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MARIAS RIVER ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC

EIN 81-0218128 SHELBY, MT

Largest nonprofits in Montana

Revenue 2025
$8,739,360
Expenses 2025
$8,739,360

Program services were 84.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
12
NTEE code
W80Z
Classification
4000
Street
PO BOX 729

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).

Other organizations at this address

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

PROVIDE ELECTRICAL POWER TO RURAL NORTHERN MONTANA

  • PROVIDE ELECTRIC POWER SERVICE TO COOPERATIVE MEMBERS IN NORTHERN RURAL MONTANA

    Expenses $7,393,177 · Revenue $8,710,018

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.

  • Merle Raph

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $10,239
    From this org
    $10,239
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    3.43
  • Adrian Hawks

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $3,746
    From this org
    $3,746
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.88
  • Joe Sisk

    SECRETARY/TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $7,670
    From this org
    $7,670
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.9
  • Mel Fretheim

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $6,406
    From this org
    $6,406
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.85
  • Terry Peters

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $5,245
    From this org
    $5,245
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.3
  • Dan Gliko

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $3,359
    From this org
    $3,359
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.9
  • Shannon Dunk

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $4,303
    From this org
    $4,303
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.13
  • Shannon McAllister

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $3,608
    From this org
    $3,608
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.9
  • Renae Manley

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $5,132
    From this org
    $5,132
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.63
  • Shane Clark

    MANAGER

    Total calculated
    $232,277
    From this org
    $154,214
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $78,063
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $154,214
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $39,737
    Nontaxable benefits
    $38,326
    Filer's total
    $232,277
  • Ryan Austin

    OPERATIONS SUPERINTENDENT

    Total calculated
    $199,153
    From this org
    $128,572
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $70,581
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $128,572
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $32,547
    Nontaxable benefits
    $38,034
    Filer's total
    $199,153
  • Justin Nelson

    FOREMAN

    Total calculated
    $168,594
    From this org
    $127,746
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $40,848
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $127,746
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $22,349
    Nontaxable benefits
    $18,499
    Filer's total
    $168,594
  • Cory Lamb

    MAPPING TECH/JOURNEYMAN

    Total calculated
    $153,387
    From this org
    $114,372
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $39,015
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $114,372
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $20,601
    Nontaxable benefits
    $18,414
    Filer's total
    $153,387
  • Derek Doane

    JOURNEYMAN LINEMAN

    Total calculated
    $151,069
    From this org
    $112,419
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $38,650
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $112,419
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $20,258
    Nontaxable benefits
    $18,392
    Filer's total
    $151,069
  • Alex Helgeson

    JOURNEYMAN LINEMAN

    Total calculated
    $156,425
    From this org
    $118,001
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $38,424
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $118,001
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $20,041
    Nontaxable benefits
    $18,383
    Filer's total
    $156,425

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
    $8,739,360
    Expenses
    $8,739,360
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $8,392,138
    Expenses
    $8,392,138
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $7,768,073
    Expenses
    $7,810,406
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $8,248,115
    Expenses
    $8,168,680
    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
    $7,549,069
    Expenses
    $7,182,055
    Assets (EOY)
    $18,173,914
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,675,261
    Expenses
    $7,189,373
    Assets (EOY)
    $17,640,891
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,608,786
    Expenses
    $7,546,489
    Assets (EOY)
    $15,697,407
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,882,663
    Expenses
    $7,583,681
    Assets (EOY)
    $14,868,496
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,882,663
    Expenses
    $7,583,681
    Assets (EOY)
    $14,868,496
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,194,327
    Expenses
    $7,077,505
    Assets (EOY)
    $14,330,503
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,976,936
    Expenses
    $6,963,186
    Assets (EOY)
    $14,707,116
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,124,463
    Expenses
    $6,990,069
    Assets (EOY)
    $14,875,813
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,463,647
    Expenses
    $7,242,546
    Assets (EOY)
    $13,792,805
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,393,772
    Expenses
    $7,359,469
    Assets (EOY)
    $14,076,215

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 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.