Other · DOL Form 5500 · 2024
Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems D/B/a Northern Light Health Retirement Plan
Data updated 2026-08-25
- $1.2B
- Total assets Very large vs avg
- 10,712
- Participants Very large workforce
- 99th
- Percentile by assets National rank
- $109,999
- Avg per participant Below avg balance/head
Official DOL plan name: Northern Light Health Retirement Partnership 403(b) Plan · Sponsored by Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems D/B/a Northern Light Health · Maine · Healthcare & Social Assistance
$1.2B in assets, 10,712 participants
Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems D/B/a Northern Light Health's Northern Light Health Retirement Partnership 403(b) Plan reported $1.2B in total assets and 10,712 participants in its 2024 DOL Form 5500 filing, ranking in the 99th 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.
- #16,716 in Healthcare & Social Assistance (16,916 peers)
Coverage in Maine
Northern Light Health Retirement Partnership 403(b) Plan covers 10,712 participants in Maine, 23x the typical Maine plan (state average ~472 per filing). Assets: $1.2B.
- #16,716
- in Healthcare & Social Assistance (16,916 peers)
- +10.5%
- assets growth YoY
- 12×
- vs typical plan assets (national mean)
Northern Light Health Retirement Partnership 403(b) Plan's outsized position by total assets
Northern Light Health Retirement Partnership 403(b) Plan vs every filed plan by assets
End-of-year total assets · plan year 2024 · DOL Form 5500
$1,178,309,065 Top 1% higher than 99% of 123,620 filed plans
Dashed line + filled bar = this entry, among filed plans.
Source U.S. Department of Labor Form 5500 filings (EBSA) · plan year 2024
Northern Light Health Retirement Partnership 403(b) Plan's mega-plan peer group by participant headcount
Plan-year 2024 Form 5500 filings with a reported participant count, partitioned by headcount band, not by assets. Northern Light Health Retirement Partnership 403(b) Plan is a mega filing (10,712 participants), the rightmost band on the breakdown.
What changed between DOL Form 5500 filings
plan year 2023 → plan year 2024
- Northern Light Health Retirement Partnership 403(b) Plan reported net income fell from $129M in the plan year 2023 filing to $112M in the plan year 2024 filing.
- Northern Light Health Retirement Partnership 403(b) Plan reported participants fell from 12,015 in the plan year 2023 filing to 10,712 in the plan year 2024 filing.
- Northern Light Health Retirement Partnership 403(b) Plan end-of-year assets rose from $1.1B in the plan year 2023 filing to $1.2B in the plan year 2024 filing.
Plan-year Form 5500 strip
Filing strip 010527066 · Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems D/B/a Northern Light Health PY 2024 · Other
Northern Light Health Retirement Partnership 403(b) Plan · $1.2B · 10,712 · 99th
- VS-ST $1.2B
- VS-ST 10,712
- VS-ST 99th
- VS-ST Other
- VS-ST near Bronson Healthcare Group, Inc. 403(b) Tax Sheltered Matching Plan
- VS-ST ind #16716
Stamps derive from this plan's Form 5500 line items (assets, participants, type, EIN, cohort placement) - not a quality rating of the sponsor. Read with Healthcare & Social Assistance retirement plans → · Plans in Maine →
Northern Light Health Retirement Partnership 403(b) Plan in the asset neighbourhood
Maine filing particulars
| Total Assets (Beginning of Year) | $1.1B |
|---|---|
| Net Assets (End of Year) | $1.2B |
| Net Income | $112M |
| Employer EIN | 010527066 |
| Plan Effective Date | 1994-03-01 |
| Filing Status | FILING RECEIVED |
Sponsor Plan History (Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems D/B/a Northern Light Health)
Sponsor-wide plan assets over time
All Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems D/B/a Northern Light Health plans reported in each filing year
- Latest sponsor-wide plan assets
- $1.5B 23.074244266552597% vs 2022
- 2024 filing year
| Year | Plans | Participants | Total Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2 | 17,741 | $1.2B |
| 2023 | 2 | 17,994 | $1.3B |
| 2024 | 2 | 15,550 | $1.5B |
Nearby Other Plans in Maine
Peer Other plans, same state, same plan type, ranked by total assets.
- Mainehealth 403(b) Retirement Plan $2.5B · 22,911
- Jax 403(b) Retirement Plan $603M · 2,735
- Mainegeneral Health 403(b) Retirement Plan $414M · 4,718
- Colby College Retirement Plan $297M · 978
- University of New England Defined Contribution Plan $249M · 1,126
Scale composition for Northern Light Health Retirement Partnership 403(b) Plan
Northern Light Health Retirement Partnership 403(b) Plan reports $1.2B in end-of-year assets across 10,712 participants (0.010% of the $12.3T held by all Form 5500 filers in the national rollup , and 0.011% of 93,925,755 covered participants) - about $109,999 per participant (80% of the national average assets-per-participant) . Net income for plan year 2024 was $112M.
This plan identity (EIN 010527066, plan #002) has 3 Form 5500 filings on file from 2022 to 2024 , with end-of-year assets moving from $938M to $1.2B (+25.7%) while covered participants moved from 11,671 to 10,712 . Single-year sparse filers cannot show that trail.
| Plan year | Participants | EOY assets | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 11,671 | $938M | Open filing |
| 2023 | 12,015 | $1.1B | Open filing |
| 2024 · index core | 10,712 | $1.2B | This page |
The same sponsor also keeps 1 other index-core plan on PlainRetire:
- Northern Light Health Retirement Partnership Plan (Defined Benefit (Pension), $299M, 4,838 participants)
Northern Light Health Retirement Partnership 403(b) Plan's out-of-state Other peers by assets and headcount
Outside Maine, the nearest Other by assets is Bronson Healthcare Group, Inc. 403(b) Tax Sheltered Matching Plan in MI ($1.2B); by covered participants it is Goodwill Industries of Southeastern Wisconsin, Inc. 403(b) Plan in WI (10,695 participants). Same-state nearby plans are listed separately above.
Closest by plan assets
Nearest other-state filings by tot_assets_eoy ($1.2B here).
- Bronson Healthcare Group, Inc. 403(b) Tax Sheltered Matching Plan (MI) $1.2B · 8,795
- Villanova University Retirement Savings Plan (PA) $1.2B · 3,166
- Multicare Health System 403(b) Employee Savings Plan (WA) $1.2B · 16,022
- Honor Health 403(b) Retirement Security Plan (AZ) $1.2B · 14,781
Similar participant headcount
Nearest other-state filings by covered participants (10,712 participants); asset peers above are excluded.
- Goodwill Industries of Southeastern Wisconsin, Inc. 403(b) Plan (WI) 10,695 · 17 off
- New York University Retirement Plan for Members of the Faculty, Professional Research Staff and Administration (NY) 10,678 · 34 off
- Nationwide Children's Hospital Inc 403(b) Tax Sheltered Annuity Plan (OH) 10,845 · 133 off
- Community Hospitals of Central California Tax Sheltered Annuity Plan (CA) 10,906 · 194 off
DOL Form 5500 plan year 2024. Asset totals can differ widely at the same headcount; neither axis is a quality rating.