Mcclatchy 401(k) and pension plans

The Mcclatchy Company, LLC, Sacramento, CA. EIN 85-2617302. Annual reports 2009–2024. Also filed as The Mcclatchy Company.

The Mcclatchy Company, LLC has one active retirement plan on file, the The Mcclatchy Company 401(k) Plan, with 3,323 participants and $602 million in assets in 2024. Vanguard has been its recordkeeper since 2009. One of its pension plans was taken over by the PBGC.

Active plans: 1
Participants: 3,323
Plan assets: $602 million
401(k) recordkeeper: Vanguard
Plans on file: 3
Industry: Information and media

All 3 plans

Active plans first

The Mcclatchy Company 401(k) Plan

401(k)Active

Active. The plan filed its annual report for the 2024 plan year.

Plan number: 004Employer EIN 85-2617302
Participants (2024): 3,323
Net assets (2024): $602 million
Recordkeeper: Vanguard2009–2024
Plan administrator: The Mcclatchy Company, LLC Retirement Committee
1601 Alhambra BLVD., Suite 100
Sacramento, CA 95816
(916) 321-1855As filed for 2024
In effect since: January 1, 1985

Plans merged into this one: Knight Ridder 401K Plan (2009).

Earlier plan names: The Mcclatchy Company 401K Plan.

Year by year, 2009 to 2024

Plan year	Participants	Net assets	Recordkeeper
2024	3,323	$602 million	Vanguard
2023	3,595	$593 million	Vanguard
2022	3,902	$530 million	Vanguard
2021	4,048	$698 million	Vanguard
2020	5,003	$686 million	Vanguard
2019	5,590	$653 million	Vanguard
2018	5,394	$623 million	Vanguard
2017	6,717	$736 million	Vanguard
2016	6,153	$710 million	Vanguard
2015	8,205	$730 million	Vanguard
2014	7,540	$799 million	Vanguard
2013	9,670	$804 million	Vanguard
2012	10,323	$718 million	Vanguard
2011	10,862	$682 million	Vanguard
2010	11,718	$747 million	Vanguard
2009	12,830	$703 million	Vanguard

The Mcclatchy Company Retirement Plan

Pension (defined benefit), frozenTaken over by the PBGC

Taken over by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation on September 4, 2020, after the plan ended on August 31, 2020. The PBGC now pays the plan's benefits, up to legal limits (PBGC case 23741500).

Plan number: 002Employer EIN 52-2080478
Participants when it ended: 23,316
Last listed administrator: Automate Mailing Service2016
Who pays it now: Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
1-800-400-7242PBGC Customer Contact Center
In effect since: November 1, 1944

Year by year, 2009 to 2018

Plan year	Participants	Net assets	Recordkeeper
2018	23,850	$1.3 billion	not listed
2017	24,175	$1.5 billion	not listed
2016	24,468	$1.3 billion	Automate Mailing Service
2015	28,050	$1.4 billion	not listed
2014	28,500	$1.5 billion	not listed
2013	29,986	$1.4 billion	not listed
2012	30,365	$1.4 billion	not listed
2011	30,664	$1.3 billion	not listed
2010	31,222	$1.1 billion	not listed
2009	31,983	$985 million	not listed

Knight Ridder 401K Plan

401(k)Merged

Merged. In 2009 its assets moved to the The Mcclatchy Company 401(k) Plan, sponsored by The Mcclatchy Company, LLC (EIN 52-2080478, plan 004). Accounts moved with them, so that plan is the one to contact.

Plan number: 022Employer EIN 52-2080478
Recordkeeper: Vanguard2009
Plan administrator: The Mcclatchy Company
P. O. Box 15779
Sacramento, CA 95852
(916) 321-1961As filed for 2009
In effect since: January 1, 1989

If you had money in one of these plans

Call Vanguard (investor.vanguard.com), which runs the The Mcclatchy Company 401(k) 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 ((916) 321-1855). That number was filed for 2024; ask for the benefits or retirement plan office.
If your plan was merged, your account moved with it. Follow the link on the plan to the plan it went into, and contact that one.
For a pension the PBGC took over, call the PBGC at 1-800-400-7242 or search its unclaimed pensions. Have the plan name and your Social Security number ready.
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.