Other · DOL Form 5500 · 2024

IBEW Local No. 86 Pension Fund

Data updated 2026-05-15

$285M
Total assets
693
Participants
96th
Percentile by assets
$411,569
Avg per participant

Sponsored by IBEW Local No. 86 Pension Fund Board of Trustees · New York · Construction

What the 2024 filing shows

IBEW Local No. 86 Pension Fund holds $285M for 693 participants - about $411,569 per participant, in the top 5% of all filed plans by assets, up 2.8% over the 2024 plan year.

$285M
total plan assets (2024 EOY)
693
covered participants
96th
percentile by assets (of 116,472 plans)
$411,569
avg assets per participant
State
Industry
Construction

Other · DOL Form 5500 · 2024

What the Filing Says About IBEW Local No. 86 Pension Fund

IBEW Local No. 86 Pension Fund is an Other retirement plan sponsored by IBEW Local No. 86 Pension Fund Board of Trustees, headquartered in New York. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's 2024 Form 5500 filing, the plan reports $285M in total end-of-year assets and covers 693 participants across the Construction industry. The sponsor's EIN on file with the U.S. Department of Labor is 166085820, and the plan has been effective since 1966-10-26. Its filing status is currently FILING RECEIVED.

Year over year, total assets edged up modestly from $277M at the beginning of 2024 to $285M at year-end - up 2.8%. Net assets (after liabilities) closed the year at $285M, with reported net income of $8M 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 IBEW Local No. 86 Pension Fund Board of Trustees has on file with PlainRetire (2022-2024), sponsor-wide plan assets have moved from $255M to $285M, a gain of 11.7%, while reported participants moved from 662 to 693 (+4.7%). The strongest year on file by total sponsor assets was 2024 at $285M; the softest was 2022 at $255M. Year-by-year, sponsor-wide filings show: 2022 - $255M in assets across 1 plan covering 662 participants; 2023 - $277M in assets across 1 plan covering 610 participants; 2024 - $285M in assets across 1 plan covering 693 participants.

By assets, IBEW Local No. 86 Pension Fund outranks 96% of the 116,472 plans that filed a Form 5500 for the 2024 plan year, and holds roughly 2.9x 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 IBEW Local No. 86 Pension Fund 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)$277M
Total Assets (End of Year)$285M
Net Assets (End of Year)$285M
Net Income$8M
Plan TypeOther
Employer EIN166085820
Plan Effective Date1966-10-26
Filing StatusFILING RECEIVED

Sponsor Plan History (IBEW Local No. 86 Pension Fund Board of Trustees)

Year Plans Participants Total Assets
2022 1 662 $255M
2023 1 610 $277M
2024 1 693 $285M

Nearby Other Plans in New York

Peer Other plans, same state, same plan type, ranked by total assets.

Frequently Asked Questions

How much money is in the IBEW Local No. 86 Pension Fund?
As of the 2024 Form 5500 filing, IBEW Local No. 86 Pension Fund holds $285M in total assets with 693 participants. It is sponsored by IBEW Local No. 86 Pension Fund Board of Trustees.
What type of plan is IBEW Local No. 86 Pension Fund?
IBEW Local No. 86 Pension Fund is an Other plan. It has been effective since 1966-10-26. The plan is filed with the U.S. Department of Labor under EIN 166085820.
Who sponsors the IBEW Local No. 86 Pension Fund?
IBEW Local No. 86 Pension Fund is sponsored by IBEW Local No. 86 Pension Fund Board of Trustees, located in New York. The sponsor's EIN is 166085820 and the plan operates in the Construction industry.
How did IBEW Local No. 86 Pension Fund perform in 2024?
IBEW Local No. 86 Pension Fund edged up modestly - up 2.8% during 2024, moving from $277M to $285M in total assets. Net income was $8M.

What this filing means

Ways to act on IBEW Local No. 86 Pension Fund's numbers.

  • By total assets, IBEW Local No. 86 Pension Fund ranks in the top 5% of all filed plans by assets. See the largest plans
  • Compare it side-by-side against 3 similar Other plans in New York. Compare plans
  • IBEW Local No. 86 Pension Fund Board of Trustees's sponsor-wide assets have grown 11.7% since 2022 across 3 plan years on file. More Construction plans
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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 166085820.

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.