Skip to content
Nonprofiteer
← All organizations

SANGRE DE CRISTO ELECTRIC ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED

EIN 84-0313075 BUENA VISTA, CO

Largest nonprofits in Colorado

Revenue 2024
$26,130,698
Expenses 2024
$26,130,698

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
1000
Street
29780 US HIGHWAY 24

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

To provide reliable electric power and related services to our members at the most affordable cost.

  • Sangre de Cristo Electric Association is an electric distribution cooperative that provided electricity to approximately 14,500 services of its members located in Colorado.

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.

  • Gary Kelly

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $416,778
    From this org
    $289,156
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $127,622
    Hours/week
    42

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $289,156
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $99,170
    Nontaxable benefits
    $28,452
    Filer's total
    $416,778
  • Sarah Crites

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $276,207
    From this org
    $183,239
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $92,968
    Hours/week
    43

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $183,239
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $65,738
    Nontaxable benefits
    $27,230
    Filer's total
    $276,207
  • Ryan Doke

    Manager of Operations

    Total calculated
    $206,844
    From this org
    $144,866
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $61,978
    Hours/week
    53

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $144,866
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $35,536
    Nontaxable benefits
    $26,442
    Filer's total
    $206,844
  • Preston Ellis

    Line Superintendent

    Total calculated
    $206,622
    From this org
    $149,099
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $57,523
    Hours/week
    45

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $149,099
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $31,083
    Nontaxable benefits
    $26,440
    Filer's total
    $206,622
  • Len Gates

    Manager of Engineering

    Total calculated
    $205,772
    From this org
    $135,924
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $69,848
    Hours/week
    41

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $135,924
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $43,605
    Nontaxable benefits
    $26,243
    Filer's total
    $205,772
  • Matthew Shepherd

    Working Foreman

    Total calculated
    $197,834
    From this org
    $147,010
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $50,824
    Hours/week
    45

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $147,010
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $24,585
    Nontaxable benefits
    $26,239
    Filer's total
    $197,834
  • Lucas Montgomery

    Working Foreman

    Total calculated
    $197,289
    From this org
    $157,942
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $39,347
    Hours/week
    47

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $157,942
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $13,108
    Nontaxable benefits
    $26,239
    Filer's total
    $197,289
  • Josh Saar

    Lead Lineman

    Total calculated
    $194,571
    From this org
    $151,622
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $42,949
    Hours/week
    46

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $151,622
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $16,710
    Nontaxable benefits
    $26,239
    Filer's total
    $194,571
  • Caden Creamer

    Lead Lineman

    Total calculated
    $189,861
    From this org
    $152,314
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $37,547
    Hours/week
    47

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $152,314
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $11,416
    Nontaxable benefits
    $26,131
    Filer's total
    $189,861
  • Sandra Attebery

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $21,250
    From this org
    $21,250
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    16
  • Mark W Boyle

    Director

    Total calculated
    $12,200
    From this org
    $12,200
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    9
  • Charles A Abel

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $11,450
    From this org
    $11,450
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Jeffrey Fiedler

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $10,200
    From this org
    $10,200
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Blake Bennetts

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $8,800
    From this org
    $8,800
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Sandra Long

    Director

    Total calculated
    $5,950
    From this org
    $5,950
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    6
  • Nicholas Hellbusch

    Director

    Total calculated
    $5,850
    From this org
    $5,850
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Rob Canterbury

    Director

    Total calculated
    $3,200
    From this org
    $3,200
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $26,130,698
    Expenses
    $26,130,698
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $23,854,613
    Expenses
    $23,854,613
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $22,796,284
    Expenses
    $22,790,506
    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
    $21,947,475
    Expenses
    $21,953,253
    Assets (EOY)
    $69,491,983
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $21,878,353
    Expenses
    $21,878,353
    Assets (EOY)
    $64,290,455
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $21,925,776
    Expenses
    $21,925,776
    Assets (EOY)
    $61,620,890
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $20,544,832
    Expenses
    $20,287,308
    Assets (EOY)
    $61,662,593
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $19,883,870
    Expenses
    $19,746,230
    Assets (EOY)
    $60,390,224
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $19,289,387
    Expenses
    $17,908,705
    Assets (EOY)
    $59,371,595
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $18,232,689
    Expenses
    $17,897,127
    Assets (EOY)
    $56,475,543
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $17,955,190
    Expenses
    $17,719,199
    Assets (EOY)
    $53,695,455
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $16,388,020
    Assets (EOY)
    $49,967,777
  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $16,584,404
    Assets (EOY)
    $49,492,012

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.

Declared on its 2024 return

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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.