Other · DOL Form 5500 · 2024
Trustees of Tufts College Retirement Plan
Data updated 2026-07-24
- $996M
- Total assets
- 5,554
- Participants
- 98th
- Percentile by assets
- $179,342
- Avg per participant
Official DOL plan name: Tufts University Voluntary Retirement Plan · Sponsored by Trustees of Tufts College · Massachusetts · Educational Services
$996M in assets, 5,554 participants
Trustees of Tufts College's Tufts University Voluntary Retirement Plan reported $996M in total assets and 5,554 participants in its 2024 DOL Form 5500 filing, ranking in the 98th 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.
- 98th percentile by assets (of 116,472 plans)
What the 2024 filing shows
Tufts University Voluntary Retirement Plan holds $996M for 5,554 participants - about $179,342 per participant, in the top 5% of all filed plans by assets, up 10.3% over the 2024 plan year.
- $996M
- total plan assets (2024 EOY)
- 5,554
- covered participants
- 98th
- percentile by assets (of 116,472 plans)
- $179,342
- avg assets per participant
Other · DOL Form 5500 · 2024
What the Filing Says About Tufts University Voluntary Retirement Plan
Tufts University Voluntary Retirement Plan is an Other retirement plan sponsored by Trustees of Tufts College, headquartered in Massachusetts. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's 2024 Form 5500 filing, the plan reports $996M in total end-of-year assets and covers 5,554 participants across the Educational Services industry. The sponsor's EIN on file with the U.S. Department of Labor is 042103634, and the plan has been effective since 1945-01-01. Its filing status is currently FILING RECEIVED.
Year over year, total assets grew at a solid clip from $903M at the beginning of 2024 to $996M at year-end - up 10.3%. Net assets (after liabilities) closed the year at $996M, with reported net income of $93M 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 Tufts College has on file with PlainRetire (2022-2024), sponsor-wide plan assets have moved from $1.6B to $2.0B, a gain of 26.1%, while reported participants moved from 11,065 to 11,323 (+2.3%). The strongest year on file by total sponsor assets was 2024 at $2.0B; the softest was 2022 at $1.6B. Year-by-year, sponsor-wide filings show: 2022 - $1.6B in assets across 2 plans covering 11,065 participants; 2023 - $1.8B in assets across 2 plans covering 11,075 participants; 2024 - $2.0B in assets across 2 plans covering 11,323 participants.
By assets, Tufts University Voluntary Retirement Plan outranks 98% of the 116,472 plans that filed a Form 5500 for the 2024 plan year, and holds roughly 10.0x 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 Tufts University Voluntary 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) | $903M |
|---|---|
| Total Assets (End of Year) | $996M |
| Net Assets (End of Year) | $996M |
| Net Income | $93M |
| Plan Type | Other |
| Employer EIN | 042103634 |
| Plan Effective Date | 1945-01-01 |
| Filing Status | FILING RECEIVED |
Sponsor Plan History (Trustees of Tufts College)
| Year | Plans | Participants | Total Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2 | 11,065 | $1.6B |
| 2023 | 2 | 11,075 | $1.8B |
| 2024 | 2 | 11,323 | $2.0B |
Nearby Other Plans in Massachusetts
Peer Other plans, same state, same plan type, ranked by total assets.
Tufts University Voluntary Retirement Plan vs. nearby Other plans in Massachusetts, assets vs. participants
- Harvard University Tax Deferred Annuity Plan $4.3B · 24,395
- Beth Israel Lahey 403(b) Retirement Savings Plan $3.5B · 33,591
- Boston University Retirement Plan $3.0B · 8,173
- Northeastern University Retirement Plan $2.6B · 8,900
- Boston University Supplemental Retirement and Savings Plan $1.7B · 12,869
Similar-Sized Other Plans Nationally
Other plans in other states closest to Tufts University Voluntary Retirement Plan by total assets, not by location.
- Nyu Grossman School of Medicine Management and Staff 403(b) Retirement Plan (NY) $1000M · 10,953
- Educational Testing Service 403(b) Retirement Savings Plan (NJ) $982M · 3,501
- Georgetown University Voluntary Contribution Retirement Plan (DC) $979M · 14,512
- Children's Hospital and Health System Shared Retirement Savings Plan (WI) $1.0B · 6,717
Frequently Asked Questions
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What this filing means
Ways to act on Tufts University Voluntary Retirement Plan's numbers.
- By total assets, Tufts University Voluntary 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 Massachusetts. Compare plans
- Trustees of Tufts College's sponsor-wide assets have grown 26.1% since 2022 across 3 plan years on file. More Educational Services plans
- An Other 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 2024.
Source: DOL EFAST2 filing system (efast.dol.gov) - original filing retrieval by EIN 042103634.
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.