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JOINT POWERS TRUST

EIN 81-0457009 BILLINGS, MT

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Revenue 2024
$51,572,711
Expenses 2024
$51,636,037

As filed

Subsection
09
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 81647

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 · 2024

Mission

None.

Activities or mission (Part I)

To provide employees of Montana and Wyoming public service agencies with cost-effective group health benefit plans, and to provide wellness education and quality benefit programs which are designed to meet the needs of our members.

  • The plans within the trust provide health benefits (medical, hospital, surgical, major medical and dental) for all eligible employees of the employers with 20 to 40 hours of service per week, their families and their dependents as defined by agreement with the trust. Eligible employers are any government subdivisions of the various states who voluntarily apply to become a party to the Trust.

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Stephanie Verhasselt

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 40 related
  • Richard Dunbar

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 40 related
  • Kody Farkell

    Secretary/Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 40 related
  • Elliott Crump

    Trustee until Sept

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 40 related
  • Jeff Bermes

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 40 related
  • Jodi Pedersen

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 40 related
  • John Fitzgerald

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 40 related
  • Mark Wandle

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 40 related
  • Shane Heigis

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $208,250
    From this org
    $174,891
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $33,359
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $165,891
    Bonus
    $9,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $12,127
    Nontaxable benefits
    $21,231
    Filer's total
    $208,249

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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $51,572,711
    Expenses
    $51,636,037
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $39,286,768
    Expenses
    $41,251,002
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $40,852,097
    Expenses
    $40,230,485
    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
    $38,603,841
    Expenses
    $39,476,779
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,649,981
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $40,721,740
    Expenses
    $41,939,759
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,191,637
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $34,723,914
    Expenses
    $34,318,232
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,278,950
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $32,538,314
    Expenses
    $29,447,289
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,932,056
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $32,405,229
    Expenses
    $30,275,903
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,387,687
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $32,162,444
    Expenses
    $32,161,345
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,305,536
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $30,139,231
    Expenses
    $31,122,888
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,592,349
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $26,796,141
    Expenses
    $28,413,264
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,955,773
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $23,260,350
    Expenses
    $24,733,892
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,364,681
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $25,155,977
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,300,642

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 2024 return

  • Absarokee School District #52

  • Bainville School District

  • Bear Paw Cooperative

  • Belgrade School District

  • Big Country Co-Op

  • Box Elder School District

  • Broadus Public Schools

  • Brockton School District

  • Carter County

  • Chester Joplin Inverness

  • City Of Hardin

  • City Of Laurel

  • CMLRCC

  • Colstrip Park & Recreation Dis

  • Colstrip School District

  • Columbus School District

  • Corvallis School District

  • Daniels County

  • Dodson School District

  • Ekalaka School District 15

  • Fairfield Public Schools

  • Florence Carlton School District

  • Frenchtown School District

  • Froid School District

  • Greenfield School District

The first 25 as filed. The return lists every one.

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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.