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CENTRAL POWER ELECTRIC COOP INC

EIN 45-0226179 MINOT, ND

Largest nonprofits in North Dakota

Revenue 2025
$204,731,346
Expenses 2025
$193,355,577

Program services were 100.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
12
Classification
4230
Street
525 20TH AVE SW

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

To assist our member systems to become electric suppliers of choice by serving as a leading and unifying force among our membership providing reliable economical and efficient electric supply and performing those functions that can most efficiently be provided as a united effort.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Providing wholesale all-requirements electric service to our six member rural electric cooperatives in North Dakota.

  • Providing wholesale all-requirements electric service to our six member rural electric cooperatives in North Dakota.

    Expenses $193,355,577 · Revenue $204,652,694

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.

  • Mark Brehm

    President

    Total calculated
    $22,000
    From this org
    $22,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    7

  • Jean Brandt

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $23,100
    From this org
    $23,100
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Robert Wolf

    Secretary Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $13,500
    From this org
    $13,500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Kim Rasmussen

    Director

    Total calculated
    $13,200
    From this org
    $13,200
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Troy Presser

    Director

    Total calculated
    $13,900
    From this org
    $13,900
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • David Charles

    Director

    Total calculated
    $22,300
    From this org
    $22,300
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Clint Gjellstad

    Director

    Total calculated
    $1,200
    From this org
    $1,200
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Arden Fuher

    Director

    Total calculated
    $6,000
    From this org
    $6,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $6,000
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $6,000

  • Thomas Meland

    General Manager

    Total calculated
    $989,835
    From this org
    $846,596
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $143,239
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $505,035
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $341,561
    Deferred
    $115,730
    Nontaxable benefits
    $32,169
    Filer's total
    $994,495

  • Michael Kossan

    CFO Manager of Accounting and Finance

    Total calculated
    $438,711
    From this org
    $308,770
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $129,941
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $308,770
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $102,432
    Nontaxable benefits
    $30,937
    Filer's total
    $442,139

  • Mark Sherman

    Manager of Operations and Engineering

    Total calculated
    $466,973
    From this org
    $330,236
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $136,737
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $330,236
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $109,228
    Nontaxable benefits
    $31,072
    Filer's total
    $470,536

  • Ryan Callahan

    Chief Transmission Engineer

    Total calculated
    $318,059
    From this org
    $217,978
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $100,081
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $217,978
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $72,572
    Nontaxable benefits
    $30,085
    Filer's total
    $320,635

  • Dennis Olson

    Chief Substation Engineer

    Total calculated
    $285,361
    From this org
    $216,057
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $69,304
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $216,057
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $69,304
    Nontaxable benefits
    $2,466
    Filer's total
    $287,827

  • Todd Ahmann

    Network Administrator

    Total calculated
    $297,855
    From this org
    $203,102
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $94,753
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $203,102
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $67,244
    Nontaxable benefits
    $29,895
    Filer's total
    $300,241

  • Kenneth Haugen

    Operations Superintendent

    Total calculated
    $291,623
    From this org
    $198,974
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $92,649
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $198,974
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $65,141
    Nontaxable benefits
    $29,824
    Filer's total
    $293,939

  • Randy Brunner

    Substation Engineer

    Total calculated
    $284,196
    From this org
    $191,706
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $92,490
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $191,706
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $64,981
    Nontaxable benefits
    $29,821
    Filer's total
    $286,508

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
    $204,731,346
    Expenses
    $193,355,577
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $190,861,966
    Expenses
    $180,644,169
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $188,214,649
    Expenses
    $173,849,791
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $181,588,678
    Expenses
    $164,161,816
    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
    $167,780,988
    Expenses
    $160,170,418
    Assets (EOY)
    $419,743,548

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $172,507,293
    Expenses
    $163,296,830
    Assets (EOY)
    $404,760,385

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $178,336,721
    Expenses
    $170,053,338
    Assets (EOY)
    $390,213,092

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

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.