Other · DOL Form 5500 · 2023
Aurora University Retirement Plan
Data updated 2026-07-24
- $111M
- Total assets
- 509
- Participants
- 92nd
- Percentile by assets
- $218,821
- Avg per participant
Official DOL plan name: Aurora University Retirement Plan · Sponsored by Aurora University · Illinois · Educational Services
$111M in assets, 509 participants
Aurora University's Aurora University Retirement Plan reported $111M in total assets and 509 participants in its 2023 DOL Form 5500 filing, ranking in the 92nd 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.
- 92nd percentile by assets (of 126,618 plans)
What the 2023 filing shows
Aurora University Retirement Plan holds $111M for 509 participants - about $218,821 per participant, in the top 10% of all filed plans by assets, up 8.6% over the 2023 plan year.
- $111M
- total plan assets (2023 EOY)
- 509
- covered participants
- 92nd
- percentile by assets (of 126,618 plans)
- $218,821
- avg assets per participant
Other · DOL Form 5500 · 2023
What the Filing Says About Aurora University Retirement Plan
Aurora University Retirement Plan is an Other retirement plan sponsored by Aurora University, headquartered in Illinois. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's 2023 Form 5500 filing, the plan reports $111M in total end-of-year assets and covers 509 participants across the Educational Services industry. The sponsor's EIN on file with the U.S. Department of Labor is 362166964, and the plan has been effective since 1944-06-13. Its filing status is currently FILING RECEIVED.
Year over year, total assets grew at a solid clip from $103M at the beginning of 2023 to $111M at year-end - up 8.6%. Net assets (after liabilities) closed the year at $111M, with reported net income of $9M 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 Aurora University has on file with PlainRetire (2022-2024), sponsor-wide plan assets have moved from $103M to $118M, a gain of 15.0%, while reported participants moved from 495 to 487 (-1.6%). The strongest year on file by total sponsor assets was 2024 at $118M; the softest was 2022 at $103M. Year-by-year, sponsor-wide filings show: 2022 - $103M in assets across 1 plan covering 495 participants; 2023 - $111M in assets across 1 plan covering 509 participants; 2024 - $118M in assets across 1 plan covering 487 participants.
By assets, Aurora University Retirement Plan outranks 92% of the 126,618 plans that filed a Form 5500 for the 2023 plan year, and holds roughly 1.1x 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 2023 Form 5500 with a reported end-of-year asset figure (126,618 plans), rank Aurora University Retirement 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 (2023)
| Total Assets (Beginning of Year) | $103M |
|---|---|
| Total Assets (End of Year) | $111M |
| Net Assets (End of Year) | $111M |
| Net Income | $9M |
| Plan Type | Other |
| Employer EIN | 362166964 |
| Plan Effective Date | 1944-06-13 |
| Filing Status | FILING RECEIVED |
Sponsor Plan History (Aurora University)
| Year | Plans | Participants | Total Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1 | 495 | $103M |
| 2023 | 1 | 509 | $111M |
| 2024 | 1 | 487 | $118M |
Nearby Other Plans in Illinois
Peer Other plans, same state, same plan type, ranked by total assets.
Aurora University Retirement Plan vs. nearby Other plans in Illinois, assets vs. participants
- Northwestern University Retirement Plan $4.0B · 9,440
- The University of Chicago Contributory Retirement Plan $3.5B · 4,796
- Endeavor Health Legacy 403(b) Tax Deferred Annuity Plan for Northshore University Healthsystem Employees $2.0B · 13,705
- The University of Chicago Supplemental Retirement Plan $1.7B · 8,254
- Argonne National Laboratory 403(b) Employee Retirement Plan $1.6B · 3,798
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What this filing means
Ways to act on Aurora University Retirement Plan's numbers.
- By total assets, Aurora University Retirement Plan ranks in the top 10% of all filed plans by assets. See the largest plans
- Compare it side-by-side against 3 similar Other plans in Illinois. Compare plans
- Aurora University's sponsor-wide assets have grown 15.0% since 2022 across 3 plan years on file. More Educational Services plans
- An Other plan works differently from other retirement plan types, understand the structural differences before comparing. Compare plan types
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA), Form 5500 public disclosure dataset. Plan year 2023.
Source: DOL EFAST2 filing system (efast.dol.gov) - original filing retrieval by EIN 362166964.
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.