Virginia · Nonprofit
BARC ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE
BARC ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $219,293 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER RICHMOND & PETERSBURG ($219,293). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $38M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $219k
- Net assets
- $37M
What Barc Electric Cooperative does
Mission
To provide safe and reliable power to the members of Barc Electric Cooperative located in the counties of alleghany, augusta, bath, highland, and rockbridge in the commonwealth of virginia.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.
Program
The three largest program services related to the cooperative's mission, as measured by expenses, were as follows: cost of power 14,421,015 fiber lease expenses 6,921,999 barconnect expenses 6,380,662
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $142M to $171M (+21%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
William Buchanan
CEO
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $27k → $31k.
From the IRS filings of BARC ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of BARC ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Government funding BARC ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.5M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$4.5M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like BARC ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Reliable Energy LLC · disregarded
- Barconnects LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BARC ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BARC ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE?
- BARC ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $219,293 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER RICHMOND & PETERSBURG ($219,293). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BARC ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $219,293 in grants to BARC ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BARC ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE?
- UNITED WAY OF GREATER RICHMOND & PETERSBURG is the largest funder on record, with $219,293 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BARC ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing