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KARNES ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC

EIN 74-0720615 KARNES CITY, TX

Largest nonprofits in Texas

Revenue 2025
$142,923,586
Expenses 2025
$141,370,586

As filed

Subsection
12
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 7

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

PROVIDING QUALITY SERVICE TO EMPOWER COMMUNITIES AND IMPROVE LIVES.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO PROVIDE QUALITY AND RELIABLE ELECTRIC SERVICE TO MEMBERS OF THE COOPERATIVE.

  • PROVIDING ELECTRIC POWER TO OUR MEMBERS AT COST ON A COOPERATIVE BASIS THROUGH THE ALLOCATION OF PATRONAGE CAPITAL. THERE WERE 23,687 ACTIVE SERVICES AT YEAR END.

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.

  • Clif Royal

    SECRETARY/TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $35,841
    From this org
    $35,841
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.82
  • Ross Nieschwitz

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $34,891
    From this org
    $34,891
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.06
  • Paul Brysch Jr

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $34,287
    From this org
    $34,287
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    6.43
  • Boyd Vaughan

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $27,891
    From this org
    $27,891
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    4.98
  • Frank Geyer Jr

    ASST SECRETARY/TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $27,857
    From this org
    $27,857
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    6.48
  • Larry Schendel

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $19,427
    From this org
    $19,427
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    3.87
  • Scott McClaugherty

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $16,654
    From this org
    $16,654
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Eric Halfmann

    GENERAL MANAGER

    Total calculated
    $287,793
    From this org
    $234,972
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $52,821
    Hours/week
    60

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $199,166
    Bonus
    $19,667
    Other
    $16,139
    Deferred
    $19,796
    Nontaxable benefits
    $33,025
    Filer's total
    $287,793
  • Randy Ortiz

    MAINTENANCE FOREMAN

    Total calculated
    $230,491
    From this org
    $187,582
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $42,909
    Hours/week
    55.41

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $104,361
    Bonus
    $69,598
    Other
    $13,623
    Deferred
    $11,242
    Nontaxable benefits
    $31,667
    Filer's total
    $230,491
  • Russell Korzekwa

    ENGINEERING MANAGER

    Total calculated
    $221,029
    From this org
    $170,216
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $50,813
    Hours/week
    40.15

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $148,542
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $21,674
    Deferred
    $18,441
    Nontaxable benefits
    $32,372
    Filer's total
    $221,029
  • Paul Rodriguez

    SERVICEMAN

    Total calculated
    $218,518
    From this org
    $176,399
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $42,119
    Hours/week
    52.82

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $102,584
    Bonus
    $58,961
    Other
    $14,854
    Deferred
    $9,304
    Nontaxable benefits
    $32,815
    Filer's total
    $218,518
  • Jason Vyvlecka

    FLEET FOREMAN

    Total calculated
    $215,321
    From this org
    $171,212
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $44,109
    Hours/week
    49.06

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $107,547
    Bonus
    $40,593
    Other
    $23,072
    Deferred
    $11,100
    Nontaxable benefits
    $33,009
    Filer's total
    $215,321
  • Jesse Benavides

    OPERATIONS MANAGER

    Total calculated
    $211,091
    From this org
    $166,242
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $44,849
    Hours/week
    40.15

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $146,200
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $20,042
    Deferred
    $11,417
    Nontaxable benefits
    $33,432
    Filer's total
    $211,091

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
    $142,923,586
    Expenses
    $141,370,586
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $47,961
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $129,452,118
    Expenses
    $128,451,118
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $59,574
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $128,043,306
    Expenses
    $130,460,306
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $53,650
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $131,910,540
    Expenses
    $129,360,540
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $38,591

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
    $101,891,775
    Expenses
    $101,351,775
    Assets (EOY)
    $202,970,400
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $96,653,987
    Expenses
    $96,923,987
    Assets (EOY)
    $195,433,978
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $103,323,530
    Expenses
    $103,153,530
    Assets (EOY)
    $193,360,823
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $100,931,222
    Expenses
    $100,575,222
    Assets (EOY)
    $179,540,842
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $90,702,357
    Expenses
    $91,046,127
    Assets (EOY)
    $155,873,216
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $85,479,230
    Expenses
    $85,678,179
    Assets (EOY)
    $145,253,913
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $77,289,017
    Expenses
    $77,479,197
    Assets (EOY)
    $135,864,016
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $71,788,453
    Expenses
    $71,970,663
    Assets (EOY)
    $124,732,334
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $50,904,064
    Expenses
    $51,070,503
    Assets (EOY)
    $115,173,546
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $39,227,993
    Assets (EOY)
    $106,062,999

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.