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SANTEE ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC

EIN 57-0240935 KINGSTREE, SC

Largest nonprofits in South Carolina

Revenue 2025
$156,282,282
Expenses 2025
$156,687,392

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
424 SUMTER HWY

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 PROVIDE QUALITY SERVICE AND PRODUCTS TO MEET THE ENERGY NEEDS OF OUR MEMBERS AT A COMPETITIVE PRICE CONSISTENT WITH SOUND BUSINESS PRACTICES, WHILE ENHANCING THE QUALITY OF LIFE IN OUR SERVICE AREA THROUGH THE SUPPORT OF ECONOMIC, CIVIC AND EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES.

  • TO PROVIDE SAFE AND RELIABLE ELECTRICITY TO ALL WHO DESIRE IT WITHIN THE COUNTIES WE SERVE.

    Expenses $156,687,392

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Billy L Morris Jr

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $53,737
    From this org
    $53,737
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • Allen Nesmith

    VICE CHAIRMA

    Total calculated
    $22,480
    From this org
    $22,480
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • William Floyd

    SECOND VICE

    Total calculated
    $23,988
    From this org
    $23,988
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • Donald E Coker

    SEC-TREAS

    Total calculated
    $44,020
    From this org
    $44,020
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • Andy D McKnight

    ASST. SEC-TR

    Total calculated
    $41,952
    From this org
    $41,952
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • Walter Sanders

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $23,546
    From this org
    $23,546
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • Dudley Musier

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $23,588
    From this org
    $23,588
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • Harry Walters

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $14,980
    From this org
    $14,980
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • Timothy Cooper

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $26,060
    From this org
    $26,060
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • Robert Ardis III

    PRESIDENT &

    Total calculated
    $671,452
    From this org
    $453,082
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $218,370
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $420,940
    Bonus
    $1,723
    Other
    $30,419
    Deferred
    $182,030
    Nontaxable benefits
    $36,340
    Filer's total
    $671,452

  • James R Cooper

    VICE PRESIDE

    Total calculated
    $407,963
    From this org
    $262,140
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $145,823
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $242,508
    Bonus
    $1,723
    Other
    $17,909
    Deferred
    $108,808
    Nontaxable benefits
    $37,015
    Filer's total
    $407,963

  • Robert F Higbe III

    VP-ENGINEERI

    Total calculated
    $352,157
    From this org
    $219,534
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $132,623
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $206,218
    Bonus
    $1,701
    Other
    $11,615
    Deferred
    $97,631
    Nontaxable benefits
    $34,992
    Filer's total
    $352,157

  • Ronald A Johnson

    VP-OPERATION

    Total calculated
    $304,966
    From this org
    $188,725
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $116,241
    Hours/week
    47

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $177,862
    Bonus
    $1,865
    Other
    $8,998
    Deferred
    $81,249
    Nontaxable benefits
    $34,992
    Filer's total
    $304,966

  • James Kirby

    VP-PUBLIC AF

    Total calculated
    $198,639
    From this org
    $170,045
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $28,594
    Hours/week
    42

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $160,992
    Bonus
    $1,865
    Other
    $7,188
    Deferred
    $3,371
    Nontaxable benefits
    $25,223
    Filer's total
    $198,639

  • Jaime Johnson

    CREW FOREMAN

    Total calculated
    $249,274
    From this org
    $163,258
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $86,016
    Hours/week
    55

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $158,557
    Bonus
    $1,865
    Other
    $2,836
    Deferred
    $50,895
    Nontaxable benefits
    $35,121
    Filer's total
    $249,274

  • Clarence Pressley

    1ST CLASS LI

    Total calculated
    $249,235
    From this org
    $161,719
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $87,516
    Hours/week
    67

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $158,695
    Bonus
    $1,865
    Other
    $1,159
    Deferred
    $39,792
    Nontaxable benefits
    $47,724
    Filer's total
    $249,235

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
    $156,282,282
    Expenses
    $156,687,392
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $135,947,346
    Expenses
    $135,947,346
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $133,042,151
    Expenses
    $133,042,151
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $137,026,293
    Expenses
    $137,026,293
    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
    $130,812,084
    Expenses
    $130,812,084
    Assets (EOY)
    $251,670,332

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $131,707,767
    Expenses
    $131,707,767
    Assets (EOY)
    $247,515,578

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $134,820,689
    Expenses
    $134,820,689
    Assets (EOY)
    $245,285,086

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $142,289,014
    Expenses
    $142,289,014
    Assets (EOY)
    $229,435,874

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $138,306,257
    Expenses
    $138,306,257
    Assets (EOY)
    $226,302,031

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $134,110,198
    Expenses
    $134,110,198
    Assets (EOY)
    $219,839,561

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $132,998,563
    Expenses
    $132,998,561
    Assets (EOY)
    $211,646,119

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $139,980,526
    Expenses
    $139,980,526
    Assets (EOY)
    $216,416,489

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $134,633,411
    Expenses
    $134,633,411
    Assets (EOY)
    $211,152,434

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

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 2025 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.

Disregarded entities on its 2025 return

  • FIVE RIVERS DEVELOPMENT LLC

    ECON DEV · SC · income -$405,110 · assets $14,990,209

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.