Fastenal 401(k) plan

Fastenal Company & Subsidiaries, Winona, MN. EIN 41-0948415. Annual reports 2009–2025.

Fastenal Company & Subsidiaries has one active retirement plan on file, the Fastenal Company & Subsidiaries 401(k) and Employee Stock Ownership Plan, with 21,772 participants and $1.2 billion in assets in 2025. Merrill has been its recordkeeper since 2009. No traditional pension plan appears in Fastenal's filings since 2009.

Active plans: 1
Participants: 21,772
Plan assets: $1.2 billion
401(k) recordkeeper: Merrill
Plans on file: 1
Industry: Retail

The plan

Fastenal Company & Subsidiaries 401(k) and Employee Stock Ownership Plan

401(k) with ESOPActive

Active. The plan filed its annual report for the 2025 plan year.

Plan number: 001Employer EIN 41-0948415
Participants (2025): 21,772
Net assets (2025): $1.2 billion
Recordkeeper: Merrill2009–2025
Plan administrator: Fastenal Company & Subsidiaries
2001 Theurer Boulevard
Winona, MN 55987
(507) 453-8760As filed for 2025
In effect since: July 1, 1998

Earlier plan names: Fastenal Company & Subsidiaries 401K Plan.

Year by year, 2009 to 2025

Plan year	Participants	Net assets	Recordkeeper
2025	21,772	$1.2 billion	Merrill
2024	21,022	$1.1 billion	Merrill
2023	20,535	$919 million	Merrill
2022	19,743	$711 million	Merrill
2021	18,042	$831 million	Merrill
2020	18,095	$666 million	Merrill
2019	19,312	$538 million	Merrill
2018	18,642	$390 million	Merrill
2017	18,499	$391 million	Merrill
2016	17,718	$314 million	Merrill
2015	17,587	$270 million	Merrill
2014	15,702	$271 million	Merrill
2013	14,751	$243 million	Merrill
2012	13,649	$201 million	Merrill
2011	8,188	$164 million	Merrill
2010	7,737	$125 million	Merrill
2009	7,624	$90.7 million	Merrill

If you had money in one of these plans

Call Merrill (benefits.ml.com), which runs the Fastenal Company & Subsidiaries 401(k) and Employee Stock Ownership Plan. With your Social Security number and the plan name, it can tell you whether you still have a balance and, if not, where it went.
Or call the plan administrator listed on the plan below ((507) 453-8760). That number was filed for 2025; ask for the benefits or retirement plan office.
Still stuck? The Department of Labor's benefits advisers help for free: askebsa.dol.gov or 1-866-444-3272. Never pay anyone to find your own money.

What these numbers are

They come from the Form 5500 annual reports each plan files with the Department of Labor, as the plan filed them. A plan year is usually a calendar year.
Participants counts everyone in the plan at year end: current employees, former employees who still have a balance or a pension coming, and retirees or beneficiaries being paid.
The recordkeeper is the service provider whose Schedule C entry says it keeps the plan's records. Small plans do not file Schedule C, so some plans show none.
We cannot see anyone's account. Only the plan or its recordkeeper can tell you your balance.

Sources: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 datasets and PBGC trusteed plans. How we read them.

The plan

Fastenal Company & Subsidiaries 401(k) and Employee Stock Ownership Plan

If you had money in one of these plans

What these numbers are

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