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HILL COUNTY ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC

EIN 81-0218593 HAVRE, MT

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Revenue 2025
$19,851,616
Expenses 2025
$19,851,616

As filed

Subsection
12
Classification
4000
Street
PO BOX 2330

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

HILL COUNTY ELECTRIC PROVIDES OUR MEMBERS AND CUSTOMERS WITH HIGH QUALITY, RELIABLE AND SAFE ELECTRIC SERVICES AND ASSOCIATED PRODUCTS AT COMPETITIVE PRICES, NOW AND IN THE FUTURE. USING ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY WHEN AVAILABLE AND COST-EFFECTIVE, WE STRIVE TO EXCEED THE EXPECTATIONS OF OUR CUSTOMERS BY GIVING UNCOMPROMISING CUSTOMER SERVICE BASED ON CORE PRINCIPLES OF COOPERATION, MUTUAL RESPECT AND APPRECIATION FOR THEIR PATRONAGE.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO PROVIDE ELECTRICITY TO RURAL AREAS.

  • HILL COUNTY ELECTRIC PROVIDES OUR MEMBERS AND CUSTOMERS WITH HIGH QUALITY, RELIABLE AND SAFE ELECTRIC SERVICES, AND ASSOCIATED PRODUCTS AT COMPETITIVE PRICES, NOW AND IN THE FUTURE. USING ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY WHEN AVAILABLE AND COST-EFFECTIVE, WE STRIVE TO EXCEED THE EXPECTATIONS OF OUR CUSTOMERS BY GIVING UNCOMPROMISING CUSTOMER SERVICE BASED ON CORE PRINCIPLES OF COOPERATION, MUTUAL RESPECT, AND APPRECIATION FOR THEIR PATRONAGE. HCE PROVIDED ELECTRIC SERVICE TO APPROXIMATELY 2,351 MEMBERS AND ADDED/REPLACED 21.6 MILES OF LINE.

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Shane Barrett

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $18,503
    From this org
    $18,503
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    13
  • Leslie Smith

    SECRETARY/TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $15,300
    From this org
    $15,300
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Nick Siebrasse

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $20,925
    From this org
    $20,925
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    12
  • Robert Lasalle

    TRUSTEE FROM 11/2025

    Total calculated
    $2,250
    From this org
    $2,250
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Trevor Standing Rock

    TRUSTEE UNTIL 09/2025

    Total calculated
    $9,675
    From this org
    $9,675
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Kelly Rutledge

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $18,338
    From this org
    $18,338
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Craig Gates

    GENERAL MANAGER/CEO

    Total calculated
    $227,536
    From this org
    $157,010
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $70,526
    Hours/week
    16

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $145,658
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $11,352
    Deferred
    $61,600
    Nontaxable benefits
    $13,626
    Filer's total
    $232,236
  • Mark Majeres

    CONTROLLER/CFO

    Total calculated
    $91,906
    From this org
    $53,774
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $38,132
    Hours/week
    11.4
  • Warren Schmitt

    VP OF ELECTRIC SAFETY

    Total calculated
    $213,613
    From this org
    $146,030
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $67,583
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $133,928
    Bonus
    $10,800
    Other
    $1,302
    Deferred
    $38,211
    Nontaxable benefits
    $33,412
    Filer's total
    $217,653
  • Russell Gregoire

    ELECTRIC LINEMAN

    Total calculated
    $143,882
    From this org
    $129,510
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $14,372
    Hours/week
    40
  • Wes Gingery

    ELECTRIC LINEMAN

    Total calculated
    $149,363
    From this org
    $117,047
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $32,316
    Hours/week
    40
  • Thaddeus Darrah

    ELECTRIC LINEMAN

    Total calculated
    $148,371
    From this org
    $118,055
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $30,316
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $109,625
    Bonus
    $7,754
    Other
    $676
    Deferred
    $8,000
    Nontaxable benefits
    $24,876
    Filer's total
    $150,931
  • Joshua Pulse

    ELECTRIC LINEMAN

    Total calculated
    $156,266
    From this org
    $121,894
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $34,372
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $112,881
    Bonus
    $8,337
    Other
    $676
    Deferred
    $5,000
    Nontaxable benefits
    $32,223
    Filer's total
    $159,117

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
    $19,851,616
    Expenses
    $19,851,616
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $4,015
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $18,736,573
    Expenses
    $18,736,573
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $4,015
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $18,980,007
    Expenses
    $18,980,007
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $3,545
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $18,233,418
    Expenses
    $18,233,418
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $1,611

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
    $18,033,515
    Expenses
    $18,033,515
    Assets (EOY)
    $40,815,029
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $16,867,970
    Expenses
    $16,867,970
    Assets (EOY)
    $36,044,417
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $17,313,163
    Expenses
    $17,313,163
    Assets (EOY)
    $36,482,016
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $17,406,218
    Expenses
    $17,406,218
    Assets (EOY)
    $36,174,144
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $17,027,707
    Expenses
    $17,027,707
    Assets (EOY)
    $36,184,571
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $14,940,397
    Expenses
    $14,940,397
    Assets (EOY)
    $35,758,028
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $14,013,871
    Expenses
    $14,013,871
    Assets (EOY)
    $32,851,301
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $13,194,259
    Expenses
    $13,027,045
    Assets (EOY)
    $32,626,847
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $13,464,479
    Expenses
    $13,464,479
    Assets (EOY)
    $31,920,582
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $12,601,667
    Assets (EOY)
    $30,311,557

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

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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.