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PROGRESSIVE RURAL TELEPHONE COOP INC

EIN 58-0672930 RENTZ, GA

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Revenue 2024
$13,519,746
Expenses 2024
$9,375,437

As filed

Subsection
12
Classification
3000
Street
890 SIMPSON 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 · 2024

Mission

Our mission is to be our Members' total communications provider by providing quality services at the best prices.

  • The Cooperative provides telecommunications services to its member subscribers in a five county, 500 square mile, unserved, primarily rural area in southeast Georgia. The Cooperative is a rural telephone cooperative that qualifies under IRC Section 501(c)(12) that has at least 85% of its gross income consisting of amounts collected from Members for the sole purpose of meeting losses and expenses.

    Expenses $9,375,437 · Revenue $13,330,194

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.

  • Larry Sanders

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $32,820
    From this org
    $21,516
    From related orgs
    $11,304
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Kennon Smith

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $28,716
    From this org
    $21,516
    From related orgs
    $7,200
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Shirley Willis

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $28,716
    From this org
    $21,516
    From related orgs
    $7,200
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Hilton Culpepper

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $10,800
    From this org
    $3,600
    From related orgs
    $7,200
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Larry A Windham

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $25,872
    From this org
    $19,272
    From related orgs
    $6,600
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Emory Anderson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $27,573
    From this org
    $19,572
    From related orgs
    $8,001
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Douglas T Ward

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $26,772
    From this org
    $19,572
    From related orgs
    $7,200
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Dan Rowe

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $26,772
    From this org
    $19,572
    From related orgs
    $7,200
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Ronald L Chambers

    GENERAL MANAGER

    Total calculated
    $176,863
    From this org
    $176,863
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $176,863
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $176,863

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
    $13,519,746
    Expenses
    $9,375,437
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $13,053,665
    Expenses
    $9,503,117
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $11,560,585
    Expenses
    $8,532,491
    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
    $9,580,532
    Expenses
    $5,970,516
    Assets (EOY)
    $32,679,520
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,488,036
    Expenses
    $5,566,043
    Assets (EOY)
    $31,017,613
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,541,496
    Expenses
    $5,404,094
    Assets (EOY)
    $27,817,034
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,932,372
    Expenses
    $4,983,779
    Assets (EOY)
    $23,947,457
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,514,523
    Expenses
    $4,755,152
    Assets (EOY)
    $20,601,013
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,651,858
    Expenses
    $4,508,731
    Assets (EOY)
    $18,168,961

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.

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

  • PROGRESSIVE HOLDING CO

    C · TELECOMMUNICATIONS RELATED INVESTMENTS AND SERVICES · GA · 100% owned · share of income $1,042,983 · share of assets $6,367,716

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.