Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Retirement Plan

Other · DOL Form 5500 · 2023

What the Filing Says About Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Defined Contribution Retirement Plan

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Defined Contribution Retirement Plan is an Other retirement plan sponsored by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, headquartered in Massachusetts. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's 2023 Form 5500 filing, the plan reports $230M in total end-of-year assets and covers 1,343 participants across the Professional & Technical Services industry. The sponsor's EIN on file with the U.S. Department of Labor is 042105850, and the plan has been effective since 2010-01-01. Its filing status is currently FILING RECEIVED.

Year over year, total assets grew sharply from $196M at the beginning of 2023 to $230M at year-end - up 17.1%. Net assets (after liabilities) closed the year at $230M, with reported net income of $33M 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 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has on file with PlainRetire (2022-2024), sponsor-wide plan assets have moved from $373M to $462M, a gain of 23.8%, while reported participants moved from 1,581 to 1,670 (+5.6%). The strongest year on file by total sponsor assets was 2024 at $462M; the softest was 2022 at $373M. Year-by-year, sponsor-wide filings show: 2022 - $373M in assets across 2 plans covering 1,581 participants; 2023 - $416M in assets across 2 plans covering 1,643 participants; 2024 - $462M in assets across 2 plans covering 1,670 participants.

By assets, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Defined Contribution Retirement Plan outranks 95% of the 126,618 plans that filed a Form 5500 for the 2023 plan year, and holds roughly 2.3x 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 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Defined Contribution 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.