ESOP Database 2025, Division 2 - Middle Atlantic: NJ, NY, PA

This list includes information about all ESOPs in US Census Division 2 (Middle Atlantic), drawing on companies' Form 5500 filings and additional research by the NCEO. It is provided as a .xlsx spreadsheet and includes a codebook describing the fields. Each row corresponds to an ESOP and each column contains information about that plan. 

Fields in the database include: 

Descriptive plan and company data fields from plan year 2023 Form 5500 filings (or the most recent available filing before 2023):

• Sponsor company name
• DBA name of the sponsor company where applicable
• Sponsor street address
• Sponsor industry (six-digit NAICS code, sector name, and detailed industry name)
• Date of ESOP creation
• Number of participants (active and total)
• Total plan assets amount
• Plan employer securities amount
• Plan contributions
• Plan distributions
• S or C corporation indicator
• KSOP indicator
• Collectively bargained plan indicator
• Leveraged/non-leveraged ESOP indicator

Additional fields:

• Percentage ESOP ownership where available
• Company website URL where available
  
• Indicator for publicly traded companies, including cases where the ESOP company is a subsidiary of a public company
• Following DOL standard practices, the database excludes plans covering only one participant. We also exclude terminated plans. 

Download a sample of the data here.

For questions about the ESOP database or any NCEO research, contact research@nceo.org.