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Retirement Plans
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2025
Retirement Benefits [Abstract]  
Retirement Plans

10. Retirement Plans

401(k) Plan - The Company maintains a 401(k) plan for qualified employees. Prior to May 16, 2020, the plan was subject to “safe harbor” provisions requiring that we match 100.0% of the deferral equal to 3.0% of eligible employee compensation and 50.0% of the deferral equal to the next 2.0% of eligible employee compensation. All employer matching funds vested immediately in accordance with the “safe harbor” provisions. For the year ended December 31, 2021, the Company elected to make a discretionary contribution of 3.0% of eligible employee compensation in order to comply with requirements associated with top-heavy plans. The Company's contributions to the plan for the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024, and 2023, were $85,883, $88,139 and $84,573, respectively.

Employee Stock Ownership Plan - The Company adopted an ESOP effective January 1, 2016, which is a non-contributory defined contribution plan covering all employees of the Company. The Company sponsors and maintains the ESOP and related trust for the benefit of its eligible employees. The ESOP is a leveraged ESOP, with funds loaned to the ESOP from the Company. The Company entered into a loan agreement with the ESOP on December 29, 2016, pursuant to which the ESOP may maintain aggregate borrowings of up to $5.0 million to purchase shares of the Company’s common stock on the open market, which serve as collateral for the loan. Coincident with the loan between the Company and the ESOP, the Operating Partnership entered into a loan with the Company to facilitate borrowings between the Company and the ESOP.

Between January 3, 2017 and February 28, 2017, the Company’s ESOP purchased 682,500 shares of the Company’s common stock of an aggregate cost of approximately $4.9 million. Shares purchased by the ESOP are held in a suspense account for allocation among participants. Dividends on the shares in the ESOP as well as contributions by the Company are used to make repayment on loan to the Company. Shares are released based on the ratio of each loan repayment to the projected future loan repayments.

Committed-to-be-released shares are allocated to plan participants on the last day of the plan year. The share releases are accounted for at fair value on the date of each loan repayment.

At December 31, 2025 and 2024, a total of 659,212 and 538,511 shares with a fair value of $1,417,306 and $501,569, respectively, were allocated to participants accounts. The Company recognized compensation cost of $79,038, $125,497 and $171,896 during the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024, and 2023, respectively. At December 31, 2025, all the shares in the ESOP had been allocated.

The share allocations are accounted for at fair value on the date of allocation as follows:

 

 

 

December 31, 2025

 

 

December 31, 2024

 

 

 

Number of Shares

 

 

Fair Value

 

 

Number of Shares

 

 

Fair Value

 

Allocated shares

 

 

659,212

 

 

$

1,417,306

 

 

 

538,511

 

 

$

501,569

 

Committed to be released shares

 

 

—

 

 

 

—

 

 

 

—

 

 

 

—

 

Total Allocated and Committed-to-be-Released

 

 

659,212

 

 

$

1,417,306

 

 

 

538,511

 

 

$

501,569

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unallocated shares

 

 

—

 

 

 

—

 

 

 

120,701

 

 

 

112,421

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total ESOP Shares

 

 

659,212

 

 

$

1,417,306

 

 

 

659,212

 

 

$

613,990