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American Enterprise Institute403(b)

RETIREMENT PLAN FOR AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH · WASHINGTON, DC · plan year 2024

Reported admin expense ratio · 2024
0.01%

Peer grade: A · admin costs + employer contributions vs same-size plans · how grading works

American Enterprise Institute reported $7,267 in plan administrative expenses for 2024: 0.01% of average plan assets, lower than ~75% of peers. Employer contributions averaged $7,934 per active participant. This ratio covers administrative expenses reported on the plan's Schedule H only; fund-level expense ratios are not included in public structured data — see methodology.

Across the 2 years on file its reported administrative ratio rose from 0.00% to 0.01%. The plan sits in the $50M–$250M size bracket, benchmarked here against 10,352 comparable plans and shown alongside other educational services employers. By assets it is the 98th-largest of 618 plans among District of Columbia employers on file, and the 527th of 3,091 in educational services. In 2024, the employer put in $1.49 for every $1.00 employees contributed themselves.

Plan summary
Net assets, end of year$100,260,552
Participants with balances644
Active participants359
Employer contributions$2,848,421
Employee contributions$1,909,114
Employer contribution per active participant$7,934
Average account balance$155,684
Benefits paid to participants$8,940,093
Plan auditUnmodified (clean) audit opinion
Plan history3
Yearassets · accounts · employer contribution
2024$100.3M · 644 accts · $2.8M emplr
2023$91.9M · 632 accts · $2.6M emplr
2022$82.4M · 622 accts · $2.4M emplr
Administrative expenses, itemized · 2024
Recordkeeping & contract admin$608
Investment management$6,659
Total administrative$7,267
Employer contributions to the American Enterprise Institute plan · 2024
Employer contribution per active participant$7,934
Median for plans this size$3,635
2024$7,934 per active participant
2023$7,324 per active participant
2022$6,683 per active participant

American Enterprise Institute's 2024 employer contribution ran above the $3,635 median for plans its size, placing it in the top quarter of its peers. Filings report dollars actually contributed, not the match formula; the formula itself (for example, 50% of the first 6% of pay) lives in the plan's summary plan description from HR.

What these fees cost you

Annual cost at the plan's reported 2024 administrative ratio, against the median plan its size; fund expense ratios are extra. Compare any plan.

Service providers · 20242
EMPOWER ADVISORY GROUP, LLC · Investment management$6,659

Compensation shown is direct payments from plan assets reported on Schedule C. Providers paid through fund revenue-sharing appear as indirect.

Administrative cost history3
2024$7,267 · 0.01%
2023$3,858 · 0.00%
2022$464 · 0.00%
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 series, EIN 530218495 · Verify on EFAST2 · Amounts are as reported by the plan sponsor for the plan year shown.