401(k) · DOL Form 5500 · 2023

Knouse Foods Cooperative, Inc. Retirement Savings & Investment Plan

Data updated 2026-05-15

$23M
Total assets
281
Participants
75th
Percentile by assets
$82,367
Avg per participant

Sponsored by Knouse Foods Cooperative, Inc. · Pennsylvania · Manufacturing

What the 2023 filing shows

Knouse Foods Cooperative, Inc. Retirement Savings & Investment Plan holds $23M for 281 participants - about $82,367 per participant, in the top quartile of all filed plans by assets, up 0.4% over the 2023 plan year.

$23M
total plan assets (2023 EOY)
281
covered participants
75th
percentile by assets (of 126,618 plans)
$82,367
avg assets per participant
State
Industry
Manufacturing

401(k) · DOL Form 5500 · 2023

What the Filing Says About Knouse Foods Cooperative, Inc. Retirement Savings & Investment Plan

Knouse Foods Cooperative, Inc. Retirement Savings & Investment Plan is a 401(k) retirement plan sponsored by Knouse Foods Cooperative, Inc., headquartered in Pennsylvania. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's 2023 Form 5500 filing, the plan reports $23M in total end-of-year assets and covers 281 participants across the Manufacturing industry. The sponsor's EIN on file with the U.S. Department of Labor is 231324775, and the plan has been effective since 1989-10-01. Its filing status is currently FILING RECEIVED.

Year over year, total assets held essentially flat from $23M at the beginning of 2023 to $23M at year-end - up 0.4%. Net assets (after liabilities) closed the year at $23M, with reported net income of $16K 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 Knouse Foods Cooperative, Inc. has on file with PlainRetire (2022-2023), sponsor-wide plan assets have moved from $85M to $97M, a gain of 14.1%, while reported participants moved from 1,466 to 1,296 (-11.6%). Year-by-year, sponsor-wide filings show: 2022 - $85M in assets across 5 plans covering 1,466 participants; 2023 - $97M in assets across 5 plans covering 1,296 participants.

By assets, Knouse Foods Cooperative, Inc. Retirement Savings & Investment Plan outranks 75% of the 126,618 plans that filed a Form 5500 for the 2023 plan year, and holds roughly 0.2x 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 Knouse Foods Cooperative, Inc. Retirement Savings & Investment 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)$23M
Total Assets (End of Year)$23M
Net Assets (End of Year)$23M
Net Income$16K
Plan Type401(k)
Employer EIN231324775
Plan Effective Date1989-10-01
Filing StatusFILING RECEIVED

Sponsor Plan History (Knouse Foods Cooperative, Inc.)

$80M$85M$90M$95M$100M 20222023 $85.4M $97.4M ▲ +14.1%
Total plan assets by year, all Knouse Foods Cooperative, Inc. 401(k) plans on file
Year Plans Participants Total Assets
2022 5 1,466 $85M
2023 5 1,296 $97M

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Frequently Asked Questions

How much money is in the Knouse Foods Cooperative, Inc. Retirement Savings & Investment Plan?
As of the 2023 Form 5500 filing, Knouse Foods Cooperative, Inc. Retirement Savings & Investment Plan holds $23M in total assets with 281 participants. It is sponsored by Knouse Foods Cooperative, Inc..
What type of plan is Knouse Foods Cooperative, Inc. Retirement Savings & Investment Plan?
Knouse Foods Cooperative, Inc. Retirement Savings & Investment Plan is a 401(k) plan. It has been effective since 1989-10-01. The plan is filed with the U.S. Department of Labor under EIN 231324775.
Who sponsors the Knouse Foods Cooperative, Inc. Retirement Savings & Investment Plan?
Knouse Foods Cooperative, Inc. Retirement Savings & Investment Plan is sponsored by Knouse Foods Cooperative, Inc., located in Pennsylvania. The sponsor's EIN is 231324775 and the plan operates in the Manufacturing industry.
How did Knouse Foods Cooperative, Inc. Retirement Savings & Investment Plan perform in 2023?
Knouse Foods Cooperative, Inc. Retirement Savings & Investment Plan held essentially flat - up 0.4% during 2023, moving from $23M to $23M in total assets. Net income was $16K.

What this filing means

Ways to act on Knouse Foods Cooperative, Inc. Retirement Savings & Investment Plan's numbers.

  • By total assets, Knouse Foods Cooperative, Inc. Retirement Savings & Investment Plan ranks in the top quartile of all filed plans by assets. See the largest plans
  • Compare it side-by-side against 3 similar 401(k) plans in Pennsylvania. Compare plans
  • Knouse Foods Cooperative, Inc.'s sponsor-wide assets have grown 14.1% since 2022 across 2 plan years on file. More Manufacturing 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 231324775.

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.