American University retirement plans

American University, Washington, DC. EIN 53-0196549. Annual reports 2009–2024.

American University has one active retirement plan on file, the American University Defined Contribution Retirement Plan, with 8,748 participants and $1.4 billion in assets in 2024. Fidelity has been its recordkeeper since 2009. No traditional pension plan appears in American University's filings since 2009.

Active plans: 1
Participants: 8,748
Plan assets: $1.4 billion
401(k) recordkeeper: Fidelity
Plans on file: 1
Industry: Education

The plan

American University Defined Contribution Retirement Plan

403(b)Active

Active. The plan filed its annual report for the 2024 plan year.

Plan number: 001Employer EIN 53-0196549
Participants (2024): 8,748
Net assets (2024): $1.4 billion
Recordkeeper: Fidelity2009–2024
Plan administrator: American University
4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20016
(202) 885-2591As filed for 2024
In effect since: January 1, 1947

Year by year, 2009 to 2024

Plan year	Participants	Net assets	Recordkeeper
2024	8,748	$1.4 billion	Fidelity
2023	8,024	$1.3 billion	Fidelity
2022	7,717	$1.1 billion	Fidelity
2021	8,121	$1.1 billion	Fidelity
2020	7,826	$1.2 billion	Fidelity
2019	7,768	$958 million	Fidelity
2018	7,758	$956 million	Fidelity
2017	6,855	$899 million	Fidelity
2016	6,634	$831 million	not listed
2015	6,426	$756 million	not listed
2014	6,673	$771 million	not listed
2013	7,155	$713 million	Fidelity
2012	8,164	$647 million	Fidelity
2011	7,375	$584 million	Fidelity
2010	7,516	$574 million	Fidelity
2009	7,139	$509 million	Fidelity

If you had money in one of these plans

Call Fidelity (fidelity.com), which runs the American University Defined Contribution Retirement Plan. With your Social Security number and the plan name, it can tell you whether you still have a balance and, if not, where it went.
Or call the plan administrator listed on the plan below ((202) 885-2591). That number was filed for 2024; ask for the benefits or retirement plan office.
Still stuck? The Department of Labor's benefits advisers help for free: askebsa.dol.gov or 1-866-444-3272. Never pay anyone to find your own money.

What these numbers are

They come from the Form 5500 annual reports each plan files with the Department of Labor, as the plan filed them. A plan year is usually a calendar year.
Participants counts everyone in the plan at year end: current employees, former employees who still have a balance or a pension coming, and retirees or beneficiaries being paid.
The recordkeeper is the service provider whose Schedule C entry says it keeps the plan's records. Small plans do not file Schedule C, so some plans show none.
We cannot see anyone's account. Only the plan or its recordkeeper can tell you your balance.

Sources: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 datasets and PBGC trusteed plans. How we read them.

The plan

American University Defined Contribution Retirement Plan

If you had money in one of these plans

What these numbers are

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