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COLUMBIA RURAL ELECTRIC ASSOCIATION INC

EIN 91-0182816 WALLA WALLA, WA

Largest nonprofits in Washington

Revenue 2024
$39,463,453
Expenses 2024
$38,858,140

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
2929 MELROSE ST

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

Provide electric service

  • Provide electric service to approximately 4,500 members with gross consumption in excess of 397 million kWh.

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.

  • Scott Peters

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $477,428
    From this org
    $342,308
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $135,120
    Hours/week
    45

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $319,273
    Bonus
    $20,000
    Other
    $3,035
    Deferred
    $100,602
    Nontaxable benefits
    $34,518
    Filer's total
    $477,428
  • Jeffrey Murphy

    Mgr of Ops/Eng

    Total calculated
    $347,868
    From this org
    $239,356
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $108,512
    Hours/week
    42

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $236,253
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    $3,103
    Deferred
    $71,692
    Nontaxable benefits
    $36,820
    Filer's total
    $347,868
  • James Cooper

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $308,891
    From this org
    $218,956
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $89,935
    Hours/week
    45

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $216,814
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    $2,142
    Deferred
    $65,039
    Nontaxable benefits
    $24,896
    Filer's total
    $308,891
  • Gene Dawes

    Mgr of Internet

    Total calculated
    $272,336
    From this org
    $193,786
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $78,550
    Hours/week
    49

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $178,924
    Bonus
    $12,500
    Other
    $2,362
    Deferred
    $51,459
    Nontaxable benefits
    $27,091
    Filer's total
    $272,336
  • Brendan Johnson

    Mgr of IT/MSR's

    Total calculated
    $270,156
    From this org
    $199,428
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $70,728
    Hours/week
    49

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $198,682
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    $746
    Deferred
    $57,600
    Nontaxable benefits
    $13,128
    Filer's total
    $270,156
  • Brian Bishop

    Line Foreman

    Total calculated
    $269,112
    From this org
    $183,939
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $85,173
    Hours/week
    45

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $181,109
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    $2,830
    Deferred
    $48,328
    Nontaxable benefits
    $36,845
    Filer's total
    $269,112
  • Jason Gimmell

    Line Foreman

    Total calculated
    $267,769
    From this org
    $185,560
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $82,209
    Hours/week
    45

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $182,952
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    $2,608
    Deferred
    $45,304
    Nontaxable benefits
    $36,905
    Filer's total
    $267,769
  • Patrick Dennis

    Director

    Total calculated
    $17,657
    From this org
    $17,657
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Dennis Munden

    Director

    Total calculated
    $15,212
    From this org
    $15,212
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Neil Carpenter

    President

    Total calculated
    $12,442
    From this org
    $12,442
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Doug Logan

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $12,115
    From this org
    $12,115
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Philip Mehlenbacher

    Director

    Total calculated
    $11,521
    From this org
    $11,521
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Jay DeWitt

    Secretary/Treas

    Total calculated
    $9,266
    From this org
    $9,266
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Kathleen Wooldridge

    Director

    Total calculated
    $7,592
    From this org
    $7,592
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Greg Knowles

    Director

    Total calculated
    $6,347
    From this org
    $6,347
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Glen Shipley

    Director

    Total calculated
    $6,307
    From this org
    $6,307
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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
    $39,463,453
    Expenses
    $38,858,140
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $39,463,453
    Expenses
    $38,858,140
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $37,725,658
    Expenses
    $36,452,454
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $36,056,492
    Expenses
    $34,947,186
    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
    $36,917,429
    Expenses
    $35,783,382
    Assets (EOY)
    $105,545,364
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $35,129,491
    Expenses
    $33,892,005
    Assets (EOY)
    $101,221,956
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $32,979,461
    Expenses
    $31,870,871
    Assets (EOY)
    $99,323,818
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $31,351,491
    Expenses
    $30,601,299
    Assets (EOY)
    $98,560,347
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $27,787,459
    Expenses
    $27,051,723
    Assets (EOY)
    $93,697,227

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.

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 2024 return

  • Columbia Energy LLC

    Broadband · WA

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.