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CENTRAL ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION

CENTRAL ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,487 to it, the largest being NORTH CAROLINA ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION ($5,487). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$62M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$5k
Net assets
$65M
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Central Electric Membership Corporation does

Mission

Safe and effective distribution of electricity to the members of central emc

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Safe and effective delivery of electricity to the members of Central Electric Membership Corporation. The three largest program services, as measured by expenses were as follows: cost of power 41,131,356 depreciation and amortization 5,668,013 other salaries and wages 5,494,513

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($52M) Expenses 100 ($52M) Net assets 100 ($47M)2018 Revenue 109 ($57M) Expenses 112 ($59M) Net assets 104 ($49M)2019 Revenue 109 ($57M) Expenses 111 ($58M) Net assets 113 ($54M)2020 Revenue 105 ($55M) Expenses 108 ($57M) Net assets 120 ($57M)2021 Revenue 112 ($58M) Expenses 112 ($59M) Net assets 127 ($60M)2022 Revenue 110 ($57M) Expenses 112 ($58M) Net assets 133 ($63M)2023 Revenue 112 ($58M) Expenses 115 ($60M) Net assets 137 ($65M)2024 Revenue 120 ($62M) Expenses 120 ($63M) Net assets 138 ($65M)
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Revenue (120)Expenses (120)Net assets (138)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $128M to $133M (+4%).

$116M
$117M
$119M
$122M
$124M
$128M
$133M
$138M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$285k
’17
−$1.8M
’18
−$1.6M
’19
−$1.9M
’20
−$266k
’21
−$1.0M
’22
−$1.9M
’23
−$741k
’24
0.4
months of
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

Edward B Oldham

CEO & gen. M

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.

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Listed1822212020212019
Joined·+4+0+1+2+2+2+2
No longer listed·0122133
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'23
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of CENTRAL ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION’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 CENTRAL ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.

NC

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.

04Its place in the field

Government funding CENTRAL ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $324k on record.

Federal$324k
grants $300kcontracts $24k
24
25
26
Top agencies
  • Department of Agriculture$300k
  • Department of Defense$24k

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 CENTRAL ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION

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In North Carolina

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Central Electric Member Care Trust · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTRAL ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION: 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 CENTRAL ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION?
CENTRAL ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,487 to it, the largest being NORTH CAROLINA ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION ($5,487). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CENTRAL ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $5,487 in grants to CENTRAL ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION.
Who is the largest funder of CENTRAL ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION?
NORTH CAROLINA ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,487 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CENTRAL ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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