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BIG SANDY RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE CORP

EIN 61-0133681 PAINTSVILLE, KY

Largest nonprofits in Kentucky

Revenue 2025
$31,345,819
Expenses 2025
$31,345,819

As filed

Subsection
12
Classification
3000
Street
504 11TH ST

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

PROVIDE ELECTRIC SERVICE TO MEMBER OWNERS ON A PATRONAGE BASIS. SERVE AN AVERAGE OF APPROXIMATELY 12,533 CONSUMERS MONTHLY.

  • PROVIDE ELECTRIC SERVICE TO MEMBER OWNERS ON A PATRONAGE BASIS. SERVE AN AVERAGE OF APPROXIMATELY 12,533 CONSUMERS MONTHLY.

    Expenses $31,345,820 · Grants $4,000 · Revenue $30,371,863

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.

  • Danny Wallen

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $17,846
    From this org
    $17,846
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    4.5
  • Greg Davis

    VICE CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $16,344
    From this org
    $16,344
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    4.5
  • James Vanhoose

    SEC-TREAS

    Total calculated
    $13,935
    From this org
    $13,935
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    4.5
  • Jimmie McKenzie

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $14,235
    From this org
    $14,235
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    4.5
  • Gary Francis

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $15,979
    From this org
    $15,979
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    4.5
  • Jason Holbrook

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $14,081
    From this org
    $14,081
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    4.5
  • Velma May

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $13,843
    From this org
    $13,843
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    4.5
  • Jeffery Prater

    PRESIDENT/GEN MGR

    Total calculated
    $197,200
    From this org
    $131,935
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $65,265
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $131,935
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $65,265
    Filer's total
    $197,200
  • Sandra Shepherd

    OFFICE MANAGER

    Total calculated
    $141,899
    From this org
    $89,932
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $51,967
    Hours/week
    40
  • John Harrison

    LINEMAN

    Total calculated
    $205,519
    From this org
    $179,529
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $25,990
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $179,529
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $25,990
    Filer's total
    $205,519
  • William Jarrell

    CREW LEADER

    Total calculated
    $147,700
    From this org
    $121,388
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $26,312
    Hours/week
    40
  • James Caudill

    LINEMAN

    Total calculated
    $138,815
    From this org
    $124,207
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $14,608
    Hours/week
    40
  • Jared Patrick

    LINEMAN

    Total calculated
    $150,473
    From this org
    $117,406
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $33,067
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $117,406
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $33,067
    Filer's total
    $150,473
  • Christopher Prater

    LINEMAN

    Total calculated
    $127,834
    From this org
    $112,996
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $14,838
    Hours/week
    40

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
    $31,345,819
    Expenses
    $31,345,819
    Contributions
    $208,366
    Grants paid
    $4,000
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $27,773,700
    Expenses
    $27,773,700
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $4,200
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $27,536,817
    Expenses
    $27,536,817
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $3,600
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $30,032,172
    Expenses
    $30,032,172
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $9,000

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
    $25,641,009
    Expenses
    $25,641,009
    Assets (EOY)
    $64,893,563
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $24,085,808
    Expenses
    $24,085,808
    Assets (EOY)
    $62,299,520
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $25,219,565
    Expenses
    $25,219,565
    Assets (EOY)
    $54,715,985
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $26,201,315
    Expenses
    $26,201,315
    Assets (EOY)
    $54,360,259
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $23,758,724
    Expenses
    $23,758,724
    Assets (EOY)
    $54,430,379
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $25,462,623
    Expenses
    $25,462,623
    Assets (EOY)
    $53,326,837
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $26,846,802
    Expenses
    $26,846,802
    Assets (EOY)
    $52,168,418
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $29,145,291
    Expenses
    $29,145,291
    Assets (EOY)
    $52,047,929
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $28,996,896
    Expenses
    $28,996,896
    Assets (EOY)
    $51,421,588
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $27,275,926
    Assets (EOY)
    $48,711,774

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 as related by

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Disregarded entities on its 2025 return

  • BIG SANDY FORESTRY LLC

    ROW CLEARING · KY · income -$5,072 · assets $37,216

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.