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SIERRA ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC

EIN 85-0093694 ELEPHANT BTTE, NM

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Revenue 2025
$12,188,226
Expenses 2025
$12,188,226

As filed

Subsection
12
Classification
4000
Street
610 HIGHWAY 195

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

SIERRA ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE IS DEDICATED TO PROVIDE TOP QUALITY ELECTRIC SERVICE TO OUR VALUED MEMBERS, AT COMPETITIVE PRICES, WHILE NAVIGATING COMPLEX CHANGES IN OUR INDUSTRY. WE WILL EMPOWER OUR BOARD OF TRUSTEES AND OUR EMPLOYEES TO MAXIMIZE THEIR POTENTIAL THROUGH TEAMWORK AND THROUGH OUR SHARED COMMITMENT TO THE MEMBERS AND COMMUNITIES WE SERVE.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO PROVIDE ELECTRIC POWER TO RURAL AREAS AT COST ON A COOPERATIVE BASIS.

  • SALE OF ELECTRIC POWER TO MEMBERS AT COST ON A COOPERATIVE BASIS THROUGH THE ALLOCATION OF PATRONAGE CAPITAL. THERE WERE 4,684 ACTIVE SERVICES AT YEAR END.

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Dennis Franklin

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $8,600
    From this org
    $8,600
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    3.2

  • Tami Garrett

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $10,060
    From this org
    $10,060
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    3.2

  • Judy Smith

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $8,235
    From this org
    $8,235
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.7

  • Darryl Sullivan

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $9,314
    From this org
    $9,314
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    30.2

  • Warren Strong

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $8,810
    From this org
    $8,810
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.7

  • Raymond Ruffini

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $10,385
    From this org
    $10,385
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    8.6

  • Paul Scott

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $8,510
    From this org
    $8,510
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Ray Hodges

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $8,660
    From this org
    $8,660
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.8

  • April Romero

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $8,660
    From this org
    $8,660
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Guy Payne

    EVP/GENERAL MANAGER

    Total calculated
    $257,327
    From this org
    $204,533
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $52,794
    Hours/week
    48

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $194,122
    Bonus
    $9,500
    Other
    $911
    Deferred
    $22,387
    Nontaxable benefits
    $30,407
    Filer's total
    $257,327

  • Jose Villa

    LINE SUPERINTENDENT

    Total calculated
    $163,491
    From this org
    $126,083
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $37,408
    Hours/week
    45.4

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $119,554
    Bonus
    $5,750
    Other
    $779
    Deferred
    $7,817
    Nontaxable benefits
    $29,591
    Filer's total
    $163,491

  • Jesse Alexander

    LINE FOREMAN

    Total calculated
    $152,338
    From this org
    $114,088
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $38,250
    Hours/week
    45.9

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $109,702
    Bonus
    $4,250
    Other
    $136
    Deferred
    $8,783
    Nontaxable benefits
    $29,467
    Filer's total
    $152,338

  • Felix Martinez

    JOURNEYMAN LINEMAN

    Total calculated
    $147,206
    From this org
    $108,295
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $38,911
    Hours/week
    48.6

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
    $12,188,226
    Expenses
    $12,188,226
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $29,381
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $12,316,155
    Expenses
    $12,316,155
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $20,380
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $11,186,332
    Expenses
    $11,186,332
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $14,094
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $10,580,863
    Expenses
    $10,580,863
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $8,911

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
    $9,920,270
    Expenses
    $9,923,346
    Assets (EOY)
    $28,287,663

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $10,082,559
    Expenses
    $10,286,135
    Assets (EOY)
    $25,979,520

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $9,716,690
    Expenses
    $9,709,935
    Assets (EOY)
    $24,982,442

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $9,664,472
    Expenses
    $9,664,472
    Assets (EOY)
    $23,776,494

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $9,108,392
    Expenses
    $9,108,392
    Assets (EOY)
    $22,544,634

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,750,383
    Expenses
    $8,750,383
    Assets (EOY)
    $22,460,737

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $9,003,634
    Expenses
    $9,003,634
    Assets (EOY)
    $20,132,012

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $9,061,868
    Expenses
    $9,059,849
    Assets (EOY)
    $19,796,605

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $9,486,893
    Expenses
    $9,452,127
    Assets (EOY)
    $19,949,338

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $9,177,072
    Assets (EOY)
    $21,839,233

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 2025 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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.