Other · DOL Form 5500 · 2024
Valley City Sign Company Employee Stock Ownership Plan
Data updated 2026-05-15
- $1M
- Total assets
- 30
- Participants
- 25th
- Percentile by assets
- $43,860
- Avg per participant
Sponsored by Valley City Sign Company · Michigan · Manufacturing
What the 2024 filing shows
Valley City Sign Company Employee Stock Ownership Plan holds $1M for 30 participants - about $43,860 per participant, in the lower half of filed plans by assets, down 80.7% over the 2024 plan year.
- $1M
- total plan assets (2024 EOY)
- 30
- covered participants
- 25th
- percentile by assets (of 116,472 plans)
- $43,860
- avg assets per participant
The plan reported a net loss of $6M for the year, a single-year figure driven by markets and benefit payments, not a measure of plan health.
Other · DOL Form 5500 · 2024
What the Filing Says About Valley City Sign Company Employee Stock Ownership Plan
Valley City Sign Company Employee Stock Ownership Plan is an Other retirement plan sponsored by Valley City Sign Company, headquartered in Michigan. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's 2024 Form 5500 filing, the plan reports $1M in total end-of-year assets and covers 30 participants across the Manufacturing industry. The sponsor's EIN on file with the U.S. Department of Labor is 382137837, and the plan has been effective since 2006-01-01. Its filing status is currently FILING RECEIVED.
Year over year, total assets contracted severely from $7M at the beginning of 2024 to $1M at year-end - down 80.7%. Net assets (after liabilities) closed the year at $1M, 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 2 prior plan-year filings from the same sponsor shown below.
Across the 3 plan years Valley City Sign Company has on file with PlainRetire (2022-2024), sponsor-wide plan assets have moved from $5M to $1M, a decline of 74.3%, while reported participants moved from 35 to 30 (-14.3%). The strongest year on file by total sponsor assets was 2023 at $7M; the softest was 2024 at $1M. Year-by-year, sponsor-wide filings show: 2022 - $5M in assets across 1 plan covering 35 participants; 2023 - $7M in assets across 1 plan covering 38 participants; 2024 - $1M in assets across 1 plan covering 30 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 2024 Form 5500 with a reported end-of-year asset figure (116,472 plans), rank Valley City Sign Company Employee Stock Ownership 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 (2024)
| Total Assets (Beginning of Year) | $7M |
|---|---|
| Total Assets (End of Year) | $1M |
| Net Assets (End of Year) | $1M |
| Net Income | -$6M |
| Plan Type | Other |
| Employer EIN | 382137837 |
| Plan Effective Date | 2006-01-01 |
| Filing Status | FILING RECEIVED |
Sponsor Plan History (Valley City Sign Company)
| Year | Plans | Participants | Total Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1 | 35 | $5M |
| 2023 | 1 | 38 | $7M |
| 2024 | 1 | 30 | $1M |
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Frequently Asked Questions
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What this filing means
Ways to act on Valley City Sign Company Employee Stock Ownership Plan's numbers.
- By total assets, Valley City Sign Company Employee Stock Ownership Plan ranks in the lower half of filed plans by assets. See the largest plans
- Compare it side-by-side against 3 similar Other plans in Michigan. Compare plans
- Valley City Sign Company's sponsor-wide assets have declined 74.3% since 2022 across 3 plan years on file. More Manufacturing 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 2024.
Source: DOL EFAST2 filing system (efast.dol.gov) - original filing retrieval by EIN 382137837.
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.