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BUTTE ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC

EIN 46-0115942 NEWELL, SD

Largest nonprofits in South Dakota

Revenue 2025
$10,055,564
Expenses 2025
$9,079,441

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
PO BOX 137

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

THE MISSION OF BUTTE ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE IS TO CONTINUALLY IMPROVE CUSTOMER SERVICES; PROVIDE SAFE, RELIABLE, AND COMPETITIVELY PRICED ELECTRICITY; AND CONTINUE TO LEAD IN DEVELOPING OUR COMMUNITIES FOR THE BENEFIT OF OUR MEMBERS.

  • SALE OF ELECTRICITY TO APPROXIMATELY 7,472 CONSUMER ACCOUNTS.

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.

  • Matthew Sleep

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $250,755
    From this org
    $193,150
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $57,605
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $193,150
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $50,128
    Nontaxable benefits
    $7,477
    Filer's total
    $250,755
  • Brett Fosheim

    OPERATIONS M

    Total calculated
    $190,006
    From this org
    $141,858
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $48,148
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $141,858
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $20,101
    Nontaxable benefits
    $28,047
    Filer's total
    $190,006
  • Kimberly Wince

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $155,671
    From this org
    $111,792
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $43,879
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $111,792
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $15,832
    Nontaxable benefits
    $28,047
    Filer's total
    $155,671
  • Travis Schenk

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $12,556
    From this org
    $12,556
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Cris Miller

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $11,126
    From this org
    $11,126
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Steve Smeenk

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $10,635
    From this org
    $10,635
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Thomas Brunner

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $10,574
    From this org
    $10,574
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jessica Casteel

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $10,191
    From this org
    $10,191
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Dan Marrs

    VICE-PRESIDE

    Total calculated
    $9,306
    From this org
    $9,306
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Chandy Olson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $8,212
    From this org
    $8,212
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Dan Hefner

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $8,024
    From this org
    $8,024
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • James Mortenson

    ASST SECRETA

    Total calculated
    $7,185
    From this org
    $7,185
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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
    $10,055,564
    Expenses
    $9,079,441
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $18,258
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $10,549,791
    Expenses
    $8,762,491
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $14,187
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $10,045,075
    Expenses
    $7,800,336
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $26,737
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $8,803,300
    Expenses
    $7,332,138
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $25,472

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
    $8,524,779
    Expenses
    $7,282,778
    Assets (EOY)
    $66,049,241
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,815,429
    Expenses
    $7,814,436
    Assets (EOY)
    $63,943,714
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,493,439
    Expenses
    $7,588,502
    Assets (EOY)
    $60,540,368
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $9,402,930
    Expenses
    $7,386,721
    Assets (EOY)
    $60,649,159
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,357,440
    Expenses
    $7,095,434
    Assets (EOY)
    $58,881,837
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,694,230
    Expenses
    $6,367,894
    Assets (EOY)
    $57,036,663
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,113,961
    Expenses
    $6,349,308
    Assets (EOY)
    $52,206,252
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,976,715
    Expenses
    $6,081,010
    Assets (EOY)
    $49,558,229
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,973,699
    Expenses
    $5,804,278
    Assets (EOY)
    $48,240,729
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $5,486,052
    Assets (EOY)
    $43,536,264

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

Where these grants went next →

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

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.