North Star Electric Coop

Nonprofit profile at a glance

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

15 people listed

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

To provide safe, reliable electric services to improve the quality of life in the communities we serve.

To provide electric and utility service to 5,628 members under the guidance of the rural utility service division of the usda.

Revenue model: Earned-program. 98% 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 available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Consistency checks: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- 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

Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Operating margin: 0%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.64; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.6; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Officer compensation ratio: 10.2%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings

Program expense growth: Limited
Revenue growth: 1.6% per year; rating input score 100; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings

Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
Leadership: top reported pay $452K · 15 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $642K reported
Consistency: 10 of 11 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes executive pay
Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
Contacts: How to reach this organization
Money network: 15 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.
Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

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

Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 23/100.
Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 19/100.
High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 24/100.