Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute403(b)
STERLING AND FRANCINE CLARK ART INSTITUTE DC PLAN · WILLIAMSTOWN, MA · plan year 2025
Peer grade: A · admin costs + employer contributions vs same-size plans · how grading works
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute reported $716 in plan administrative expenses for 2025: 0.00% of average plan assets, lower than ~75% of peers. Employer contributions averaged $5,453 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 3 years on file its reported administrative ratio rose from 0.001% to 0.002%. The plan sits in the $10M–$50M size bracket, benchmarked here against 1,620 comparable plans and shown alongside other arts, entertainment & recreation employers. By assets it is the 789th-largest of 2,726 plans among Massachusetts employers on file, and the 236th of 1,311 in arts, entertainment & recreation. In 2025, employees put in $1.16 for every $1.00 the employer contributed; active participation has shrunk from 135 to 115 since 2022.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute's 2025 employer contribution ran above the $2,666 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.
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 series, EIN 042163004 · Verify on EFAST2 · Amounts are as reported by the plan sponsor for the plan year shown.