401(k) Monitor

Center For Social Dynamics 401(k) Plan

Center For Social Dynamics Inc. · Concord, CA · EIN 371749452 · Plan 001 · Form 5500 for plan year 2024

What Center For Social Dynamics put into the plan, per active participant

Not on this filing

Schedule H leaves the employer contribution line blank on this filing. A blank line is an unfilled line, not a zero, and one sponsor often files several plans, so the employer money can sit in another plan of the same sponsor.

Nothing is filled in from an average, from another year or from another plan.

Source: Form 5500 filing for the plan year ended December 31, 2024, received by the DOL October 15, 2025 · DOL EFAST2

What the plan cost, per participant

$6.52

The plan paid $6.52 per participant in plan-paid administrative expenses in plan year 2024, cheaper than 97% of plans with 1,000–4,999 participants. The middle plan of that size paid $84.96.

Why a plan this big pays less per person before anything else

Bigger plans pay less per head by construction, because the same negotiated bill divides across more people. That is why this ranking sits inside the plan's own size cohort and is never taken across all plans.

Schedule H reports only what came out of plan assets. Fees the sponsor pays directly, and fees taken inside fund expense ratios, never appear here, so this is a floor and not the all-in cost.

401(k) Monitor Score

Not scored

This filing reports one of the two amounts the score is built from, so it takes none. Schedule H leaves the employer contribution line blank on this filing. A blank line is an unfilled line, not a zero, and one sponsor often files several plans, so the employer money can sit in another plan of the same sponsor.

It keeps whichever of the two it does report, above. Nothing is filled in from an average, from another year or from another plan, because a two-part score computed on one part is a different measure wearing the same name.

What the score would read, on a filing that carries both: Where this plan stands against plans of its size and industry on two amounts its Form 5500 reports: employer money in per active person, and plan-paid cost per person. It reads no match formula, no vesting schedule and no fund lineup, because a Form 5500 states none of them.

On this page: where the match terms are stated · what to check next · every figure on the filing · fees itemised · the plans this one is ranked against · service providers

The match and vesting terms, from a Form 11-K

The match formula and the vesting schedule are stated in a Form 11-K, which is filed only by employers whose plan holds company stock. A Form 5500 reports neither.

What Center For Social Dynamics puts in

Not in public filings for this employer

We have no SEC Form 11-K for this employer, and the Form 5500 this page is built from does not report match terms.

Two places state the terms in full: your plan’s Summary Plan Description, which your employer must provide on request, and your recordkeeper’s site, which for this plan is Vanguard.

What you contribute to collect all of it

Not in public filings for this employer

The rate that collects the full match is part of the match formula, which a Form 5500 does not report.

Vesting score

Not scored

The vesting schedule is stated in a Form 11-K, and we have none for this employer.

A schedule this cannot read at whole-year anniversaries is left without a number rather than given a middle one.

The formula, the six-year window and a worked example

What the plan costs, against plans of its size

3rd percentile

$6.52 per participant in plan-paid administrative cost, cheaper than 97% of plans with 1,000–4,999 participants.

What to check next

  • A blank line is not a zero

    Schedule H leaves the employer contribution line unfilled on this filing, which is not the same as reporting nothing was paid in. Your own statement, on Vanguard, shows what reached your account.

  • Your own numbers are not on this page

    Every figure here is the whole plan for plan year 2024, taken from one filing and divided by headcounts. Your own contribution rate, your balance and the fees taken from your account are on your recordkeeper’s site, which this filing names as Vanguard. What you may put in during a year is set by the IRS and not by the plan: this year’s limits ↗.

Key figures

From Schedule H of Form 5500 filing 20251015143830NAL0005155329001, plan year 2024.
Total plan assets, end of year$4,898,667
Net assets$4,898,667
Participants, beginning of year2,019
Of which active1,320
Plan typeSingle employer
Size cohortThe peer group we rank fees against.1,000–4,999 participants
Employer share of the money that went in, plan year 2024One of the two contribution lines is blank on this filing. A blank employee line against a filled employer line would read as every dollar coming from the employer, which is a gap in the filing rather than a fact about the plan, so no share is shown.not stated on this filing

Plan-paid administrative expenses

The plan paid $13,172 in administrative expenses in plan year 2024, across 2,019 participants: $6.52 per participant.

Contract administrator fees$1,215
Professional feesnot reported in filing
Investment management fees$11,957
Other administrative feesnot reported in filing

These are plan-paid expenses from Schedule H only. Fees the sponsor pays directly, and fees embedded in fund expense ratios, never appear here. This figure is a floor, not the all-in cost, and a low number is not “free”.

The plans this one is ranked against

Fees on this page are ranked against the 1,000–4,999 participant cohort, where the median plan pays $84.96 per participant. The sponsor files from California, one of 6,801 plans on file there, at a median of $109.24 per participant. Its business code places the plan in healthcare, one of 6,908 on file, which run to a median of $95.79.

Plans of a similar size in California

The plans nearest this one by participant count, out of 918 in its peer group. Cost per participant is each plan’s own Schedule H figure, and a filing that reported no administrative expenses says so instead of showing a zero.
PlanParticipantsCost per participant
Manna Development Group, LLC 401(k) PlanManna Development Group, LLC2,375$42.36
Western Growers Retirement Security PlanWestern Growers Association2,028$333.61
Cortica Behavioral Health 401(k) Profit Sharing Plan TrustCortica Behavioral Health Inc.2,026$30.10
Jm Eagle Employees 401(k) Savings PlanJ-M Manufacturing Company, Inc.2,016$136.99
Confluent, Inc. Retirement TrustConfluent, Inc.2,009$12.93

Service providers (Schedule C)

Recordkeeper: Vanguard (as filed: “THE VANGUARD GROUP, INC.”)

2,337 plans on file name Vanguard as their recordkeeper, at a median of $97.87 per participant.

Providers from Schedule C, Part 1, Item 2 of filing 20251015143830NAL0005155329001. Direct compensation is paid from plan assets. Amounts in USD.
ProviderService codesDirect comp. ($)Indirect comp. ($)
Alliant Retirement Services.50, 2711,957not reported
The Vanguard Group, Inc.68, 99, 50, 52, 37, 64, 151,2150

Source

DatasetDOL EFAST2 Form 5500 bulk data (FOIA)
Form year2024
Filing ACK_ID20251015143830NAL0005155329001
Dataset last refreshedJuly 28, 2026

Bulk dataset at askebsa.dol.gov ↗ · Look up the filing on EFAST2 ↗

Filings lag by design: a plan can file up to 9½ months after its year ends, so this is the newest data on file. Why filings lag

Cite this page

401(k) Monitor, "Center For Social Dynamics 401(k) Plan: Form 5500 facts", from DOL EFAST2 filing 20251015143830NAL0005155329001, plan year ended December 31, 2024.