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RUTHERFORD ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP

EIN 56-0386171 FOREST CITY, NC

Largest nonprofits in North Carolina

Revenue 2025
$174,495,890
Expenses 2025
$174,495,890

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
186 HUDLOW RD

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

TO PROVIDE THE BEST POSSIBLE ELECTRIC SERVICE TO ALL WHO DESIRE IT WITHIN THE SYSTEM AREA AT A REASONABLE COST CONSISTENT WITH THE HIGHEST STANDARDS OF SERVICE.

  • TO PROVIDE THE BEST POSSIBLE ELECTRIC SERVICE TO ALL WHO DESIRE IT WITHIN THE SYSTEM AREA AT A REASONABLE COST CONSISTENT WITH THE HIGHEST STANDARDS OF SERVICE.

  • N/A

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.

  • Jeffrey C Brittain

    GENERAL MANA

    Total calculated
    $304,218
    From this org
    $273,835
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $30,383
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $272,679
    Bonus
    $568
    Other
    $588
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    $30,383
    Filer's total
    $304,218

  • S Dirk Burleson

    GENERAL MGR.

    Total calculated
    $287,111
    From this org
    $275,964
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $11,147
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $107,682
    Bonus
    $330
    Other
    $167,952
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    $11,147
    Filer's total
    $287,111

  • Brad Bridges

    DIRECTOR-DIS

    Total calculated
    $254,967
    From this org
    $180,857
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $74,110
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $175,469
    Bonus
    $944
    Other
    $4,444
    Deferred
    $43,692
    Nontaxable benefits
    $30,418
    Filer's total
    $254,967

  • Tommy W Chapman

    VP-MEMBER &

    Total calculated
    $241,777
    From this org
    $211,149
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $30,628
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $192,571
    Bonus
    $13,835
    Other
    $4,743
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    $30,628
    Filer's total
    $241,777

  • Thomas Haire

    VP-ENGINEERI

    Total calculated
    $234,733
    From this org
    $179,499
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $55,234
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $174,238
    Bonus
    $901
    Other
    $4,360
    Deferred
    $40,596
    Nontaxable benefits
    $14,638
    Filer's total
    $234,733

  • John W Jones III

    MANAGER OF O

    Total calculated
    $217,906
    From this org
    $150,723
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $67,183
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $146,530
    Bonus
    $422
    Other
    $3,771
    Deferred
    $37,537
    Nontaxable benefits
    $29,646
    Filer's total
    $217,906

  • Colon L Saunders

    VP-OPERATION

    Total calculated
    $211,583
    From this org
    $198,123
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $13,460
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $88,316
    Bonus
    $3,764
    Other
    $106,043
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    $13,460
    Filer's total
    $211,583

  • J Dean Carpenter

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $38,357
    From this org
    $38,357
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.79

  • Amy P Torvinen

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $37,761
    From this org
    $37,761
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.92

  • Marcus Mullen

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $37,686
    From this org
    $37,686
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.16

  • Joseph N Quinn

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $37,150
    From this org
    $37,150
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.77

  • Van Samuel Boyd

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $37,057
    From this org
    $37,057
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.58

  • Jill P Lovell

    ASST. SECRET

    Total calculated
    $36,286
    From this org
    $36,286
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.95

  • Joel Z Wakefield

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $22,672
    From this org
    $22,672
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.92

  • Robyn Houser

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $22,472
    From this org
    $22,472
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.6

  • Robby R Eurey

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $20,693
    From this org
    $20,693
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.16

  • Timothy E Stowe

    VICE PRESIDE

    Total calculated
    $13,219
    From this org
    $13,219
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.49

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
    $174,495,890
    Expenses
    $174,495,890
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $167,749,291
    Expenses
    $167,749,291
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $172,283,874
    Expenses
    $172,283,874
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $154,765,252
    Expenses
    $154,765,252
    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
    $140,339,107
    Expenses
    $140,339,107
    Assets (EOY)
    $332,630,081

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $141,217,343
    Expenses
    $141,217,343
    Assets (EOY)
    $327,227,029

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $137,903,799
    Expenses
    $137,903,799
    Assets (EOY)
    $320,841,491

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $141,369,426
    Expenses
    $141,657,492
    Assets (EOY)
    $306,959,919

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $134,961,995
    Expenses
    $135,148,346
    Assets (EOY)
    $283,365,427

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $138,377,459
    Expenses
    $138,270,723
    Assets (EOY)
    $275,474,325

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $136,949,300
    Expenses
    $137,451,737
    Assets (EOY)
    $264,624,442

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $134,300,132
    Expenses
    $136,446,046
    Assets (EOY)
    $261,732,516

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

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.