Umatilla Electric Cooperative
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 930300375
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Hermiston, OR, USA
- Phone
- 8004522273
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $574,180,875
- Expenses
- $564,756,405
- Assets
- $713,299,641
- Liabilities
- $513,862,833
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- W BRYAN WOLFE (PRESIDENT)
- JEFF WENHOLZ (VICE PRESIDENT)
- ROBERT ECHENRODE (PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- ROBERT ECHENRODE (PRESIDENT & CEO): $948,721 total reported compensation
- LISA MCMEEN (VP, ADMINISTRATION): $529,181 total reported compensation
- JOSHUA LANKFORD (ASSISTANT GENERAL MANAGER): $492,017 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Umatilla electric cooperative is a member-owned electric utility that sells energy and other services to improve the quality of life in its service communities.
What it reported doing in 2025
Distribution of power to rural electric utility customers.
Operating model
- 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 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: 86
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 60
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; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Pass
- 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.6%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.26; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.72; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.8%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 18% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.5% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $949K · 18 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $132.8M reported
- Consistency: 13 of 13 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes grants and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 26 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 8 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 40/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.