401(k) Monitor

Polaris 401(k) Plan

Polaris Home Funding Corporation · Grandville, MI · EIN 383601693 · Plan 001 · Form 5500 for plan year 2024

What Polaris Home Funding put into the plan, per active participant

$1,493

Polaris Home Funding Corporation put $1,493 into this plan for each of its 131 active participants in plan year 2024. That is the whole employer side, matching money, profit sharing, non-elective and safe-harbor contributions and reallocated forfeitures together, because the Form 5500 reports them on one line, so it is not the match rate.

0 · least per person100 · most per person

Polaris Home Funding put in less per active participant than 64% of plans with 100–499 participants in other services. The middle plan in that group of 1,201 reported $2,174. Other services comes from business code 812990, which Polaris Home Funding Corporation entered on its own Form 5500. Sponsors pick that code themselves, so a code that does not describe what the employer does ranks the plan against the wrong companies.

What this figure cannot separate: how much Polaris Home Funding pays, and how much it puts in

This is dollars, not a rate. A Form 5500 carries no payroll, so the figure reflects both how much the employer puts in and how much the employer pays: two plans running the same formula report different amounts when one pays better. Crossing the peer group with industry holds most of that difference still, and none of it disappears.

This is one plan year, not an average. A true-up, a plan merger or a one-off contribution moves a single year on its own.

Source: Form 5500 filing for the plan year ended December 31, 2024, received by the DOL October 9, 2025 · DOL EFAST2

What the plan cost, per participant

$474.60

The plan paid $474.60 per participant in plan-paid administrative expenses in plan year 2024, more expensive than 94% of plans with 100–499 participants. The middle plan of that size paid $156.87.

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

27 out of 100

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.

  • What the employer put in, per active participant: $1,493. Lower than 64% of plans with 100–499 participants in other services.
  • What the plan cost, per participant: $475. Cheaper than 6% of plans with 100–499 participants.

How this score is built

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 Polaris Home Funding 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 John Hancock.

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

94th percentile

$474.60 per participant in plan-paid administrative cost, more expensive than 94% of plans with 100–499 participants.

What to check next

  • What to ask about the fees

    This plan paid $474.60 per participant out of plan assets, more than 94% of plans with 100–499 participants, where the middle plan paid $156.87. The filing does not say what the difference buys. Two questions put that to a benefits or HR team: what the recordkeeping and administration contract costs, and how much of it comes out of participant accounts rather than being paid by Polaris Home Funding. The lines this total is made of are further down.

  • 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 John Hancock. 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 20251009135045NAL0003622851001, plan year 2024.
Total plan assets, end of year$11,017,377
Net assets$11,017,377
Participants, beginning of year159
Of which active131
Plan typeSingle employer
Size cohortThe peer group we rank fees against.100–499 participants
Employer share of the money that went in, plan year 2024The rest came from employees, who put in $441,331. The share falls when employees save more, so a plan whose staff contribute heavily reads lower here through no act of the employer. It is printed as a fact and it is not part of the score.31%

Plan-paid administrative expenses

The plan paid $75,462 in administrative expenses in plan year 2024, across 159 participants: $474.60 per participant.

Contract administrator fees$38,049
Professional feesnot reported in filing
Investment management fees$37,413
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 100–499 participant cohort, where the median plan pays $156.87 per participant. The sponsor files from Michigan, one of 2,009 plans on file there, at a median of $134.92 per participant. Its business code places the plan in other services, one of 1,999 on file, which run to a median of $105.46.

Plans of a similar size in Michigan

The plans nearest this one by participant count, out of 1,317 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
Aci Plastics, Inc. 401(k) PlanAci Plastics, Inc.159$115.87
Great Lakes Energy Union 401(k) PlanGreat Lakes Energy Cooperative, Inc.159$275.30
Uaw Retiree Medical Benefits Trust Savings PlanUaw Retiree Medical Benefits Trust159$74.33
Hino Motors Sales, U.S.A., Inc. Savings PlanHino Motors Sales USA, Inc.158$54.96

Service providers (Schedule C)

Recordkeeper: John Hancock Insurance Company USA (as filed: “JOHN HANCOCK INSURANCE COMPANY USA”)

Providers from Schedule C, Part 1, Item 2 of filing 20251009135045NAL0003622851001. Direct compensation is paid from plan assets. Amounts in USD.
ProviderService codesDirect comp. ($)Indirect comp. ($)
Blue Water Asset Management2635,391not reported
Wilshire Associates Inc. (USA)262,022not reported
John Hancock Insurance Company USA67, 68, 62, 63, 28, 60, 151,362not reported

Source

DatasetDOL EFAST2 Form 5500 bulk data (FOIA)
Form year2024
Filing ACK_ID20251009135045NAL0003622851001
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, "Polaris 401(k) Plan: Form 5500 facts", from DOL EFAST2 filing 20251009135045NAL0003622851001, plan year ended December 31, 2024. 401(k) Monitor Score 27 out of 100 (exact value 26.95).