1st Pet Employee Stock Ownership Plan

Other · DOL Form 5500 · 2024

What the Filing Says About 1st Pet Employee Stock Ownership Plan

1st Pet Employee Stock Ownership Plan is an Other retirement plan sponsored by 1st Pet Veterinary Centers, headquartered in Arizona. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's 2024 Form 5500 filing, the plan reports $430K in total end-of-year assets and covers 193 participants across the Professional & Technical Services industry. The sponsor's EIN on file with the U.S. Department of Labor is 860639943, and the plan has been effective since 2021-01-01. Its filing status is currently FILING RECEIVED.

Year over year, total assets contracted severely from $1M at the beginning of 2024 to $430K at year-end - down 57.0%. Net assets (after liabilities) closed the year at -$475K, with reported net income of -$549K 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 1st Pet Veterinary Centers has on file with PlainRetire (2022-2024), sponsor-wide plan assets have moved from $820K to $430K, a decline of 47.6%, while reported participants moved from 205 to 193 (-5.9%). The strongest year on file by total sponsor assets was 2023 at $1M; the softest was 2024 at $430K. Year-by-year, sponsor-wide filings show: 2022 - $820K in assets across 1 plan covering 205 participants; 2023 - $1M in assets across 1 plan covering 221 participants; 2024 - $430K in assets across 1 plan covering 193 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 1st Pet 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.