United Power Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 840340655
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Brighton, CO, USA
- Phone
- 303-637-1300
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $437,797,222
- Expenses
- $437,705,380
- Assets
- $1,478,295,428
- Liabilities
- $1,157,007,402
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
25 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Mark Gabriel (President and Chief Execut)
Highest reported compensation
- Mark Gabriel (President and Chief Execut): $994,200 total reported compensation
- Robin Meidhof (SVP & Chief Legal Officer): $454,447 total reported compensation
- Dean Hubbuck (SVP & Chief Energy Resourc): $432,684 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide reliable electric power and related services to our members at the most affordable cost. At United Power, we want to be your partner in business. We have the expertise, experience, and desire to help make your business a success. We have specialists available to work with you to reduce your energy costs, programs to provide rebates to support enhancements to your operation, and a toolbox of additional services to help you with nearly every facet of your business. United Power's staff is here to provide you with the service and guidance you need when making energy related decisions. We provide numerous services at no charge, including energy use assessments, rate analysis, and expert energy management advice. We have engineering and energy professionals on staff to help you coord.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Cooperative provides electric services to approximately 117,067 members.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% 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: 64
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 3rd 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: No; rating input score 0
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: Fail
- 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 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.38; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.78; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.3%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 36.7% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.8% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $437.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $994K · 25 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $38M 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: 25 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Related-party transparency scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Whistleblower policy not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 18/100.