Grand Valley Rural Power Lines, Inc.
Legal name: Grand Valley Rural Power Lines Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 840215835
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Grand Junction, CO, US
- Phone
- 970-242-0040
- Rating
- 48
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $39,925,900
- Expenses
- $39,925,900
- Assets
- $94,492,390
- Liabilities
- $56,236,391
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Thomas Walch (CEO)
- Brian Woods (Board President)
- Jesse Mease (Board Vice President)
- Chrystal Dean (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Thomas Walch (CEO): $632,754 total reported compensation
- Derek Elder (COO): $335,460 total reported compensation
- Joseph Michlaewicz (CFO): $292,986 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We are committed to the safety of our workforce and the general public. We strive to do the right thing, holding true to our values and principles. We seek to find new and better ways to serve our members and communities. We are dedicated to delivering value to all we serve.
What it reported doing in 2025
Distribution of electricity to retail customers on a cooperative basis.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 99% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 77
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
- 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: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- 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: 0%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.37; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.6; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.7%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -36% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.7% per year; rating input score 100; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $633K · 16 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $1.1M reported
- Consistency: 13 of 14 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 15 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 23/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 20/100.