Other · DOL Form 5500 · 2024
Brown Capital Management ESOP
Data updated 2026-07-24
- $211M
- Total assets
- 35
- Participants
- 95th
- Percentile by assets
- $6.0M
- Avg per participant
Sponsored by Brown Capital Management Holdings, Inc. · Maryland · Finance & Insurance
Brown Capital Management Holdings, Inc.'s Brown Capital Management ESOP reported $211M in total assets and 35 participants in its 2024 DOL Form 5500 filing, ranking in the 95th 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.
What the 2024 filing shows
Brown Capital Management ESOP holds $211M for 35 participants - about $6.0M per participant, in the top 5% of all filed plans by assets, down 34.0% over the 2024 plan year.
- $211M
- total plan assets (2024 EOY)
- 35
- covered participants
- 95th
- percentile by assets (of 116,472 plans)
- $6.0M
- avg assets per participant
The plan reported a net loss of $107M for the year, a single-year figure driven by markets and benefit payments, not a measure of plan health.
Other · DOL Form 5500 · 2024
What the Filing Says About Brown Capital Management ESOP
Brown Capital Management ESOP is an Other retirement plan sponsored by Brown Capital Management Holdings, Inc., headquartered in Maryland. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's 2024 Form 5500 filing, the plan reports $211M in total end-of-year assets and covers 35 participants across the Finance & Insurance industry. The sponsor's EIN on file with the U.S. Department of Labor is 811880665, and the plan has been effective since 2016-03-18. Its filing status is currently FILING RECEIVED.
Year over year, total assets contracted severely from $320M at the beginning of 2024 to $211M at year-end - down 34.0%. Net assets (after liabilities) closed the year at $141M, with reported net income of -$107M 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 Brown Capital Management Holdings, Inc. has on file with PlainRetire (2022-2024), sponsor-wide plan assets have moved from $368M to $211M, a decline of 42.6%, while reported participants moved from 34 to 35 (+2.9%). The strongest year on file by total sponsor assets was 2022 at $368M; the softest was 2024 at $211M. Year-by-year, sponsor-wide filings show: 2022 - $368M in assets across 1 plan covering 34 participants; 2023 - $320M in assets across 1 plan covering 35 participants; 2024 - $211M in assets across 1 plan covering 35 participants.
By assets, Brown Capital Management ESOP outranks 95% of the 116,472 plans that filed a Form 5500 for the 2024 plan year, and holds roughly 2.1x 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 Brown Capital Management ESOP 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) | $320M |
|---|---|
| Total Assets (End of Year) | $211M |
| Net Assets (End of Year) | $141M |
| Net Income | -$107M |
| Plan Type | Other |
| Employer EIN | 811880665 |
| Plan Effective Date | 2016-03-18 |
| Filing Status | FILING RECEIVED |
Sponsor Plan History (Brown Capital Management Holdings, Inc.)
| Year | Plans | Participants | Total Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1 | 34 | $368M |
| 2023 | 1 | 35 | $320M |
| 2024 | 1 | 35 | $211M |
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What this filing means
Ways to act on Brown Capital Management ESOP's numbers.
- By total assets, Brown Capital Management ESOP 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 Maryland. Compare plans
- Brown Capital Management Holdings, Inc.'s sponsor-wide assets have declined 42.6% since 2022 across 3 plan years on file. More Finance & Insurance 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 811880665.
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.