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FARMERS EDUCATIONAL & COOPERATIVE UNION OF AMERICA NORTH DAKOTA DIV

EIN 45-0130613 JAMESTOWN, ND

Revenue 2024
$3,760,259
Expenses 2024
$6,345,226

As filed

Subsection
05
Classification
1000
Street
1415 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).

Group exemption

The central organization of an IRS group exemption (group number 1818), covering 73 subordinate organizations. matched by us

The IRS lists each organization's group exemption number; we match a subordinate to its central organization by that number and the affiliation code the IRS assigns.

  • ADAMS COUNTY

    FARMERS EDUCATIONAL & COOPERATIVE UNION OF AMERICA NORTH DAKOTA DIV EIN 45-6012191 JAMESTOWN, ND

  • ADRIAN LO LAMOURE CO

    FARMERS EDUCATIONAL & COOPERATIVE UNION OF AMERICA NORTH DAKOTA DIV EIN 45-6022778 JAMESTOWN, ND

  • BARNES COUNTY

    FARMERS EDUCATIONAL & COOPERATIVE UNION OF AMERICA NORTH DAKOTA DIV EIN 45-6011416 JAMESTOWN, ND

  • BENSON COUNTY

    FARMERS EDUCATIONAL & COOPERATIVE UNION OF AMERICA NORTH DAKOTA DIV EIN 45-0338425 JAMESTOWN, ND

  • BILLINGS GOLDEN VALLEY COUNTY

    FARMERS EDUCATIONAL & COOPERATIVE UNION OF AMERICA NORTH DAKOTA DIV EIN 45-0338426 JAMESTOWN, ND

  • BOTTINEAU COUNTY

    FARMERS EDUCATIONAL & COOPERATIVE UNION OF AMERICA NORTH DAKOTA DIV EIN 45-0217870 JAMESTOWN, ND

  • BOWMAN SLOPE COUNTY

    FARMERS EDUCATIONAL & COOPERATIVE UNION OF AMERICA NORTH DAKOTA DIV EIN 45-6016284 JAMESTOWN, ND

  • BURKE COUNTY

    FARMERS EDUCATIONAL & COOPERATIVE UNION OF AMERICA NORTH DAKOTA DIV EIN 45-0338427 JAMESTOWN, ND

  • BURLEIGH COUNTY

    FARMERS EDUCATIONAL & COOPERATIVE UNION OF AMERICA NORTH DAKOTA DIV EIN 45-0338421 JAMESTOWN, ND

  • CASS COUNTY

    FARMERS EDUCATIONAL & COOPERATIVE UNION OF AMERICA NORTH DAKOTA DIV EIN 45-0338422 JAMESTOWN, ND

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Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

NORTH DAKOTA FARMERS UNION, GUIDED BY THE PRINCIPLES OF COOPERATION, LEGISLATION AND EDUCATION, IS AN ORGANIZATION COMMITTED TO THE PROSPERITY OF FAMILY FARMS, RANCHES AND RURAL COMMUNITIES.

Activities or mission (Part I)

GUIDED BY THE PRINCIPLES OF COOPERATION, LEGISLATIVE AND EDUCATIONAL GOALS.

  • EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS - THESE PROGRAMS INCLUDE THE SPONSORING OF VARIOUS SEMINARS AND YOUTH EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS INCLUDING CLASSES AND EDUCATIONAL CAMP PROGRAMS.

  • COOPERATIVE PROGRAMS - RURAL AREAS ARE ASSISTED IN PROMOTING AND DEVELOPING LOCAL COOPERATIVES TO INCREASE THE FINANCIAL BARGAINING POWER OF AGRICULTURAL AND RURAL PEOPLE.

  • LEGISLATION - WORKING WITH ELECTED OFFICIALS TO VOICE THE OPINIONS OF RURAL PEOPLE ON AGRICULTURAL ISSUES.

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.

  • BENJAMIN VIG

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $22,425
    From this org
    $22,425
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5 + 15 related

  • JON IVERSON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $20,806
    From this org
    $20,806
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5 + 15 related

  • MARK WATNE

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $597,298
    From this org
    $586,948
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,350
    Hours/week
    17 + 26 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $586,948
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $10,350
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $597,298

  • MICHELLE ZIESCH

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $23,958
    From this org
    $23,958
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5 + 15 related

  • ROBERT FINKEN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $26,812
    From this org
    $26,812
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5 + 15 related

  • ROBERT KUYLEN

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $37,673
    From this org
    $37,673
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5 + 15 related

  • SHANE SICKLER

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $28,066
    From this org
    $28,066
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5 + 15 related

  • TYLER STAFSLIEN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $13,975
    From this org
    $13,975
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5 + 15 related

  • WESLEY NIEDERMAN

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $21,084
    From this org
    $21,084
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5 + 15 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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $3,760,259
    Expenses
    $6,345,226
    Contributions
    $1,385,110
    Grants paid
    $419,960
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,415,716
    Expenses
    $5,822,230
    Contributions
    $1,377,154
    Grants paid
    $443,524
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,773,538
    Expenses
    $5,366,521
    Contributions
    $848,091
    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
    $2,847,047
    Expenses
    $5,054,101
    Assets (EOY)
    $98,028,819

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,688,383
    Expenses
    $4,178,034
    Assets (EOY)
    $92,870,322

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,366,870
    Expenses
    $4,502,992
    Assets (EOY)
    $81,910,722

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,355,026
    Expenses
    $4,771,443
    Assets (EOY)
    $72,318,473

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,886,915
    Expenses
    $4,815,190
    Assets (EOY)
    $66,196,733

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,664,028
    Expenses
    $4,610,095
    Assets (EOY)
    $60,983,996

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,465,703
    Expenses
    $4,699,451
    Assets (EOY)
    $57,401,026

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,409,521
    Expenses
    $3,905,786
    Assets (EOY)
    $53,758,174

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,688,822
    Expenses
    $3,838,177
    Assets (EOY)
    $50,180,863

  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $3,429,973
    Assets (EOY)
    $42,843,994

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

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

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 on its 2024 return

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.

Related partnerships on its 2024 return

Related corporations and trusts on its 2024 return

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