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FEDERATED RURAL ELECTRIC TRUST

FEDERATED RURAL ELECTRIC TRUST (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $7,500 to it, the largest being FEDERATED RURAL ELECTRIC ($7,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$45k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$8k
Net assets
$27k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 10%
01What it does

What Federated Rural Electric Trust does

Mission

Members of Federated Rural Electric Association voluntarily have their monthly electric bills rounded up. The fraction of a dollar on each account is turned over by the Cooperative to the Trust & the Trust's board will make the determination as to the disposition of the funds for the use or benefit of other charitable organizations and scholarships.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Distribute grants to fund and support schools and community organizations needs.

    $0 spentof which $39,134 as grants
  2. Distribute scholarships to area high school seniors in the Federated Rural Electric service territory.

    $0 spentof which $5,600 as grants

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($74k) Expenses 100 ($42k) Net assets 100 ($55k)2021 Revenue 75 ($55k) Expenses 195 ($83k) Net assets 51 ($28k)2022 Revenue 80 ($59k) Expenses 125 ($53k) Net assets 62 ($34k)2023 Revenue 77 ($57k) Expenses 129 ($54k) Net assets 68 ($37k)2024 Revenue 67 ($50k) Expenses 143 ($60k) Net assets 49 ($27k)2025 Revenue 61 ($45k) Expenses 106 ($45k) Net assets 50 ($27k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (61)Expenses (106)Net assets (50)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $55k to $28k (−49%).

$55k
$28k
$34k
$37k
$27k
$27k
202020212022202320242025
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of FEDERATED RURAL ELECTRIC TRUST’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,623 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$32k
’20
−$27k
’21
$6k
’22
$3k
’23
−$11k
’24
$520
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

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

Funder
'20
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of FEDERATED RURAL ELECTRIC TRUST’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 FEDERATED RURAL ELECTRIC TRUST's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.

MN

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

Against its field

FEDERATED RURAL ELECTRIC TRUST's revenue fell 39% between 2020 and 2025.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−9% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,869 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MN

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FEDERATED RURAL ELECTRIC TRUST: 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 FEDERATED RURAL ELECTRIC TRUST?
FEDERATED RURAL ELECTRIC TRUST (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $7,500 to it, the largest being FEDERATED RURAL ELECTRIC ($7,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FEDERATED RURAL ELECTRIC TRUST have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $7,500 in grants to FEDERATED RURAL ELECTRIC TRUST.
Who is the largest funder of FEDERATED RURAL ELECTRIC TRUST?
FEDERATED RURAL ELECTRIC is the largest funder on record, with $7,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FEDERATED RURAL ELECTRIC TRUST find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), 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