Western Cooperative Electric
Legal name: Western Cooperative Electric Association Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 480504601
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- WaKeeney, KS, United States
- Phone
- 785-743-5561 or 800-456-6720
- Rating
- 46
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $41,650,561
- Expenses
- $41,650,561
- Assets
- $128,610,354
- Liabilities
- $69,055,301
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- NOLAN NUMRICH (CEO General Manager)
- NICKOLAS ZERR (President)
Highest reported compensation
- TOM RUTH (General Manager): $257,677 total reported compensation
- NOLAN NUMRICH (CEO General Manager): $252,000 total reported compensation
- RON ASCHENBRENNER (Line Superintendent): $232,229 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Operation Round Up is a volunteer program where members can choose to round up their electric bill to the next whole dollar each month, in order to help those in need. Sign Up Image. Western Cooperative Electric belongs to the people we serve. Western doesn’t just serve communities; we are a part of your communities. The people who work at our local co-op also call this home. What makes cooperatives a part of the community is that we are led by members like you, belong to the communities we serve, and were built by the communities we serve. Local citizens formed electric cooperatives to bring energy to rural America. We exist solely to provide reliable service at a reasonable cost while managing risks that could have a negative impact on our members. We understand that energy creates jobs, fuels growth, and powers the lives and economies of communities across America. We.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provide electrical service to 12,056 meters in our designated service territory.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 98% 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
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: 71
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 40
- 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: 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
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: 3.09; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.54; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.5%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 1.6% per year; rating input score 100; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- 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 · $41.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $258K · 19 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $538K reported
- Consistency: 11 of 12 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 19 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 23/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 23/100.