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BLACK HILLS INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGICAL RESEARCH 401(K) PLAN · For the plan year ended Dec 31, 2025
Legal plan sponsor: BLACK HILLS INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGICAL RESEARCH, INC.
Latest public filing 2025 · received Jun 9, 2026
Plan summary
Start with the match, vesting, and fees
Our read: The employer contribution is documented. Vesting is not confirmed yet. Reported employer money is near the middle of its peer group.
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ome 135,987,945 Other income: Interest received on notes receivable from participants 833,025 Total additions to net assets 203,141,397 Deductions from net assets: Administrative expenses ( 198,018 ) Benefits paid to participants ( 80,429,078 ) Total deductions from net assets ( 80,627,096 ) Increase in net assets available for benefits 122,514,301 Net assets available for benefits: Beginning of year 811,221,284 End of year $ 933,735,585 See Notes to Financial Statements .
the participant’s vested account.
(the “Committee”).
nd Vesting — Employees meeting certain criteria, as defined in the Plan, are eligible to participate in the Plan one month following their date of employment.
therwise are automatically enrolled in the Plan with a taxable compensation deferral rate of 6 % on a pre-tax basis. Participants are permitted to designate their contributions as Roth contributions subject to current taxation as wages but which, together with earnings, would be nontaxable when distributed from the Plan, and participants may elect to have certain vested assets held on an after-tax and pre-tax basis converted to be considered designated Roth contributions. Contributions withheld are invested in accordance with the participants’ directions. Participants are also allowed to make rollover contributions of amounts received from other eligible tax-qualified retirement plans (including rollover contributions of Roth contributions). Such contributions are deposited in the appropri
Up 0.0% over the filing history shown.
Participation up 0.0% · assets up 0.0%
How this is calculated →See score distributions →Not in the public documents: vesting
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Filing comparison · 202555out of 100 among similar-size plans in the same industry when enough peers exist
How this filing compares
Reported employer contributions63rd percentileTypical peer $1,050 · based on 5,136 comparable plans
Lower reported administrative expense35th percentileTypical peer $36 · based on 4,851 comparable plans
This comparison uses historical filing figures. It does not compare current match formulas, vesting, investments, or employee fees.
Peer-group method: industry size. The comparison used the most specific peer group with enough valid filings.
The short version
What employees should know
For the year ended Dec 31, 2025, BLACK HILLS INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGICAL RESEARCH, INC. reported $37,438 in employer contributions across this plan, or $1,702 per active participant. This is the best company-wide filing average available—not a promise of what any one employee receives.
Up 0.0% across the filing years shown. The filing does not report every employee who was eligible.
Change in employer contributions per active participant.
Change in reported administrative cost per participant. Fund expenses may be separate.
Compared with similarly sized plans in the same industry.
What this public record cannot answer
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Money and scale
Contributions, assets, and expenses
These are plan-wide totals. They are not individual account balances.
- Employer contributions
- $37,438 $1,702 per active participant
- Participant contributions
- $63,386
- Other contributions
- $0 Amounts not classified as employer or participant contributions
- Employer share of contributions
- 37.1%
- Active participants
- 22 Small plan
- Total participants
- 22 18 at the beginning of the year
- Ending assets
- $773,671 $35,167 per participant
- Net-asset change
- Up 0.0% Not the same as investment performance
- Beginning net assets
- $567,278
- Ending net assets
- $773,671
- Beginning liabilities
- $0
- Ending liabilities
- $0
- Total income
- $211,475
- Total expenses
- $5,082
- Administrative expenses
- $1,989 $90 per active participant
- Participant loans
- Not reported Not reported of plan assets
Three-year filing history
How the reported figures changed
Each chart uses the selected public filing for that year. Missing values remain blank rather than becoming zero.
2025
$1,702
2025
$90
2025
22
2025
$773,671
2025
Not reported
| Plan year | Employer money per active participant | Active participants | Plan assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $1,702 | 22 | 773.7K |
Changes in plan assets are not the same as investment performance.
Plan health
Loans, late deposits, and other filing disclosures
- Participant loans as a share of plan assets
- Not reported
- Independent accountant’s opinion
- Not stated in the filing
- Late participant contributions reported
- Not reportedA “yes” needs context and is not, by itself, proof of wrongdoing.
- Loan defaults reported
- Not reported
- Lease defaults reported
- Not reportedOnly a small number of filings report these events.
- Nonexempt transactions reported
- Not reported
- Public plan identifier
- 460345369-001
Reported plan details
Identity and filing status
- Plan type
- Retirement plan
- Employer arrangement
- 1
- Plan effective date
- Jan 1, 2023
- Industry
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation
- Amended filing
- No
- Final filing for this plan
- No
- Short plan year
- No
- 401(k) feature reported
- Yes
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2A2E2F2G2J2K2S2T3D
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Filing ACK_ID20260609144653NAL0011697730001
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