Princeton University retirement plans

Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. EIN 21-0634501. Annual reports 2009–2025. Also filed as Princeton University Office of Human Resources.

Princeton University has 2 active retirement plans on file. The largest is the Princeton University Retirement Plan, with 17,931 participants and $2.8 billion in assets in 2025. TIAA has been its recordkeeper since 2016. No traditional pension plan appears in Princeton University's filings since 2009.

Active plans: 2
Participants: 33,399
Plan assets: $4.8 billion
401(k) recordkeeper: TIAA
Plans on file: 3
Industry: Education

All 3 plans

Active plans first

Princeton University Retirement Plan

Money purchase pensionActive

Active. The plan filed its annual report for the 2025 plan year.

Plan number: 003Employer EIN 21-0634501
Participants (2025): 17,931
Net assets (2025): $2.8 billion
Recordkeeper: TIAAEarlier: Sunguard Business Systems (2013), TIAA (2010–2012)
Plan administrator: Princeton University Benefits Committee
100 Overlook Center, Suite 400
Princeton, NJ 08544
(609) 258-9109As filed for 2025
In effect since: January 1, 1994

Earlier sponsors: Princeton University Office of Human Resources (2009–2016); Princeton University (2017).

Year by year, 2009 to 2025

Plan year	Participants	Net assets	Recordkeeper
2025	17,931	$2.8 billion	TIAA
2024	17,713	$2.4 billion	TIAA
2023	17,424	$2.1 billion	TIAA
2022	16,801	$1.8 billion	TIAA
2021	15,661	$2.1 billion	TIAA
2020	15,549	$1.8 billion	TIAA
2019	15,095	$1.6 billion	TIAA
2018	15,041	$1.3 billion	TIAA
2017	15,218	$1.4 billion	TIAA
2016	13,983	$1.2 billion	TIAA
2015	13,741	$1.1 billion	not listed
2014	12,869	$1.0 billion	not listed
2013	12,782	$953 million	Sunguard Business Systems
2012	12,600	$797 million	TIAA
2011	12,464	$693 million	TIAA
2010	11,069	$658 million	TIAA
2009	11,233	$572 million	not listed

Princeton University Retirement Savings Plan

403(b)Active

Active. The plan filed its annual report for the 2025 plan year.

Plan number: 004Employer EIN 21-0634501
Participants (2025): 15,468
Net assets (2025): $2.0 billion
Recordkeeper: TIAAEarlier: Ernst & Young (2013)
Plan administrator: Princeton University Benefits Committee
100 Overlook Center, Suite 400
Princeton, NJ 08544
(609) 258-9109As filed for 2025
In effect since: January 1, 1970

Earlier sponsor: Princeton University (2009–2017).

Earlier plan names: Princeton University Supplemental Retirement Plan.

Year by year, 2009 to 2025

Plan year	Participants	Net assets	Recordkeeper
2025	15,468	$2.0 billion	TIAA
2024	15,198	$1.7 billion	TIAA
2023	14,707	$1.5 billion	TIAA
2022	13,989	$1.3 billion	TIAA
2021	12,982	$1.5 billion	TIAA
2020	12,676	$1.3 billion	TIAA
2019	11,951	$1.1 billion	not listed
2018	11,247	$914 million	not listed
2017	10,650	$930 million	not listed
2016	9,994	$793 million	not listed
2015	8,995	$712 million	not listed
2014	7,930	$678 million	not listed
2013	6,188	$611 million	Ernst & Young
2012	5,966	$506 million	not listed
2010	4,041	$417 million	not listed
2009	6,593	$366 million	not listed

Retirement Annuity Program for Monthly Employees

403(b)Stopped filingUnion (multiemployer)

No annual report since the 2016 plan year, and no final report on record. The plan may have been merged, renamed or re-filed under another number; ask the plan administrator below.

Plan number: 001Employer EIN 21-0634501
Participants (2016): 535
Net assets (2016): $15.3 million
Plan administrator: Princeton University Benefits Committee
Office of Human Resources, 2 New South
Princeton, NJ 08544
(609) 258-9109As filed for 2016
In effect since: July 1, 1923

Year by year, 2009 to 2016

Plan year	Participants	Net assets	Recordkeeper
2016	535	$15.3 million	not listed
2015	27	$7.9 million	not listed
2013	23	$6.4 million	not listed
2012	21	$5.5 million	not listed
2011	20	$5.8 million	not listed
2009	4,993	$687 million	not listed

If you had money in one of these plans

Call TIAA (tiaa.org), which runs the Princeton University 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 ((609) 258-9109). That number was filed for 2025; ask for the benefits or retirement plan office.
If your plan closed, unclaimed balances usually went to an IRA in your name, to the PBGC's missing participants program, or to state unclaimed property. Here is how to check each one.
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.