Other · DOL Form 5500 · 2023
Carpenters Pension Trust Fund for Northern California
Data updated 2026-05-15
- $6.0B
- Total assets
- 20,998
- Participants
- 100th
- Percentile by assets
- $285,642
- Avg per participant
Sponsored by Carpenters Pension Trust Fund for Northern California · California · Construction
What the 2023 filing shows
Carpenters Pension Trust Fund for Northern California holds $6.0B for 20,998 participants - about $285,642 per participant, among the largest 1% of all filed plans, up 13.2% over the 2023 plan year.
- $6.0B
- total plan assets (2023 EOY)
- 20,998
- covered participants
- 100th
- percentile by assets (of 126,618 plans)
- $285,642
- avg assets per participant
Other · DOL Form 5500 · 2023
What the Filing Says About Carpenters Pension Trust Fund for Northern California
Carpenters Pension Trust Fund for Northern California is an Other retirement plan sponsored by Carpenters Pension Trust Fund for Northern California, headquartered in California. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's 2023 Form 5500 filing, the plan reports $6.0B in total end-of-year assets and covers 20,998 participants across the Construction industry. The sponsor's EIN on file with the U.S. Department of Labor is 946050970, and the plan has been effective since 1958-08-19. Its filing status is currently FILING RECEIVED.
Year over year, total assets grew at a solid clip from $5.3B at the beginning of 2023 to $6.0B at year-end - up 13.2%. Net assets (after liabilities) closed the year at $6.0B, with reported net income of $695M 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 Carpenters Pension Trust Fund for Northern California has on file with PlainRetire (2022-2023), sponsor-wide plan assets have moved from $5.3B to $6.0B, a gain of 13.2%, while reported participants moved from 21,193 to 20,998 (-0.9%). Year-by-year, sponsor-wide filings show: 2022 - $5.3B in assets across 1 plan covering 21,193 participants; 2023 - $6.0B in assets across 1 plan covering 20,998 participants.
By assets, Carpenters Pension Trust Fund for Northern California outranks nearly all the 126,618 plans that filed a Form 5500 for the 2023 plan year, and holds roughly 60x 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 Carpenters Pension Trust Fund for Northern California 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) | $5.3B |
|---|---|
| Total Assets (End of Year) | $6.0B |
| Net Assets (End of Year) | $6.0B |
| Net Income | $695M |
| Plan Type | Other |
| Employer EIN | 946050970 |
| Plan Effective Date | 1958-08-19 |
| Filing Status | FILING RECEIVED |
Sponsor Plan History (Carpenters Pension Trust Fund for Northern California)
| Year | Plans | Participants | Total Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1 | 21,193 | $5.3B |
| 2023 | 1 | 20,998 | $6.0B |
Nearby Other Plans in California
Peer Other plans, same state, same plan type, ranked by total assets.
- Ilwu-Pma Pension Plan $9.7B · 16,365
- Wells Fargo & Company Cash Balance Plan $8.8B · 53,528
- Southwest Carpenters Pension Trust $6.8B · 45,891
- Motion Picture Industry Pension Plan $5.3B · 68,019
- Southern California Ufcw Unions and Food Employers Joint Pension Trust Fund $5.2B · 51,823
Frequently Asked Questions
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What this filing means
Ways to act on Carpenters Pension Trust Fund for Northern California's numbers.
- By total assets, Carpenters Pension Trust Fund for Northern California ranks among the largest 1% of all filed plans. See the largest plans
- Compare it side-by-side against 3 similar Other plans in California. Compare plans
- Carpenters Pension Trust Fund for Northern California's sponsor-wide assets have grown 13.2% since 2022 across 2 plan years on file. More Construction plans
- An Other 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 946050970.
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 2026-05-15.