Other · DOL Form 5500 · 2022
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Retirement Plan
Data updated 2026-07-24
- $1.6B
- Total assets
- 2,041
- Participants
- 99th
- Percentile by assets
- $773,142
- Avg per participant
Official DOL plan name: Howard Hughes Medical Institute Retirement Savings Plan · Sponsored by Howard Hughes Medical Institute · Maryland · Other Services
$1.6B in assets, 2,041 participants
Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Howard Hughes Medical Institute Retirement Savings Plan reported $1.6B in total assets and 2,041 participants in its 2022 DOL Form 5500 filing, ranking in the 99th percentile by assets among filed plans. Figures are as reported by the plan sponsor to the Department of Labor, not audited or endorsed by PlainRetire.
- 99th percentile by assets (of 139,258 plans)
What the 2022 filing shows
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Retirement Savings Plan holds $1.6B for 2,041 participants - about $773,142 per participant, among the largest 1% of all filed plans, down 14.3% over the 2022 plan year.
- $1.6B
- total plan assets (2022 EOY)
- 2,041
- covered participants
- 99th
- percentile by assets (of 139,258 plans)
- $773,142
- avg assets per participant
The plan reported a net loss of $262M for the year, a single-year figure driven by markets and benefit payments, not a measure of plan health.
Other · DOL Form 5500 · 2022
What the Filing Says About Howard Hughes Medical Institute Retirement Savings Plan
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Retirement Savings Plan is an Other retirement plan sponsored by Howard Hughes Medical Institute, headquartered in Maryland. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's 2022 Form 5500 filing, the plan reports $1.6B in total end-of-year assets and covers 2,041 participants across the Other Services industry. The sponsor's EIN on file with the U.S. Department of Labor is 590735717, and the plan has been effective since 1983-01-01. Its filing status is currently FILING RECEIVED.
Year over year, total assets pulled back noticeably from $1.8B at the beginning of 2022 to $1.6B at year-end - down 14.3%. Net assets (after liabilities) closed the year at $1.6B, with reported net income of -$262M driven by investment returns, contributions received, and benefit payments during the period. These figures reflect what the plan administrator certified on Schedule H or Schedule I of the Form 5500 annual return and can be compared against 2 prior plan-year filings from the same sponsor shown below.
Across the 3 plan years Howard Hughes Medical Institute has on file with PlainRetire (2022-2024), sponsor-wide plan assets have moved from $1.6B to $2.0B, a gain of 24.6%, while reported participants moved from 2,041 to 2,666 (+30.6%). The strongest year on file by total sponsor assets was 2024 at $2.0B; the softest was 2022 at $1.6B. Year-by-year, sponsor-wide filings show: 2022 - $1.6B in assets across 1 plan covering 2,041 participants; 2023 - $1.8B in assets across 1 plan covering 2,154 participants; 2024 - $2.0B in assets across 1 plan covering 2,666 participants.
By assets, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Retirement Savings Plan outranks 99% of the 139,258 plans that filed a Form 5500 for the 2022 plan year, and holds roughly 16x the national average plan size of $100M and 730 average participants.
Asset totals and participant counts reflect a single plan year snapshot and can change materially with market conditions, plan mergers, or workforce changes. Fields such as "net income" include both realized investment performance and contribution/distribution flows, a single-year figure does not by itself indicate plan health or participant outcomes. This page summarizes public DOL disclosures for research and educational purposes only and is not retirement, tax, legal, or financial advice. Before making decisions about your own retirement benefits or evaluating an employer's plan, verify the underlying filing directly via the DOL EFAST2 system and consult a qualified professional.
How the percentile is calculated: we count every plan that filed a 2022 Form 5500 with a reported end-of-year asset figure (139,258 plans), rank Howard Hughes Medical Institute Retirement Savings Plan against all of them by total assets, and report the share of those plans it outranks. A plan reporting no asset figure for the year is excluded from the ranking rather than assumed to be zero.
Financial Summary (2022)
| Total Assets (Beginning of Year) | $1.8B |
|---|---|
| Total Assets (End of Year) | $1.6B |
| Net Assets (End of Year) | $1.6B |
| Net Income | -$262M |
| Plan Type | Other |
| Employer EIN | 590735717 |
| Plan Effective Date | 1983-01-01 |
| Filing Status | FILING RECEIVED |
Sponsor Plan History (Howard Hughes Medical Institute)
| Year | Plans | Participants | Total Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1 | 2,041 | $1.6B |
| 2023 | 1 | 2,154 | $1.8B |
| 2024 | 1 | 2,666 | $2.0B |
Nearby Other Plans in Maryland
Peer Other plans, same state, same plan type, ranked by total assets.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Retirement Savings Plan vs. nearby Other plans in Maryland, assets vs. participants
- Johns Hopkins University 403(b) Plan $6.7B · 26,366
- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Pension Plan B $2.5B · 8,736
- Medstar Health, Inc. Retirement Savings Plan $2.4B · 30,441
- Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation 403(b) Plan $1.2B · 17,244
- Board of Electrical Workers Local #26 I.a. Individual Account Plan $948M · 11,128
Similar-Sized Other Plans Nationally
Other plans in other states closest to Howard Hughes Medical Institute Retirement Savings Plan by total assets, not by location.
- Consolidated 403(b) Plan of Hackensack Meridian Health (NJ) $1.6B · 18,619
- Froedtert Health, Inc. 403(b) Plan (WI) $1.5B · 13,617
- Baylor College of Medicine Section 403b (TX) $1.6B · 12,275
- Yale-New Haven Hospital and Tax Exempt Affiliates Tax Sheltered Annuity Plan (CT) $1.7B · 22,661
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What this filing means
Ways to act on Howard Hughes Medical Institute Retirement Savings Plan's numbers.
- By total assets, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Retirement Savings Plan ranks among the largest 1% of all filed plans. See the largest plans
- Compare it side-by-side against 3 similar Other plans in Maryland. Compare plans
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute's sponsor-wide assets have grown 24.6% since 2022 across 3 plan years on file. More Other Services plans
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA), Form 5500 public disclosure dataset. Plan year 2022.
Source: DOL EFAST2 filing system (efast.dol.gov) - original filing retrieval by EIN 590735717.
Reference: IRS Publication 560, Retirement Plans for Small Business, contribution-limit rules.
Reference: IRS Publication 590-B, Distributions from IRAs, RMD rules under SECURE Act 2.0.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Every figure on PlainRetire is rendered directly from the Department of Labor's Form 5500 annual return filings, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026-07-24.