industry.
How did Friends Central School Defined Contribution Retirement Plan perform in 2023?
Friends Central School Defined Contribution Retirement Plan grew at a solid clip - up 9.8% during 2023, moving from $61M to $67M in total assets. Net income was $6M.

What this filing means

Ways to act on Friends Central School Defined Contribution Retirement Plan's numbers.

  • By total assets, Friends Central School Defined Contribution Retirement Plan ranks in the top quartile of all filed plans by assets. See the largest plans
  • Compare it side-by-side against 3 similar Other plans in Pennsylvania. Compare plans
  • Friends Central School Corporation's sponsor-wide assets have grown 9.8% since 2022 across 2 plan years on file. More Educational Services 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 231352636.

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.