Other · DOL Form 5500 · 2024
Teacher's College, Columbia University Retirement Plan
Data updated 2026-07-24
- $564M
- Total assets
- 2,264
- Participants
- 97th
- Percentile by assets
- $249,091
- Avg per participant
Official DOL plan name: Teacher's College, Columbia University DC Retirement Plan · Sponsored by Teacher's College, Columbia University · New York · Educational Services
$564M in assets, 2,264 participants
Teacher's College, Columbia University's Teacher's College, Columbia University DC Retirement Plan reported $564M in total assets and 2,264 participants in its 2024 DOL Form 5500 filing, ranking in the 97th 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.
- 97th percentile by assets (of 116,472 plans)
What the 2024 filing shows
Teacher's College, Columbia University DC Retirement Plan holds $564M for 2,264 participants - about $249,091 per participant, in the top 5% of all filed plans by assets, up 8.7% over the 2024 plan year.
- $564M
- total plan assets (2024 EOY)
- 2,264
- covered participants
- 97th
- percentile by assets (of 116,472 plans)
- $249,091
- avg assets per participant
Other · DOL Form 5500 · 2024
What the Filing Says About Teacher's College, Columbia University DC Retirement Plan
Teacher's College, Columbia University DC Retirement Plan is an Other retirement plan sponsored by Teacher's College, Columbia University, headquartered in New York. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's 2024 Form 5500 filing, the plan reports $564M in total end-of-year assets and covers 2,264 participants across the Educational Services industry. The sponsor's EIN on file with the U.S. Department of Labor is 131624202, and the plan has been effective since 1970-01-01. Its filing status is currently FILING RECEIVED.
Year over year, total assets grew at a solid clip from $519M at the beginning of 2024 to $564M at year-end - up 8.7%. Net assets (after liabilities) closed the year at $564M, with reported net income of $45M 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 Teacher's College, Columbia University has on file with PlainRetire (2022-2024), sponsor-wide plan assets have moved from $517M to $564M, a gain of 9.1%, while reported participants moved from 1,179 to 2,264 (+92.0%). The strongest year on file by total sponsor assets was 2023 at $574M; the softest was 2022 at $517M. Year-by-year, sponsor-wide filings show: 2022 - $517M in assets across 2 plans covering 1,179 participants; 2023 - $574M in assets across 2 plans covering 2,502 participants; 2024 - $564M in assets across 1 plan covering 2,264 participants.
By assets, Teacher's College, Columbia University DC Retirement Plan outranks 97% of the 116,472 plans that filed a Form 5500 for the 2024 plan year, and holds roughly 5.6x 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 Teacher's College, Columbia University DC 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 (2024)
| Total Assets (Beginning of Year) | $519M |
|---|---|
| Total Assets (End of Year) | $564M |
| Net Assets (End of Year) | $564M |
| Net Income | $45M |
| Plan Type | Other |
| Employer EIN | 131624202 |
| Plan Effective Date | 1970-01-01 |
| Filing Status | FILING RECEIVED |
Sponsor Plan History (Teacher's College, Columbia University)
| Year | Plans | Participants | Total Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2 | 1,179 | $517M |
| 2023 | 2 | 2,502 | $574M |
| 2024 | 1 | 2,264 | $564M |
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Similar-Sized Other Plans Nationally
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What this filing means
Ways to act on Teacher's College, Columbia University DC Retirement Plan's numbers.
- By total assets, Teacher's College, Columbia University DC 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 Other plans in New York. Compare plans
- Teacher's College, Columbia University's sponsor-wide assets have grown 9.1% 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 131624202.
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.