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BENEFIT FUND OF THE MCKENZIE COUNTY HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS

EIN 36-3431210 WATFORD CITY, ND

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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.

  • 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.

  • Randy Quale

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 1 related
  • Neal Shipman

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Gary Brown

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 1 related
  • Jan Dodge

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 1 related
  • Larry Larsen

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Gretchen Stenehjem

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $4,091,726
    Expenses
    $3,393,405
    Contributions
    $1,197,840
    Grants paid
    $2,641,173
  • 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

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,900,012
    Expenses
    $2,998,310
    Assets (EOY)
    $20,997,952
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,657,831
    Expenses
    $3,088,547
    Assets (EOY)
    $19,342,845
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,276,160
    Expenses
    $3,974,491
    Assets (EOY)
    $18,860,423
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,858,269
    Expenses
    $3,014,494
    Assets (EOY)
    $13,882,025
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,828,909
    Expenses
    $2,069,343
    Assets (EOY)
    $12,070,423
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,554,257
    Expenses
    $3,625,771
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,065,758
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,661,104
    Expenses
    $2,038,437
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,289,173
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,154,230
    Expenses
    $1,422,762
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,765,150
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $4,299,785
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,529,981
  • 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

Where these grants went next →

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 on its 2023 return

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.

Related corporations and trusts on its 2023 return

  • 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.