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EASTERN SLOPE RURAL TELEPHONE ASSOCIATION INC

EIN 84-0486247 HUGO, CO

Largest nonprofits in Colorado

Revenue 2024
$9,824,039
Expenses 2024
$9,607,493

As filed

Subsection
12
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 397

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

IT SHALL BE THE AIM OF EASTERN SLOPE RURAL TELEPHONE ASSOCIATION, INC. TO PROVIDE DEPENDABLE AREA-WIDE TELEPHONE SERVICE ON THE COOPERATIVE PLAN AND AT THE LOWEST COST CONSISTENT WITH SOUND ECONOMY AND GOOD MANAGEMENT.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO PROVIDE LOCAL TELEPHONE SERVICE TO MEMBERS AT COST ON A COOPERATIVE BASIS.

  • THE COOPERATIVE PROVIDED LOCAL TELEPHONE EXCHANGE SERVICE AND OTHER TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES TO 2,576 SUBSCRIBER ACCESS LINES AT YEAR END. ALL MEMBERS WERE SERVED AT COST ON A COOPERATIVE BASIS.

  • THE COOPERATIVE PROVIDED BROADBAND SERVICES ON A COOPERATIVE BASIS.

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.

  • Thomas Sauter

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $16,194
    From this org
    $16,194
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.6

  • John Higgins

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $12,510
    From this org
    $12,510
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.1

  • Roger Saffer

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $15,894
    From this org
    $15,894
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • William Bledsoe

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $15,144
    From this org
    $15,144
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Wade Hollowell

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $12,510
    From this org
    $12,510
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.6

  • Curtis Dutro

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $2,250
    From this org
    $2,250
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.7

  • Shane Lessenden

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $14,676
    From this org
    $14,676
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.6

  • Colleen McCormick

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $12,360
    From this org
    $12,360
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.9

  • Gary Elrick

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $16,044
    From this org
    $16,044
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2

  • Rick Chenoweth

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $16,044
    From this org
    $16,044
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2

  • Bradley Welp

    CEO/GM

    Total calculated
    $237,995
    From this org
    $180,647
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $57,348
    Hours/week
    40.4

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $168,350
    Bonus
    $10,000
    Other
    $2,297
    Deferred
    $39,006
    Nontaxable benefits
    $18,342
    Filer's total
    $237,995

  • Samantha White

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $140,745
    From this org
    $85,531
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $55,214
    Hours/week
    40.4

  • Brian Miller

    PLANT MANAGER

    Total calculated
    $158,677
    From this org
    $106,603
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $52,074
    Hours/week
    40.6

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $103,293
    Bonus
    $2,500
    Other
    $810
    Deferred
    $22,925
    Nontaxable benefits
    $29,149
    Filer's total
    $158,677

  • Clint Felzien

    OPERATIONS MANAGER

    Total calculated
    $192,514
    From this org
    $127,386
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $65,128
    Hours/week
    40.9

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $122,027
    Bonus
    $5,000
    Other
    $359
    Deferred
    $28,078
    Nontaxable benefits
    $37,050
    Filer's total
    $192,514

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
    $9,824,039
    Expenses
    $9,607,493
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $8,996

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.

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.

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

  • ESTECHNOLOGIES LLC

    HIGH-SPEED BROADBAND INTERNET · CO · income $3,584,555 · assets $696,327

Listed 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.