BENEFIT FUND OF THE MCKENZIE COUNTY HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS
EIN 36-3431210 WATFORD CITY, ND
- Revenue 2023
- $4,091,726
- Expenses 2023
- $3,393,405
Program services were 81.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- P75I
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- PO BOX 1461
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 · 2023
Mission
The Benefit Fund of McKenzie County Healthcare Systems (MCHS) is a nonprofit organization that works cooperatively with MCHS to meet the ongoing needs of the McKenzie County Hospital, the Good Shepherd Home, the McKenzie County Clinic, and the Connie Wold Wellness Center. The staff of the Benefit Fund works closely with the residents of the County to foster community participation and contributions to the healthcare system.
Activities or mission (Part I)
To meet the needs of the McKenzie County Hospital, the Good Shepherd Home, the McKenzie County Clinic, and the Connie Wold Wellness Center, and to foster community participation and contributions to the healthcare system.
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The Benefit Fund works cooperatively with McKenzie County Healthcare System, Inc. to meet the ongoing needs of the facility and the residents served by McKenzie County Healthcare System, Inc. The Fund identifies appropriate federal, state and private funding sources and prepares proposals to secure the necessary infrastructure, equipment and programs vital to the delivery of quality, local healthcare to the residents of McKenzie County. The Benefit Fund hosts county-wide fundraising events designed to keep the communities of the County involved in the healthcare system. Social and print media are utilized to recognize donors and to provide information on new programs offered and needs of the Benefit Fund and McKenzie County Healthcare Systems, Inc.
Expenses $2,761,272 · Grants $2,641,173
As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.
Officers and directors · 2023
As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.
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Randy Quale
Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2 + 1 related
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Neal Shipman
Vice Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Gary Brown
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2 + 1 related
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Jan Dodge
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2 + 1 related
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Larry Larsen
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Gretchen Stenehjem
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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William Scott Merkle
CFO (As of 9/23)
- Total calculated
- $90,603
- From this org
- $0
- From related orgs
- $50,654
- Other
- $39,949
- Hours/week
- 3 + 37 related
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Daniel Kelly
President Executive Director
- Total calculated
- $203,472
- From this org
- $0
- From related orgs
- $180,151
- Other
- $23,321
- Hours/week
- 19.85
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $0 + $158,651 related
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0 + $21,500 related
- Deferred
- $0 + $9,812 related
- Nontaxable benefits
- $0 + $13,509 related
- Filer's total
- $0 + $203,472 related
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Cheryl Batchelor
Interim CFO (Until 9/23)
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3 + 37 related
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
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2023
- Revenue
- $4,091,726
- Expenses
- $3,393,405
- Contributions
- $1,197,840
- Grants paid
- $2,641,173
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2022
- Revenue
- $5,332,696
- Expenses
- $1,936,903
- Contributions
- $1,135,180
- Grants paid
- $1,311,551
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
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $5,900,012
- Expenses
- $2,998,310
- Assets (EOY)
- $20,997,952
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $2,657,831
- Expenses
- $3,088,547
- Assets (EOY)
- $19,342,845
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2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $4,276,160
- Expenses
- $3,974,491
- Assets (EOY)
- $18,860,423
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2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $4,858,269
- Expenses
- $3,014,494
- Assets (EOY)
- $13,882,025
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2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,828,909
- Expenses
- $2,069,343
- Assets (EOY)
- $12,070,423
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2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $2,554,257
- Expenses
- $3,625,771
- Assets (EOY)
- $10,065,758
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2014 · 990
- Revenue
- $6,661,104
- Expenses
- $2,038,437
- Assets (EOY)
- $11,289,173
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2013 · 990
- Revenue
- $5,154,230
- Expenses
- $1,422,762
- Assets (EOY)
- $6,765,150
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2012 · 990
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- $4,299,785
- Assets (EOY)
- $3,529,981
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2011 · 990
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- $1,966,260
- Assets (EOY)
- $5,322,753
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
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McKenzie County Healthcare Systems Inc
$2,641,173
2023 Purchase Equipment
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McKenzie County Healthcare Systems Inc
$1,311,551
2022 Purchase Equipment
Grants received
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2025 PROGRAM SUPPORT
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2023 PROGRAM SUPPORT
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 2023 return
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McKenzie County Healthcare Systems Inc
501(c)(3) · Healthcare service provider · ND
Declared as related by
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MCKENZIE COUNTY HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS INC
On its 2023 return as a controlled entity
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.
Related corporations and trusts on its 2023 return
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McKenzie County Healthcare Systems Properties
C · Property management · ND
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
Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.
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 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.