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HOLSTON ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC

EIN 62-0238497 ROGERSVILLE, TN

Largest nonprofits in Tennessee

Revenue 2024
$110,216,626
Expenses 2024
$110,216,626

As filed

Subsection
12
Classification
4000
Street
1200 W MAIN ST

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

At Holston Electric Cooperative our mission is to provide safe, dependable electric service to our member-owners at a reasonable cost.

Activities or mission (Part I)

At Holston Electric Cooperative, our mission is to provide safe, dependable electric service to our member-owners at a reasonable cost.

  • Holston Electric Cooperative is a customer-owned distributor of TVA power, providing service to more than 32,000 residential, commercial and industrial customers in a 525 square-mile area of Hawkins and Hamblen Counties in upper East Tennessee.

  • Holston Electric Cooperative operates it's wholly owned subsidiary, HolstonConnect, LLC, to provide rural broadband services (Internet, Telephone and Televison) to the current footprint of the Electric Cooperative. The most recent customer count is approximately 14,000 customers.

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.

  • Gordell Ely

    Director

    Total calculated
    $14,275
    From this org
    $14,275
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    4.5

  • Jeff Ringley

    Director/President

    Total calculated
    $12,275
    From this org
    $12,275
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    3.6

  • Phil Barrett

    Director/Vice President

    Total calculated
    $15,925
    From this org
    $15,925
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    4.6

  • David Marshall

    Director/Secretary/Treasur

    Total calculated
    $15,725
    From this org
    $15,725
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5.1

  • Jerry Horner

    Director

    Total calculated
    $11,150
    From this org
    $11,150
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    3.2

  • Crystal Price

    Director

    Total calculated
    $15,175
    From this org
    $15,175
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5.1

  • Mark Derrick

    Director

    Total calculated
    $19,425
    From this org
    $19,425
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    8.4

  • Shannon Bellamy

    Director of Finance and Hu

    Total calculated
    $227,460
    From this org
    $210,217
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $17,243
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $178,610
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $31,607
    Deferred
    $4,912
    Nontaxable benefits
    $12,331
    Filer's total
    $227,460

  • James B Sandlin

    General Manager

    Total calculated
    $481,602
    From this org
    $351,713
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $129,889
    Hours/week
    55

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $313,110
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $38,603
    Deferred
    $100,810
    Nontaxable benefits
    $29,079
    Filer's total
    $481,602

  • Nathan Franklin

    Director of Engineering

    Total calculated
    $253,515
    From this org
    $173,311
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $80,204
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $149,298
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $24,013
    Deferred
    $52,094
    Nontaxable benefits
    $28,110
    Filer's total
    $253,515

  • James Glenn Risner

    Foreman

    Total calculated
    $194,950
    From this org
    $164,335
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $30,615
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $151,461
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $12,874
    Deferred
    $2,817
    Nontaxable benefits
    $27,798
    Filer's total
    $194,950

  • Renn Lawson

    Foreman

    Total calculated
    $237,990
    From this org
    $160,392
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $77,598
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $154,239
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $6,153
    Deferred
    $49,783
    Nontaxable benefits
    $27,815
    Filer's total
    $237,990

  • Sammy W Trent

    Director of Broadband Operations

    Total calculated
    $192,259
    From this org
    $155,056
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $37,203
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $138,940
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $16,116
    Deferred
    $9,110
    Nontaxable benefits
    $28,093
    Filer's total
    $192,259

  • Rex Cole

    Foreman

    Total calculated
    $216,254
    From this org
    $146,324
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $69,930
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $139,896
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $6,428
    Deferred
    $42,132
    Nontaxable benefits
    $27,798
    Filer's total
    $216,254

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
    $110,216,626
    Expenses
    $110,216,626
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $101,432,047
    Expenses
    $101,432,047
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $103,748,257
    Expenses
    $103,748,257
    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
    $97,958,544
    Expenses
    $97,507,317
    Assets (EOY)
    $140,432,181

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $88,497,952
    Expenses
    $87,795,569
    Assets (EOY)
    $133,452,137

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $80,989,721
    Expenses
    $81,486,477
    Assets (EOY)
    $116,352,555

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $79,823,489
    Expenses
    $80,454,225
    Assets (EOY)
    $102,063,238

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $77,575,203
    Expenses
    $77,575,203
    Assets (EOY)
    $88,765,863

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $74,583,232
    Expenses
    $74,583,232
    Assets (EOY)
    $86,021,025

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $72,188,057
    Expenses
    $72,188,057
    Assets (EOY)
    $84,764,183

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

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

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

  • Holston Connect

    Broadband Service · TN · income $13,564,522 · assets $6,491,013

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.