Northwestern College403(b)
NORTHWESTERN COLLEGE 403(B) DC PLAN · ORANGE CITY, IA · plan year 2025
Peer grade: C · admin costs + employer contributions vs same-size plans · how grading works
Northwestern College reported $131,063 in plan administrative expenses for 2025: 0.26% of average plan assets, higher than ~75% of peers. Employer contributions averaged $2,904 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 rose from 0.24% to 0.26%. The plan sits in the $50M–$250M size bracket, benchmarked here against 605 comparable plans and shown alongside other educational services employers. By assets it is the 183rd-largest of 878 plans among Iowa employers on file, and the 874th of 3,091 in educational services. In 2025, the employer put in $1.07 for every $1.00 employees contributed themselves; active participation has grown from 286 to 318 since 2022.
Northwestern College's 2025 employer contribution ran below the $4,093 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 420698196 · Verify on EFAST2 · Amounts are as reported by the plan sponsor for the plan year shown.