Bartels Lutheran Home Corporation dba Bartels Lutheran Retirement Comm401(k)

Peer grade: B · admin costs + employer contributions vs same-size plans · how grading works

Bartels Lutheran Home Corporation dba Bartels Lutheran Retirement Comm reported $21,622 in plan administrative expenses for 2023: 0.48% of average plan assets, below the peer median. Employer contributions averaged $749 per active participant. This ratio covers administrative expenses reported on the plan's Schedule H only; fund-level expense ratios are not included in public structured data — see methodology.

Across the 2 years on file its reported administrative ratio rose from 0.40% to 0.73%. The plan sits in the $1M–$10M size bracket, benchmarked here against 22,307 comparable plans and shown alongside other health care & social assistance employers. By assets it is among the smaller plans on file in Iowa (716th of 878), and 8,173rd of 11,911 in health care & social assistance. In 2023, employees put in $1.80 for every $1.00 the employer contributed; active participation has grown from 145 to 172 since 2022.