- Revenue 2025
- $206,061
- Expenses 2025
- $194,378
Program services were 98.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- T70Z
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- PO BOX 40
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).
Other organizations at this address
1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us
We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.
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STEARNS COOPERATIVE ELECTRIC ASSOCIATION
EIN 41-0558175
Mission and programs · 2025
Mission
TO SERVE AS RESPONSIBLE STEWARDS OF THE GENEROSITY OF STEARNS ELECTRIC ASSOCIATION MEMBER-CONSUMERS AND DISTRIBUTE GRANT FUNDS IN A MANNER THAT ENHANCES THE OVERALL QUALITY OF LIFE IN OUR LOCAL COMMUNITY.
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THE ORGANIZATION COLLECTS AND DISBURSES FUNDS FOR CHARITABLE AND EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES IN THE AREA SERVED BY STEARNS COOPERATIVE ELECTRIC ASSOCIATION. GRANTS ARE GIVEN TO CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS, WORTHY CAUSES, & INDIVIDUALS IN NEED AFTER THE BOARD REVIEWS AN "OPERATION ROUND UP APPLICATION" REQUESTING FUNDS. ORGANIZATIONS OR INDIVIDUALS REQUESTING FUNDS EXPLAIN WHAT THE FUNDS WILL BE USED FOR AND WHY THEY ARE IN NEED. PROFILE INFORMATION ON THE APPLICATION IS ALSO USED AS THE BASIS FOR A GRANT.
Expenses $190,546 · Grants $190,546
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.
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Ronald PaulsenRONALD PAULSEN
PRESIDENT
- Total calculated
- $500
- From this org
- $500
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.37
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Chris BergmanCHRIS BERGMAN
VICE PRESIDENT
- Total calculated
- $200
- From this org
- $200
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.19
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Steve GudgellSTEVE GUDGELL
SECRETARY/TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $400
- From this org
- $400
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.33
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Al PoserAL POSER
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $300
- From this org
- $300
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.29
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Meredith UlrichMEREDITH ULRICH
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $300
- From this org
- $300
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.29
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David CebullaDAVID CEBULLA
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $300
- From this org
- $300
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.29
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Nicole HolthausNICOLE HOLTHAUS
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $300
- From this org
- $300
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.29
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Mike MeagherMIKE MEAGHER
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $100
- From this org
- $100
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.12
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Ann ReischlANN REISCHL
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $200
- From this org
- $200
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.19
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Connie SpanswickCONNIE SPANSWICK
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $200
- From this org
- $200
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.19
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Matt O'SheaMATT O'SHEA
CEO-STEARNS ELECTRIC ASSOC
- Total calculated
- $435,546
- From this org
- $0
- From related orgs
- $308,084
- Other
- $127,462
- Hours/week
- 0 + 45 related
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $0 + $286,309 related
- Bonus
- $0 + $11,500 related
- Other
- $0 + $10,275 related
- Deferred
- $0 + $92,718 related
- Nontaxable benefits
- $0 + $34,744 related
- Filer's total
- $0 + $435,546 related
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
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2025
- Revenue
- $206,061
- Expenses
- $194,378
- Contributions
- $205,631
- Grants paid
- $190,546
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2024
- Revenue
- $202,713
- Expenses
- $190,953
- Contributions
- $202,254
- Grants paid
- $187,100
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2023
- Revenue
- $178,354
- Expenses
- $169,785
- Contributions
- $178,011
- Grants paid
- $166,273
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2022
- Revenue
- $172,813
- Expenses
- $171,556
- Contributions
- $172,688
- Grants paid
- $167,550
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
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2021 · 990-EZ
- Revenue
- $161,495
- Expenses
- $165,400
- Assets (EOY)
- $47,261
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2020 · 990-EZ
- Revenue
- $162,965
- Expenses
- $150,240
- Assets (EOY)
- $51,166
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2019 · 990-EZ
- Revenue
- $150,139
- Expenses
- $154,865
- Assets (EOY)
- $38,441
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2018 · 990-EZ
- Revenue
- $142,604
- Expenses
- $139,914
- Assets (EOY)
- $43,167
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2017 · 990-EZ
- Revenue
- $135,358
- Expenses
- $132,616
- Assets (EOY)
- $40,477
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
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$5,896
2025 GENERAL SUPPORT
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$5,310
2024 GENERAL SUPPORT
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
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STEARNS COOPERATIVE ELECTRIC ASSOCIATION
501(C)(12) · ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE · MN
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
Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.
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.