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NORTHERN ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INCORPORATED

EIN 46-0151015 BATH, SD

Largest nonprofits in South Dakota

Revenue 2025
$33,611,616
Expenses 2025
$33,611,616

As filed

Subsection
12
Classification
4000
Street
PO BOX 457

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

THE PURPOSE OF THE ORGANIZATION OF NORTHERN ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INCORPORATED IS TO PROVIDE ITS MEMBERS WITH A DEPENDABLE QUALITY AND QUANTITY OF ELECTRICAL ENERGY AT THE LOWEST POSSIBLE RATES CONSISTENT WITH SOUND BUSINESS PRACTICES AND FINANCIAL FEASIBILITY AND TO PROVIDE SUCH OTHER SERVICES THAT WOULD BE DESIRABLE FOR THE BETTERMENT OF ITS MEMBERS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

PROVIDE ELECTRICITY TO RURAL AREAS.

  • PROVIDED ELECTRIC SERVICE TO APPROXIMATELY 6,938 MEMBERS/METERS AND ADDED/REPLACED 75 MILES OF LINE AND RETIRED 70 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.

  • Nolan Wipf

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $13,032
    From this org
    $13,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $32
    Hours/week
    5

  • Josh Larson

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $8,782
    From this org
    $8,750
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $32
    Hours/week
    5

  • Todd Hettich

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $16,932
    From this org
    $16,900
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $32
    Hours/week
    5

  • Kirk Schaunaman

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $5,332
    From this org
    $5,300
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $32
    Hours/week
    5

  • Mike Traxinger

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $5,932
    From this org
    $5,900
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $32
    Hours/week
    5

  • William Hansen

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $8,882
    From this org
    $8,850
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $32
    Hours/week
    5

  • Scott Sperry

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $6,932
    From this org
    $6,900
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $32
    Hours/week
    5

  • Thomas Lambert

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $6,332
    From this org
    $6,300
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $32
    Hours/week
    5

  • Bruce Schumacher Jr

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $6,332
    From this org
    $6,300
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $32
    Hours/week
    5

  • Charlene Hager

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $264,306
    From this org
    $177,681
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $86,625
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $170,711
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $6,970
    Deferred
    $51,182
    Nontaxable benefits
    $43,242
    Filer's total
    $272,105

  • Lorisa Rudolph

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $151,554
    From this org
    $109,554
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $42,000
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $109,028
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $526
    Deferred
    $11,987
    Nontaxable benefits
    $36,969
    Filer's total
    $158,510

  • Derek Gorecki

    IT MANAGER

    Total calculated
    $207,025
    From this org
    $136,235
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $70,790
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $134,488
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $1,747
    Deferred
    $55,803
    Nontaxable benefits
    $19,680
    Filer's total
    $211,718

  • Russel Ulmer

    MEMBER SERVICES MANAGER

    Total calculated
    $189,232
    From this org
    $131,357
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $57,875
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $129,706
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $1,651
    Deferred
    $43,920
    Nontaxable benefits
    $16,118
    Filer's total
    $191,395

  • Jerome Weber

    OPERATIONS MANAGER

    Total calculated
    $193,632
    From this org
    $131,025
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $62,607
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $126,129
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $4,896
    Deferred
    $35,461
    Nontaxable benefits
    $34,280
    Filer's total
    $200,766

  • Brian Hansen

    LINE FOREMAN

    Total calculated
    $160,585
    From this org
    $112,118
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $48,467
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $111,647
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $471
    Deferred
    $18,922
    Nontaxable benefits
    $36,232
    Filer's total
    $167,272

  • Nick Dean

    JOURNEYMAN LINEMAN

    Total calculated
    $136,749
    From this org
    $109,962
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $26,787
    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
    $33,611,616
    Expenses
    $33,611,616
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $31,354,805
    Expenses
    $31,354,805
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $1,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $30,345,133
    Expenses
    $30,345,133
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $30,719,297
    Expenses
    $30,719,297
    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
    $30,596,748
    Expenses
    $30,596,748
    Assets (EOY)
    $94,862,392

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $29,815,677
    Expenses
    $29,815,677
    Assets (EOY)
    $88,951,614

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $29,671,593
    Expenses
    $29,671,593
    Assets (EOY)
    $84,715,780

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $31,354,924
    Expenses
    $31,354,924
    Assets (EOY)
    $79,823,652

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $29,893,159
    Expenses
    $29,893,159
    Assets (EOY)
    $75,703,493

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $28,028,317
    Expenses
    $28,028,317
    Assets (EOY)
    $72,903,945

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $26,106,904
    Expenses
    $26,106,904
    Assets (EOY)
    $69,540,533

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $27,718,501
    Expenses
    $27,718,501
    Assets (EOY)
    $63,648,154

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $27,151,498
    Expenses
    $27,151,498
    Assets (EOY)
    $61,375,335

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $23,300,396
    Assets (EOY)
    $56,585,301

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.

Related corporations and trusts on its 2024 return

  • NORTHERN WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS INC

    C · INACTIVE · SD · 100% owned · controlled entity

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.