South Carolina · Nonprofit
TRI-COUNTY ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC
TRI-COUNTY ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $247,199 to it, the largest being CENTRAL ELECTRIC POWER COOPERATIVE INC ($247,199). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $62M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $247k
- Net assets
- $45M
What Tri-County Electric Cooperative Inc does
Mission
To provide the best possible electric service to all who desire it within the system area at a reasonable cost consistent with the highest standards of service.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
To provide the best possible electric service to all who desire it within the system area at a reasonable cost consistent with the highest standards of service.
To provide the best possible electric service to all who desire it within the system area at a reasonable cost consistent with the highest standards of service.
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
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 2020 to 2021, from $112M to $139M (+24%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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
Chad Lowder
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $30k → $20k.
From the IRS filings of TRI-COUNTY ELECTRIC 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
100% of TRI-COUNTY ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC's grant income comes from South 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 TRI-COUNTY ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.7M on record.
- Department of Energy$4.7M
- Department of Defense$46k
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 TRI-COUNTY ELECTRIC 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 Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Trico Development LLC · disregarded
- Tricolink Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TRI-COUNTY ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC: 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 TRI-COUNTY ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC?
- TRI-COUNTY ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $247,199 to it, the largest being CENTRAL ELECTRIC POWER COOPERATIVE INC ($247,199). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TRI-COUNTY ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $247,199 in grants to TRI-COUNTY ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TRI-COUNTY ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC?
- CENTRAL ELECTRIC POWER COOPERATIVE INC is the largest funder on record, with $247,199 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TRI-COUNTY ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), 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