Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2024
Sentara Health Pension Plan
Data updated 2026-08-25
- $3.2B
- Total assets Very large vs avg
- 17,156
- Participants Very large workforce
- 100th
- Percentile by assets National rank
- $187,528
- Avg per participant Above avg balance/head
Official DOL plan name: Sentara Pension Plan · Sponsored by Sentara Health · Virginia · Healthcare & Social Assistance
$3.2B in assets, 17,156 participants
Sentara Health's Sentara Pension Plan reported $3.2B in total assets and 17,156 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.
- #16,856 in Healthcare & Social Assistance (16,916 peers)
Coverage in Virginia
Sentara Pension Plan covers 17,156 participants in Virginia, 22x the typical Virginia plan (state average ~782 per filing). Assets: $3.2B.
- #16,856
- in Healthcare & Social Assistance (16,916 peers)
- +14.4%
- assets growth YoY
- 32×
- vs typical plan assets (national mean)
Sentara Pension Plan's outsized position by total assets
Sentara Pension Plan vs every filed plan by assets
End-of-year total assets · plan year 2024 · DOL Form 5500
$3,217,228,817 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 Pension 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 Pension Plan is a mega filing (17,156 participants), the rightmost band on the breakdown.
What changed between DOL Form 5500 filings
plan year 2023 → plan year 2024
- Sentara Pension Plan reported net income fell from $238M in the plan year 2023 filing to $176M in the plan year 2024 filing.
- Sentara Pension Plan end-of-year assets rose from $2.8B in the plan year 2023 filing to $3.2B in the plan year 2024 filing.
- Sentara Pension Plan reported participants fell from 18,499 in the plan year 2023 filing to 17,156 in the plan year 2024 filing.
Form 5500 schedule snapshot
Filing strip 521271901 · Sentara Health PY 2024 · Defined Benefit (Pension)
Sentara Pension Plan · $3.2B · 17,156 · 100th
- PHOTO $3.2B
- PHOTO 17,156
- PHOTO 100th
- PHOTO Defined Benefit (Pension)
- PHOTO near Cummins Pension Plan
- PHOTO ind #16856
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 Pension Plan in the asset neighbourhood
Virginia filing particulars
| Total Assets (Beginning of Year) | $2.8B |
|---|---|
| Net Assets (End of Year) | $2.6B |
| Net Income | $176M |
| Employer EIN | 521271901 |
| Plan Effective Date | 1963-01-01 |
| 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 Defined Benefit (Pension) Plans in Virginia
Peer Defined Benefit (Pension) plans, same state, same plan type, ranked by total assets.
- Northrop Grumman Pension Plan $18.8B · 12,678
- Retirement Security Plan $11.5B · 56,633
- Sheet Metal Workers' National Pension Fund $8.9B · 63,530
- Ng Space&mission Systems Corp Salaried Pension Pla $8.4B · 6,737
- Dominion Energy Pension Plan $8.3B · 11,758
Scale composition for Sentara Pension Plan
Sentara Pension Plan reports $3.2B in end-of-year assets across 17,156 participants (0.026% of the $12.3T held by all Form 5500 filers in the national rollup , and 0.018% of 93,925,755 covered participants) - about $187,528 per participant (1.4x the national average assets-per-participant) . Net income for plan year 2024 was $176M.
This plan identity (EIN 521271901, plan #001) has 3 Form 5500 filings on file from 2022 to 2024 , with end-of-year assets moving from $2.3B to $3.2B (+37.3%) while covered participants moved from 20,272 to 17,156 . Single-year sparse filers cannot show that trail.
| Plan year | Participants | EOY assets | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 20,272 | $2.3B | Open filing |
| 2023 | 18,499 | $2.8B | Open filing |
| 2024 · index core | 17,156 | $3.2B | This page |
The same sponsor also keeps 2 other index-core plans on PlainRetire:
- Sentara 403(b) Savings Plan (Other, $3.7B, 28,192 participants)
- Sentara 401(a) Retirement Plan (Profit Sharing, $160M, 17,694 participants)
Sentara Pension Plan's out-of-state Defined Benefit (Pension) peers by assets and headcount
Outside Virginia, the nearest Defined Benefit (Pension) by assets is Cummins Pension Plan in IN ($3.2B); by covered participants it is Macys Inc Cash Account Pension Plan in OH (17,160 participants). Same-state nearby plans are listed separately above.
Closest by plan assets
Nearest other-state filings by tot_assets_eoy ($3.2B here).
- Cummins Pension Plan (IN) $3.2B · 30,640
- M&t Bank Corporation Pension Plan (NY) $3.2B · 3,825
- Retirement Plan for Certain Represented Employees (MD) $3.2B · 6,769
- Minnesota Laborers Pension Fund (MN) $3.2B · 10,089
Similar participant headcount
Nearest other-state filings by covered participants (17,156 participants); asset peers above are excluded.
- Macys Inc Cash Account Pension Plan (OH) 17,160 · 4 off
- N. Atlantic States Carp. Pension Fund (MA) 16,946 · 210 off
- Abbott Laboratories Annuity Retirement Plan (IL) 17,875 · 719 off
- Marathon Petroleum Retirement Plan (OH) 17,916 · 760 off
DOL Form 5500 plan year 2024. Asset totals can differ widely at the same headcount; neither axis is a quality rating.