Butternut Mountain Farm -the Vermont Maple Sugar401(k)
BUTTERNUT MOUNTAIN FARM 401(K) RETIREMENT PLAN · MORRISVILLE, VT · plan year 2025
Peer grade: A- · admin costs + employer contributions vs same-size plans · how grading works
Butternut Mountain Farm -the Vermont Maple Sugar reported $3,713 in plan administrative expenses for 2025: 0.05% of average plan assets, lower than ~75% of peers. Employer contributions averaged $2,179 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 3 years on file its reported administrative ratio fell from 0.11% to 0.05%. The plan sits in the $1M–$10M size bracket, benchmarked here against 809 comparable plans and shown alongside other manufacturing employers. By assets it is among the smaller plans on file in Vermont (164th of 230), and 9,927th of 13,661 in manufacturing. In 2025, employees put in $1.81 for every $1.00 the employer contributed; active participation has grown from 114 to 145 since 2022.
Butternut Mountain Farm -the Vermont Maple Sugar's 2025 employer contribution ran above the $1,464 median for plans its size. 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.
Annual cost at the plan's reported 2025 administrative ratio, against the median plan its size; fund expense ratios are extra. Compare any plan.
Compensation shown is direct payments from plan assets reported on Schedule C. Providers paid through fund revenue-sharing appear as indirect.
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 series, EIN 030281387 · Verify on EFAST2 · Amounts are as reported by the plan sponsor for the plan year shown.