Barry Electric Cooperative

Legal name: Barry Electric Cooperative Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
440520846
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Cassville, MO, US
Phone
(417) 847-2131
Rating confidence
Limited

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$32,183,173
Expenses
$28,630,269
Assets
$117,580,983
Liabilities
$76,510,188

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

16 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DAVID CUPPS (PRESIDENT)
  • KENYON ATKINSON (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • JENNIFER MCBROOM (CEO/GEN MGR)

Highest reported compensation

  • JENNIFER MCBROOM (CEO/GEN MGR): $227,574 total reported compensation
  • BRIAN ROBBINS (LINEMAN): $148,034 total reported compensation
  • CAMERON MCCURDY (LINEMAN): $145,677 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

As your electric cooperative, we commit to provide you with superior service, supply your power at the lowest possible cost and empower our community while improving lives.

What it reported doing in 2025

Barry electric cooperative provides electric service toapproximately 10,000 members within approximately 1,100 miles.barry electric serves portions of the southern half of barrycounty as well as a few members in mcdonald county including thetowns of cassville, exeter, jenkins, seligman, washburn, wheatonand the surrounding rural areas.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 97% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 77
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 60
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Pass
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 11%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.11; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.65; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 3.9%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 7.7% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 9 operating locations identified
  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $228K · 16 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $5M reported
  • Consistency: 12 of 12 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes executive pay
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 16 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.