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BAYFIELD ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE

EIN 39-0154234 IRON RIVER, WI

Largest nonprofits in Wisconsin

Revenue 2025
$16,084,959
Expenses 2025
$15,448,919

Program services were 100.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
12
Classification
4000
Street
PO BOX 68

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

Committed to provide safe, reliable, and affordable electricity to rural areas through superior customer service.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Electric Energy Distribution

  • To provide electrical energy to its members

    Expenses $15,448,919 · Revenue $16,084,959

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Christopher Kopel

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $343,277
    From this org
    $249,848
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $93,429
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $249,848
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $59,939
    Nontaxable benefits
    $33,490
    Filer's total
    $343,277

  • Robert Lahti

    Operations Manager

    Total calculated
    $199,904
    From this org
    $135,753
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $64,151
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $135,753
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $35,514
    Nontaxable benefits
    $28,637
    Filer's total
    $199,904

  • Sara Anderson

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $199,123
    From this org
    $135,077
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $64,046
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $135,077
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $35,412
    Nontaxable benefits
    $28,634
    Filer's total
    $199,123

  • Amanda Kavajecz

    Biling Specialist

    Total calculated
    $177,528
    From this org
    $127,215
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $50,313
    Hours/week
    51.75

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $127,215
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $22,353
    Nontaxable benefits
    $27,959
    Filer's total
    $177,527

  • Matthew Tarasewicz

    Lineman

    Total calculated
    $160,081
    From this org
    $128,167
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $31,914
    Hours/week
    46.59

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $128,167
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $18,606
    Nontaxable benefits
    $13,308
    Filer's total
    $160,081

  • Braden Stegmann

    Lineman

    Total calculated
    $158,295
    From this org
    $141,705
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $16,590
    Hours/week
    51.26

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $141,705
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $16,065
    Nontaxable benefits
    $525
    Filer's total
    $158,295

  • Troy Seeger

    Line Foreman

    Total calculated
    $156,513
    From this org
    $136,250
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $20,263
    Hours/week
    46.07

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $136,250
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $19,617
    Nontaxable benefits
    $646
    Filer's total
    $156,513

  • Mark Santikko

    President

    Total calculated
    $9,300
    From this org
    $9,300
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5.81

  • Curtis Berweger

    Secretary/Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $7,700
    From this org
    $7,700
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    4.29

  • Russell Bailey

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $7,700
    From this org
    $7,700
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    4.96

  • James Kinzie

    Director

    Total calculated
    $7,450
    From this org
    $7,450
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5.38

  • Barry Radloff

    Director

    Total calculated
    $7,450
    From this org
    $7,450
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    4.17

  • Carl Schutte

    Director

    Total calculated
    $7,450
    From this org
    $7,450
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    4.58

  • Roy Settgas

    Director

    Total calculated
    $5,950
    From this org
    $5,950
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    3.31

  • Michael Neslon

    Director

    Total calculated
    $5,200
    From this org
    $5,200
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.62

  • Robert Kretzschmar

    Director

    Total calculated
    $4,950
    From this org
    $4,950
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.52

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $16,084,959
    Expenses
    $15,448,919
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $15,481,680
    Expenses
    $15,168,020
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $15,276,420
    Expenses
    $14,799,335
    Contributions
    $302,180
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $15,614,627
    Expenses
    $15,617,494
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $14,541,507
    Expenses
    $14,404,913
    Assets (EOY)
    $40,468,234

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $14,848,541
    Expenses
    $14,783,168
    Assets (EOY)
    $41,394,369

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared as related by

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Not present in the most recent drop.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.