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BLUE RIDGE ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE

EIN 57-0125510 PICKENS, SC

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Revenue 2024
$208,026,506
Expenses 2024
$208,026,506

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 277

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

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 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.

  • James Lovinggood

    PRESIDENT &

    Total calculated
    $655,366
    From this org
    $544,305
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $111,061
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $445,145
    Bonus
    $28,440
    Other
    $70,720
    Deferred
    $107,629
    Nontaxable benefits
    $3,432
    Filer's total
    $655,366
  • David Collins

    VP FINANCE

    Total calculated
    $447,589
    From this org
    $352,405
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $95,184
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $300,846
    Bonus
    $7,239
    Other
    $44,320
    Deferred
    $92,376
    Nontaxable benefits
    $2,808
    Filer's total
    $447,589
  • Zach Hinton

    VP OF BROADB

    Total calculated
    $412,852
    From this org
    $324,083
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $88,769
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $280,821
    Bonus
    $28,222
    Other
    $15,040
    Deferred
    $86,129
    Nontaxable benefits
    $2,640
    Filer's total
    $412,852
  • Denise McCormick

    VP MEMBER SE

    Total calculated
    $406,471
    From this org
    $318,994
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $87,477
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $278,154
    Bonus
    $6,047
    Other
    $34,793
    Deferred
    $84,669
    Nontaxable benefits
    $2,808
    Filer's total
    $406,471
  • Mark Waters

    VP ENGINEERI

    Total calculated
    $397,227
    From this org
    $307,542
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $89,685
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $270,946
    Bonus
    $27,890
    Other
    $8,706
    Deferred
    $84,477
    Nontaxable benefits
    $5,208
    Filer's total
    $397,227
  • Terrel Ballenger

    VP OF COMMUN

    Total calculated
    $343,745
    From this org
    $260,295
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $83,450
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $251,042
    Bonus
    $1,680
    Other
    $7,573
    Deferred
    $78,242
    Nontaxable benefits
    $5,208
    Filer's total
    $343,745
  • Jimmy Lee Dodgens

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $56,973
    From this org
    $56,973
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Joel R Davis

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $53,092
    From this org
    $53,092
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Len Talley

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $52,631
    From this org
    $52,631
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Mendel Stone

    VICE CHAIRMA

    Total calculated
    $50,973
    From this org
    $50,973
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • William G Elrod

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $48,473
    From this org
    $48,473
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Kenneth Southerlin

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $48,348
    From this org
    $48,348
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • J Spencer Dalton

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $42,794
    From this org
    $42,794
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • William Anderson

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $27,298
    From this org
    $27,298
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Franklin M Looper Jr

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $19,385
    From this org
    $19,385
    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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $208,026,506
    Expenses
    $208,026,506
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $178,719,621
    Expenses
    $190,220,058
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $180,062,478
    Expenses
    $180,062,478
    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
    $161,177,852
    Expenses
    $161,807,311
    Assets (EOY)
    $400,749,868
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $154,190,330
    Expenses
    $153,647,075
    Assets (EOY)
    $367,130,472
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $155,704,978
    Expenses
    $151,167,596
    Assets (EOY)
    $348,122,540
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $157,621,122
    Expenses
    $156,759,281
    Assets (EOY)
    $331,427,437
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $151,323,335
    Expenses
    $139,963,031
    Assets (EOY)
    $306,519,615
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $146,091,279
    Expenses
    $146,263,842
    Assets (EOY)
    $287,303,518
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $145,580,010
    Expenses
    $146,204,810
    Assets (EOY)
    $269,570,645

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 2024 return

  • UPCOUNTRY FIBER LLC

    BROADBAND · SC

Related corporations and trusts on its 2024 return

  • BLUE RIDGE MANAGEMENT INC

    C CORP · MGMT SVCS · SC · 100% owned · share of assets $1,000

  • BR MANAGEMENT INC

    C CORP · SECURITY S · SC · 100% owned · share of assets $1,000

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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.