Profit Sharing · DOL Form 5500 · 2023

Butler University Retirement Plan

Data updated 2026-05-15

$343M
Total assets
3,137
Participants
96th
Percentile by assets
$109,364
Avg per participant

Sponsored by Butler University · Indiana · Educational Services

What the 2023 filing shows

Butler University Retirement Plan holds $343M for 3,137 participants - about $109,364 per participant, in the top 5% of all filed plans by assets, up 12.3% over the 2023 plan year.

$343M
total plan assets (2023 EOY)
3,137
covered participants
96th
percentile by assets (of 126,618 plans)
$109,364
avg assets per participant
State
Industry
Educational Services

Profit Sharing · DOL Form 5500 · 2023

What the Filing Says About Butler University Retirement Plan

Butler University Retirement Plan is a Profit Sharing retirement plan sponsored by Butler University, headquartered in Indiana. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's 2023 Form 5500 filing, the plan reports $343M in total end-of-year assets and covers 3,137 participants across the Educational Services industry. The sponsor's EIN on file with the U.S. Department of Labor is 350867977, and the plan has been effective since 1971-09-01. Its filing status is currently FILING RECEIVED.

Year over year, total assets grew at a solid clip from $306M at the beginning of 2023 to $343M at year-end - up 12.3%. Net assets (after liabilities) closed the year at $343M, with reported net income of $38M 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 Butler University has on file with PlainRetire (2022-2024), sponsor-wide plan assets have moved from $306M to $373M, a gain of 22.2%, while reported participants moved from 985 to 3,285 (+233.5%). The strongest year on file by total sponsor assets was 2024 at $373M; the softest was 2022 at $306M. Year-by-year, sponsor-wide filings show: 2022 - $306M in assets across 1 plan covering 985 participants; 2023 - $343M in assets across 1 plan covering 3,137 participants; 2024 - $373M in assets across 1 plan covering 3,285 participants.

By assets, Butler University Retirement Plan outranks 96% of the 126,618 plans that filed a Form 5500 for the 2023 plan year, and holds roughly 3.4x 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 Butler 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)$306M
Total Assets (End of Year)$343M
Net Assets (End of Year)$343M
Net Income$38M
Plan TypeProfit Sharing
Employer EIN350867977
Plan Effective Date1971-09-01
Filing StatusFILING RECEIVED

Sponsor Plan History (Butler University)

Year Plans Participants Total Assets
2022 1 985 $306M
2023 1 3,137 $343M
2024 1 3,285 $373M

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Frequently Asked Questions

How much money is in the Butler University Retirement Plan?
As of the 2023 Form 5500 filing, Butler University Retirement Plan holds $343M in total assets with 3,137 participants. It is sponsored by Butler University.
What type of plan is Butler University Retirement Plan?
Butler University Retirement Plan is a Profit Sharing plan. It has been effective since 1971-09-01. The plan is filed with the U.S. Department of Labor under EIN 350867977.
Who sponsors the Butler University Retirement Plan?
Butler University Retirement Plan is sponsored by Butler University, located in Indiana. The sponsor's EIN is 350867977 and the plan operates in the Educational Services industry.
How did Butler University Retirement Plan perform in 2023?
Butler University Retirement Plan grew at a solid clip - up 12.3% during 2023, moving from $306M to $343M in total assets. Net income was $38M.

What this filing means

Ways to act on Butler University Retirement Plan's numbers.

  • By total assets, Butler University Retirement Plan ranks in the top 5% of all filed plans by assets. See the largest plans
  • Compare it side-by-side against 3 similar Profit Sharing plans in Indiana. Compare plans
  • Butler University's sponsor-wide assets have grown 22.2% since 2022 across 3 plan years on file. More Educational Services plans
  • A Profit Sharing 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 350867977.

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.

Data sourced from U.S. Department of Labor Form 5500 filings (EBSA). See our methodology for details.

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 2026-05-15.