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BENTON RURAL ELECTRIC ASSOCIATION

EIN 91-0143426 PROSSER, WA

Largest nonprofits in Washington

Revenue 2025
$50,255,713
Expenses 2025
$50,255,713

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 1150

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 safe and reliable electricity at the lowest possible cost to the cooperative membership.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Distribution of Electricity to Rural Cooperative members.

  • The Benton Rural Electric Association (Benton REA) is a not for profit member owned electric cooperative. It has approximately 12,504 member/owners to whom it delivers electricity through its distribution system. The sale and distribution of electric service is the main program service.

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.

  • Ryan Redmond

    Chief Executive Officer

    Total calculated
    $415,704
    From this org
    $347,823
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $67,881
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $347,823
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $39,240
    Nontaxable benefits
    $28,641
    Filer's total
    $415,704

  • Andrew Gould

    COO/VP of Engineering

    Total calculated
    $336,070
    From this org
    $274,153
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $61,917
    Hours/week
    55

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $274,153
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $31,740
    Nontaxable benefits
    $30,177
    Filer's total
    $336,070

  • Troy Berglund

    Deputy GM & VP of Member Experience

    Total calculated
    $320,459
    From this org
    $261,697
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $58,762
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $261,697
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $28,586
    Nontaxable benefits
    $30,175
    Filer's total
    $320,458

  • Derek Miller

    Engineering Manager

    Total calculated
    $305,027
    From this org
    $249,579
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $55,448
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $220,208
    Bonus
    $29,371
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $25,283
    Nontaxable benefits
    $30,165
    Filer's total
    $305,027

  • Christopher Hill

    Line Foreman

    Total calculated
    $302,776
    From this org
    $255,034
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $47,742
    Hours/week
    51

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $255,034
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $17,621
    Nontaxable benefits
    $30,121
    Filer's total
    $302,776

  • Jay Conor Ames

    General Foreman

    Total calculated
    $276,440
    From this org
    $228,142
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $48,298
    Hours/week
    47.5

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $228,142
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $18,773
    Nontaxable benefits
    $29,526
    Filer's total
    $276,441

  • Justin Waldron

    VP of Member Support/CFO

    Total calculated
    $275,265
    From this org
    $217,377
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $57,888
    Hours/week
    44

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $217,377
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $27,720
    Nontaxable benefits
    $30,168
    Filer's total
    $275,265

  • Larry Hall

    Line Foreman

    Total calculated
    $261,993
    From this org
    $213,882
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $48,111
    Hours/week
    46

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $213,882
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $17,988
    Nontaxable benefits
    $30,123
    Filer's total
    $261,993

  • Jeff Bastow

    Information Technology Manager

    Total calculated
    $246,290
    From this org
    $214,260
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $32,030
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $214,260
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $14,498
    Nontaxable benefits
    $17,532
    Filer's total
    $246,290

  • Michael Freepons

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $12,072
    From this org
    $11,780
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $292
    Hours/week
    8

  • Daniel Plung

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $9,948
    From this org
    $9,690
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $258
    Hours/week
    4

  • William Shibley

    Secretary/Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $9,758
    From this org
    $9,500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $258
    Hours/week
    4

  • Ronald Hall

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $8,195
    From this org
    $7,980
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $215
    Hours/week
    10

  • Scott Fisher

    President

    Total calculated
    $7,858
    From this org
    $7,600
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $258
    Hours/week
    3

  • George Theodore Wallace

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $7,288
    From this org
    $7,030
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $258
    Hours/week
    6

  • Connie Krull

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $6,485
    From this org
    $6,270
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $215
    Hours/week
    5

  • Tim Grow

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $5,594
    From this org
    $5,320
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $274
    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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $50,255,713
    Expenses
    $50,255,713
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $49,768,983
    Expenses
    $49,768,983
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $46,580,456
    Expenses
    $46,580,456
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $46,298,877
    Expenses
    $46,298,877
    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
    $44,244,946
    Expenses
    $44,244,946
    Assets (EOY)
    $100,163,870

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $42,455,053
    Expenses
    $42,455,053
    Assets (EOY)
    $94,989,091

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.