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BLUESTEM ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC

EIN 48-1206132 WAMEGO, KS

Largest nonprofits in Kansas

Revenue 2025
$20,780,415
Expenses 2025
$20,780,415

As filed

Subsection
12
NTEE code
Y22
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 5

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

SAFE RELIABLE ENERGY

Activities or mission (Part I)

PROVIDE SAFE RELIABLE ENERGY TO RURAL COOPERATIVE MEMBERS.

  • PROVIDED ELECTRICITY TO APPROXIMATELY 7,669 SERVICES/CONSUMERS. SERVED 2,910.2 MILES OF LINE.

As filed on the 2025 return.

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.

  • Mark Diederich

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $15,692
    From this org
    $15,692
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    15.5
  • Bruce Meyer

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $23,469
    From this org
    $23,469
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    20.7
  • Amanda Gnadt

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $9,712
    From this org
    $9,712
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    7.5
  • Richard Ridder

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $12,660
    From this org
    $12,660
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    9.8
  • Matthew Rezac

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $8,614
    From this org
    $8,614
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    7.5
  • Stephen O'Shea

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $11,741
    From this org
    $11,741
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    11.2
  • Gary Buss

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $26,673
    From this org
    $26,673
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    21.6
  • Patricia Bloomdahl

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $13,144
    From this org
    $13,144
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    12.5
  • Steve Ohlde

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $8,716
    From this org
    $8,716
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    8.8
  • Brent McKeeman

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $11,520
    From this org
    $11,520
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    11.6
  • Donald Classen

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $9,172
    From this org
    $9,172
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    8
  • Michael M Morton

    GENERAL MANAGER (RET 1/3/25)

    Total calculated
    $52,001
    From this org
    $48,210
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,791
    Hours/week
    24
  • Trisha Bradley

    MANAGER OF ACCOUNTING & FINANCE

    Total calculated
    $177,036
    From this org
    $133,806
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $43,230
    Hours/week
    43.4

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $132,666
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $1,140
    Deferred
    $15,081
    Nontaxable benefits
    $29,854
    Filer's total
    $178,741
  • Michael Leitch

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $202,790
    From this org
    $167,919
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $34,871
    Hours/week
    46.3

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $165,181
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $2,738
    Deferred
    $3,600
    Nontaxable benefits
    $35,636
    Filer's total
    $207,155
  • Kevin Heptig

    MANAGER OF MEMBER SERVICES

    Total calculated
    $214,262
    From this org
    $113,905
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $100,357
    Hours/week
    45.5

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $108,776
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $5,129
    Deferred
    $75,298
    Nontaxable benefits
    $26,487
    Filer's total
    $215,690
  • Benjimin Easterberg

    MANAGER OF AMI & MAPPING

    Total calculated
    $160,181
    From this org
    $112,223
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $47,958
    Hours/week
    43.9

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $110,317
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $1,906
    Deferred
    $23,277
    Nontaxable benefits
    $26,104
    Filer's total
    $161,604
  • Benjamin Matthews III

    OPERATIONS FOREMAN

    Total calculated
    $174,120
    From this org
    $112,497
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $61,623
    Hours/week
    43.4

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $110,909
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $1,588
    Deferred
    $30,570
    Nontaxable benefits
    $34,940
    Filer's total
    $178,007
  • Jerod Chaffee

    MANAGER OF LINE OPERATIONS

    Total calculated
    $186,422
    From this org
    $120,997
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $65,425
    Hours/week
    42

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $118,859
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $2,138
    Deferred
    $35,129
    Nontaxable benefits
    $34,465
    Filer's total
    $190,591
  • Thad Donnelly

    ASSISTANT MANAGER OF LINE OPERATIONS

    Total calculated
    $185,896
    From this org
    $111,717
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $74,179
    Hours/week
    41.8

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $108,828
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $2,889
    Deferred
    $52,149
    Nontaxable benefits
    $23,383
    Filer's total
    $187,249

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
    $20,780,415
    Expenses
    $20,780,415
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $23,693
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $19,004,266
    Expenses
    $19,004,266
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $18,289
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $19,246,612
    Expenses
    $19,246,612
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $18,702
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $19,515,990
    Expenses
    $19,515,990
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $16,656

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
    $18,369,331
    Expenses
    $18,369,331
    Assets (EOY)
    $60,019,975
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $17,843,940
    Expenses
    $17,843,940
    Assets (EOY)
    $57,132,154
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $17,618,154
    Expenses
    $17,618,154
    Assets (EOY)
    $54,731,161
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $17,615,727
    Expenses
    $17,615,727
    Assets (EOY)
    $51,051,338
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $16,965,675
    Expenses
    $16,965,675
    Assets (EOY)
    $45,152,269
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $15,945,718
    Expenses
    $15,945,718
    Assets (EOY)
    $43,515,582
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $15,321,505
    Expenses
    $15,321,505
    Assets (EOY)
    $41,288,500
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $16,206,271
    Expenses
    $16,206,271
    Assets (EOY)
    $37,885,884
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $16,107,762
    Expenses
    $16,107,762
    Assets (EOY)
    $35,510,239
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $15,347,622
    Assets (EOY)
    $32,025,288

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

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

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.