401(k) Monitor

National Quality Forum 401(k) Plan

National Quality Forum · Washington, DC · EIN 522175544 · Plan 001 · Form 5500 for plan year 2024

What National Quality Forum put into the plan, per active participant

$5,094

National Quality Forum put $5,094 into this plan for each of its 40 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.

The plan reported $0 of assets at the end of the year, so it held nothing by the time the year closed. What a plan pays over a year like that is not what it costs to run one, so this figure is printed as the filing states it and is given no standing among plans that still held assets.

What this figure cannot separate: how much National Quality Forum 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 15, 2025 · DOL EFAST2

What the plan cost, per participant

$179.43

The plan paid $179.43 per participant in plan-paid administrative expenses in plan year 2024.

The plan reported $0 of assets at the end of the year, so it held nothing by the time the year closed. What a plan pays over a year like that is not what it costs to run one, so this figure is printed as the filing states it and is given no standing among plans that still held assets.

What this figure counts, and what it leaves out

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

The plan reported $0 of assets at the end of the year, so it held nothing by the time the year closed. The score is a standing among plans that were still running, so this filing takes none.

The amounts this filing does report stay above, printed as the filing states them. Nothing is filled in from an average, from another year or from another plan.

What the score would read, on a plan that was still running at the end of the year: 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 National Quality Forum 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 Fidelity NetBenefits.

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

Not ranked

The plan reported $0 of assets at the end of the year, so it held nothing by the time the year closed. What a plan pays over a year like that is not what it costs to run one, so this figure is printed as the filing states it and is given no standing among plans that still held assets.

What to check next

  • 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 Fidelity NetBenefits. 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 20251015164913NAL0002660243001, plan year 2024.
Total plan assets, end of year$0
Net assets$0
Participants, beginning of year136
Of which active40
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 $441,854. 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.32%

Plan-paid administrative expenses

The plan paid $24,403 in administrative expenses in plan year 2024, across 136 participants: $179.43 per participant.

Contract administrator fees$0
Professional feesnot reported in filing
Investment management fees$18,742
Other administrative fees$0

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 District of Columbia, one of 417 plans on file there, at a median of $135.44 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 District of Columbia

The plans nearest this one by participant count, out of 308 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
Reproductive Freedom For All 401(k) PlanReproductive Freedom For All136$35.84
Third Way 401(k) PlanThird Way136$280.64
The German Marshall Fund Of The United States 401(k) Retirement PlanThe German Marshall Fund Of The United States135$215.50
Downtown Business Improvement District 401(k) PlanDowntown Business Improvement District Corporation134$265.10

Service providers (Schedule C)

Recordkeeper: Fidelity Investments (as filed: “FIDELITY INVESTMENTS INSTITUTIONAL”)

10,593 plans on file name Fidelity Investments as their recordkeeper, at a median of $97.71 per participant.

Providers from Schedule C, Part 1, Item 2 of filing 20251015164913NAL0002660243001. Direct compensation is paid from plan assets. Amounts in USD.
ProviderService codesDirect comp. ($)Indirect comp. ($)
Onedigital Investment Advisors LLC2718,742not reported
Fidelity Investments Institutional65, 64, 60, 375,6610

Source

DatasetDOL EFAST2 Form 5500 bulk data (FOIA)
Form year2024
Filing ACK_ID20251015164913NAL0002660243001
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, "National Quality Forum 401(k) Plan: Form 5500 facts", from DOL EFAST2 filing 20251015164913NAL0002660243001, plan year ended December 31, 2024.