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JOE WHEELER ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION

EIN 63-0224987 TRINITY, AL

Largest nonprofits in Alabama

Revenue 2024
$219,188,288
Expenses 2024
$220,365,382

As filed

Subsection
12
Classification
4000
Street
PO BOX 460

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 · 2024

Mission

Joe Wheeler EMC is committed to providing efficient, reliable utility services that enhance the lives and businesses and exceed the expectations of members and customers in Lawrence and Morgan Counties and surrounding communities.

Activities or mission (Part I)

To provide electric utility service to the cooperative's members.

  • Utilizing approximately 4,428 miles of distribution lines, Joe Wheeler Electric Membership Corporation provided 1,919,749,085 kilowatt-hours of electric energy to its cooperative members located in North Alabama.

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Linda Owens

    Director

    Total calculated
    $10,769
    From this org
    $10,769
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    8
  • Charles Teague

    Director

    Total calculated
    $10,427
    From this org
    $10,427
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    6
  • Shirley Livingston

    Director

    Total calculated
    $10,293
    From this org
    $10,293
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    7
  • Ray Long

    Director/President

    Total calculated
    $11,262
    From this org
    $11,262
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    8
  • Andrew McCay

    Director

    Total calculated
    $627
    From this org
    $627
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    8
  • Jimmie Halbrooks

    Director

    Total calculated
    $10,043
    From this org
    $10,043
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    8
  • Ricky Knouff

    Director

    Total calculated
    $11,562
    From this org
    $11,562
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    8
  • Milton Taylor

    Director/Sec/Treas

    Total calculated
    $11,362
    From this org
    $11,362
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    7
  • Joseph Dutton

    Director

    Total calculated
    $10,762
    From this org
    $10,762
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Sandy Fields

    Director/Vice President

    Total calculated
    $11,062
    From this org
    $11,062
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    6
  • Michael Penney

    Director

    Total calculated
    $8,765
    From this org
    $8,765
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Patrick D Holmes

    Chief Financial Officer

    Total calculated
    $536,358
    From this org
    $366,578
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $169,780
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $364,986
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $1,592
    Deferred
    $141,086
    Nontaxable benefits
    $28,694
    Filer's total
    $536,358
  • Eugene V Kanikovsky

    CEO/General Manager

    Total calculated
    $433,569
    From this org
    $314,068
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $119,501
    Hours/week
    63

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $311,460
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $2,608
    Deferred
    $89,424
    Nontaxable benefits
    $30,077
    Filer's total
    $433,569
  • Austin B Kritner

    Journeyman Lineman

    Total calculated
    $234,925
    From this org
    $197,819
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $37,106
    Hours/week
    62

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $197,715
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $104
    Deferred
    $9,781
    Nontaxable benefits
    $27,325
    Filer's total
    $234,925
  • Ken McGee

    Director of Engineering

    Total calculated
    $297,032
    From this org
    $186,049
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $110,983
    Hours/week
    55

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $184,756
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $1,293
    Deferred
    $82,876
    Nontaxable benefits
    $28,107
    Filer's total
    $297,032
  • Donald J Pace II

    Journeyman Lineman

    Total calculated
    $244,098
    From this org
    $198,667
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $45,431
    Hours/week
    62

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $198,493
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $174
    Deferred
    $18,106
    Nontaxable benefits
    $27,325
    Filer's total
    $244,098
  • Jeremiah Engle

    Equipment Serviceman

    Total calculated
    $230,518
    From this org
    $176,975
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $53,543
    Hours/week
    57

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $176,796
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $179
    Deferred
    $26,187
    Nontaxable benefits
    $27,356
    Filer's total
    $230,518
  • Anthony Smith

    Journeyman Lineman

    Total calculated
    $209,230
    From this org
    $171,569
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $37,661
    Hours/week
    56

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $171,430
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $139
    Deferred
    $10,336
    Nontaxable benefits
    $27,325
    Filer's total
    $209,230
  • George B Kitchens

    Former CEO/General Manager

    Total calculated
    $174,405
    From this org
    $174,405
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $174,405
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $174,405

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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $219,188,288
    Expenses
    $220,365,382
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $30,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $187,818,290
    Expenses
    $186,374,146
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $27,500
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $182,521,630
    Expenses
    $182,107,340
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $27,500

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
    $168,171,604
    Expenses
    $167,224,608
    Assets (EOY)
    $301,712,454
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $148,535,459
    Expenses
    $148,193,025
    Assets (EOY)
    $257,866,944
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $152,754,189
    Expenses
    $153,072,704
    Assets (EOY)
    $214,374,862
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $158,848,709
    Expenses
    $159,290,080
    Assets (EOY)
    $216,058,070
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $154,968,262
    Expenses
    $155,405,737
    Assets (EOY)
    $212,726,610
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $150,125,093
    Expenses
    $150,116,672
    Assets (EOY)
    $211,188,767
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $145,305,451
    Expenses
    $145,349,123
    Assets (EOY)
    $203,680,707
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $153,467,038
    Expenses
    $153,748,092
    Assets (EOY)
    $204,313,338
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $148,684,815
    Expenses
    $148,943,666
    Assets (EOY)
    $197,851,939
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $143,219,658
    Assets (EOY)
    $193,199,361

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.

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 2024 return

  • Wheeler Basin Natural Gas Company Inc

    C · Natural Gas Distributor · AL · 100% owned · share of income $3,159,398 · share of assets $13,566,293 · controlled entity

  • JWEMC Communications LLC

    C · Broadband Data Service Provider · AL · 100% owned · share of income $15,561,322 · share of assets $8,118,840 · controlled entity

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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.