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WILD RICE ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC

EIN 41-0612945 MAHNOMEN, MN

Largest nonprofits in Minnesota

Revenue 2023
$36,527,960
Expenses 2023
$36,073,471

As filed

Subsection
12
Classification
4000
Street
PO BOX 438

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 · 2023

Mission

Energizing our member's future.

Activities or mission (Part I)

The exempt purpose of the Organization is to provide electricity to members.

  • Wild Rice Electric is a retail power supplier, which owns and maintains over 3,646 miles of distribution lines in a 3,200 square mile service area. The Cooperative serves 14,701 consumers made up of 11,907 members.

As filed on the 2023 return.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • David Hamre

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $8,362
    From this org
    $8,362
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    4.4
  • Greg Lavoy

    Director

    Total calculated
    $8,482
    From this org
    $8,482
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    3.7
  • Jeff Nornes

    Director

    Total calculated
    $10,357
    From this org
    $10,357
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5.5
  • Jimmy Kaiser

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $9,607
    From this org
    $9,607
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    4.9
  • Larry Sollie

    Vice Chairman

    Total calculated
    $8,707
    From this org
    $8,707
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    6.6
  • Mark Habedank

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $7,907
    From this org
    $7,907
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    7.3
  • Randy Bjornson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $9,319
    From this org
    $9,319
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5.1
  • Roger Winter

    Director

    Total calculated
    $9,221
    From this org
    $9,221
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    3.8
  • Russel Okeson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $7,846
    From this org
    $7,846
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    4.3
  • Crystal Askelson

    Director of Finance

    Total calculated
    $134,793
    From this org
    $89,030
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $45,763
    Hours/week
    40
  • Elaine Garry

    Interim President/CEO (Jan-Feb)

    Total calculated
    $35,400
    From this org
    $35,400
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Michael Wade

    President/CEO (Feb-Dec)

    Total calculated
    $269,490
    From this org
    $175,179
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $94,311
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $175,179
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $75,416
    Nontaxable benefits
    $19,853
    Filer's total
    $270,448
  • Alan Brunner

    Director of Operations

    Total calculated
    $163,528
    From this org
    $115,938
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $47,590
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $115,938
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $34,241
    Nontaxable benefits
    $13,984
    Filer's total
    $164,163
  • Glen Sommers

    Journeyman Lineman

    Total calculated
    $125,633
    From this org
    $111,786
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $13,847
    Hours/week
    44
  • Kenneth Crane

    Foreman Lineman

    Total calculated
    $153,774
    From this org
    $112,488
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $41,286
    Hours/week
    44

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $112,488
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $29,120
    Nontaxable benefits
    $12,674
    Filer's total
    $154,282
  • Thomas Houdek - Director of

    Member Services & Communic

    Total calculated
    $157,495
    From this org
    $112,842
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $44,653
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $112,842
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $20,579
    Nontaxable benefits
    $24,714
    Filer's total
    $158,135
  • Travis Obowa

    Lead Lineman

    Total calculated
    $175,915
    From this org
    $112,893
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $63,022
    Hours/week
    45.5

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $112,893
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $39,448
    Nontaxable benefits
    $24,083
    Filer's total
    $176,424

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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $36,527,960
    Expenses
    $36,073,471
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $36,176,837
    Expenses
    $35,675,232
    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
    $34,569,574
    Expenses
    $33,013,356
    Assets (EOY)
    $71,183,231
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $33,420,098
    Expenses
    $33,420,098
    Assets (EOY)
    $68,277,832
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $34,598,685
    Expenses
    $34,653,826
    Assets (EOY)
    $66,969,727
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $33,723,329
    Expenses
    $34,005,651
    Assets (EOY)
    $64,657,465
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $31,738,757
    Expenses
    $31,852,034
    Assets (EOY)
    $61,052,073
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $30,837,021
    Expenses
    $30,754,272
    Assets (EOY)
    $59,592,694
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $30,441,810
    Expenses
    $30,543,575
    Assets (EOY)
    $58,222,138
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $31,178,048
    Expenses
    $31,184,306
    Assets (EOY)
    $57,060,978
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $29,710,233
    Expenses
    $29,767,073
    Assets (EOY)
    $56,595,302
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $27,514,973
    Assets (EOY)
    $53,134,456

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

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 on its 2023 return

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 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.