The Academy of Natural Sciences Pension Plan

Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2024

What the Filing Says About The Academy of Natural Sciences Pension Plan

The Academy of Natural Sciences Pension Plan is a Defined Benefit (Pension) retirement plan sponsored by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, headquartered in Pennsylvania. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's 2024 Form 5500 filing, the plan reports $17M in total end-of-year assets and covers 20 participants across the Arts, Entertainment & Recreation industry. The sponsor's EIN on file with the U.S. Department of Labor is 231352000, and the plan has been effective since 1957-01-01. Its filing status is currently FILING RECEIVED.

Year over year, total assets edged up modestly from $16M at the beginning of 2024 to $17M at year-end - up 2.9%. Net assets (after liabilities) closed the year at $17M, with reported net income of $469K 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 Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia has on file with PlainRetire (2022-2024), sponsor-wide plan assets have moved from $15M to $17M, a gain of 9.8%, while reported participants moved from 27 to 20 (-25.9%). The strongest year on file by total sponsor assets was 2024 at $17M; the softest was 2022 at $15M. Year-by-year, sponsor-wide filings show: 2022 - $15M in assets across 1 plan covering 27 participants; 2023 - $16M in assets across 1 plan covering 25 participants; 2024 - $17M in assets across 1 plan covering 20 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 The Academy of Natural Sciences Pension 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.