Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Illinois · Ranked 125 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

Thomas P Shanley MD, Ex-Officio Director/President & CEO Lch. Fiscal year ending 2025-08.

$2.6M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.06%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
292.5%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
In the most recent filing year, Thomas P Shanley MD’s reported compensation was $2,617,499. The system’s charity care for the same year was $894,903. One person’s reported compensation was 2.9 times what the system gave to every patient who could not pay.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$1,726,489,572
Total expenses
$1,477,118,547
Net assets
$2,727,218,346
Employees
8,151
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$894,903
Bad debt
$1,503,480
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($1,372,052)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$1,992,705
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$624,794
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$2,617,499 to Thomas P Shanley MD

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, Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, EIN 36-2170833, fiscal year ending 2025-08, 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)$266.7M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$894,903 (0%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($1.5M) 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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Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: CEO pay $2.6M, charity care 0.06% of expenses