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BIG HORN COUNTY ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC

EIN 81-0111221 HARDIN, MT

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Revenue 2025
$9,772,924
Expenses 2025
$9,499,612

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
303 S MITCHELL AVE

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 supply electricity and services to members located within its boundries.

  • Provided electric energy to its rural 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.

  • Derek Sorley

    General Manager

    Total calculated
    $236,962
    From this org
    $175,029
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $61,933
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us · ignoring case and punctuation

    Base
    $171,744
    Bonus
    $1,787
    Other
    $1,498
    Deferred
    $47,724
    Nontaxable benefits
    $14,209
    Filer's total
    $236,962
  • Jared Hebdon

    Foreman

    Total calculated
    $186,237
    From this org
    $127,051
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $59,186
    Hours/week
    43

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us · ignoring case and punctuation

    Base
    $126,699
    Bonus
    $162
    Other
    $190
    Deferred
    $31,676
    Nontaxable benefits
    $27,510
    Filer's total
    $186,237
  • Gabe Havener

    Foreman

    Total calculated
    $183,599
    From this org
    $124,437
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $59,162
    Hours/week
    44

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us · ignoring case and punctuation

    Base
    $124,085
    Bonus
    $162
    Other
    $190
    Deferred
    $31,652
    Nontaxable benefits
    $27,510
    Filer's total
    $183,599
  • Dustin Kruger

    Journeyman Lineman

    Total calculated
    $178,347
    From this org
    $125,046
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $53,301
    Hours/week
    46

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us · ignoring case and punctuation

    Base
    $124,736
    Bonus
    $162
    Other
    $148
    Deferred
    $25,903
    Nontaxable benefits
    $27,398
    Filer's total
    $178,347
  • Zack Zukowski

    Journeyman Lineman

    Total calculated
    $176,547
    From this org
    $120,365
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $56,182
    Hours/week
    45

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us · ignoring case and punctuation

    Base
    $120,055
    Bonus
    $162
    Other
    $148
    Deferred
    $28,784
    Nontaxable benefits
    $27,398
    Filer's total
    $176,547
  • Cole Kirschenmann

    Meter Technician

    Total calculated
    $175,401
    From this org
    $119,219
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $56,182
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us · ignoring case and punctuation

    Base
    $118,872
    Bonus
    $162
    Other
    $185
    Deferred
    $28,784
    Nontaxable benefits
    $27,398
    Filer's total
    $175,401
  • Ashley Gietzen

    Finance & Admin Manager

    Total calculated
    $147,687
    From this org
    $93,120
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $54,567
    Hours/week
    40
  • Brett Nedens

    President

    Total calculated
    $14,131
    From this org
    $14,131
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Edward Watt

    Director

    Total calculated
    $13,846
    From this org
    $13,846
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Spencer Kehler

    Director

    Total calculated
    $13,771
    From this org
    $13,771
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Nengfeng Stevens

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $13,661
    From this org
    $13,661
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Lila Taylor

    Vice-President

    Total calculated
    $13,571
    From this org
    $13,571
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Hale C Jeffers Jr

    Director

    Total calculated
    $13,571
    From this org
    $13,571
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Lamont Herman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $13,471
    From this org
    $13,471
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jason Randall

    Director

    Total calculated
    $10,238
    From this org
    $10,238
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Todd Graham

    Director

    Total calculated
    $1,200
    From this org
    $1,200
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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
    $9,772,924
    Expenses
    $9,499,612
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $8,715,539
    Expenses
    $8,556,660
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $8,174,795
    Expenses
    $8,444,812
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $8,340,373
    Expenses
    $8,064,490
    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
    $8,393,907
    Expenses
    $7,912,368
    Assets (EOY)
    $18,794,081
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,473,382
    Expenses
    $7,535,696
    Assets (EOY)
    $18,493,308
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,607,657
    Expenses
    $7,307,035
    Assets (EOY)
    $17,680,288
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,606,453
    Expenses
    $7,404,828
    Assets (EOY)
    $16,684,573
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,606,453
    Expenses
    $7,404,828
    Assets (EOY)
    $16,684,573
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,752,111
    Expenses
    $7,060,307
    Assets (EOY)
    $16,102,585
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,975,093
    Expenses
    $7,310,550
    Assets (EOY)
    $15,222,649
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,672,015
    Expenses
    $6,792,021
    Assets (EOY)
    $16,113,623
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,575,868
    Expenses
    $6,771,897
    Assets (EOY)
    $14,799,613
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,599,600
    Expenses
    $6,843,564
    Assets (EOY)
    $14,174,180

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 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.