Former Director, National Science Foundation
Sethuraman Panchanathan
First Trump administration.
- Assets disclosed
- $7.2M to $16M
- Outside pay
- Not shown
- Trades disclosed
- 98
- Left office
- Apr 2025
Assets disclosed: on the 2021 annual filing. The values on Panchanathan’s latest financial disclosure to the Office of Government Ethics, added up as ranges, because the form gives ranges and never exact values.
Outside pay: shown for the current administration only. What the latest form reports was paid to the official to the dollar, outside the public salary, which is set by law.
Trades disclosed: Jul 2020 to Dec 2023. Transactions on 278-T reports and annual reports, which include a spouse’s and dependent children’s.
Left office: Jun 18, 2020 to Apr 24, 2025.
Outside pay is kept for the current administration only. The Office of Government Ethics drops officials from its public portal after they leave, and by law it destroys most reports six years after they are filed. We saved some earlier reports before they went, but no complete set for any earlier administration survives, and a partial record shown as if it were whole would mislead.
Start date: the cabinet record.
Leaving date: nsf.gov.
Largest holdings
On the 2021 annual filing
- Fidelity VIP Balanced (FJBAC)$500K to $1M
- T Rowe Price Retirement I 2025 (TRPHX)$500K to $1M
- Spouse’s employmentDMG Balanced Fund-of-Funds$500K to $1M
- Fidelity Contrafund K6 (FLCNX)$500K to $1M
- MFS Value Fund R6 (MEIKX)$500K to $1M
- Assets listedEach with a value range
- 108
- Without a valueListed with no dollar range
- 17
Trades
Disclosed on periodic and annual reports, by year
- Bought61% of trades
- 60
- Sold38% of trades, and 1 exchanged
- 37
0 of the 33 trades with a filing date to check were reported after 45 days plus any extension the filing states. The other 65 carry no filing date that can be checked.
The executive financial disclosure reports the official’s transactions together with those of a spouse and dependent children, and does not mark which is which. These trades are shown as disclosed. They should not be read as the official personally trading.
13 annual report rows are left out because the filing gives several dates for one line rather than one. Each row links to its filing, which is the complete record.
What was traded
- Individual stock
30% of trades
29 - Funds and ETFs
62% of trades
61 - Other assets
8% of trades
8
Past the deadline
0
Of the 33 trades with a filing date to check, after 45 days plus any extension the filing states
Estimated volume
$1.2M
The forms give each trade as a range of dollars. This adds the low end of every range, so the real volume is at least this and could be much more.
Net worth
Reported as ranges, so no single net worth
- Disclosed assets
- $7.2M to $16M
- Disclosed liabilities
- None disclosed
A net worth for Sethuraman Panchanathan cannot be computed from this filing: values are given as ranges, some items carry no value, and a home kept for personal use is not reported.
- Disclosed assets:
- as ranges on 108 line items, plus 17 without a dollar value
- Disclosed liabilities:
- none reported on this filing
These are the lower and upper bounds of the ranges on the filing, not a market valuation. Assets and liabilities are shown separately and are never netted into a net worth. How these bands are read
Kept since Aug 27, 2026. Federal law generally requires a filing to be destroyed six years after it was received, unless it is needed in an ongoing investigation.
Disclosures: Office of Government Ethics, read through Oct 24, 2026. Latest filing: 2021 annual filing.
Holdings
On the 2021 annual filing, largest range first
- Fidelity VIP Balanced (FJBAC)$500K to $1M
- T Rowe Price Retirement I 2025 (TRPHX)
Line 2.1 of the filing
$500K to $1M - Spouse’s employmentDMG Balanced Fund-of-Funds$500K to $1M
- Fidelity Contrafund K6 (FLCNX)
Line 4.1 of the filing
$500K to $1M - MFS Value Fund R6 (MEIKX)$500K to $1M
These are the lower and upper bounds of the ranges on the filing, not a market valuation. Assets and liabilities are shown separately and are never netted into a net worth. How these bands are read
Kept since Aug 27, 2026. Federal law generally requires a filing to be destroyed six years after it was received, unless it is needed in an ongoing investigation.
Disclosures: Office of Government Ethics, read through Oct 24, 2026. Latest filing: 2021 annual filing.
Trades
98 disclosed transactions, Jul 2020 to Dec 2023
What was traded
- Individual stock
30% of trades
29 - Funds and ETFs
62% of trades
61 - Other assets
8% of trades
8
Past the deadline
0
Of the 33 trades with a filing date to check, after 45 days plus any extension the filing states
Estimated volume
$1.2M
The forms give each trade as a range of dollars. This adds the low end of every range, so the real volume is at least this and could be much more.
Disclosed transactions
Newest first, five a page, each with its filing
Bought unless marked · Unspecified, every row
98 disclosed transactions, 65 of them only in the annual report. Amounts are ranges, never exact, and every row links to the official filing. A symbol marked with an asterisk was matched from the company name on the filing. The filer did not write a symbol down.
0 of the 33 trades with a filing date to check were reported after 45 days plus any extension the filing states. The other 65 carry no filing date that can be checked.
The executive financial disclosure reports the official’s transactions together with those of a spouse and dependent children, and does not mark which is which. These trades are shown as disclosed. They should not be read as the official personally trading.
13 annual report rows are left out because the filing gives several dates for one line rather than one. Each row links to its filing, which is the complete record.
Disclosures: Office of Government Ethics, read through Oct 24, 2026. Latest filing: 2021 annual filing.