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TRI-COUNTY ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC

EIN 57-0263136 ST MATTHEWS, SC

Largest nonprofits in South Carolina

Revenue 2025
$61,964,736
Expenses 2025
$63,711,582

Program services were 0.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
12
Classification
4000
Street
PO BOX 217

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

TO PROVIDE THE BEST POSSIBLE ELECTRIC SERVICE TO ALL WHO DESIRE IT WITHIN THE SYSTEM AREA AT A REASONABLE COST CONSISTENT WITH THE HIGHEST STANDARDS OF SERVICE.

  • TO PROVIDE THE BEST POSSIBLE ELECTRIC SERVICE TO ALL WHO DESIRE IT WITHIN THE SYSTEM AREA AT A REASONABLE COST CONSISTENT WITH THE HIGHEST STANDARDS OF SERVICE.

  • TO PROVIDE THE BEST POSSIBLE ELECTRIC SERVICE TO ALL WHO DESIRE IT WITHIN THE SYSTEM AREA AT A REASONABLE COST CONSISTENT WITH THE HIGHEST STANDARDS OF SERVICE.

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.

  • Chad Lowder

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $412,358
    From this org
    $261,946
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $150,412
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $255,019
    Bonus
    $3,542
    Other
    $3,385
    Deferred
    $117,552
    Nontaxable benefits
    $32,860
    Filer's total
    $412,358
  • Jerrell Furtick

    COO

    Total calculated
    $302,321
    From this org
    $190,161
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $112,160
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $182,900
    Bonus
    $866
    Other
    $6,395
    Deferred
    $79,300
    Nontaxable benefits
    $32,860
    Filer's total
    $302,321
  • Christina Turnage

    VP OF FINANC

    Total calculated
    $270,035
    From this org
    $182,302
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $87,733
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $171,826
    Bonus
    $866
    Other
    $9,610
    Deferred
    $74,214
    Nontaxable benefits
    $13,519
    Filer's total
    $270,035
  • Sean Arsenault

    VP TECH/TRIC

    Total calculated
    $228,152
    From this org
    $148,092
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $80,060
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $135,269
    Bonus
    $877
    Other
    $11,946
    Deferred
    $66,541
    Nontaxable benefits
    $13,519
    Filer's total
    $228,152
  • John Arant

    CONTRACT SUP

    Total calculated
    $203,801
    From this org
    $123,456
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $80,345
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $120,974
    Bonus
    $1,083
    Other
    $1,399
    Deferred
    $47,485
    Nontaxable benefits
    $32,860
    Filer's total
    $203,801
  • George Stone

    SERVICEMAN

    Total calculated
    $203,733
    From this org
    $115,815
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $87,918
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $114,228
    Bonus
    $1,083
    Other
    $504
    Deferred
    $55,058
    Nontaxable benefits
    $32,860
    Filer's total
    $203,733
  • James R Dantzler

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $19,205
    From this org
    $19,205
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Ida L Dixon

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $19,205
    From this org
    $19,205
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Willie E Jeffries

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $19,205
    From this org
    $19,205
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Joe Strickland Jr

    VICE PRESIDE

    Total calculated
    $19,205
    From this org
    $19,205
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • William Robinson

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $19,205
    From this org
    $19,205
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Jacqueline S Shaw

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $19,205
    From this org
    $19,205
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Barbara Weston

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $19,205
    From this org
    $19,205
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • George Wilson

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $19,205
    From this org
    $19,205
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Gary F Geiger

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $17,605
    From this org
    $17,605
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

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
    $61,964,736
    Expenses
    $63,711,582
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $60,477,472
    Expenses
    $58,185,768
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $53,067,650
    Expenses
    $51,881,148
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $48,302,778
    Expenses
    $49,617,281
    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
    $45,784,852
    Expenses
    $45,750,458
    Assets (EOY)
    $138,986,472
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $44,160,884
    Expenses
    $44,324,911
    Assets (EOY)
    $112,327,920
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $44,673,882
    Expenses
    $44,710,887
    Assets (EOY)
    $103,672,390
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $45,643,306
    Expenses
    $45,816,882
    Assets (EOY)
    $101,742,787
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $45,068,970
    Expenses
    $44,988,827
    Assets (EOY)
    $99,816,748
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $44,430,231
    Expenses
    $44,401,649
    Assets (EOY)
    $90,184,560

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.

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

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.

Disregarded entities on its 2025 return

  • TRICO DEVELOPMENT LLC

    ECON. DEV. · SC · assets $9,633,842

Related corporations and trusts on its 2025 return

  • TRICOLINK INC

    C CORP · BROADBAND · SC · 100% owned · share of income $8,036,021 · share of assets $11,623,623

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.