North Carolina · Nonprofit
FOUR COUNTY ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORP
FOUR COUNTY ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORP (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $116,960 to it, the largest being NORTH CAROLINA ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION ($116,960). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $115M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $117k
- Net assets
- $109M
What Four County Electric Membership Corp does
Mission
To provide highly reliable electric services, innovative energy solutions and outstanding service to our members and communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Four county electric is a not-for-profit electric cooperative owned by the people it serves. As a hometown utility, four county is committed to providing safe, reliable and affordable energy to its more than 32,000 commercial and residential member-owners in six north carolina counties, including bladen, duplin, pender, sampson, columbus and onslow counties. Today, more than 5,000 miles of overhead, underground, and transmission lines provide reliable electric service to over 32,000 services which include residences, farms, businesses, industries, churches, and schools.
$108,532,189 spent$113,705,753 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $108,532,189.
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 2022 to 2023, from $238M to $266M (+12%).
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. 0 of the last 8 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
Donald L Gatton
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Franklin Williams
Board president
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $7k → $18k.
From the IRS filings of FOUR COUNTY ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORP’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 FOUR COUNTY ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORP's grant income comes from North Carolina 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 FOUR COUNTY ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORP receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.7M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$5.7M
- Department of Defense$14k
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 FOUR COUNTY ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORP
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FOUR COUNTY ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORP: 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 FOUR COUNTY ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORP?
- FOUR COUNTY ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORP (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $116,960 to it, the largest being NORTH CAROLINA ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION ($116,960). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOUR COUNTY ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORP have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $116,960 in grants to FOUR COUNTY ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORP, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOUR COUNTY ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORP?
- NORTH CAROLINA ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $116,960 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOUR COUNTY ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORP 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.
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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