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RUNESTONE TELEPHONE ASSOCIATION

EIN 41-0733426 HOFFMAN, MN

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Revenue 2025
$13,028,526
Expenses 2025
$12,154,443

As filed

Subsection
12
Classification
3000
Street
PO BOX 336

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

PROVIDE RELIABLE TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES TO COOPERATIVE MEMBERS AT REASONABLE RATES, WHILE RESPECTING EMPLOYEES AND CUSTOMERS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

PROVIDE RELIABLE TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES TO COOPERATIVE MEMBERS

  • PROVISION OF TELEPHONE, INTERNET AND CABLE TELEVISION SERVICES TO COOPERATIVE MEMBERS.

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.

  • Robert Leegaard

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $12,780
    From this org
    $12,780
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Tory Belgum

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $12,780
    From this org
    $12,780
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • John Kapphahn

    SECRETARY/TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $13,680
    From this org
    $13,680
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Richard Staples

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $13,080
    From this org
    $13,080
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jolene Vipond

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $11,880
    From this org
    $11,880
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kent Hedstrom

    GENERAL MANAGER/CEO

    Total calculated
    $368,049
    From this org
    $279,560
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $88,489
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $279,560
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $51,840
    Nontaxable benefits
    $36,649
    Filer's total
    $368,049
  • Russ Froemming

    NETWORK TECHNICIAN

    Total calculated
    $198,676
    From this org
    $140,263
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $58,413
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $140,263
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $25,196
    Nontaxable benefits
    $33,217
    Filer's total
    $198,676
  • Ryan Schonhardt

    OFFICE MANAGER/CFO

    Total calculated
    $176,239
    From this org
    $129,529
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $46,710
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $129,529
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $21,654
    Nontaxable benefits
    $25,056
    Filer's total
    $176,239
  • Chris Veldhouse

    OUTSIDE PLANT MANAGER

    Total calculated
    $173,261
    From this org
    $117,137
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $56,124
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $117,137
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $22,293
    Nontaxable benefits
    $33,831
    Filer's total
    $173,261

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
    $13,028,526
    Expenses
    $12,154,443
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $12,994,737
    Expenses
    $10,804,764
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $12,390,032
    Expenses
    $10,466,406
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $11,787,535
    Expenses
    $8,299,942
    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
    $11,495,965
    Expenses
    $10,585,142
    Assets (EOY)
    $32,214,901
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $11,079,391
    Expenses
    $9,133,723
    Assets (EOY)
    $29,399,452
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $10,869,301
    Expenses
    $7,877,834
    Assets (EOY)
    $26,137,925
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,803,875
    Expenses
    $7,554,588
    Assets (EOY)
    $22,339,066
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,203,399
    Expenses
    $6,199,690
    Assets (EOY)
    $21,441,210
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,981,600
    Expenses
    $6,293,294
    Assets (EOY)
    $20,119,701
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,701,657
    Expenses
    $6,441,319
    Assets (EOY)
    $18,900,126
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,500,274
    Expenses
    $5,923,517
    Assets (EOY)
    $17,934,256
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,488,700
    Expenses
    $6,104,083
    Assets (EOY)
    $18,041,047
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $6,146,281
    Assets (EOY)
    $17,768,453

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

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.

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.