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MINNESOTA RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION

EIN 41-1283589 ELBOW LAKE, MN

Revenue 2024
$4,850,312
Expenses 2024
$4,408,795

Program services were 83.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
W038
Classification
1000
Street
217 12TH AVE SE

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

TO PROVIDE THE LATEST INFORMATION, EDUCATION AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO PROTECT OUR PUBLIC WATERS AND IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE IN MINNESOTA

Activities or mission (Part I)

MRWA PROVIDES PROFESSIONAL ON-SITE TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND TRAINING TO WATER AND WASTE WATER SYSTEM PERSONNEL IN MANAGERIAL, FINANCIAL, OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, SOURCE WATER AND WELLHEAD PROTECTION ISSUES.

  • TRAINING AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE - MRWA STAFF HAS EXPERIENCED OPERATORS/TECHNICIANS/TEACHERS THAT TRAVEL THE ENTIRE STATE TO PROVIDE IMMEDIATE ON-SITE TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND CLASSROOM TRAINING TO SMALL MUNICIPAL, NON-MUNICIPAL AND NON-COMMUNITY NON-TRANSIET WATER AND WASTEWATER SYSTEMS. MRWA STAFF PROVIDED 3,311 ON-SITE VISITS, HELD 78 TRAINING SESSIONS WITH A TOTAL ATTENDANCE OF 4,134 WATER, WASTEWATER OPERATORS, ADMINISTRATORS AND GOVERNING OFFICIALS.

    Expenses $2,227,628 · Grants $1,000 · Revenue $1,079,076

  • SOURCE WATER PROTECTION - MRWA'S SOURCE WATER PROTECTION PROGRAMS SPECIALISTS HELP WITH THE CREATION OF A LOCAL TEAM AND WORK THE STEP PROGRAM, WHICH HAS BEEN DESIGNATED TO SIMPLIFY THE DEVELOPMENT OF LOCAL WATER PROGRAMS. MRWA STAFF ARE AVAILABLE TO PROVIDE INFORMATION AND TRAINING OF COUNCILS, BOARDS, UTILITY COMMISSIONS, OTHER COMMUNITY LEADERS AND SOURCE WATER PROTECTION TEAM MEMBERS. MRWA PROVIDED 305 ON-SITE VISITS TO WATER UTILITIES, SPENT 420 HOURS WORKING WITH STATE AGENCIES AND CITIES AND OVER 1,724 HOURS HELPING UTILITIES DEVELOP SOURCE WATER PROTECTION PLANS.

    Expenses $1,438,320

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.

  • TRACY BERGH

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $1,850
    From this org
    $1,850
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LES ANDERSON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $1,100
    From this org
    $1,100
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TOM DOWDLE

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $2,350
    From this org
    $2,350
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RODNEY SPRONK

    SECRETARY/TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $1,600
    From this org
    $1,600
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ALLAN RUTTER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $1,550
    From this org
    $1,550
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LUCAS HEIKKILA

    NATIONAL DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $1,100
    From this org
    $1,100
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PAUL BERGERON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $1,600
    From this org
    $1,600
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RYAN HOLTZ

    VICE CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JASON HILLMAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LORI BLAIR

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $136,182
    From this org
    $125,569
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,613
    Hours/week
    40

  • JODI SCHROEDER

    FINANCE MANAGER

    Total calculated
    $119,871
    From this org
    $82,049
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $37,822
    Hours/week
    40

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $4,850,312
    Expenses
    $4,408,795
    Contributions
    $3,582,722
    Grants paid
    $1,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $4,179,105
    Expenses
    $3,851,906
    Contributions
    $3,148,940
    Grants paid
    $1,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,850,628
    Expenses
    $3,447,072
    Contributions
    $2,875,689
    Grants paid
    $1,000

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

  • 2024 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,261,922
    Expenses
    $3,025,201
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,077,826

  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,296,557
    Expenses
    $2,974,269
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,712,959

  • 2020 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,218,134
    Expenses
    $3,004,799
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,334,984

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,669,232
    Expenses
    $2,681,780
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,880,947

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,589,867
    Expenses
    $2,544,738
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,031,368

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

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

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.