Other · DOL Form 5500 · 2024

Grinnell College Employees Retirement Savings Plan

Data updated 2026-07-23

$374M
Total assets
841
Participants
96th
Percentile by assets
$445,195
Avg per participant

Sponsored by Trustees of Grinnell College · Iowa · Educational Services

What the 2024 filing shows

Grinnell College Employees Retirement Savings Plan holds $374M for 841 participants - about $445,195 per participant, in the top 5% of all filed plans by assets, up 6.2% over the 2024 plan year.

$374M
total plan assets (2024 EOY)
841
covered participants
96th
percentile by assets (of 116,472 plans)
$445,195
avg assets per participant
State
Industry
Educational Services

Other · DOL Form 5500 · 2024

What the Filing Says About Grinnell College Employees Retirement Savings Plan

Grinnell College Employees Retirement Savings Plan is an Other retirement plan sponsored by Trustees of Grinnell College, headquartered in Iowa. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's 2024 Form 5500 filing, the plan reports $374M in total end-of-year assets and covers 841 participants across the Educational Services industry. The sponsor's EIN on file with the U.S. Department of Labor is 420680387, and the plan has been effective since 1920-05-07. Its filing status is currently FILING RECEIVED.

Year over year, total assets grew at a solid clip from $353M at the beginning of 2024 to $374M at year-end - up 6.2%. Net assets (after liabilities) closed the year at $374M, with reported net income of $22M 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 Trustees of Grinnell College has on file with PlainRetire (2022-2024), sponsor-wide plan assets have moved from $315M to $374M, a gain of 18.8%, while reported participants moved from 758 to 841 (+10.9%). The strongest year on file by total sponsor assets was 2024 at $374M; the softest was 2022 at $315M. Year-by-year, sponsor-wide filings show: 2022 - $315M in assets across 1 plan covering 758 participants; 2023 - $353M in assets across 1 plan covering 810 participants; 2024 - $374M in assets across 1 plan covering 841 participants.

By assets, Grinnell College Employees Retirement Savings Plan outranks 96% of the 116,472 plans that filed a Form 5500 for the 2024 plan year, and holds roughly 3.7x 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 2024 Form 5500 with a reported end-of-year asset figure (116,472 plans), rank Grinnell College Employees 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 (2024)

Total Assets (Beginning of Year)$353M
Total Assets (End of Year)$374M
Net Assets (End of Year)$374M
Net Income$22M
Plan TypeOther
Employer EIN420680387
Plan Effective Date1920-05-07
Filing StatusFILING RECEIVED

Sponsor Plan History (Trustees of Grinnell College)

$300M$320M$340M$360M$380M$400M 202220232024 $315M $374M ▲ +18.8%
Total plan assets by year, all Trustees of Grinnell College 401(k) plans on file
Year Plans Participants Total Assets
2022 1 758 $315M
2023 1 810 $353M
2024 1 841 $374M

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Grinnell College Employees Retirement Savings Plan vs. nearby Other plans in Iowa, assets vs. participants

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Frequently Asked Questions

How much money is in the Grinnell College Employees Retirement Savings Plan?
As of the 2024 Form 5500 filing, Grinnell College Employees Retirement Savings Plan holds $374M in total assets with 841 participants. It is sponsored by Trustees of Grinnell College.
What type of plan is Grinnell College Employees Retirement Savings Plan?
Grinnell College Employees Retirement Savings Plan is an Other plan. It has been effective since 1920-05-07. The plan is filed with the U.S. Department of Labor under EIN 420680387.
Who sponsors the Grinnell College Employees Retirement Savings Plan?
Grinnell College Employees Retirement Savings Plan is sponsored by Trustees of Grinnell College, located in Iowa. The sponsor's EIN is 420680387 and the plan operates in the Educational Services industry.
How did Grinnell College Employees Retirement Savings Plan perform in 2024?
Grinnell College Employees Retirement Savings Plan grew at a solid clip - up 6.2% during 2024, moving from $353M to $374M in total assets. Net income was $22M.

What this filing means

Ways to act on Grinnell College Employees Retirement Savings Plan's numbers.

  • By total assets, Grinnell College Employees Retirement Savings Plan ranks in the top 5% of all filed plans by assets. See the largest plans
  • Compare it side-by-side against 3 similar Other plans in Iowa. Compare plans
  • Trustees of Grinnell College's sponsor-wide assets have grown 18.8% since 2022 across 3 plan years on file. More Educational Services plans
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA), Form 5500 public disclosure dataset. Plan year 2024.

Source: DOL EFAST2 filing system (efast.dol.gov) - original filing retrieval by EIN 420680387.

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 2026-07-23.