| Return Reference | Explanation |
|---|---|
| Form 990, Part VI, Section A, line 6 | Members are businesses and individuals which received electric service from the cooperative. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section A, line 7a | Candidates for the Board are nominated by petition. The service area is broken into several Board Representation Areas and each area has multiple Board seats. The candidate must live in the Board area they for which they run. While candidates represent geographic regions, they are elected by the membership at-large. The highest vote getter for each seat is declared the winner. Board members serve four year terms. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 11b | The draft Form 990 is provided to the Board. They are given time to review it and provide comments. The Form 990 would then be revised as necessary prior to filing with the IRS. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 12c | The Board has a conflict of interest policy that applies strictly to them. New Board members are required to sign the policy and the Board self-polices the policy. A separate conflict of interest policy applies to employees. All members of senior management are required to sign the policy. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 15 | The Board uses a compensation study information from NRECA, Pay Factors and Employers Council to review and determine the appropriate compensation level of the CEO. Other officers and key employees are evaluated compared to data from the same sources. The data is reviewed as part of the annual budgeting process. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section C, line 19 | United Power provides financial statements to the members as part of the annual report. Bylaws and annual reports are available on the Company's website. Articles of incorporation, bylaws, annual reports and the conflict of interest policy can be obtained at the Company's headquarters. |
| Form 990, Parti IX, Line 4 | The instructions to the 2025 Form 990 indicate that organizations exempt under Section 501(c)(12) should report "patronage dividends paid" to their members in Part IX, Line 4 of the Form 990. The Cooperative has interpreted the words "patronage dividends paid" in the instructions to mean margins that are assigned or assignable to the members. The Cooperative assigns the operating margins and certain non-operating margins to its members each year. Therefore, the amount listed in Part IX, Line 4 represents the net margins assignable to the members for the calendar years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024. |
| Form 990, Part XI, line 9: | Gain of retirement of capital credits 244,054. Operating margins and certain non-operating margins to be allocated 24,539,654. Patronage capital retired -452,254. Transfer of unclaimed capital credit checks 1,765,122. |
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