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CENTER FOR RURAL AFFAIRS

EIN 47-0553823 LYONS, NE

Revenue 2024
$18,576,488
Expenses 2024
$11,840,371

Program services were 99.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
2000
Street
145 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).

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.

  • DENNIS DEMMEL

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • JAY HALL

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • CHUCK KARPF

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • BARBARA DILLY

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • LEVERNE BARRETT

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • KRISTA PEEKS DITTMAN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • MELISSA FLORELL

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • GREG FRIPP

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • ROSS LARSON

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • NANCY MEYER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • KARINA PEREZ

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • AUDREY LUTZ MUSILEK

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • PAUL SWANSON

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • STEELE VALENZUELA

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • JANE YULE

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • LEE TESDELL

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • BRIAN DEPEW

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $190,771
    From this org
    $168,241
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $22,530
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $168,241
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $10,278
    Nontaxable benefits
    $12,252
    Filer's total
    $190,771

  • MIKE BRIDE

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $171,631
    From this org
    $130,416
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $41,215
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $130,416
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $8,293
    Nontaxable benefits
    $32,922
    Filer's total
    $171,631

  • SANDRA RENNER

    CHIEF OF STAFF

    Total calculated
    $118,409
    From this org
    $88,973
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $29,436
    Hours/week
    40

  • SARAH HACKNEY

    NSAC DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $174,773
    From this org
    $153,157
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $21,616
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $153,157
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $9,364
    Nontaxable benefits
    $12,252
    Filer's total
    $174,773

  • SOPHIA KRUSZEWSKI

    NSAC DEPUTY POLICY DIRECOR

    Total calculated
    $173,725
    From this org
    $132,471
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $41,254
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $132,471
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $8,332
    Nontaxable benefits
    $32,922
    Filer's total
    $173,725

  • MIKE LAVENDER

    NSAC POLICY DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $196,752
    From this org
    $154,471
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $42,281
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $154,471
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $9,359
    Nontaxable benefits
    $32,922
    Filer's total
    $196,752

  • EOWYN CORRAL

    GRASS ROOTS CO-DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $136,393
    From this org
    $107,424
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $28,969
    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 — 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
    $18,576,488
    Expenses
    $11,840,371
    Contributions
    $17,119,596
    Grants paid
    $665,826
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $14,752,357
    Expenses
    $9,896,780
    Contributions
    $13,831,920
    Grants paid
    $434,445
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $7,387,243
    Expenses
    $8,118,552
    Contributions
    $6,901,506
    Grants paid
    $228,417

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.

Grants made

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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

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

  • THE GRANARY FOUNDATION

    501(C)(3) · SOLICIT AND HOLD ENDOWMENT FUNDS TO SUPPORT THE CENTER FOR RURAL AFFAIRS. · NE

  • CENTER FOR RURAL AFFAIRS COMMUNITY CAPITAL

    501(C)(3) · PROVIDE FINANCING & TECHNICAL ASSIST FOR SMALL BUSINESSES & COMMUNITY · NE

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

Listed as of 10 September 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.