401(k) Monitor

Newport Group 401(k) plans and fees

Source: Schedule C of Form 5500 filings, form year 2024, DOL EFAST2 bulk data · DOL 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

Newport Group recordkeeps 630 of the 50,598 large 401(k) plans with an identified recordkeeper in form-year-2024 Form 5500 filings, a 1.3% plan share covering 445,199 participants.

$160.89

Median plan-paid administrative cost per participant across the 629 published plans recordkept by Newport Group with computable fee data, form-year-2024 filings.

$38.72 above the $122.17 median across all 54,783 published plans with fee data.

How many 401(k) plans does Newport Group recordkeep?

Universe figures from Schedule C across all form-year-2024 filings; published figures from the 630 plans on 401(k) Monitor naming Newport Group. Assets and participants as filed.
Plans recordkept, full universeOf 50,598 form-year-2024 filings with an identified recordkeeper.630
Plan share1.3%
Participants in those plans445,199
Participant share0.5%
Plans published on 401(k) MonitorOf 57,824 plans published so far from the 57,824 in the form-year-2024 data.630
Participants in published plans445,199
Assets in published plans$24.5B

The published subset skews toward the largest plans, so its totals and medians do not describe the whole Newport Group book. The universe counts do.

What do 401(k) plans recordkept by Newport Group pay in fees?

The median plan-paid administrative cost across the 629 published plans recordkept by Newport Group is $160.89 per participant, against $122.17 across all 54,783 published plans with fee data. 233 of the 629 (37%) pay less than that all-plans median.

These are plan-paid expenses from Schedule H only. Fees the sponsor pays directly, and fees embedded in fund expense ratios, never appear here, so every figure is a floor, not the all-in cost. The recordkeeper is one of several providers a plan pays. 1 of the 630 published plans report no computable plan-paid cost and are excluded from the median. How to read your own plan’s number: are your 401(k) fees high?

Which are the biggest 401(k) plans Newport Group administers?

The 10 plans naming Newport Group as recordkeeper with the most active participants. Published subset only, not the whole Newport Groupbook.
#PlanActive participantsAssetsPlan-paid cost / participant
1Winco Foods 401(k) Plan24,430$289.6M$7.07
2Savewisetm Pooled Employer Plan22,638$431.1M$74.14
3Ascensus Secure Retirement Pooled Employer Plan11,059$205.6M$109.35
4Flex-N-Gate Corporation 401(k) Plan7,018$405.0M$39.53
5Prairie Farms Dairy Thrift Incentive Plan6,358$637.6M$194.20
6Bucher & Christian Consulting, Inc. 401(k) Plan5,165$20.4M$15.09
7Lutz Financial Pooled Employer Plan4,855$368.6M$199.55
8Patton Wings, Inc. 401(k) Plan4,413$14.0M$17.71
9Harps Food Stores, Inc. 401(k) Plan4,353$44.2M$9.08
10Atrium Staffing 401(k) Plan3,739$29.1M$34.38

Each linked page shows the plan’s full fee breakdown and its percentile among plans of the same size.

Source

DatasetDOL EFAST2 Form 5500 bulk data (FOIA)
Form year2024
Recordkeeper identificationService code 15 or 64; the mapping from raw filing names to brands is ours.Schedule C, Part I, Item 2
Dataset last refreshedJuly 28, 2026

Bulk dataset at askebsa.dol.gov ↗ · How the recordkeeper is identified

Cite this page

401(k) Monitor, "Newport Group 401(k) plans and fees", computed from DOL EFAST2 Form 5500 bulk data, form year 2024.