Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2024

Northern Light Health Retirement Partnership Plan

Data updated 2026-05-15

$299M
Total assets
4,838
Participants
96th
Percentile by assets
$61,776
Avg per participant

Sponsored by Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems D/B/a Northern Light Health · Maine · Healthcare & Social Assistance

What the 2024 filing shows

Northern Light Health Retirement Partnership Plan holds $299M for 4,838 participants - about $61,776 per participant, in the top 5% of all filed plans by assets, up 7.3% over the 2024 plan year.

$299M
total plan assets (2024 EOY)
4,838
covered participants
96th
percentile by assets (of 116,472 plans)
$61,776
avg assets per participant
State
Industry
Healthcare & Social Assistance

Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2024

What the Filing Says About Northern Light Health Retirement Partnership Plan

Northern Light Health Retirement Partnership Plan is a Defined Benefit (Pension) retirement plan sponsored by Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems D/B/a Northern Light Health, headquartered in Maine. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's 2024 Form 5500 filing, the plan reports $299M in total end-of-year assets and covers 4,838 participants across the Healthcare & Social Assistance industry. The sponsor's EIN on file with the U.S. Department of Labor is 010527066, and the plan has been effective since 1966-08-01. Its filing status is currently FILING RECEIVED.

Year over year, total assets grew at a solid clip from $279M at the beginning of 2024 to $299M at year-end - up 7.3%. Net assets (after liabilities) closed the year at $299M, with reported net income of $20M 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 Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems D/B/a Northern Light Health has on file with PlainRetire (2022-2024), sponsor-wide plan assets have moved from $1.2B to $1.5B, a gain of 23.1%, while reported participants moved from 17,741 to 15,550 (-12.3%). The strongest year on file by total sponsor assets was 2024 at $1.5B; the softest was 2022 at $1.2B. Year-by-year, sponsor-wide filings show: 2022 - $1.2B in assets across 2 plans covering 17,741 participants; 2023 - $1.3B in assets across 2 plans covering 17,994 participants; 2024 - $1.5B in assets across 2 plans covering 15,550 participants.

By assets, Northern Light Health Retirement Partnership Plan outranks 96% of the 116,472 plans that filed a Form 5500 for the 2024 plan year, and holds roughly 3.0x 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 2024 Form 5500 with a reported end-of-year asset figure (116,472 plans), rank Northern Light Health Retirement Partnership 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)$279M
Total Assets (End of Year)$299M
Net Assets (End of Year)$299M
Net Income$20M
Plan TypeDefined Benefit (Pension)
Employer EIN010527066
Plan Effective Date1966-08-01
Filing StatusFILING RECEIVED

Sponsor Plan History (Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems D/B/a Northern Light Health)

Year Plans Participants Total Assets
2022 2 17,741 $1.2B
2023 2 17,994 $1.3B
2024 2 15,550 $1.5B

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Frequently Asked Questions

How much money is in the Northern Light Health Retirement Partnership Plan?
As of the 2024 Form 5500 filing, Northern Light Health Retirement Partnership Plan holds $299M in total assets with 4,838 participants. It is sponsored by Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems D/B/a Northern Light Health.
What type of plan is Northern Light Health Retirement Partnership Plan?
Northern Light Health Retirement Partnership Plan is a Defined Benefit (Pension) plan. It has been effective since 1966-08-01. The plan is filed with the U.S. Department of Labor under EIN 010527066.
Who sponsors the Northern Light Health Retirement Partnership Plan?
Northern Light Health Retirement Partnership Plan is sponsored by Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems D/B/a Northern Light Health, located in Maine. The sponsor's EIN is 010527066 and the plan operates in the Healthcare & Social Assistance industry.
How did Northern Light Health Retirement Partnership Plan perform in 2024?
Northern Light Health Retirement Partnership Plan grew at a solid clip - up 7.3% during 2024, moving from $279M to $299M in total assets. Net income was $20M.

What this filing means

Ways to act on Northern Light Health Retirement Partnership Plan's numbers.

  • By total assets, Northern Light Health Retirement Partnership Plan ranks in the top 5% of all filed plans by assets. See the largest plans
  • Compare it side-by-side against 3 similar Defined Benefit (Pension) plans in Maine. Compare plans
  • Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems D/B/a Northern Light Health's sponsor-wide assets have grown 23.1% since 2022 across 3 plan years on file. More Healthcare & Social Assistance plans
  • A Defined Benefit (Pension) 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 010527066.

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.