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TRI-COUNTY ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE

TRI-COUNTY ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $60,000 to it, the largest being THE RIGHT PLACE INC ($60,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$73M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$60k
Net assets
$84M
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Tri-County Electric Cooperative does

Mission

To provide our members and customers with energy comfort and communication solutions that will enhance their quality of life.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Revenues from sale of electric power to 27,221 meters. Added replaced 9.15 miles of line for a total of 3,430 miles of line.

    $0 spent

  2. Revenues from sale of high speed internet to customers 10,413. Constructed 19 miles of fiber to provide high speed internet and phone service to our electric members and other non-member expansion areas for a total of 2,122 miles of fiber.

    $0 spent

  3. Not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent

  4. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $0.

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 ($49M) Expenses 100 ($49M) Net assets 100 ($61M)2018 Revenue 105 ($51M) Expenses 106 ($52M) Net assets 101 ($62M)2019 Revenue 106 ($52M) Expenses 109 ($53M) Net assets 101 ($62M)2020 Revenue 113 ($55M) Expenses 115 ($56M) Net assets 108 ($66M)2021 Revenue 126 ($61M) Expenses 128 ($63M) Net assets 116 ($71M)2022 Revenue 139 ($68M) Expenses 140 ($68M) Net assets 124 ($76M)2023 Revenue 140 ($68M) Expenses 141 ($69M) Net assets 129 ($79M)2024 Revenue 151 ($73M) Expenses 152 ($74M) Net assets 137 ($84M)
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Revenue (151)Expenses (152)Net assets (137)

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 $194M to $223M (+15%).

$120M
$134M
$149M
$169M
$194M
$223M
$237M
$244M
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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: 2021 1% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. 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.

−$200k
’17
−$739k
’18
−$1.3M
’19
−$1.1M
’20
−$1.3M
’21
−$586k
’22
−$984k
’23
−$643k
’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

Christopher O'Neill

President-CEO

Board chair

Luke Pohl

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1515151616151617
Joined·+1+2+4+3+2+4+5
No longer listed·1233334
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 TRI-COUNTY 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 TRI-COUNTY ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE's grant income comes from Michigan funders.

MI

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 TRI-COUNTY 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 Michigan

Alger Delta Cooperative Electric Association84%Michigan Electric Cooperative Association81%Team One Credit Union79%Omni Community Credit Union79%True Community Credit Union79%Soo Co-Op Credit Union79%Tri-County Council for Child Development Inc (D/B/A Flowers Early Learning)78%Hospice Care of Southwest Michigan78%

Nationally

Tri-County Electric Cooperative Inc89%Capital Electric Cooperative Inc86%East Central Energy86%Pkm Electric Cooperative Inc85%Tri-County Electric Membership Corporation84%Coastal Electric Cooperative Inc84%Wasco Electric Cooperative Inc84%Sumter Electric Cooperative Inc84%
05Profile & governance

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

Governance

7
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 2 related entities

  • Tri County Electric People Fund Incorporated · exempt
  • Tri Co Services Incorporated · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds TRI-COUNTY ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE?
TRI-COUNTY ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $60,000 to it, the largest being THE RIGHT PLACE INC ($60,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does TRI-COUNTY ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $60,000 in grants to TRI-COUNTY ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE.
Who is the largest funder of TRI-COUNTY ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE?
THE RIGHT PLACE INC is the largest funder on record, with $60,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TRI-COUNTY ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing