Other · DOL Form 5500 · 2024
Sentara Health Retirement Plan
Data updated 2026-08-25
- $3.7B
- Total assets Very large vs avg
- 28,192
- Participants Very large workforce
- 100th
- Percentile by assets National rank
- $132,820
- Avg per participant Near avg balance/head
Official DOL plan name: Sentara 403(b) Savings Plan · Sponsored by Sentara Health · Virginia · Healthcare & Social Assistance
$3.7B in assets, 28,192 participants
Sentara Health's Sentara 403(b) Savings Plan reported $3.7B in total assets and 28,192 participants in its 2024 DOL Form 5500 filing, ranking in the 100th 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.
- #16,871 in Healthcare & Social Assistance (16,916 peers)
Coverage in Virginia
Sentara 403(b) Savings Plan covers 28,192 participants in Virginia, 36x the typical Virginia plan (state average ~782 per filing). Assets: $3.7B.
- #16,871
- in Healthcare & Social Assistance (16,916 peers)
- +13.9%
- assets growth YoY
- 38×
- vs typical plan assets (national mean)
Sentara 403(b) Savings Plan's outsized position by total assets
Sentara 403(b) Savings Plan vs every filed plan by assets
End-of-year total assets · plan year 2024 · DOL Form 5500
$3,744,462,888 Highest reported value at or above every one 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
Sentara 403(b) Savings 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. Sentara 403(b) Savings Plan is a mega filing (28,192 participants), the rightmost band on the breakdown.
What changed between DOL Form 5500 filings
plan year 2023 → plan year 2024
- Sentara 403(b) Savings Plan reported net income fell from $560M in the plan year 2023 filing to $457M in the plan year 2024 filing.
- Sentara 403(b) Savings Plan end-of-year assets rose from $3.3B in the plan year 2023 filing to $3.7B in the plan year 2024 filing.
- Sentara 403(b) Savings Plan reported participants rose from 25,806 in the plan year 2023 filing to 28,192 in the plan year 2024 filing.
DOL schedule card
Filing strip 521271901 · Sentara Health PY 2024 · Other
Sentara 403(b) Savings Plan · $3.7B · 28,192 · 100th
- NET $3.7B
- NET 28,192
- NET 100th
- NET Other
- NET near The University of Chicago Contributory Retirement Plan
- NET ind #16871
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 Virginia →
Sentara 403(b) Savings Plan in the asset neighbourhood
Virginia filing particulars
| Total Assets (Beginning of Year) | $3.3B |
|---|---|
| Net Assets (End of Year) | $3.7B |
| Net Income | $457M |
| Employer EIN | 521271901 |
| Plan Effective Date | 1989-05-01 |
| Filing Status | FILING RECEIVED |
Sponsor Plan History (Sentara Health)
Sponsor-wide plan assets over time
All Sentara Health plans reported in each filing year
- Latest sponsor-wide plan assets
- $7.1B 37.92836143070335% vs 2022
- 2024 filing year
| Year | Plans | Participants | Total Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 4 | 58,592 | $5.2B |
| 2023 | 4 | 57,999 | $6.2B |
| 2024 | 4 | 63,288 | $7.1B |
Nearby Other Plans in Virginia
Peer Other plans, same state, same plan type, ranked by total assets.
- The Mitre Corporation Tax Sheltered Annuity Plan $5.1B · 12,379
- The George Washington University Supplemental Retirement Plan $1.6B · 8,262
- Institute for Defense Analyses Tax Deferred Annuity Plan $875M · 1,541
- Carilion Clinic 403(b) Retirement Savings Plan $822M · 13,296
- Centra Health Matching Tax Deferred Savings Plan $747M · 7,362
Scale composition for Sentara 403(b) Savings Plan
Sentara 403(b) Savings Plan reports $3.7B in end-of-year assets across 28,192 participants (0.030% of the $12.3T held by all Form 5500 filers in the national rollup , and 0.030% of 93,925,755 covered participants) - about $132,820 per participant (96% of the national average assets-per-participant) . Net income for plan year 2024 was $457M.
This plan identity (EIN 521271901, plan #003) has 3 Form 5500 filings on file from 2022 to 2024 , with end-of-year assets moving from $2.7B to $3.7B (+37.3%) while covered participants moved from 26,421 to 28,192 . Single-year sparse filers cannot show that trail.
| Plan year | Participants | EOY assets | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 26,421 | $2.7B | Open filing |
| 2023 | 25,806 | $3.3B | Open filing |
| 2024 · index core | 28,192 | $3.7B | This page |
The same sponsor also keeps 2 other index-core plans on PlainRetire:
- Sentara Pension Plan (Defined Benefit (Pension), $3.2B, 17,156 participants)
- Sentara 401(a) Retirement Plan (Profit Sharing, $160M, 17,694 participants)
Sentara 403(b) Savings Plan's out-of-state Other peers by assets and headcount
Outside Virginia, the nearest Other by assets is The University of Chicago Contributory Retirement Plan in IL ($3.8B); by covered participants it is Orlando Health Retirement Savings Plan 403b in FL (27,987 participants). Same-state nearby plans are listed separately above.
Closest by plan assets
Nearest other-state filings by tot_assets_eoy ($3.7B here).
- The University of Chicago Contributory Retirement Plan (IL) $3.8B · 5,144
- Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center 403(b) Retirement Savings Plan (NC) $3.6B · 19,745
- Nyu Langone Health 403(b) Plan (NY) $3.6B · 32,992
- The University of Pennsylvania Health System 403(b) Retirement Savings Plan (PA) $3.6B · 43,405
Similar participant headcount
Nearest other-state filings by covered participants (28,192 participants); asset peers above are excluded.
- Orlando Health Retirement Savings Plan 403b (FL) 27,987 · 205 off
- Rwjbarnabas Health 403(b) Savings Plan (NJ) 28,403 · 211 off
- Prisma Health 401(a) Plan (SC) 29,196 · 1,004 off
- Northside Hospital 403(b) Retirement Plan (GA) 29,253 · 1,061 off
DOL Form 5500 plan year 2024. Asset totals can differ widely at the same headcount; neither axis is a quality rating.