Department of Labor filing
Spot something wrong?PUBLIC POLICY ASSOCIATES, LLC
PPA 401K RETIREMENT SAVINGS PLAN · For the plan year ended Dec 31, 2025
Public filing 2025 · received Jul 6, 2026Verified current terms Not available
Plan summary
What matters most
This plan has an employer contribution that still needs verification and vesting that still needs verification. Reported employer contributions are around the middle of comparable plans.
54Fair plan health
high confidence
high confidence
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Published only when at least four measures and half of the model weight are available. Missing information is excluded rather than scored as zero.
Up 0.0% over the filing history shown.
Participation up 0.0% · assets up 0.0%
How the score works →Still to verify: vesting, employee fees, investment choices, eligibility, automatic enrollment, Roth availability. These items stay out of the summary until a dated source confirms them.
What this tells you: company-wide scale, reported employer support, participation activity, visible administrative cost, and historical direction.
Keep in mind: public filings do not show employee investment returns. Scores use only available measures; missing information lowers confidence, never the score. Current match, vesting, eligibility, investments, and employee-paid fees still require a current plan document.
Filing comparison · 202538out of 100 among similar-size plans in the same industry when enough peers exist
How this filing compares
Reported employer contributions43rd percentileTypical peer $2,475 · based on 85,770 comparable plans
Lower reported administrative expense27th percentileTypical peer $102 · based on 77,997 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, PUBLIC POLICY ASSOCIATES, LLC reported $45,100 in employer contributions across this plan, or $2,050 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
For the current match, vesting rules, eligibility, employee fees, and investment choices, we need a recent plan document. We leave those details blank until we have one.
Money and scale
Contributions, assets, and expenses
These are plan-wide totals. They are not individual account balances.
- Employer contributions
- $45,100 $2,050 per active participant
- Participant contributions
- $101,572
- Other contributions
- Not reported Amounts not classified as employer or participant contributions
- Employer share of contributions
- 30.7%
- Active participants
- 22 Small plan
- Total participants
- 26 26 at the beginning of the year
- Ending assets
- $1,695,247 $65,202 per participant
- Net-asset change
- Up 0.0% Not the same as investment performance
- Beginning net assets
- $2,120,840
- Ending net assets
- $1,695,247
- Beginning liabilities
- Not reported
- Ending liabilities
- Not reported
- Total income
- $423,416
- Total expenses
- $849,009
- Administrative expenses
- $10,183 $392 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
$2,050
2025
$392
2025
22
2025
$1,695,247
2025
Not reported
| Plan year | Employer money per active participant | Active participants | Plan assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $2,050 | 22 | 1.7M |
Changes in plan assets are not the same as investment performance.
Plan health
Operational signals worth checking
- 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
- 882431730-001
Reported plan details
Identity and filing status
- Plan type
- Retirement plan
- Employer arrangement
- 1
- Plan effective date
- Jan 1, 2007
- Industry
- Professional, scientific, and technical services
- Amended filing
- No
- Final filing for this plan
- No
- Short plan year
- No
- 401(k) feature reported
- Yes
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Company filings
What the company has told the SEC about this plan
We found these passages in official company filings. They may help explain the plan, but we do not treat them as current benefits until the wording and date have been checked.
10-K · report period Dec 31, 2025Public Policy Holding Company, Inc. — 10-K filed 2026-03-31 ↗
Official filing · details not yet checkedWhat it says about vesting
g shares that were issued during that time will vest no later than December 16, 2026, which may provide less incentive to those employees to remain with the Company after they are fully vested. Unlike some of our competitors, we also generally do not pay commissions to our employees, but rather incentivize them through cash and stock bonuses as well as equity incentive awards which are largely discretionary and may be less effective at incentivizing our employees. Because some of our acquired member companies have certain acquisition-related bonus arrangements that provide for certain set levels of employee bonus pools, for example, as a percentage of member company profit, the employees of such member companies may in effect have a disproportionate claim on the funds available for Company
What it says about fees
y incur or the timing of such costs. We intend to invest resources to comply with evolving laws, regulations and standards, and this investment may result in increased general and administrative expenses and a diversion of management’s time and attention from revenue-generating activities to compliance activities. If our efforts to comply with new laws, regulations and standards differ from the activities intended by regulatory or governing bodies due to ambiguities related to practice, regulatory authorities may initiate legal proceedings against us and our business may be harmed. Being a Nasdaq listed company subject to these new rules and regulations may make it more expensive for us to obtain director and officer liability insurance. These factors could also make it more difficult for
Current plan terms
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Filing ACK_ID20260706125158NAL0015568883001
Data sourceDOL Form 5500 bulk data ↗
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