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EAST RIVER ELECTRIC POWER COOPERATIVE INC

EAST RIVER ELECTRIC POWER COOPERATIVE INC (South Dakota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,780 to it, the largest being EAST TENNESSEE CLEAN FUELS COALITION ($5,780). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$371M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$6k
Net assets
$301M
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What East River Electric Power Cooperative Inc does

Mission

East river electric power cooperative exists to enhance the value of its members.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. East river electric power cooperative is a wholesale electric power supply cooperative serving 24 rural electric cooperatives and one municipally-owned electric system, which in turn serves more than 93,000 homes and businesses and about 250,000 consumers. The cooperative operates and maintains over 3,200 miles of high voltage transmission line and over 260 substations and related facilities to serve an area of 40,000 square miles that covers the rural areas of 41 counties in eastern south dakota and 22 counties in western minnesota. East river is also a transmission owner in the southwest power pool.

The program described on its FY2024 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 ($287M) Expenses 100 ($287M) Net assets 100 ($175M)2018 Revenue 110 ($315M) Expenses 110 ($315M) Net assets 120 ($210M)2019 Revenue 102 ($294M) Expenses 102 ($294M) Net assets 125 ($220M)2020 Revenue 100 ($286M) Expenses 100 ($286M) Net assets 132 ($231M)2021 Revenue 104 ($299M) Expenses 104 ($299M) Net assets 137 ($239M)2022 Revenue 117 ($335M) Expenses 117 ($335M) Net assets 152 ($266M)2023 Revenue 124 ($357M) Expenses 124 ($357M) Net assets 163 ($286M)2024 Revenue 130 ($371M) Expenses 130 ($371M) Net assets 172 ($301M)
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Revenue (130)Expenses (130)Net assets (172)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $910M to $1.0B (+12%).

$488M
$548M
$592M
$672M
$751M
$837M
$910M
$1.0B
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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

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$0
’17
$0
’18
$0
’19
$0
’20
$0
’21
$0
’22
$0
’23
$0
’24
0.2
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

Robert Sahr

CEO/general manager

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed3135313136333135
Joined·+5+3+2+8+5+3+7
No longer listed·1723853
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

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

Funder
'25*
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of EAST RIVER ELECTRIC POWER COOPERATIVE INC’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

EAST RIVER ELECTRIC POWER COOPERATIVE INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside South Dakota, across 1 state in all.

TN

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

Organizations like EAST RIVER ELECTRIC POWER COOPERATIVE INC

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 South Dakota

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Governance

22
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds EAST RIVER ELECTRIC POWER COOPERATIVE INC?
EAST RIVER ELECTRIC POWER COOPERATIVE INC (South Dakota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,780 to it, the largest being EAST TENNESSEE CLEAN FUELS COALITION ($5,780). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does EAST RIVER ELECTRIC POWER COOPERATIVE INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $5,780 in grants to EAST RIVER ELECTRIC POWER COOPERATIVE INC.
Who is the largest funder of EAST RIVER ELECTRIC POWER COOPERATIVE INC?
EAST TENNESSEE CLEAN FUELS COALITION is the largest funder on record, with $5,780 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like EAST RIVER ELECTRIC POWER COOPERATIVE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Dakota. 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