Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

Report No. 1 · Nonprofit Hospital Executive Pay vs Charity Care · Annual Report, 2026 edition

Minnesota · Wisconsin · Ranked 67 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Allina Health System

Lisa Shannon, President/CEO. Fiscal year ending 2024-12.

$4.1M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.25%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
28.0%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
Lisa Shannon’s pay of $4,092,093 equals 28.0 percent of the $14,617,779 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$5,929,260,387
Total expenses
$5,835,310,037
Net assets
$3,163,467,410
Employees
33,231
Hospitals covered
9 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$14,617,779
Bad debt
$11,252,645
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($91,095,095)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$2,639,245
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$1,452,848
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$4,092,093 to Lisa Shannon

Medicare surplus (shortfall) is Schedule H Part III line 7: Medicare revenue minus the cost of Medicare care. A figure in parentheses is a shortfall. Like bad debt, it is not community benefit on the IRS form.

Source: Form 990, Allina Health System, EIN 36-3261413, fiscal year ending 2024-12, as published by the IRS. CEO identification: ceo title.

§2Community benefit versus charity care

What the system reported as total community benefit (Schedule H line 7k)$434.9M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$14.6M (3%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($11.3M) and Medicare shortfall are reported separately by the IRS and are not community benefit on the form.

Every number on this page was copied from the filing linked above. If a figure is wrong, send the filing that contradicts it and the correction runs at the top of this page.

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Allina Health System: CEO pay $4.1M, charity care 0.25% of expenses