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Brighter Choice Charter School403(b)

BRIGHTER CHOICE CHARTER SCHOOLS 403(B) RETIREMENT PLAN · ALBANY, NY · plan year 2024

Reported admin expense ratio · 2024
0.86%

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

Brighter Choice Charter School reported $31,231 in plan administrative expenses for 2024: 0.86% of average plan assets, higher than ~75% of peers. Employer contributions averaged $3,594 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.

The plan sits in the $1M–$10M size bracket, benchmarked here against 18,840 comparable plans and shown alongside other educational services employers. By assets it is among the smaller plans on file in New York (4,800th of 5,648), and 2,672nd of 3,091 in educational services. In 2024, the employer put in $1.28 for every $1.00 employees contributed themselves.

Plan summary
Net assets, end of year$3,421,801
Participants with balances102
Active participants63
Employer contributions$226,397
Employee contributions$177,331
Employer contribution per active participant$3,594
Average account balance$33,547
Benefits paid to participants$1,196,803
Plan auditUnmodified (clean) audit opinion
AuditorCUSACK & COMPANY CPAS LLC
Administrative expenses, itemized · 2024
Recordkeeping & contract admin$6,904
Total administrative$31,231
Employer contributions to the Brighter Choice Charter School plan · 2024
Employer contribution per active participant$3,594
Median for plans this size$1,313

Brighter Choice Charter School's 2024 employer contribution ran above the $1,313 median for plans its size, placing it in the top quarter of its peers. Filings report dollars actually contributed, not the match formula; the formula itself (for example, 50% of the first 6% of pay) lives in the plan's summary plan description from HR.

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Annual cost at the plan's reported 2024 administrative ratio, against the median plan its size; fund expense ratios are extra. Compare any plan.

Administrative cost history1
2024$31,231 · 0.86%
Similar plansEducational Services · New York
Manhattan Charter School NY$3.7M · 0.03%
School Intermediate LLC NY$3.2M · 0.50%

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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 series, EIN 141830896 · Verify on EFAST2 · Amounts are as reported by the plan sponsor for the plan year shown.